Climate change policy and governance : history, contradictions, and impact -- Governance, fiscal policy, and economic growth -- Size distribution of the largest 100 non-financial multinationals -- Effects of the transversal foreign direct investment on the productivity of the Mexican economy -- Financial globalization and financial globilzation and peripheral strategies : recent experiences in Latin American and lessons from Asia -- Financial and trade liberalization and their impact on private sector investment in Turkey -- International competitiveness : "measurement indicators and structural aspects with specific reference to the situation in Spain" -- Variation of net benefits in the global economy : the case of NAFTA and EMU -- Coordination of fiscal policies in EMU -- Science and innovation policy : evolution and Challengeskel Gomez -- Can regulations induce environmental innovations? -- Education and ICT : key factors to improve the development in the world -- The impact of undocumented immigration on ID theft of undocumented immigration on ID theft and property crime : a case history for U.S.- Mexico relations -- Religious diversity and corruption : cross country evidence -- Social market economy and welfare state towards the formation of a new cybereconomy.