Globalization for development: the international trade perspective

A university course book on international business that starts with the drivers of globalization and works through trade theories, entry modes, foreign direct investment and the WTO system. Written as a full semester syllabus with objectives and review questions in every unit.

Hitesh Jhanji

The reference work on trade in services, covering how services cross borders and what liberalizing them does to finance, telecoms, transport, health and professional sectors. Each chapter pairs the economics with the regulatory questions governments face.

Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern and Gianni Zanini

The World Development Report on global value chains, explaining how goods are now built across many countries and what that means for jobs, wages and poverty. Rich in maps, charts and country cases that show where the gains land.

World Bank Group

A practical manual on how to build a national trade policy, from diagnosing the export base to sequencing liberalization and negotiating agreements. UNCTAD grounds every recommendation in cases drawn from countries that went through the process.

UNCTAD

A Harvard Business School study tracing how multinational firms have operated in developing economies since the first wave of globalization, and how political risk reshaped their strategies over a century. Useful for understanding why emerging markets attract or repel foreign investment.

Geoffrey Jones