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While problems continue in terms of continued protectionism (especially in agriculture and energy), security concerns in the aftermath of September 11lh, and difficulties in institutionalizing Mexican ...

This paper presents the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the Malaysian economy with specific attention to its environmental implications, and regulatory measures to shield harmful effects.

The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

Whether we like it or not, globalisation is here to stay. Despite the World Trade Organization's (WTO) slow crawl, companies and consumers will increasingly and inexorably cross their own borders to ...

The 2004 Sri Lanka Supreme Court judgment on a controversial Water Services Reform Bill opened the way for civil society to engage with the water authorities have developed a new National Water Policy ...

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the health risks from the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in many plastic and children's products, highlights the ...

An assessment of the current political, ecological and economic challenges facing family forests.

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

Slides of a presentation for the panel "Fair Trade and Youth Movements".

From the economic point of view, globalization is the increasing intensification and interconnectivity of flows of goods, services, capital and people between countries and regions in all parts of the ...