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... [66] 5 The British market makers In order to illustrate the historical development of the global multi- plier which occupies the centre of the political economy of develop- ment (but ... interests: those of the British state which sponsored it and the particular interests of the people it would employ overseas given the structural position of the colonies in the world economy and ... arguably, the Corporation became the sole acceptable represen- tative of the British state, with promotion of local citizens and the presence of the Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge

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... these ‘problems’ facing the American investor that the current global system, characterised by the collectivisation of the management of development finance and the socialisation of risk in the ... risk in the markets of the South, emerged. This chapter has given an historical review of the frontier institu- tions of the British state and an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing ... years, and presumably most of those in between. Meanwhile, the aid dependence of the countries at the low end of the HDI ranking is reflected in the high figures of Official Development Assistance

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... absolute terms, but also the process of multilateralisation of aid finance which took place in the years following the onset of the debt crisis in the context of a drop- ping off of private finance ... or Egypt, the worst was to be Cuba from 1959); and, finally, 3. the developmental objective, which is of course the one which is the subject of the most publicity. Under the category of geostrategic ... business, such as in the case of the post-war use of Public Law 480 by the United States); 2. a geostrategic objective (the best way to attract ODA from the United States in the post-war period

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... widely, as well as a rare insight on the profitability of the Great Predators. The MMC ranked the profitability of the CDC and other bilateral equivalents in terms of the gross income that each organisation ... is because the actual amounts members pay in are only tiny: the bulk of the money is then subse- quently raised on capital markets using the reputation of the members. This reputation of members ... Also, however, the set of institutions often work together. There was, after the onset of the debt crisis, a sharp growth in the co-financing of projects between the Bretton Woods institutions, EC

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... 1977 by The Economist, to describe the effects of oil and gas discovery on the economy of the Netherlands through the 1970s (see also Tan 1997; Langhammer 2004) The adverse ... Northern governments and the BWI development banks these investments would not have been profitable In short, they were profitable only in so far as the inequalities on which their profits ... well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recy- cling, of finance capital from the core states. In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration with the

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... Instead the concern here is that in the process of ‘giving aid’ in the system we have at the moment, the opportunities to do these types of things may be fore- closed, or the effect of doing them ... bound together by their part in the transmission of a relationship of power within political economy. In other words, the needs of recipients could not be undermined by contamination by other prerogatives ... economy of development or the bespoke economy of the poor. In this economy of the ‘publicly aided’, so-called shared institutions are imposed – the IMF, World Bank, RDBs and so forth – which then,

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... to the poor, while simultaneously pursuing the export of capital from the North and the reconstruction of Northern power and privilege. The nightmare of the past in the everyday lives of the ... their inherited ways of thinking and doing. Because of this, and because of what they do, the institutions of the development age have become critically constrained in their ability to sell the ... Always, the language and practice of benevolence hides the underlying capitalist profitability and priva- tised extraction of wealth within the political economy of development. In this narrative there

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... the Northern states, borrowing money from them rarely helps the poor, it just deepens the debt cycle and turns the private sector of the developing country into a playground for the rich of the ... in lieu of a return to the privatisation of profit The weight of. .. hegemony in favour of the type of incursions into national economic and political life which the SAPs ... debt, and the higher costs of living following the ‘Volcker Shock’ 12 adjustment. Then, the negotiated settlement of the debt crisis, between the creditor banks, the creditor governments and the international

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... 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. It ... 1674 of April 2006, which endorses the 2005 World Summit statement of the same. 2. In some countries, such as Nigeria, these claims ran into billions of pounds. MONEY IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ... companies and enforcing the types of markets they wish to work in through conditionalities. In general, the political economy of development reflects, reproduces and supports the general policy stance

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... promote the interests of the already powerful at the expense of the. .. appetite of other types of financial institution, the age and experience of the ECA, the support it receives ... interests: those of the British state which sponsored it and the particular interests of the people it would employ overseas given the structural position of the colonies in the world economy and ... arguably, the Corporation became the sole acceptable represen- tative of the British state, with promotion of local citizens and the presence of the Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge

