part iii political economy of finance

... Table of Contents Acknowledgementsvii List of Tablesix List of Figuresxi List of Boxesxiii List of Abbreviationsxiv List of Contributorsxvi Introduction: Political Economy and Public Finances ... understanding of the political economy of the situation The result has been a remarkable degree of collaboration between economists and political scientists, as well as more work on political economy ... some of us were actually introduced to comparative economics and political economy by Prof Csaba It is no wonder that the spirit and style of the individual chapters often reflect that of his...

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... The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance Julian L. Garritzmann The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance The Politics of Tuition Fees and Subsidies ... Fig 3.2 Fig 3.3 OF FIGURES The Four Worlds of Student Finance Schematic depiction of the different paths of the origins of the Four Worlds of Student Finance Schematic summary of the feedback-argument ... neglect is the cornerstone of our understanding of the political economy of higher education finance that is lacking I posit that we can only understand the political economy of higher education once...

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... comprehensive survey of the early wave of the literature): on the basis of a set of financial ratios, reflecting the different dimensions of a CAMEL rating system, the statistically best subset of variables ... Coverage of the national financial sector in terms of total assets is high for all five countries In terms of banking system assets, the sample covers between 80% and 100%; and in terms of number of ... economically insolvent The tradeoffs involved will, among others, be of a public choice nature and include the importance of the particular financial institution to the local economy and its potential...

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... Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the ... 2004) Another Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only core theme in the understanding of the role of the state in the knowledge-based economy (innovation ... and other science based sectors, were received as harbingers of a new ‘virtuous circle’ of Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only accumulation (Boyer...

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... the political economy of monetary and fiscal policy PETER B KENEN, Director International Finance Section SPECIAL PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS No 19, May 1996 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CENTRAL-BANK ... 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 (double veto) Board appointments are made by the finance ... Eijffinger and Jakob De Haan Professor Eijffinger is Professor of Economics at the College of Europe (Bruges), Humboldt University of Berlin, and Tilburg University, and a Fellow of the Center for Economic...

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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 ... The Political Economy of Taxation The Political Economy of Taxation Lessons from Developing Countries Paola Profeta Bocconi University, Italy Simona Scabrosetti University of Pavia, Italy ... (SCHOOLING) Tax revenue and political regimes: the impact of the shadow economy (SHADOW) Structure of taxation and political regimes Structure of tax revenue (percentage of GDP) in new EU member...

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... in motion a transformation of the employment system from below, in the form of the emergence – unprecedented in the post-war German economy – of a sizeable number of ‘working poor’.9 These problems ... the burden of German unification The main period of expansion of the German social insurance system was during the heyday of Modell Deutschland in the 1970s and early 1980s, the success of which ... federal grant of E13 billion to cover the extra costs of German unification In the 1990s, short-term consolidation of the social insurance budgets by means of federal subsidies was often financed...

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... debated.9 Part of the problem, as Tony Collins, the preeminent scholar of rugby league, points out, is that most historians of the various codes of football have ‘telescoped’ the current balance of ... development of the codes, and explain how it is that a nation of only 20 million people can sustain the viability of four disparate and distinctive football codes at the professional level This book of ... constituents brand A detailed analysis of corporate sport’s features was undertaken by Foster, Greyser and Walsh in their book The Business of Sports, The Political Economy of Football Stewart book.indd...

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... about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment Naturally, given the breadth of our labels, many disagreements ... fields of political science and law Institutionalists see a lack of global cooperation as a key source of environmental degradation Ineffective cooperation partly arises because of the nature of ... more of a disciplinary focus to expose students to the particular terminology and research methods that their discipline uses to analyze the political economy of global environmental change One of...

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... facilitated my affiliation with the Political Economy Centre (PEC) of the Faculty of Economics at Chulalongkorn University and generously shared her analyses of Thai political economy PEC Executive Director ... during periods of authoritarian rule The differences in the organization of the political leadership owe much to the construction of the political system The Armed Forces of the Republic of Indonesia ... used to analyze key institutions of the political leadership, like political parties and the military; in both, issues of corporate identity, cohesiveness, and level of insulation from outside forces...

