Challenges to globalization: an overview / Robert E. Baldwin, L. Alan Winters -- Assessing globalization's critics / Kimberly Ann Elliott, Debayani Kar, J. David Richardson -- Globalization and democracy / Carl B. Hamilton -- Geography and export performance: external market access and internal supply capacity / Stephen Redding, Anthony J. Venables -- Globalization and international commodity trade with specific reference to the West African cocoa producers / Christopher J. Gilbert, Panos Varangis -- Globalization and dirty industries / Jean-Marie Grether, Jaime de Melo -- The role of globalization in the within-industry shift away from unskilled workers in France / Vanessa Strauss-Kahn -- The brain drain: curse or boom? a survey of the literature / Simon Commander, Mari Kangasniemi, L. Alan Winters -- The effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries / Drusilla K. Brown, Alan V. Deardorff, Robert M. Stern -- Home- and host-country effects of foreign direct investment / Robert E. Lipsey -- Competition for multinational investment in developing countries: human capital, infrastructure, and market size / David L. Carr, James R. Markusen, Keith E. Maskus -- The cross-border mergers and acquisitions wave of the late 1990s / Simon J. Evenett -- Financial opening: evidence and policy options / Joshua Aizenman -- Openness and growth: what's the empirical relationship? Robert E. Baldwin.