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The Political Economy of Distress in East Asian Financial Institutions

The Political Economy of Distress in East Asian Financial Institutions

Ngày tải lên : 18/10/2013, 08:15
... 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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The Games Are Not the Same The Political Economy of Football in Australia pot

The Games Are Not the Same The Political Economy of Football in Australia pot

Ngày tải lên : 24/03/2014, 02:21
... 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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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_1 doc

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_1 doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_2 pot

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_2 pot

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_3 docx

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_3 docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_4 pot

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_4 pot

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_5 docx

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_5 docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_6 ppt

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_6 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... institu- tions of the British state and an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing investment and liquidity. The case study shows how one dominant core lender in the global interstate ... 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 ... by the collectivisation of the 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...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_7 pot

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_7 pot

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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 ... Of 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 to ... perceived: a decline in the presence of UK-based companies in the supply of goods for projects financed by the Bank. This is usually an indication that the manufacturing base of the supply country...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_9 pptx

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_9 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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 ... billion (an increase of £4.9 billion on the amount invested in 2005), contributing to an International Invest- ment Position (the overall level of foreign direct investment) at the end of 2006 of £734.7 ... expressed by transferring resources overseas, rather than the reality of a situation where the flow is in the other direction in terms of many of the poorest coun- tries and is in the UK’s favour overall....
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_10 pptx

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_10 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... we measuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economy of aid, both in and of itself in chapter 7 (through direct contracts), and then in terms of the ... sector, illustrating 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 ... little about the contribution of aid to wellbeing. Quite simply, the wrong things are being measured, proceeding from a misleading representation of the benevolence of aid. The mainstream focus...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_11 pdf

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_11 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... thesis about the meaning of power, in 2. The experience of the poor has contradicted the discursive meanings given to DFIs within the dominant ideology of the age; that is, the discourse of modernist ... face of soaring prices. The non-oil producing countries with the lowest incomes will pay most, and the poorest people within them are the last in line. For these people there are no luxuries in their budgets, ... growth. 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...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_12 pptx

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_12 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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 ... 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 ... ‘big’ players, they are not, at the time of writing, having a decisive role in (re)setting the rules of the game (yet). 3. According to the Economist (2008), the governments of Singapore, Kuwait and...
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