Economic
and Financial Globalization. What the Numbers Say?
Prof. Paul H. Dembinski (Leading contributor), 160 pages, 125 graphs and tables in colour, 2003
A reference book to help develop one's own view on the process of economic
and financial globalization; an individual tool for decision-makers in
the national and private sectors, teachers, students, and media staff
who will find in this book the quantitative data they need to assess the
importance of modern trends and phenomena.
The purpose of this book is to help readers develop a well founded independent
view of the global economy and global finance. It is not a synthesis or
a set of ready-made answers, nor is it simply one more noisy opinion which,
while laying clyim to scientific objectivity, is in fact voiced in defence
of some political ideology. The book is intended to help readers weigh
up, in the light of the available statistics, the many conflicting arguments
in what is now a worldwide debate on globalization.
Globalization is a planetary process. Instead of classifying or comparing individual countries the book focuses on global and regional trends.
The frame of reference proposed in this book is based on 25 key concepts which are each approached from two angles, one conceptual, the other statistical. This is because there is a considerable difference between a concept based on a corpus of theory and a statistical series that bears the same name. Each of the 25 concepts adopted has been subjected to the same three stage process: 1. Concepts and definitions 2. Methods and problems of measurement 3. Recent trends.
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Table of Contents
1.0 The context of global economy
1.1 Population
1.2 Telecommunications
1.3 Transport flows
1.4 Mail Traffic
2.0 Main players
2.1 The economically active population
2.2 Major corporations
2.3 Small and medium-sized enterprises
2.4 Publics budgets and deficits
2.5 The International Monetary Fund
3.0 The economy and trade
3.1 National product and value added
3.2 Inflation
3.3 Development indicators
3.4 International trade
3.5 Foreign direct investment
4.0 Money and finance
4.1 International debt
4.2 Foreign exchange regimes
4.3 Interest rates
4.4 Money and monetary aggregates
4.5 Central banks
5.0 Capital markets
5.1 Stock market capitalization
5.2 Stock market prices and indexes
5.3 Capital raised on the stock market
5.4 The bond and credit market
5.5 Derivatives
5.6 Foreign exchange transactions
User's guide
6.1 Abbreviations
6.2 Grouping of countries
6.3 List of figures
6.4 Bibliography and sources
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