1-5 of 5
Keywords: Exports
Sort by
Chapter
A New Agenda for Global Warming
Get access
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Published: 27 December 2011
..., and implicitly other nations who are doing little to curb emissions, are unfairly subsidizing their exports by not forcing manufacturers to pay the full cost of emissions. To avoid trade sanctions, nations should tax carbon emissions to reflect the long-term social cost of emissions. If trade sanctions could...
Chapter
Government Deficits and the Deindustrialization of America
Get access
Ronald I. McKinnon
Published: 27 December 2011
...This chapter argues that the deindustrialization of America is to blame for the soaring federal deficit. The reason: the need for large infusions of foreign savings to finance government borrowing sent the dollar higher and made it much harder for U.S. manufacturers to export their goods overseas...
Book
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investing
Get access
Joseph Stiglitz (ed.) and others
Published online: 19 November 2015
Published in print: 15 November 2011
... in developing countries and are intimately tied to energy and commodities exports, and they carry virtually no liabilities and have little redemption risk, which allows them to take a longer-term investment outlook than most other institutional investors. This book examines the specificities of SWFs in greater...
Chapter
Review of Industrial Policies in Ethiopia: A Perspective from the Leather and Cut Flower Industries
Get access
Girum Abebe and Florian Schaefer
Published: 06 October 2015
... Institute CLRI Footwear Design and Development Institute FDDI Extension employment taxes investment tannery sector China Huajian group Development Bank of Ethiopia DBE land learning Ethiopian Horticulture Producers and Exporters Association EHPEA five year plan finance commercial banks...
Book
Dangerous Trade: Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation
Get access
Jennifer Erickson
Published online: 19 November 2015
Published in print: 19 May 2015
...This book assesses the impact of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) that was approved by the United Nations in 2013 and which set legally binding standards to regulate global arms exports. It explores the reasons top arms-exporting democracies have put aside past sovereignty, security and economic worries...