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DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE & TRADE
Human Rights in an Imperfect World What are the causes and consequences
of the pronounced inequalities between the great powers and the disadvantaged countries trapped in poverty?
Figure 9.1: Urban Poor by Region
The Colonial Origins of the Global South’s Plight The First Wave of European Imperialism The Second Wave of European
Imperialism Self-Determination and the
Decolonization in the 20th Century
North & South Today: Two Worlds Apart Gross National Income Least Developed of the Less-Developed
Countries
Theoretical Explanations of Underdevelopment Internal Factors: Classical Economic
Development Theory International Factors: Dependency
Theory Controversy: Theories of Development: A
Return to Modernization?
Theoretical Explanations of Underdevelopment Closing the Gap?
Oil & Technology
The Global East
Military Security
Reform of the Economic Order
Regional Trade Regimes
Foreign Aid and Remittances
Theoretical Explanations of Underdevelopment Controversy: Multinational Corporations
in the Global South: Do They Help or Hurt?
The Global South’s Future
The Global Context for Interpreting Contemporary Economic Change International Political Economy (IPE)
What is Globalization?
The Global South’s Future
Money Matters: The Transnational Exchange of Money The Globalization of Finance
Monetary Policy: Key Concepts and Issues
The Bretton Woods System
Financial and Monetary Aspects of the Bretton Woods System
The End of Bretton Woods
The Global South’s Future
Money Matters: The Transnational Exchange of Money Cont’d Floating Exchange Rates and the Financial
Crisis
Controversy The IMF Bank, and the Structural Adjustment
Policies: Is the “Cure” worse than the Disease
The Crisis of 2008
Reforming the International Financial Architecture?
The Globalization of Trade
Trade, Multinational Corporations and the Globalization of Production
The Globalization of Labor The Shadow of the Great Depression
The Clash Between Liberal and Mercantile Values Commercial Liberalism
Merchantilism
Trade and Global Politics
The Fate of Free Trade Trade Tricks
The Uneasy Coexistence of Liberalism and Mercantilism
The Development of the WTO
Controversy: Globalization’s Growing Pains: Is the World Trade Organization a Friend or Foe?
An Emerging Regional Tug-of-War?
Trade and Global Politics
The Fate of Free Trade Trade Tricks
The Uneasy Coexistence of Liberalism and Mercantilism
The Development of the WTO
Controversy: Globalization’s Growing Pains: Is the World Trade Organization a Friend or Foe?
An Emerging Regional Tug-of-War?
World Trade and the Financial Crisis Downturn in the overall world economy “Multiplier Effect” Trade Finance dried up