Economics and GATT
- Background to GlobalisationBy Avinash Jha
Price: $7.0 or Rs. 150.0Pp 188/(2000)Encourages readers to interpret contemporary trends towards globalisation without getting lost in jargon, while demystifying the basic decision-making processes of powerful states and private interests, and their priorities. - Bioresources and Biotechnology: Policy Concerns for Asian RegionBy Edited by Suman SahaiPrice: $9.0 or Rs. 200.0Pp 184/(1999)Highlights special problems related to biotechnology such as the new IPR regime and suggests an effective strategy for South Asian countries to cope with the issues.
- Cargill: The Giant Among Grain MerchantsBy Research Foundation for Science, Technology and EcologyPrice: $3.0 or Rs. 50.0Pp 28 LF/(2000)Exposes the machinations of Cargill, the multinational food company out to destroy biodiversity and control the world's farmers and food supply.
- Dancing to Global Capital Media in IndiaBy Pranjali Bandhu
Price: $7.0 or Rs. 150.0Pp 138/ (2001)The neocolonial process of globalisation is destroying the Indian economy, and the media and communication system are being used to further this process. This book shows how globalisation is af-fecting the media and spreading Brahminical, fascistic, communal, sexist and consumerist mentalities. - Developing Countries & Services TradeBy Chakravarthi Raghavan
Price: $8.0 or Rs. 175.0Pp 127 /(2002)This succinct analysis of the position of developing countries in the services trade, shows why they are in the position of 'chasing a black cat in a dark room blindfolded.' - Fences and WindowsBy Naomi Klein
Price: $7.0 or Rs. 150.0Pp 267 (2002)A survival guide for life in the world economy, a record of globalisation and its macabre consequences, and a document, in its own right, of a unique time in our history. Two years of commentary written at demonstrations and summits around the world including front line reports on street protests that have shocked and energised millions. Charge your batteries for the next charge! - GATT AgreementsBy -
Price: $13.0 or Rs. 280.0Pp.392/(1995) LFThe final, authoritative text of the 1994 Uruguay Round, the new Bible of the new Conquistadors, the blue-print for the new adventures of Columbus. - Global Corporate Power: Emerging Trends & IssuesBy Kavaljit Singh
Price: $3.0 or Rs. 30.0Pp 42 /(2001)As economic clout of global corporations scales unprecedented heights, this book analyses the situation and calls upon anti-corporate activists and movements to rethink their strategies in order to address the new challenges posed by corporate-led globalisation. - Globalisation and the Islamic ChallengeBy S.M. Mohamed Idris
Price: $3.0 or Rs. 50.0Pp 32 (2001)Neo-liberal globalisation is not inevitable. It can be contained provide Third World societies look into their own vast storehouses of traditional knowledge. - Globalisation or RecolonisationBy Neeraj
Price: $5.0 or Rs. 100.0Pp 240/ (2001)Globalisation is supposed to mark the end of conflicts, imperial-ism and, indeed, history itself. With all these extravagant claims, it has aroused widespread opposition. Are the opponents merely hoodlums or is there something more to globalisationan attempt at recolonisation? - Globalisation: A SketchBy Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Price: $2.0 or Rs. 10.0Pp 20 /(2000)A simple but incisive analysis of globalisation. - Globalization: The Impeiral Thrust Of ModernityBy Ninan Koshy
Price: $5.0 or Rs. 100.0Pp 117 /(2002)A vital volume of essays identifies globalisation as the all conquering imperial arm of modernity. Rejects the affirmation that there are no alternatives. - Intellectual Property Rights, The WTO And Developing CountriesBy Carlos M. CorreaPrice: $20.0 or Rs. 294.0Pp 268/(2000)Cuts through the daunting technicalities of the debate on the WTO agreements on Intellectual Property Rights and their treatment as internationally tradeable commodities.
- Intellectual Property, Biodiversity & Sustainable DevelopmentBy Martin KhorPrice: $8.0 or Rs. 175.0Pp 122 /(2002)A useful summary and analysis of the key aspects of this controversial subject.
- Like a Skull in the SkyBy Mohan
Price: $2.0 or Rs. 20.0Pp.32/(1994) LFPosters and cartoons of Mohan, with a commentary in Telugu and English. On the World Bank and IMF and other morbid imperialist culture-vultures. - Microorganisms and Intellectual Property RightsBy Edited by Suman SahaiPrice: $6.0 or Rs. 120.0Pp 88/(1998)Attempts to coalesce the diverse opinions of various stakeholders and provides critical inputs for policy-making with regard to patenting of microorganisms.
