International migration, economic development & policy.
9780821369357 International migration, economic development & policy. Ed. by Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff. The World Bank 2007 299 pages $35.00 Paperback JV6035 This volume summarizes and interprets data collected by...

Subnational economic development and environmental policy in an international context.
Abstract Over the past two decades, there has been a growing recognition that subnational actors are playing an increasingly energetic role in foreign affairs. The once robust notion that U.S. foreign affairs rest solely within the purview of the central government has become a relic of a...

ARAB AFFAIRS - Dec 30 - GCC Denounces Massacre.
Leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) begin their two-day summit conference here denouncing Israel's brutal military aggression against Palestinians in Gaza and calling for a united stand on the blitz that has killed at least 327 people since Dec 20. "The summit comes at a time when...

California Economic Leader Summoned by Obama Transition Team to Make Recommendations on Economic Stimulus Plan.
Wayne Schell, California Association of Local Economic Development, Shares Insights on Public Sector's Role for Economic Stimulus SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Wayne Schell, President and CEO of the California Association of Local Economic Development (CALED), received a request from an Obama transition team leader to...

Trina Solar to Locate North American Base in San Francisco.
CHANGZHOU, China, Nov. 12 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trina Solar Limited (NYSE: TSL; ''Trina Solar'' or the ''Company''), a leading integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, founded in 1997, today announced it has chosen the City of...

Forty years of Populorum Progressio: the development of peoples.
Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland, reflects on the 40th anniversity of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum Progressio (The development of peoples). This papal letter to both the Church and the world led a number of hierarchies to set up organizations for channelling development aid to Third World countries....

Globalization and economic development: impact of social capital and institutional building.
I Introduction GLOBALIZATION, a term commonly used to refer to the free flow of goods and services, capital, technology, and knowledge, is generating renewed interest in the international economics literature. There are perennial arguments regarding whether globalization is a positive phenomenon, especially as it relates...

The Federalist Society address.
APRIL 26, 2007 PROFESSOR BAKER: My name is John Baker. I teach at LSU Law School and I direct the Hemispheric Trade Program there. I'm going to give a little longer introduction in a few minutes, but to accommodate Ambassador Bolton, who has been so...

Michigan Economic Development Corporation and North American International Auto Show Showcase Green Vehicles.
MEDC EcoXperience Ride and Drive Takes Over Cobo's Michigan Hall DETROIT, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- A new ride and drive element highlighting the green future of the automotive industry has been added to the 2009 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation...

Does political democracy enhance human development in developing countries? A cross-national analysis.
I Introduction "HUMAN DEVELOPMENT" (HD) HAS BECOME THE NEW BUZZWORD in the development literature during the last quarter-century and is now the professed aim of some prominent development agencies. In the not too distant past, quantitative economic growth was the sole desideratum of developing nations,...