SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Under pressure from external forces, involvement of Pacific Island nations in processes of globalisation and associated structural adjustment policies is being accelerated. Conditional aid and financial assistance from Bretton Woods' institutions and their 'relatives' such as the Asian Development Bank, as well as advice from donor countries, have played a significant role in these processes. these processes combined with reduced foreign aid and internal socioeconomic dynamics have resulted in major social conflicts and tensions in the Pacific Islands. Poverty in some Pacific Island nations, such as in the Solomon Islands, is already more serious than in Asia, including Bangladesh, and the situation is deteriorating with proportionall school enrolments...

Evolution of urban chicken consumption in Southern countries: a comparison between Haiti and Cameroon

Palavras-chave: Pacific Island nations; Globalisation; Human Poverty Index (HPI); Human Development Index (HDI); Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100208

Laroche Dupraz, Catherine; Awono, Cyprien.

Since the beginning of 2000s, in order to let poor people accede to meat consumption, several developing countries have opened their domestic chicken market to foreign imports, by reducing import tariffs. Thus local chicken meat competes with frozen pieces of chicken imported from the European Union or America, causing the loss of many jobs in the local chicken food chain. In order to highlight the determinants of urban consumer’s choice relative to chicken types, and assess the opportunity for local chicken to restore its market share, investigations have been done in 2005 and 2006, in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and at Port-au-Prince (Haiti) applied to 180 urban households in each country. While imported frozen pieces of chicken have almost entirely substituted...

Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation

Palavras-chave: Chicken; Urban consumption; Developing countries; Globalisation; Cameroon; Haiti.; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43938

Globalisation and the Economic Future of Small Isolated Nations Particularly in the Pacific

Small countries, such as Pacific islands countries (PICs), vary considerably in the extent and in the ways in which they are linked to the global economy. Particularly within PICs, households and families, and different social groups also differ in their dependence on markets, cash and foreign exchange incomes for their economic welfare. A dualistic economic model is inadequate as a means for specifying the distribution of this dependence. There is a need to analyse the distribution of such dependencies more precisely using, amongst other things, relative frequency distributions. It is hypothesised that increased integration of PICs into the global economy combined with global economic reforms can be expected to result in reduced private investment in many...

A New World Chaos? International Institutions in the Information Age

Palavras-chave: Pacific Island countries; Globalisation; Pacific Rim; Labour migration; Exports; Financial Economics; International Relations/Trade; Production Economics.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90541

Diversity, Globalisation and Market Stability

Kerr, William A..

The technological revolutions that underlie the new information age will tax considerably the abilities of existing international institutions to bring order to international relations. Rapid rates of change may lead to chaos if international institutions cannot evolve to accommodate those changes. In some cases, new organisations will be required. The role given international organisations in establishing order in the latter half of the 20th century is reviewed. The new challenges presented by the information age are outlined. Whether the existing international organisations will be sufficiently flexible to accommodate the changes brought by the information age is assessed.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Change; Globalisation; International institutions; Law; Trade policy; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23831

Lasselle, Laurence; Svizzero, Serge; Tisdell, Clement A..

Australia's Economic Policies in an Era of Globalisation

Palavras-chave: Diversity; Globalisation; Heterogeneity of Behaviour; Instability; Environmental Economics and Policy; Financial Economics.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90501

Outlines changes in Australian economic policies that have occurred in recent decades in response to growing economic globalisation. It considers microeconomic reforms in Australia and changes to its industry policy (including important changes in national competition policy) its financial reforms (exchange rate and banking reforms), its liberalisation of international trade and of foreign investment, both inward and outward. Furthermore, particular consideration is given to Australia’s policies and its lobbying in relation to The World Trade Organisation (WTO), economic regionalism, and bilateralism. These policies provide further insights into the way that Australia has responded to growing economic globalisation.

An Overview of Globalisation and Economic Policy Responses

Palavras-chave: Globalisation; Industry policy; Financial reforms; International trade; Foreign investment; Financial Economics; International Development; Political Economy.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90534

This is the draft of the introductory chapter of Clem Tisdell (ed.) Globalisation and World Economic Policies. It highlights the varied dimensions of globalisation. Trends in world exports of goods and services as a percentage of global GDP, and world FDI net inflow as a percentage of global GDP are used to indicate trends in economic globalisation. In relation to non-economic measures of globalisation, particular attention is given to variations in international telephone traffic and the number of internet users and hosts. Increasing globalisation of the media is an important feature of recent developments in globalisation, and has significant political, economic and cultural ramifications. These aspects are highlighted. The chapter concludes with an...