- New Patent RegimeBy B.K. Keayla
Price: $2.0 or Rs. 20.0Pp.37/(1996)An authority on GATT and patent regimes examines the consequences of the new patent regimes on domestic industry and consumers. - Reforming Global Financial Architecture: Issues & ProposalsBy Ed. Yilmaz Akyuz
Price: $7.0 or Rs. 150.0Pp 156 /(2002)Argues that strengthening of institutions and arrangements at the international level if financial crises are to be reduced. - Report of the People's Commission on Intellectual Property RightsBy V.R. Krishna Iyer, Yash Pal, Prabhat Patnaik and S.K. Sinha
Price: $3.0 or Rs. 50.0Pp.52/(1998)A quick "first report" on moves to amend the Indian Patents Act, 1970 and a review of the TRIPs Agreement. - Rural Industrialisaton in a Modern EconomyBy -
Price: $9.0 or Rs. 190.0Pp 170 (1987) (HB)Documents with data rural industrialisation in Alwar which sought to modernise traditional crafts and improve the prosperity of artisans, without the attendant evils of industrialisation. - The New Work Programme of the WTOBy Bhagirath Lal Das
Price: $6.0 or Rs. 125.0Pp 80 /(2002)An analysis of the overall tenor of the Doha Work Programme of the WTO. - The Third World in the Age of Globalisation: Requiem or New Agenda?By Ash Narain RoyPrice: $7.0 or Rs. 150.0Pp 148; Ed. 1999An insightful account of where developing countries now are and how they might seek to reassert themselves in order to defend their interests in the new world order.
- The World Trade Organisation: A Guide to the Framework for International TradeBy Bhagirath Lal Das
Price: $15.0 or Rs. 350.0Pp 452 (1999)Detailed and intelligible guide to the intricacies of the WTO agreements, which are rewriting wholesale the rules of economic intercourse among countries. Essential reading for negotiators, students, executives, academics and officials. - TNCs & IndiaBy Jed Greer & Kavaljit SinghPrice: $3.0 or Rs. 50.0Pp 122 /(1996)An activist's guide to research campaign on transnational corporations (TNCs).
- Understanding Globalisation: How it effects our livesBy Consumers' Association of Penang
Price: $3.0 or Rs. 50.0Pp 64A short, incisive guide to the ill-effects globalisation is bound to have on all our lives. - Understanding International OrganisationsBy CAP
Price: $4.0 or Rs. 55.0Pp 72A quick and lucid pamphlet for those who want to brief themselves on how international organisations like the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF act against the interests of people everywhere. - Unhealthy Trends: The World Bank, Structural Adjustment and Health Sector in IndiaBy Public Interest Research Group
Price: $2.0 or Rs. 15.0Pp.34/(1994) LFThe measures being proposed by the World Bank in the area of health are designed to sap people's health, make medicines more expensive and turn the country broke. - What is Budget and a Note on Public DebtBy G.J. Rama RaoPrice: $2.0 or Rs. 10.0Pp.20/(1992)Brief, and to the point, discussion on what is the Indian budget and the nature of India's public debt.
- WTO And The Globalization of Food InsecurityBy Mark Ritchie et alPrice: $3.0 or Rs. 50.0Pp 32 LF/(1999)An expos‚ of the manner in which globalisation undermines food security, food safety and sustainability.
- GATS: A PRIMER FOR ACTIVISTSBy PEACEPrice: $2.0 or Rs. 20.0Pp 30Written in question and answer format, this booklet provides illuminating answers on every aspect of GATS that concerned people should know.
- GLOBALISATION AND ITS VICTIMS AS SEEN BY ITS VICTIMSBy Michael Amaladoss, S.J.
Price: $7.0 or Rs. 130.0Pp 246 (2000)A compilation of the papers discussed at the International Consultation on Globalisation. - GLOBALISATION: REALITY, RESISTANCE AND ALTERNATIVESBy Eric Toussaint
Price: $5.0 or Rs. 100.0Pp 128 (2004)Three essays critical of globalisation by an eminent historian and political scientist. - MEDIA CONTROLBy Noam Chomsky
Price: $10.0 or Rs. 225.0Pp 120 (2003) (HB)The media plays a very important role in contemporary politics and often allows itself to become an agent of propaganda. Noam Chomsky focusses on how the public relations industry in the US manipulates and controls the public mind through the media in favour of violence against the rest of the world.. - POWER AND TERRORBy Noam ChomskyPrice: $9.0 or Rs. 195.0Pp 158 (2003) (HB)Post-9/11 talks and interviews from the author of the celebrated bestseller 9-11
- THE DEBT SCAMBy Damien Millet, Eric Toussaint
Price: $7.0 or Rs. 150.0Pp 150 (2003)Detailed answers to 50 pertinent questions on the third world debt and the IMF, World Bank and their policies. Argues the debt should be cancelled once and for all, as it will always hinder free and sustainable development of the South. - VISION AND ACTION FOR ANOTHER WORLDBy Ulrich RoeschPrice: $9.0 or Rs. 200.0Pp 210 (2004)Fifteen insightful essays by prominent writers and thinkers on globalisation, biodynamic agriculture, education—all written to provide a new vision for the global civil society that wants a difference.
- WORKERS RIGHTS IN A GLOBALISED WORLD ECONOMYBy Rohini HensmanPrice: $2.0 or Rs. 25.0Pp 52A manual for activists involved in assisting workers confronting an invasive global economy.
- A CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO THE GLOBALISATION OF FINANCEBy Kavaljit Singh
Price: $7.0 or Rs. 150.0Pp 187 (1998)Argues for regulatory mechanisms and mass citizen action to exercise social control over global capital finance. - GLOBALISATION AND LABOURBy Ronaldo Munck
Price: $11.0 or Rs. 250.0Pp 216 (2002)The first book to deal comprehensively and analytically with labour’s response to globalisation. Only if labour acts as a transnational force can it regulate a global economic system that has gone out of control.