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The Political Economy of Distress in East Asian Financial Institutions
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18/10/2013, 08:15
... from
loan loss reserves; they are less likely state-owned; their ROA and size are smaller; and
they are more liquid. These results do not control, however, for the relationships among
the various ... as, on one
hand, the broader concept of economic failure rather than the more restrictive concept of
de jure failure is more relevant in a systemic financial crisis. On the other hand,
investigating ... discriminant analysis, logit or probit regression models, two-
step logit regression procedures and, more recently, proportional hazard models, where
both the probability of failure-event occurring...
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The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State
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13/03/2014, 21:59
... process. There are however striking differences between the structure of
the Nordic bio-industries as well as their regulatory models. First, the biotechnology
sector is about four times larger in ... ‘virtuous circle’ of
Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the
‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only
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the US and the UK however in the area of biomedical research regulation, ... firms that are in their turn critically dependent on the public
science base and a variety of support programs for technology transfer; funding
Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of...
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CENTRAL-BANK INDEPENDENCE pptx
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15/03/2014, 10:20
... possible
differences between the rate of time preference of political authorities
and that of central banks. For various reasons, central banks are often
more conservative and take a longer view of the ... judgment of the problem under consideration. In
particular, certain indices are more appropriate for some purposes than
for others. Measures of legal independence, for example, may be a
better proxy ... governor of the central bank; the institutional
location of the final authority for monetary policy and the procedures for
the resolution of conflicts between the government and the bank; the
importance...
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The Political Economy of Taxation pptx
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16/03/2014, 14:20
... (civil liberties) indicators, and the share of tax
revenue over GDP. These correlations should not be interpreted as
a causal relationship, but they represent a reference framework for
our analysis ... competition and growth, which comes
from economic liberalization, provides the resources for the redistri-
bution that a democracy requires.
On the contrary, starting from the issue of reverse causality ...
spending should be minimal. The third tenet of the formal voting
theory emphasizes the importance of the form of the voting game’.
On the contrary, there are positive theories of public policy such...
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Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc
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23/03/2014, 20:20
... form of the emergence – unprecedented in
the post-war German economy – of a sizeable number of ‘working poor’.
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These problems are compounded dramatically by the slow growth of the German
economy.
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Slow ... Associations (Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks). The commission pro-
posed a list of 13 reform measures, ranging from a weakening of the tripartite structure
of the Bundesagentur to a rather vague ... no
control over the treatment doctors provide. Health care funds are reduced to the role of
‘passive financers’ rather than ‘active purchasers of health services from suppliers on
behalf of the patients’.
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As...
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The Games Are Not the Same The Political Economy of Football in Australia pot
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24/03/2014, 02:21
... Cordner, The World of Football. A History of Football’s
Various Codes … From Their Origins to Today, John Cordner, Killara, NSW,
2002.
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Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of ... discussion of
various scenarios for each code.
The idea to bring together all the football codes under the same
analytical umbrella, and chart their progress, arose out of a number of
Melbourne-based ... Harrow or Rugby,
and although their knowledge of the rules might have been hazy, their
experiences were crucial in determining the types of games to be
played in Australia. There was no agreed...
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paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment
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01/06/2014, 10:55
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positive for the environment, they see it as contributing to further envi-
ronmental degradation. For them, more growth only means more
consumption of natural ... 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, ... institutionalists are grounded in the fields of political science
and international relations. They share many of the broad assumptions
and arguments of market liberals—especially the belief in the value of
economic...
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State structure and economic development The political economy of Thailand and the Philippines
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01/06/2014, 14:03
... the infant industry argument was first articulated
in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton in his Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the
Secretary on the Subject of Manufactures, where he argued ... either be insiders (meaning, they
rose from the ranks and were already career officials before their appointment as heads of
economic agencies) or outsiders (i.e., they were recruited from the ... development
and training in the civil service: in the ASEAN-Four cases, technocrats become members
of the civilian bureaucracy either as career officers rising up from the ranks of the
bureaucracy and...
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the samaritans dilemma the political economy of development aid nov 2005
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10/06/2014, 23:39
... government—MSEB—interest group triad
The donor government—Sida—special interests triad
The donor—other donors—recipient triad
The contractor at the center
Recipient beneficiaries
9.4.4. Implications for ownership ... criticized, from the geopolitical agenda of donors to the distributive politics
of recipient countries; from the ties that bind aid to procurement from private firms
in the donor’s country to the ... reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,
or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms...
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the mit press paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment apr 2005
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11/06/2014, 12:44
... greens are far more critical of the so-
called progress of our so-called creations and advancements in the era
of globalization. The former president of the Nature Conservancy put
this well: “In the ... 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, ... Herman Daly,
Catherine Dauvergne, Torben Drewes, Derek Hall, Eric Helleiner, and
three anonymous reviewers for The MIT Press. We are grateful to Clay
Morgan for shepherding this book through the...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_1 doc
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... level, but there is another,
higher level, the zone of the anti-market, where the great predators
roam and the law of the jungle operates. This … is the real home of
capitalism’ (Braudel 1982: ... obscure and peripheral parts of the Northern states where
large and significant amounts of ‘aid’ money are vested to be used and
circulated in Southern countries for the benefit of the North, ... the second
narrative, ‘resistance but subordination’, reflects the radicalism of the
independence and nationalist period but in contemporary terms fails
to appreciate the critical role of African...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_2 pot
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... are captured by firms of Northern states, and because they
serve the interests of their owners, the Northern states, borrowing
money from them rarely helps the poor, it just deepens the debt ... for Business,
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) in the British Blair vernac-
ular; or the ministries of foreign aid like the UK’s Department for
International Development (DfID). These are ... that
brought a sharp rise in world interest rates and a sustained appreciation of
the dollar in 1979. Named after Paul Volcker, then chairman of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve.
13....
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_3 docx
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... study of the
British frontier institutions for capital export is presented. Together, we
are exploring how the public sector critically socialises and underwrites
risk in favour of the profitability ... debtor
countries), in order to reduce risk by monitoring and supervising the
borrower country’s side of the economic contract with firms. States are
then acting to adjust the risk regime on behalf of private ... and political factors
more important than a general model would allow for. In this chapter we
look further at how markets are structured and the role, in particular, of
public ‘market makers’;...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_4 pot
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... countries. It secures
and returns for posterity the profits of extractive industries, environ-
mental resources, and the labour of millions of underpaid workers in
the global South to the traditional ... funds
from the IMF to the treasury of the core state. For example, the UK
quota at the IMF changes as debtor countries demand sterling, which
the IMF then either takes from its reserves or draws from the ... happen.
These different priorities reflect differing roles for the IFC, depending
on the relative size and profitabilities of the different circuits of capi-
tal in the countries concerned. Once profitability...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_5 docx
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... and
carrying out of projects for developing resources of colonial
territories with a view to the production therein of foodstuffs
and raw materials, or for other agricultural, industrial and
trade ... 1994:
The Crown Agents have increased their income from the
providers and recipients of multilateral aid to nearly 20 per
cent of their global turnover. Income from World Bank projects
has trebled ... enjoying the sovereign guarantee of the Treasury for its
investment portfolio, and supports ‘long and large’ business and the
provision of export credit to the poorest countries where the private
market...
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