paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment

... Sanushka Mudaliar also helpedimmeasurably with the research. We are grateful to the AustralianResearch Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada for ﬁnancial ... approach, in a sense, tries to capture the societal debates about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment. Naturally, ... introduce the debates on the interface between political economy and global environmental change. Instructors using this as a textbookmay want to add case studies of particular global environmental...

The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State

... historical variants of the Keynesian welfare state. The paper compares three cases of governance of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA and the UK, and Australia. The aim ... (research on the social and political regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state forms in relation to advanced, knowledge-based and open sectors of the economy, ... When the Boat Comes In: Transforming Australia in the Age of Globalisation. Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press. Hall, Peter A. , and David Soskice. 2001. An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism....

Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc

... illegal for funds to raise contribution rates, the Minister for Social Affairs of the Land of Bavaria encour-aged the local health care funds to do exactly this. The year 2003 became the year of ... nment areadditionally limited by far-reaching legislative powers of the Bundesrat. Health carereform is further complicated by the fact that the Christian Democratic parliamentaryparty has always ... to its starting point. The 2004 law that adds a ‘sustainability factor’ to the pensionformula to take into account the declining birth rate and the increasing life expectancybore an uncanny...

The Political Economy of Distress in East Asian Financial Institutions

... also tried other specifications for the capitalization variables, such as the ratio of capital to assets,and cut-off levels for capitalization, but we found these generally of less significance.20 ... favorable to the acquiring bank. Or regulatory forbearance, accounting or taxpreferences may be granted to the particular financial institution. Other factors may alsoplay an important role in the closure ... Coverage of the national financial sectorin terms of total assets is high for all five countries and substantial in terms of number of institutions for Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. In terms of...

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CENTRAL-BANK INDEPENDENCE pptx

... the governing board of the Bundesbank. Apart from the so-called Direktor-ium (Directorate), the presidents of the nine Landeszentralbanken(regional central banks) are members of the Zentralbankrat. The Direktorium ... governments of the Länder (states). The Zentralbankrat is then again consulted. In the Netherlands, the president and the director-secretary of the Neder-landsche Bank are appointed by the minister of ... monetary policy vis-á-vis parliament.14(5) Appointment of bank officials. In New Zealand, both the minister of finance and the board of the central bank must ratify the appointment of the governor...

The Political Economy of Taxation pptx

... project: Alberto Barreix, Matteo Cacciatore, Angela Fraschini, Vincenzo Galasso, Luca Gandullia, Anna Marenzi, Riccardo Puglisi, Parthasarathi Shome and Stanley Winer.Some of the ideas developed ... national accounts data are generally available in the ESA95 (European System of Accounts 95) format. 52. The political economy of democracies: a review of the literature The existing political ... time.8 The nature of the assets owned by the elites would also matter, given that for example land is easier to tax 8 The political economy of taxationand less damaged by social and political...

The Games Are Not the Same The Political Economy of Football in Australia pot

... is played and watched all over the nation. Bob and Geoff also examine the transformation of the Victorian Football League into the Australian Football League, and the associated costs and benefits ... events, and maintaining the clubrooms and playing facilities. There is also a treasurer who looks after the financial affairs of the organisation. The treasurer is more often than not unfamiliar ... different professional football leagues, which are the Australian Football League (AFL), the Football (soccer) Federation of Australia A- League, the National Rugby League (NRL) and the Super...

State structure and economic development The political economy of Thailand and the Philippines

... resources and shape the market almost at will. Moreover, because the “state as organization” argument was first raised to debunk the view of the state as simply an arena of social contestation or as ... performances of Thailand and the Philippines, treating the two countries as divergent cases of late-late industrial development among Southeast Asia’s market economies. Analyses of Southeast Asian ... recruiting them into the state bureaucracy while reserving the economy largely for colonial exploitation, Southeast Asian capitalists first rose from the ranks of the bureaucracy. Since the start of...

Tài liệu Preparing the Western Cape for the Knowledge Economy of the 21st Century ppt

... capital and private equity funds, and a culture of entrepreneurial risk taking that celebrates tolerance, creativity, hard work and success. In Ireland venture capital was made available to academics ... inequality and marginalisation. The challenge facing countries such as South Africa, and regions such as the Western Cape, is therefore how to channel the forces of globalisation for the elimination ... competitors, unless the knowledge transfer takes place under circumstances that hold clear and immediate advantages for them. Such advantages have classically taken the form of the relatively...

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