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... complete ownership Contents List List List List List of Boxes of Figures of Tables of Acronyms and Abbreviations of Contributors xvi xvii xviii xix xxi Part I Introduction What’s Wrong with Development ... Waller is the G Schaefer Chair of Economics in the Department of Economics and Econometrics at the University of Notre Dame He specializes in political economy of central banking and his work ... editor-in-chief of the journal Policy Sciences Roy Gardner is Chancellor’s Professor of Economics and Remak Professor of West European Studies at Indiana University He is the author of Games for...

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... about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment Naturally, given the breadth of our labels, many disagreements ... fields of political science and law Institutionalists see a lack of global cooperation as a key source of environmental degradation Ineffective cooperation partly arises because of the nature of ... Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN Secretariat, 2001 a middle of 9.3 billion, and a high of 10.9 billion (The difference is based on alternative possibilities of future...

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... ix xiii The political economy of development Institutions of the global economy Frontier institutions Why is money so important? Institutions matter Chapter plan 12 Money in the political economy ... economic and political orthodoxy of the advocates of globalisation Also available The End of Development: Modernity, Post-Modernity and Development Trevor Parfitt The Political Economy of Turkey ... analysing the character of economic and political internationalisation of capital and national strategies of capital accumulation in the global South It highlights the political, social and class...

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... the position of primary lenders In this sense, a process of socialisation of cost in development finance took place, in lieu of a return to the privatisation of profit The weight of credit fell ... provision of debt finance, with conditionalities attached in terms of the regulation of a country’s political economy Most poorer countries in Africa and beyond shared similar experiences of structural ... on their global political economy This book follows in the Marxian empirical tradition of Globalization and the Postcolonial World (Hoogvelt 2001) and The New Political Economy of Development...

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... particularly by underwriting and then socialising the costs of risks and investment This relationship is depicted in Figure 4.1, at the end of chapter We return to the effect of development finance ... policies of ‘liberalisation’ (unhindered trade, finance and exchange) are seen to be in contradiction with the former social welfare policies Pieterse summarised the current political economy of aid ... global haves and have-nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the political economy of development It is worth looking beyond the jargon Similarly,...

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... processes, part of this failing must be assigned to the experience internationally of the political economy of development Thirty years after Kwame Nkrumah’s exhortation following the independence of ... greater profitability of merchant capital through ‘opening’ markets and the promotion of ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction of the ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of assuring ... which gives any particular project a particular coalition of interested parties, other than, of course, the domestic borrower state and people Bilateral and multilateral DFIs often have intermeshed...

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... partnership) of the CDC in 1997 in the UK was a significant example of this process Meanwhile, Cammack (2001) viewed CDC activities as part of the overall process of development promoting capitalist profit ... prompting fresh talk of privatisation As a consequence, criticism has been growing of both the heightened, and somewhat unsavoury, profits of Actis, and the ethical quality of its projects Actis ... noted that many of the beneficiaries of the sale of the 60 per cent became multi-millionaires During 2007, buoyed by excellent profitability, CDC made commitments to 31 new funds, of which 16 were...

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... problem of distance is at the centre of the political and cultural problem of relational poverty As Mayer summarises, again in terms of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: the real problem remains one of political ... relationships of power, of command and subordination of Southern populations into the ‘post’ colonial era The system of financial management of liquidity is the materiality behind wider relationships of ... development finance and the socialisation of risk in the markets of the South, emerged This chapter has given an historical review of the frontier institutions of the British state and an account of the...

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... in terms of other types of comparative benchmarks, such as large relative to the size of the markets in which they are spent, or large once combined with the additional finance they often ‘leverage ... construction of a port facility, this in itself then generates contracts for technical assistance, supply of cement and steel, supplies of soft infrastructure such as customs systems, as well as a set of ... objective, which is of course the one which is the subject of the most publicity Under the category of geostrategic motivation, we can add aid to change the direction of political ideologies,...

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... end of 2004 had a total invested portfolio of around €55 mill Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sit on the board of directors The bank’s terms of reference ... earnings of £2.3 billion (ONS 2008: 2–3).2 At the end of 2006, Africa was home to just per cent of the book value level of direct investment abroad of British companies, after a decrease of £5.3 ... government COFIDES Belgium By end-2004, BIO had a committed portfolio of €49 mill Value of investments 13/02/2009 SBI-BMI Austria Wholly owned by government AWS Belgium Country of origin Name of Status...

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