globalization, development and governance (latin america’s experience)

HRWeb Americas: a tool to facilitate better research governance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Major progress has been made in improving health in Latin America and the Caribbean and life expectancy has increased considerably in the Americas. However, major concerns still exist since this progress has not reached all members of society and inequality remains high in the region 1. Research can address this problem and fortunately there is growing international recognition that quality res...

Corporate governance, globalization and firm productivity

We examine the relationship between globalization, corporate governance and firm productivity. The results, using longitudinal data from Korea, indicate that the positive effect of liberalising equity ownership on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) was reinforced by indirect managerial effects when a firm improved its corporate governance. Our findings also confirm that the interaction of t...

Chapter 1 GLOBALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE Miles Kahler

Globalization and Development Revisited in the Light of Asian Experience

This report was prepared for, and presented at, the Asian Regional Policy Dialogue held in Bangkok, Thailand, November 24-26, 1999. This Dialogue was one of a series of three Dialogues organized by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development under the aegis of the UNCTAD/UNDP Global Programme. Participants at the workshops included senior policy makers from various ministries...

Trade Liberalization in the Americas: Are Regionalism and Globalization Compatible?

Conceptualizing Governance in Latin America

Due to the diversity of interpretations and definitions given in Latin America to the terms gobernabilidad and gobernanza, this paper brings together and compares these definitions with the concepts of the Anglo-Saxon terms: governance and governability. After an anthropological analysis of these concepts, it proposes a definition of governance which could be applied in international cooperatio...