Institutions, globalisation and empowerment
- Title
- Institutions, globalisation and empowerment / edited by Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras.
- Published by
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., ©2006.
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- Description
- xiv, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Examining aspects of social and economic institutions, and exploring their operation as a result of globalisation, this book approaches the issue of globalisation from a perspective of how the forces of globalisation are transforming domestic, social and economic institutions to create greater opportunities for empowerment in individual countries.
- Alternative title
- Institutions, globalization, and empowerment
- Subject
- Social institutions
- Economic development
- Globalization
- social institutions
- economic development
- globalism
- Economic development
- Globalization
- Social institutions
- Wirtschaftsentwicklung
- Institutionenökonomie
- Internationalisierung
- Institutionele economie
- Internationalisierung > Wirtschaftsentwicklung > Institutionenökonomie > Aufsatzsammlung
- social institution
- institution building
- womens empowerment
- globalization
- Institucions socials
- Desenvolupament econòmic
- Globalització
- institution sociale
- développement des institutions
- autonomisation des femmes
- mondialisation
- institución social
- desarrollo institucional
- potenciación de las mujeres
- globalización
- Entwicklungsländer
- developed countries
- developing countries
- pays développés
- pays en développement
- países desarrollados
- países en desarrollo
- Contents
- Institutions, globalisation and empowerment : an overview of issues / Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras -- Institutions for high-quality growth : what they are and how to acquire them / Dani Rodrik -- The effects of the interaction of formal and informal institutions on social stability and economic development / Svetozar Pejovich -- Globalisation, democracy and citizens' sovereignty : can competition among governments enhance democracy? / Viktor Vanberg -- Globalisation : contradictory implications for US women / Cal Clark and Janet Clark -- Corruption : is dollarisation a solution? / Jennifer S. Holmes and Sheila Amin Gutiérrez de Piñeres -- Western Europe : German unification, integration, globalisation -- the German social market economy facing a threefold challenge / Michael Wohlgemuth -- Regional retreat : the reaction of Russian institutions to liberalising reform / Richard E. Ericson -- Institutional deterrents to the empowerment of women : Kenya's experience / Tabitha W. Kiriti, Clem Tisdell and Kartik C. Roy -- WTO and the dangers of privatisation : an analysis of the Saudi case / Jean-François Seznec -- Institutional impediments to women's empowerment in rural India / Kartik C. Roy -- Estate taxes and family-run firms : an empirical study of publicly traded corporations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan / Kam-Ming Wan, Shi-Jun Liu and Hsihui Chang -- Globalisation and institutional change in the Australian labour market / Kyle Bruce -- Institutional change and empowerment under globalisation : some lessons learnt / Kartik C. Roy and Jörn Sideras.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.