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Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters

Edited by Anya Schiffrin and Amer Bisat

Paper, 368 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13175-9
$39.50 / £23.00

December, 2004
Cloth, 368 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13174-2
$78.50 / £46.00

Acknowledgments

1. The Importance of Critical Thinking, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Anya Schiffrin

Part 1. Capital Markets

2. Capital Markets, by Catherine McKinley

Sidebar: Pyramid Schemes, by Tyler Maroney

3. Foreign Exchange Markets and Foreign Exchange Crises, by Sara Silver

4. Covering Central Banks, by Marjorie Olster

5. Capital Controls, by Anya Schiffrin

Sidebar: The IMF and Capital-Account Liberalization, by Nicholas Rosen

6. Dollarization, by Tyler Maroney

Sidebar: Ecuador and the Dollar, by Nicholas Rosen

7. Derivatives, by Randall Dodd

Sidebar: How Derivatives Markets Work, by Randall Dodd

8. Hedge Funds, by Amer Bisat

Part 2. Banking and Macroeconomics

9. Banking Crises: Causes and Solutions, by Anya Schiffrin

Sidebar: Indonesia-a banking crisis, by Gráinne McCarthy

10. Sovereign Debt Crises, by Suzanne Miller

11. Debt Relief and HIPC, by Gumisai Mutume

Sidebar: HIPC in Zambia, by Shantha Bloemen

12. Assessing Sovereign Risk, by Graciana del Castillo

13. Pension Reform, by Phillip Longman

Sidebar: Russian Pension Reform, by Sergei Blagov

Part 3. Corporate Reporting

14. Foreign Direct Investment, by Dan DeLuca

Sidebar: Poland, by Dan Deluca

15. Privatization, by Deidre Sheehan

Sidebar: Breaking the Bank-Banking Privatization in the Czech Republic, by Peter S. Green

16. Corporate Governance, by Howard I. Golden

17. Labor, by Kristin Huckshorn

Sidebar: Nike and Vietnam-a Labor Case Study, by Kristin Huckshorn

Sidebar: Codes of Conduct and the Rise of Corporate Responsibility, by Mila Rosenthal

18. Accounting, by Jane M. Folpe and Herbert K. Folpe

19. Money Laundering, by David Marchant

Part 4. Trade and Commodities

20. International Trade, by Nicholas Rosen and Helen Campbell

Sidebar: Cambodia-an Attempt to Improve Working Conditions, by Sheridan Prasso

21. Commodities Markets, by Vincent Nwanma

22. Oil and Development, by Petter Norre

Sidebar: Rent and Profit, by David Nissen

23. Poverty Reduction, by Isabel Ortiz

Part 5. Reporting and Writing

24. Covering the World Bank, by Abid Aslam

25. Internet Reporting, by Jane M. Folpe

26. Writing Tips, by Graham Watts

List of Contributors

Index

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About the Author

Anya Schiffrin is codirector of the media program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She was the editor in chief of the Istanbul-based daily the Turkish Times, a stringer for Reuters in Barcelona, senior financial writer at the Industry Standard in New York and bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi. Amer Bisat is a hedge fund manager focusing on emerging-markets bonds and was previously a portfolio manager at UBS and Morgan Stanley and chief emerging-markets economist at Salomon Brothers in Europe. He has also been a senior economist at the IMF, where he worked on the economics of Russia, Egypt, and Cameroon, and he has published widely on growth, the financial sector, and Middle East economics.

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