1. Engendering development strategies and macroeconomic policies : what's sound and sensible? / Gunseli Berik and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers -- 2. The road to gender equality : global trends and the way forward / Stephanie Seguino -- 3. Making policy work for women : gender, foreign direct...

In 1992 a blue-ribbon group of US economists led by Michael Porter concluded that the US stock market-based corporate model was misallocating resources and jeopardising US competitiveness. The faster growth of US economy since then and the supposed US lead in the spread of information technology...

With contributions from the leading commentators in the field and an over-arching introduction from the editor, the concerns of this updated and revised Handbook are two-fold. Firstly, to redefine the concept of globalisation and dispel the haze that surrounds it through a systematic and...