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Identifying the relevant multilateral institutions and multinational organisations 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 organisations. Chapter topics examine multilateral institutions and organisations: generally and their major umbrella organisation -- 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, standardised legal commercial rules, and common usages and documents through international conventions and treaties, the harmonisation of national commercial laws, and accepted sectoral practices; overseeing international transportation and communications; 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.

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G. Gregory Letterman has lived and practised law in Asia, Australasia, Latin America, and Europe, as well as in the United States. He has had broad and extensive global experience in international commercial legal matters while working for the US government, law firms, and corporations and teaching at law schools. He is the author of multivolume legal treatises on international commercial law and of books and articles on various aspects of international commercial law. He is the managing editor of a quarterly journal on international contract law.

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