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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “raymond robertson”
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  • Not Just Neighbors

    The Remarkable Economic Relationships in North America

    by Raymond Robertson ...
    Series Book 84 - World Scientific Studies in International Economics
    This book offers the most comprehensive account to date of how trade, migration, and labor markets have bound the United States and Mexico into one of the world's most deeply integrated economies. It highlights the supply chains that connect factories across borders, the workers whose livelihoods span two nations, and the shared opportunities and vulnerabilities that emerge from this unprecedented ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

  • Exports to Improve Labor Markets in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson ...
    Series series MENA Development Report
    This book focuses on studying Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, estimating the impact of trade policy on exports and their relationship with local labor market outcomes. The book suggest that trade has successfully boosted trade flows, but the benefits from this have not necessarily yielded better labor market outcomes and have not been equally shared. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exports to Improve Labor Markets in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson ...
    Series series MENA Development Report
    In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), trade liberalization measures have coincided with stable economic growth, and GDP per capita growth has surpassed that of other developing regions. However, MENA's labor-market outcomes--such as average wage levels, informality rate, and female labor force participation--continue to underperform. Why has rising trade failed to produce better labor market ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Stitches to Riches?

    Apparel Employment, Trade, and Economic Development in South Asia

    Edited by Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Poverty
    South Asia is in the midst of a demographic transition. For the next three decades, the growth of the region's working age population will far outpace the growth of dependents. Close to one million individuals will enter the workforce every month. This large, economically active population can increase the region's capacity to save and make crucial investments in physical capital, job training, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Consequences of COVID-19

    A One Health Approach to the Responses, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

    by Damola Adesakin, Sara Ali, Ernesto Amaral, Ph.D, Natalie Baker, Lillian Brannen, Rachel Paige Casey, Jordan Donop, M.Ed, Matthew Etchells, Moe Fazail, Richard Gelatt, Eleftherios Iakovou, Diara Malik, Candace McAlester, Erica Moorhead, M.Ed, Andrew S. Natsios, Susan Ngunijri, Erin Nguyen, Huyen Pham, Raymond Robertson, Leslie E. Ruyle, Lidia Azurdia Sierra, Erin A. Singer, Tamara Walderon, M.Ed, Soujin Wang, Ph.D, Vicki Weldon, Liliana K. Wolf ...
    No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Crudo Blackburn and Gerald W. Parker saw how many areas of society are impacted and how those impacts can ripple through to other sectors.Seeking to provide both warnings of these vulnerabilities and direction for future efforts to address them, Blackburn and Parker have assembled ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Exports to Jobs

    Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia

    by Erhan Artuc, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, Daniel Samaan ...
    Series series South Asia Development Forum
    The main message of this report is that directed globalization may be a way to address these lingering concerns. Both academic literature and recent anecdotal examples demonstrate the strong causal link between trade and growth. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Better Neighbors

    Toward a Renewal of Economic Integration in Latin America

    by Chad P. Bown, Daniel Lederman, Samuel Pienknagura, Raymond Robertson ...
    Series series World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    This book proposes a renewal of 'Open Regionalism' in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) aimed at achieving the region's goals of high growth with stability. The LAC region experienced a growth spurt with equity during the first decade of the 21st Century. It is well understood that an unsustainable demand boom fueled by terms-of-trade improvements drove this growth acceleration episode, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Jobs to Careers

    Apparel Exports and Career Paths for Women in Developing Countries

    by Stacey Frederick, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, Mexico Vergara Bahena ...
    Series series South Asia Development Forum
    The Report shifts the paradigm of how we think of women's participation in the labor force by demonstrating the importance of the distinction between jobs and careers and analyzing how an apparel-led export strategy contributes to the transition. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Jobs to Careers

    Apparel Exports and Career Paths for Women in Developing Countries

    by Stacey Frederick, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, Vergara Bahena ...
    Series series South Asia Development Forum
    An oft-cited strategy to advance economic development is to further integrate developing countries into global trade, particularly through global value chains, bolstered by the expansion of female-intensive industries to bring more women into the formal labor force. As a result, a frequent debate centers on whether the apparel industry--the most female-intensive and globally engaged manufacturing ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Exports to Jobs

    Boosting the Gains from Trade in South Asia

    by Erhan Artuc, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson, Samaan ...
    Series series South Asia Development Forum
    South Asia has grown rapidly with significant reductions in poverty, but it has not been able to match the fast-growing working age population, leading to lingering concerns about jobless growth and poor job quality. Could export growth in South Asia result in better labor market outcomes? The answer is yes, according to our study, which rigorously estimates—using a new methodology—the potential ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Employment in Crisis

    The Path to Better Jobs in a Post-COVID-19 Latin America

    by Joana Silva, Liliana Sousa, Truman Packard, Raymond Robertson ...
    Series series World Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    This book estimates how crises change labor market flows, assesses how these changes affect people, and discusses the key policy responses. Produced in conjunction with World Bank. ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization, Wages, And The Quality Of Jobs: Five Country Studies

    by Robertson Raymond; Brown Drusilla; Pierre Gaelle; Sanchez-Puerta Maria Laura ...
    Since the early 1990s, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world's economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies. The labor markets have adjusted to these major changes, and workers were required to adapt to them in ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD