This paper uses a model of horizontal multinational enterprises to explore the relationship between transportation costs and trade policy cooperation. The model predicts a strong regional bias in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of ...

In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the WTO has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important ...

WASHINGTON -- A study by the U.S. Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service was cited as finding that farmers growing organic crops doubled their acreage in the 1990s, although it still only ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 23 (Reuters) - Farmland Industries said on Thursday it plans to sell its Dubuque, Iowa, pork processing plant to Smithfield Foods Inc. , the largest U.S. pork producer. The all ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Lyme Timber Co. discovered the profit potential in land conservation almost by accident. For nearly a decade after its founding in 1976, it operated like any other timber ...

This study examines the economic and political power of the world's top 200 corporations. Led by General Motors, these are the firms that are driving the process of corporate globalization and ...

The EPA has granted registration for the agricultural use of harpin, a Cornell-discovered protein that induces a plant to mobilize its own defenses against pathogens and insects; the protein also ...