A fenntartható fejlődést szolgáló paradigma

Palavras-chave: Globalisation; Exports of goods; Telephone; Internet users and hosts; Media globalisation; International Relations/Trade; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90537

China's Economic Performance and Transition in Relation to Globalisation: From Isolation to Centre-Stage?

Meszaros, Sandor.

Az uralkodó neoklasszikus paradigma alapján a 20. század második felében a gazdasági növekedés a várható klímaváltozás, a Föld természeti erőforrásai és a társadalmi egyenlőtlenségek figyelembevétele nélkül ment végbe. Erre a helyzetre szolgált válaszul a fenntarthatóság koncepciója, amely az utóbbi két évtizedben globális mozgalommá vált, és nemzeti alkalmazkodási stratégiák kidolgozásához vezetett. A gazdaság működésére azonban igazán új paradigma mégsem született, bár a köz¬gazdaságtan a komplexitás irányába látszik fejlődni. Az új (transzdiszciplináris) paradigma eddigi hiánya ellenére a szükséges változások irányai már felismerhetők: a fosszilis energiaforrások mielőbbi helyettesítése és az erdőgazdaság kiemelt kezelése (Low Carbon Economy), valamint...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Gazdasági paradigmák; Fenntarthatóság; Klímaváltozás; Globalizáció; Modellezés; Economic paradigms; Sustainability; Climate change; Globalisation; Modelling; Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/99116

This paper considers China’s global economic situation in relation to the general process of globalisation. After discussing the general process of economic globalisation, it examines political change and transition of the former communist planned economies, especially China’s, and their impact on globalisation. Then it provides measures of the recent expansion of economic globalisation and China’s involvement in this process. Positive and negative socioeconomic impacts of globalisation are highlighted. China’s progress in catching up with more developed economies and the dynamics of its economic growth and future prospects for this growth are examined in a global context. The question is posed of whether globalisation is likely to result in...

Unequal Gains of Nations from Economic Globalisation

Palavras-chave: Globalisation; China; Global environmental impacts; Natural resources; China's economic growth.; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90544

Tisdell, Clement A.; Svizzero, Serge; Laselle, Laurence.

A globalizáció és a konszolidációs számvitel alkalmazása a magyar élelmiszer-gazdaságban

Palavras-chave: Globalisation; Labour markets; Income inequality; Inequality of nations; Labour mobility; International Relations/Trade; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90516

Sustainability: Can it be Achieved? Is Economics the Bottom Line?

Simon, Szilvia.

Aglobális pénzügyi és gazdasági válság kialakulása, a válság világméretű elterjedése számos okra vezethető vissza. Ezek között az okok között elsőként a globalizációt lehet kiemelni. Aglobalizáció folyamatában megfigyelhető a tőke, a szellemi erőforrások, az anyagi javak világméretű koncentrációja. Aglobalizáció egyik kísérőjelenségeként megfigyelhető az a tendencia, hogy a jogilag önálló agrár-, élel¬miszer-ipari és élelmiszer-kereskedelmi vállalkozások egymással érdekeltségi, részesedési viszonyba kerülnek, amelynek hatásaként a vállalkozások között a piaci viszonyok korlátozottá válnak. Így az egyedi éves beszámolók alapján a társaságok vagyoni, pénzügyi és jövedelmi helyzetének bemutatása nem biztosítható. Az információhiány megszüntethető, ha a...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Globalizáció; Élelmiszer-gazdaság; Konszern; Konszolidációs számvitel; Elemzés; Globalisation; Food economy; Holding; Consolidated accounting; Analysis; Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance; Farm Management.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92476

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Globalisation, Institutions and Empowerment of Women in Africa: Kenya's Experience

Palavras-chave: Sustainability; Globalisation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90512

Kiriti, Tabitha; Tisdell, Clement A.; Roy, Kartik C..

