This book is based on a conference entitled "Regional Public Goods and Regional Development Assistance", held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 2002. It examines how the IDB and the ADB support the provision of regional public goods (RPGs) in Latin America and Asia, respectively. RPGs are...

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.

This studyrebuts much of the traditional rationale forregulatory restrictions and provides a list of principles of regulation that would serve as a model for global accounting practices.

Contributors review the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates and the historic 1985 agreement by the Group of Five.

This book considers the three geographical regions that present the greatest intellectual property rights problems to U.S. industries--China, Latin America, and India.