TY - BOOK AU - Letterman,G.Gregory TI - Basics of Multilateral Institutions and Organizations: Economics and Commerce T2 - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 SN - 9789004480452 AV - HF1379 U1 - 341.7/5 23 PY - 2002/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - Brill | Nijhoff KW - International agencies KW - International economic relations KW - International finance KW - International trade N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Identifying the relevant multilateral institutions and multinational organizations involved in particular aspects of international finance and trade often proves to be difficult. This book makes that process easy while providing valuable descriptions of and insights into those institutions and organizations. Chapter topics examine multilateral institutions and organizations: • generally and their major umbrella organization-the United Nations; • concerned with national currencies, national solvency, financial institutions and securities exchange, and international financial transactions and securities; • promoting economic development; • regulating international trade; • dealing with international product and performance standards, standardized legal commercial rules, and common usages and documents through international conventions and treaties, the harmonization of national commercial laws, and accepted sectoral practices; • protecting international intellectual property rights; • managing international environmental, commodities, and natural resources matters; • resolving international disputes; and • involved with other international finance and trade matters. No other book now in print covers this topic. None is likely to ever do so with such thoroughness and clarity. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004480452 ER -