Reflecting the diverse and profound changes triggered by the latest wave of economic globalization, this book highlights various governance responses at national, regional and global levels. The topics covered are wide-ranging and include economic history and development, European integration,...

Jorge Braga de Macedo as an Economic Historian: The Transition of the Portuguese Economy from the Authoritarian to the Democratic Period (1960-1979) -- Bagehot for “Followers”: How Did the Portuguese Lender of Last Resort Manage the First Post World War I Crisis? -- What’s in a Bond? The...

Introduction / by Antônio Márcio Buainain, Miguel Rocha de Sousa, Zander Navarro -- Globalization and agriculture : some observations and some questions / by Henry Bernstein -- The global driving of brazilian agrarian development in the new century / Zander Navarro and Antônio Márcio...

This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape Verde and Mozambique's particular geographical and historical contexts. We hold that development success under globalization entails, necessarily but not exclusively, positive...