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... absolute terms, but also the process of multilateralisation of aid finance which took place in the years following the onset of the debt crisis in the context of a drop- ping off of private finance ... or Egypt, the worst was to be Cuba from 1959); and, finally, 3. the developmental objective, which is of course the one which is the subject of the most publicity. Under the category of geostrategic ... business, such as in the case of the post-war use of Public Law 480 by the United States); 2. a geostrategic objective (the best way to attract ODA from the United States in the post-war period

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... level of contribution (HC 2008: 3). 7 The UK is part of a ‘constituency’ of the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Portugal, with one seat on the board, rotating between Germany and the UK. The constituency ... interrogation of the World Bank procurement database 13 gives a snapshot of how procurement has developed since the era of the effec- tively closed business communities of the 1980s and 1990s, and since the ... cent of cases overall, and in the rest of the cases it wasn’t. When a company bids for a contract funded under EU authority it is expected that the procurement office of the country borrowing the

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... widely, as well as a rare insight on the profitability of the Great Predators. The MMC ranked the profitability of the CDC and other bilateral equivalents in terms of the gross income that each organisation ... is because the actual amounts members pay in are only tiny: the bulk of the money is then subse- quently raised on capital markets using the reputation of the members. This reputation of members ... Also, however, the set of institutions often work together. There was, after the onset of the debt crisis, a sharp growth in the co-financing of projects between the Bretton Woods institutions, EC

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... Instead the concern here is that in the process of ‘giving aid’ in the system we have at the moment, the opportunities to do these types of things may be fore- closed, or the effect of doing them ... bound together by their part in the transmission of a relationship of power within political economy. In other words, the needs of recipients could not be undermined by contamination by other prerogatives ... economy of development or the bespoke economy of the poor. In this economy of the ‘publicly aided’, so-called shared institutions are imposed – the IMF, World Bank, RDBs and so forth – which then,

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... 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 systemic impact on the rest of the financial ... credit away from other segments of the economy like the small and medium-sized enterprisesat the time of the systemic crisis. This, coupled with the fact that significant forbearance of already weak ... the subject of intense debate, with proponents of a sudden shift of views of (foreign) investors as the main cause on one side and proponents of weak fundamentals as the major cause on the other...

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... and other state agencies as core participants. Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only 5 core theme in the understanding of the role of the ... Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only 6 These then are the state functions ... and the Birth of the US Biotechnology Enterprises. American Economic Review 88 (1). Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only 2 The Political...

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... Section of the De- partment of Economics of Princeton University. Although the Section sponsors the publications, the authors are free to develop their topics as they wish. The Section welcomes the ... characteristics of central- bank charters grouped into four clusters: the appointment, dismissal, and legal term of office of the governor of the central bank; the institutional location of the final ... pre- sence of a government official on the board of the central bank, and the percentage of board appointees made by the government. Central-bank laws in which the central bank is the final authority...

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... regimes the level of redistributive 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 ... interact with the main macroeco- nomic 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 socio- economic ... regime the size of the public sector should be small, a substantial part of the electorate being excluded from the decision- making process. So, independent of the type of economy, the level of...

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... change for the time being. Now the strategy is essentially a return to the ‘policy of a calm hand’ (Politik der ruhigen Hand) of the summer of 2001, in the hope of some sort of spin-off from global ... changes in the gross pay of active workers. The main aim of the government’s pension policy was to adjust the revenues of the pension insurance funds to the expenditure required to serve the entitlements ... weakening of the tripartite structure of the Bundesagentur to a rather vague appeal to the ‘elites of the nation’ to assist in creating employment opportunities for the unemployed. The commission’s...

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... historical roots of the tussle over the naming of football codes can be traced back to the nineteenth century, with much of the battle fought in the pages of the press. Then, as now, the matter was ... written, there is enough evidence to compile a snapshot of these codes in the early part of the twentieth century. In the case of rugby (later rugby union), it is clear that the ante- cedents of the ... considerations were at the heart of the formation of a semi-professional rugby league in the north of England in 1895. 54 Given the class dimensions of the game in the Australian context (described...

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