Many expect globalization and regional economic integration to force domestic institutions and policies to converge toward some efficiency-mandated minimalism. Applying basic trade theory to national institutional and policy systems clarifies, however, that the greater force is tax competition (broadly conceived), as abetted by ideology and transmitted and magnified by international financial m...

Our study examines the evolution of offshoring of information technology services between a multinational telecommunications firm and Indian vendors. The firm’s strategy sought to access critical resources of talented software professionals at low cost and to facilitate growth in a highly competitive telecommunications sector. Legitimacy management proved critical in explaining the evolution of...

This paper assesses the impact of 30 years of globalization on gender equity in well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data indicate that while some gaps in well-being have narrowed, progress is uneven across a set of nine indicators, and in some cases, conditions have worsened. Despite the optimism of market proponents, growth is not found to be an equalizer for gender anymore than it ...

Sustainable tourism has emerged as a growing facet in recent years, gaining acceptance among developers and stakeholders; development model that is economically viable, socially acceptable, environmentally friendly. Nonetheless, faces numerous challenges, including displacement of people, cultural commercialization, organic dilapidation, economic dependency resulting from social-economic develo...

This paper examines the impact of globalization on income inequality in a panel of 78 developed and developing countries over 2002–2015. Moreover, the indirect effect of financial development in the link between globalization and income inequality is also analyzed by incorporating the interaction term between globalization and financial development. The empirical evidence based on the first-dif...