In male dominated societies like Kenya, men's superior status leading to power over women and control of valued resources, is supported by laws and policies that spell out and legitimise men's privileged and dominant status and is justified by religious, traditional, moral, and/or pseudo-scientific ideologies and beliefs. Such mechanisms and beliefs help to perpetuate gender inequality even in the face of structural changes that ought to diminish, if not completely undermine the strength of its operation. Institutionalised gender inequality limits women's participation in institutions and this reinforces their lack of empowerment. Women are unable to take advantage of the opening up of new markets and competition because they lack property rights;...

Can Globalisation Result in Less Efficient and More Vulnerable Industries?

Palavras-chave: Gender inequality; Kenya; Empowerment of women; Globalisation; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Labor and Human Capital.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100209

Growing economic globalisation (a means of market extension) may increase the economic vulnerability of firms in modern industries, especially those in which firms experience substantial economies of scale. The possibility is explored that globalisation activates competitive pressures that forces firms into a situation where their leverage (fixed costs relative to variable costs, or overhead cost relative to operating costs or capital intensity) rises substantially. Consequently, they become increasingly vulnerable to a sudden adverse change in economic conditions, such as a collapse in the demand for their industry’s product. This is explored for monopolistically competitive markets and also for oligopolistic markets of the type considered and modelled...

Globalisation, WTO and Sustainable Development

Palavras-chave: Globalisation; Vulnerability of industries; Oligopolistic markets; Monopolistic markets; Financial Economics; International Relations/Trade; Production Economics.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90536

This overview is divided into two main sections. The first sections reviews the literature on the impact of economic globalisation (involving of liberalisation of international trade and investment) on the state of the environment and sustainable development. While the WTO and Bretton Woods institutions believe that this impact can be expected to be favourable, divergent rational views can be found in the economics literature. A review of the relevant literature reveals that the situation is far from being black-and-white – there are grounds for rational doubt not withstanding the use of Environmental Kuznet’s curves, which on the surface seem to provide grounds for optimism. The second main section dealt with the attitude and policies pursued by GATT-WTO...

Economic Prospects for Small Island Economies, Particularly in the South Pacific, in a Globalising World

Palavras-chave: WTO; Sustainable Development; Globalisation; Trade investment; Resource and environmental conservation; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.

Ano: 2000

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48009

After pointing out that small island economies are diverse in their economic situations and in their ability to benefit from globalisation, this article examines the actual situation of South Pacific island countries. It takes into account their size and its diversity; variations in their involvement in international trade; their geographic, ethnic and cultural differences; their international political associations; and differences in their degree of economic development. All of these factors, as well as their common attributes, influence the prospects of small Pacific Island countries for benefiting from economic globalisation. The question of whether the MIRAB characterisation of South Pacific Island Economies continues to be relevant is explored...

Globalisation and Governance: Contradictions of Neo-Liberal Migration Management

Palavras-chave: South Pacific Island nations; Globalisation; MIRAB; Millenium Development Goals; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90547

Overbeek, Henk.

Neo-liberal globalisation has primarily entailed the liberalisation of trade and capital flows, but largely ignored the issue of labour mobility. Most literature on the political economy of globalisation likewise ignores global labour mobility. This paper first asks how globalisation affects human mobility. The conclusion is that globalisation integrates the world population into the global labour market in three principal ways: through accelerated commodification of labour power, through the integration via transnational production of national and regional labour markets, and by various (sometimes new) forms of international labour mobility. Regulation of the global economy is increasingly informalised and privatised, argues the paper. This trend is also...

Sectoral Change, Urbanisation and South Asia's Environment in Global Context

Palavras-chave: Globalisation; Global Governance; Migration; International Migration Policy; Multilateralism; Neoliberalism; International Relations/Trade; Political Economy; D30; D63; P5.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26363

Business Partnerships in a Globalising World: Economic Considerations

Palavras-chave: South Asia; Ubanisation; Globalisation; Environmental Economics and Policy.

Ano: 1997

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53633

Begins by considering how neoclassical and mainstream economists have modelled the business firm and outlines briefly the evolution of economic thought and that of managerial science about institutional structures involving firms, hierarchies, markets and interfirm cooperation. Subsequently, taking into account this thought, it considers whether growing economic globalisation is likely to result in more frequent business cooperation between firms, what types of alliances may be favoured, and why. Both factors favouring increased business cooperation as globalisation proceeds, as well as those that may retard it, are discussed.