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Losing Earth : a recent history
\"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story\"-- Publisher marketing.
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Harvesting Haiti
This collection ponders the personal and political
implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the
devastating 2010 earthquake. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake
that struck Haiti in January 2010 was a debilitating event that
followed decades of political, social, and financial issues.
Leaving over 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.5 million
people homeless, the earthquake has had lasting repercussions on a
struggling nation. As the post-earthquake political situation
unfolded, Myriam Chancy worked to illuminate on-the-ground
concerns, from the vulnerable position of Haitian women to the
failures of international aid. Originally presented at invited
campus talks, published as columns for a newspaper in Trinidad and
Tobago, and circulated in other ways, her essays and creative
responses preserve the reactions and urgencies of the years
following the disaster.
In Harvesting Haiti , Chancy examines the structures
that have resulted in Haiti's post-earthquake conditions and
reflects at key points after the earthquake on its effects on
vulnerable communities. Her essays make clear the importance of
sustaining and supporting the dignity of Haitian lives and of
creating a better, contextualized understanding of the issues that
mark Haitians' historical and present realities, from gender parity
to the vexed relationship between Haiti and the Dominican
Republic.
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One world now : the ethics of globalization
Seamlessly integrates major development of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, \"One World.\" One of the world's most influential philosophers here confronts both the perils and potentials inherent in globalization. every issue is considered from an ethical perspective, including climate change, foreign aid, human rights, immigration, and the responsibility to protect people from genocide and crimes against humanity. Singer argues powerfully that solving global problems requires transcending national differences.
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Dynamic Modeling and Applications for Global Economic Analysis
A sequel to Global Trade Analysis: Modeling and Applications (Cambridge University Press, 1996, edited by Thomas W. Hertel), this new volume presents the technical aspects of the Global Trade Analysis Program's global dynamic framework (GDyn) and its applications within important global policy issues. The book covers a diverse set of topics including trade reform, growth, investment, technology, demographic change and the environment. Environmental issues are particularly well-suited for analysis with GDyn, and this volume covers its uses with climate change, resource use and technological progress in agriculture. Other applications presented in the book focus on integration issues such as rules governing foreign investment, e-commerce regulations, trade in services, harmonization of technical standards, sanitary and photo-sanitary regulations, streamlining of customs procedures, and demographic change and migration.
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Wealth, power, and the crisis of Laissez Faire capitalism
\"This forcefully argued book offers a provocative picture of the political, intellectual, and economic forces that have shaped the history of the United States from its founding to the present day. Offering an extensive and in-depth critique of laissez-faire doctrine and a novel reformulation of the work of American System writers such as Daniel Raymond, Henry Carey, and Thorstein Veblen, author Donald Gibson traces America's rise to global supremacy. He examines how free-market ideology and the \"establishment\" networks exemplified by Wall Street and the Council for Foreign Relations combined to lead us to the political and economic crises that America faces at the dawn of the twenty-first century\"--Provided by publisher.
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From disintegration to reintegration : Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in international trade
As the world marketplace becomes ever more globalized, much is at stake for the prosperity of hundreds of millions of people in Europe and Central Asia as the regions transition process continues through its second decade. Understanding the underlying dynamics shaping the contours and most salient impacts of international integration that have emergedand likely to emerge prospectivelyin the region is thus a crucial challenge for the medium term economic development agenda, not only for policymakers in the countries on themselves, but also for their trading partners, the international financial institutions, the donor community and the future of the world trading system as a whole. This book addresses this challenge.
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The Global Impact of the Systemic Economies and MENA Business Cycles
This paper analyzes spillovers from macroeconomic shocks in systemic economies (China, the Euro Area, and the United States) to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as outward spillovers from a GDP shock in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and MENA oil exporters to the rest of the world. This analysis is based on a Global Vector Autoregression (GVAR) model, estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2 to 2011Q2. Spillovers are transmitted across economies via trade, financial, and commodity price linkages. The results show that the MENA countries are more sensitive to developments in China than to shocks in the Euro Area or the United States, in line with the direction of evolving trade patterns and the emergence of China as a key driver of the global economy. Outward spillovers from the GCC region and MENA oil exporters are likely to be stronger in their immediate geographical proximity, but also have global implications.
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Heat stress on agricultural workers exacerbates crop impacts of climate change
The direct impacts of climate change on crop yields and human health are individually well-studied, but the interaction between the two have received little attention. Here we analyze the consequences of global warming for agricultural workers and the crops they cultivate using a global economic model (GTAP) with explicit treatment of the physiological impacts of heat stress on humans’ ability to work. Based on two metrics of heat stress and two labor functions, combined with a meta-analysis of crop yields, we provide an analysis of climate, impacts both on agricultural labor force, as well as on staple crop yields, thereby accounting for the interacting effect of climate change on both land and labor. Here we analyze the two sets of impacts on staple crops, while also expanding the labor impacts to highlight the potential importance on non-staple crops. We find, worldwide, labor and yield impacts within staple grains are equally important at +3 ∘ C warming, relative to the 1986–2005 baseline. Furthermore, the widely overlooked labor impacts are dominant in two of the most vulnerable regions: sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. In those regions, heat stress with 3 ∘ C global warming could reduce labor capacity in agriculture by 30%–50%, increasing food prices and requiring much higher levels of employment in the farm sector. The global welfare loss at this level of warming could reach $136 billion, with crop prices rising by 5%, relative to baseline.
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