Schiffrin / Bisat Covering Globalization

A Handbook for Reporters
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-231-50640-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schiffrin, Anya

Bisat, Amer

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Schiffrin Anya:
Anya Schiffrin is the Director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs. She is the editor of Global Muckraking: 100 Years of Investigative Journalism from Around the World (The New Press, 2014) and Bad News: How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the Century (The New Press, 2012), and Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters (co-editor, Columbia University Press, 2003).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.