the political economy of energy and growth

... the years in office of the leader, the lower is the sharegain of the poor and the greater is the sharegain of the rich 7 Robustness: Other robustness... percent of the ... party, the smaller is the sharegain of the poor and the larger (although still negative) is the sharegain of the rich The effects are large: a one standard deviation increase in the age of the governing ... the rich Consistent with this, they show that when the ratio of the incomes shares of the top to the middle income deciles is higher and the ratio of the middle to the lowest income deciles is

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... The Clash of Globalizations ANTHEM FRONTIERS OF GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY The Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy series seeks to trigger and attract new thinking in global political ... School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK Yu Yongding – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China The Clash of Globalizations Essays on the Political Economy of Trade and Development ... analytical and empirical perspectives on national economic strategies and processes, the implications of global and regional economic integration, the changing nature of the development project, and the

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... The interaction between these economic and political forces and institutions is at the heart of political economy and the focus of this book My research in political economy started as a PhD ... time At a time of rapid and dramatic change, a firm grasp of the political economy of agricultural and food policy is more essential than ever The powerful insights Professor Swinnen offers in this ... of 2008 and 2010 underscored the mounting challenge of meeting rapidly increasing food demand in the face of increasingly scarce land and water resources The twin scourges of poverty and hunger

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... Fazenda), the annals of the debates held in both the Chamber of Deputies and the imperial Senate, the reports on two of the major commercial crises to hit Brazil in the nineteenth century (in 1857 and ... School of Economics and titled ? ?The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1870” Parts of the thesis had come out as articles in academic journals in Brazil, but the opportunity ... STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF FINANCE The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889 André A.Villela Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Series Editors D’Maris Coffman

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... 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 sterling ... 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 ... as the immediate needs of the British Empire and the general shortage of dollars in the sterling area caused the Colonial Office to press the Corporation into large-scale food production and

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... management 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 institu- tions of the British state and ... Africa in both these 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 ... 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 will on most fronts, of

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... finance despite the global characteristics of the indus- try. Overall, we are examining aid to the private sector, and exploring the beneficiaries of the system and the pattern of risks and rewards ... contracts from the ADB in the years 2006 and 2007 and for all the years since 1966 Two recent Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between the UK and ADB illustrate well the UK’s ... the years following the onset of the debt crisis in the context of a drop- ping off of private finance (Lele and Nabi 1991: 8). Of total resource flows in 2005 (in Table 6.2, of nearly $320,000

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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 ... state-owned Sweden At the end of Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign 2004 had a Affairs sit on the board of directors. The bank’s terms of reference aligned ... European and North American DFIs at least The sheer size, scope and profitability of these DFIs... gave a telling analysis of the political gain to the British elite of having the

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... 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 effect on export ... interest and their share of profits of foreign subsidiaries and associates Earnings are after deduction of provisions for depreciation and. .. the supply chains, the equity and connections ... 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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... smaller part of it, the political 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 ... houses at the top of the system, the Great. .. in the early 1970s, after the Bretton Woods system of fixing the value of the dollar was abandoned unilaterally by the United ... continues that these were, and are, shaped by the better off and imposed on the worse off, and that this: institutional order is implicated in the reproduction of radical inequality in that there is

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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 ... between aid and growth. Always, the language and practice of benevolence hides the underlying capitalist profitability and priva- tised extraction of wealth within the political economy of development. ... The current rulers of Africa often borrow and reuse the discursive tropes of the nationalist and liberationist past, and then repackage them in a patriotic and racial nationalism, while all the

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... Outlook 2004/05. Paris: OECD and AfDB. Offe, C. (1975) ? ?The Theory of the Capitalist State and the Problem of Policy Formation’. In L. Lindberg et al. (eds), Stress and Contradiction in Modern ... Politics and Dependency in the Third World: The Case of Latin America. London: Zed Books. Murunga, G. R. (2007) ‘Governance and the Politics of Structural Adjustment in Kenya’. In G. R. Murunga and ... Globalisation Work for the Poor’, New Political Economy, 6(3), 391–7. Mosley, P., Harrigan, J. and Toye, J. (1991) Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, vol. 1: Analysis and Policy Proposals.

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... shape the character of uneven and combined capitalist development in the South. The series questions neoliberal theories of development and modernisa- tion and, in highlighting the poverty of the ... 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 ... offers a radical and innovative insight into theories of devel- opment and country case study analysis. The series illustrates the importance of analysing the character of economic and political interna-

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... to the American crisis Tracing the American economy from the 1970s and 1980s into the 2000s, she argues that the problems of the crisis stemmed from a financialisation of the economy Defining the ... them equally Such an assumption, however, is questionable and can be challenged through comparing the crises of 1976–1979 and the financial crisis of 2007 These crises, and the responses of the ... and interdisciplinary view of political economy in which the local, national, regional and global interact at all times and in complex ways The SPERI research agenda, and hence the focus of the

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... the embeddedness of governing elites (that is, the political leadership and the economic technocracy) in state institutions, and the way technocrats and political leaders relate to each other ... discussion of the institutional configuration of state power in Thailand and the Philippines, a discussion that will occupy the rest of this dissertation. Thailand’s Bureaucratic Polity and the ... Thailand’s history has been rife with coups and counter- coups, with different factions of the military competing against each other for political power and the spoils of office. Nevertheless,...

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... both the coordinated and the liberal models. The first will be exemplified by the Nordic countries, in particular Finland and to some extent Sweden; the second by the US and the UK, and the ... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political economy (research on the social and political regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state ... draft only 2 The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State Abstract The central hypothesis of this paper is that the bio -economy is critically...

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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 ... the doctors and the health insurance funds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf of the doctors and negotiates collec- tive contracts with the funds. Because of the KBV system, the funds ... German economy – of a sizeable number of ‘working poor’. 9 These problems are compounded dramatically by the slow growth of the German economy. 10 Slow growth contributes to a crisis of public...

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... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital ... 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 Zülküf ... book examines the empirical bases for these narratives of the political economy of development with reference to Africa primarily and focuses on the economies in which the poorest, or the ‘Bottom...

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... introduces the reader to the contours of the political economy of development and the institutional regime within which ‘creditor states’ 13 compete and co-operate in the extension of markets. The term ... 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 ... 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...

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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 ... concentrated in the IFIs and large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the herd ... model- ling undertaken, while the accuracy of risk assessment also relates to the demands of the purchaser of the insurance contract. The argument can be made that these demands are excessive in relation...

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