The Post-Staples State: The Political Economy of Canada’s Primary Industries

... Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State Abstract The central ... state The paper compares three cases of governance of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA and the UK, and Australia Th...

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... Leibfried and Obinger, The State of the Welfare State , p.212 62 Unlike the other branches of the German social insurance system, the health insurance funds not receive regular subsidies from the ... incomes between E400 and E800 Also, various measures were passed to promote the employment of older people and the transition of jobless ECONOMIC REFORM A...

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... Asia financial crisis a good event to investigate the role of these connections in causing and resolving financial institutions distress Furthermore, the general causes of the East Asian financial ... the percentage of institutions in distress (Table IV) Malaysia has fewer distressed institutions and did not close any financial institution The Philippi...

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... chapter analyzes the determinants of central-bank independence 40 THE DETERMINANTS OF CENTRAL-BANK INDEPENDENCE The previous chapters have shown that the degree of central-bank independence varies ... of central-bank independence 34 The index SUMLV measures the total score of sixteen legal variables of Cukierman (1992) with respect to the appointment,...

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... political regimes: the impact of the shadow economy (SHADOW) 4.4a Structure of taxation and political regimes 4.4b Structure of taxation and political regimes 4.4c Structure of taxation and political ... variables, such as the level of GDP per worker, the openness of the economy, the level of debt and the share of agriculture, and with other soci...

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... all the great meanings of the modern age, from the Enlightenment to now, of human progress and the civilising mission of human intervention After the eclipsing of the socialist project in the ... xiii The political economy of development Institutions of the global economy Frontier institutions Why is money so important? Institutions matter Chapter p...

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... power in the academic literature of international political economy has allowed neoliberalism to remain the dominant ideology of international development theory and for the Great Predators of the ... of conditionality But because these Great Predators are captured by firms of Northern states, and because they serve the interests of their owners, the...

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... status and critically obscures how the divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the political economy of development ... machine to undermine the critique of global power to which the international worker and social movement is inclined It is the ‘gift from the Americ...

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... senior official in the CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving and the ... promotion of ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction of the ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of assuring profitability in the cir...

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... partly offset by the establishment of the developmental discourse and its institutions, including the CDC Even in 1937 and 1938 there had been widespread riots in the West Indies against colonial ... colonies in the world economy and sterling area Thus, in 1949 they urged the British Government to pay ‘closer consideration’ to pricing policies and the ‘relati...

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