the political economy of human rights in armenia

... during the run-up to the financial crisis The book is a rich source of ideas and evidence for anyone interested in these issues, whether familiar with the region or not Wendy Carlin, Professor of ... Benczes is Professor of European Political Economy, Faculty of Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest YELLOW The Political Economy of Public Finances in Central and Eastern Europe About the author ... Detour: The Case of Croatia – Fruzsina Sigér197 Index219 i6 deficit.indb 2014.07.08 11:52 Acknowledgements The idea of publishing a book on the political economy of public finances in Central

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... 'The Institutional Setting of Investment in Human Resources in the UK', in Büchtemann and Soloff (eds.), q.v (ed.) (1991), International Comparisons of Vocational Education and Training for Intermediate ... and Training Strategies in the Wisconsin Metal Working Industry (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison: La Follette Institute of Public Affairs) ROSE, R (1991), 'Youth Training in a Time-Space ... roles, but our principal interest is in the use of VET policy to advance and safeguard the economic position of the mass of the working population The importance of this theme for general economic

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... London: Chatto and Windus. Santiso, C. (2007) ‘Strengthening checks and balances in financial governance: The evolving role of multilateral banks in Latin America’. In S. Bracking (ed.), Corruption ... heading in the right direction?’, Journal of International Development, 11(4), pp. 503–19. Williamson, J. (1990) The Progress of Policy Reform in Latin America. Washington D.C.: Institute for International ... 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 Capitalism. Lexington, Mass.:

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... relationships of institutional lending, debt and liability with another. It outlines the genealogy of DFI-building in the period following the early 1980s debt crisis and the collapse of the former ... 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 ... importance of the whole network of institutions to a) regulation in the global economy; b) development prospects in Southern countries; and c) relations of power in the interstate system, and look at the

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... 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, we saw in this chapter ... are determinations of power relations, expressions of lines of force (domination and subordination)... finance has the effect of under-girding class structures and maintaining inequality ... xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the herd behaviour of investors when markets are in trouble, and the incredible

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... DFIs 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 ... Marx. The CDC was in co-operation with the World Bank as early as 1950 in the co-financing of the Kariba Dam project in the then Central African Federation, ‘much the largest single CDC investment ... collectivise the control over independent African countries’ reintegra- tion into the world economy, with the CDC acting as the chair of the ‘committee managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’,

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... grown in 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 ... course, there is another economy in Africa which is informal and possible quite large, but the official one reviewed here shows increasing inequality and income poverty for the majority. Adding in ... multiplicity of industry-based lobby groups. The result of these national influences at an international level shows up in differences in holdings in the DFIs, and preferences over which funds individual

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... own financing since this could subvert the business principle by displacing some of the full commercial risk (ibid.) Explained in full the IFC continue that: By functioning as a business ... (IFC), of regulating liquidity In this, the role of linking up businesses... 2) In this respect the Articles of Agreement precluded the IFC from accepting government guarantee of ... much of the funding invested in African infrastructure flows straight out again in the form of contracts awarded to foreign contractors and suppliers. In fact, ICE and EAP, rather surprisingly

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... privilege their interests. 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 ... 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 ... appoints the Supervisory Board and the Managing Director. Needs Danish co-investor. Swedfund Wholly state-owned Sweden At the end of Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of

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... 4 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 ... shared interest in clawing back their profit margin as the value of the dollar drops The precedent here is events in the early 1970s, after the Bretton Woods system of fixing the ... ethics deriving from the global system, we can apply his analysis to our smaller part of it, the political economy of development or the bespoke economy of the poor. In this economy of the ‘publicly

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... plans for the future. During the second phase of the assessment, much of the survivor interviews in the affected areas focused on probing further into perso- nal experiences of human rights abrogati ... questions of any of the villagers. The reason fo r the pictures of the front view is because they do the walls correctly in the front, but on the sides and the back, as well as the roof, they leave ... assess the human rights situation during the later phases of the relief effort, o ne year after the storm. The findings presented here include personal accounts from interviews conducted during the

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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 ... 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 mainstream, offers ... xiii 1. The political economy of development 1 Institutions of the global economy 5 Frontier institutions 7 Why is money so important? 8 Institutions matter 9 Chapter plan 12 2. Money in the political

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... changes, weakening the powers of the union movement as a whole In terms of the banking sector crisis, the definitions of the crisis (to the extent to which it defined in terms of the banking sector) ... analysis fails to explain Britain as the “sick man of Europe” or the presentation of some politicians and journalists of the crisis of the 1970s Rather than viewing the crisis in international terms, ... committees Rather than viewing the banks as undertaking reckless decisions leading to the near collapse of the banking system and increasing the levels of national debts, “good” bankers and banking institutions

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... distressed financial institutions, in part a reflection of the large number of financial institutions in these countries at the start of the crisis. Regarding the unconditional probability of closure, ... 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 ... identified as one of the following: i) the financial institution was closed; ii) the financial institution was merged with another financial institution; 10 iii) the financial institution was recapitalized...

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... 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 ... certainty. Even the indigenous game of Australian Rules football, widely acknowledged as having its roots in the games played in the parklands of Melbourne during the late 1850s, suffers in ... overused, then the problem becomes exacerbated and the credibility of the discipline, and the authenticity of the histories being written, is threatened. 12 Such an outlook reflects much of the historiography...

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... all the great meanings of the modern age, from the Enlightenment to now, of human progress and the civil- ising mission of human intervention. After the eclipsing of the socialist project in the ... 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 flight and brain drain afflicting ... modernisa- tion and, in highlighting the poverty of the mainstream, offers critical insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice and the political and social forces...

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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 ... means of this account, 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 ... in the political economy of development Various factors have been included in analysis of the increased impov- erishment of the poorer world in the last quarter century or so: declines in commodity...

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... 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 is worth looking ... 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 behaviour of investors ... to undermine the critique of global power to which the international worker and social movement is inclined. It is the ‘gift from the American people’ stamped on the bag of corn in the television...

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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 ... politicians, rather than looking at computer figures. So I think there is a lot of, in this business of investing in developing countries, there is an awful lot of experience, that comes in. (Interview, ... disbursements by using financing through the IDA to pay the IMF! Indeed, Oxfam cite the shock- ing statistic that, in the case of Zambia during the late 1990s, ‘well over half of the finance provided...

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... to collectivise the control over independent African countries’ reintegra- tion into the world economy, with the CDC acting as the chair of the ‘committee managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’, ... Marx. The CDC was in co-operation with the World Bank as early as 1950 in the co-financing of the Kariba Dam project in the then Central African Federation, ‘much the largest single CDC investment at ... the Corporation with: the duty of securing the investigation, formulation and carrying out of projects for developing resources of colonial territories with a view to the production therein of...

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