the political economy of post dirigisme and new state activism

... Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the New Biology’ – preliminary draft only The Political Economy of the New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State Abstract The central ... Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the New Biology’ – preliminary draft only state) , and one combination of the two, with elements from both the coordinated and the liberal models The first ... (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 forms...

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... systematically neglect the incentive effects of these policies 11 Political and other variables The political variables used in the analysis are drawn from the 2012 version of the Database of Political Institutions ... 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 ... significantly associated with the log of income redistribution (measured as the difference between the ratio of the top and bottom quintile’s market income shares and the ratio of their post- transfer income...

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... ruhigen Hand) of the summer of 2001, in the hope of some sort of spin-off from global economic recovery carrying the coalition over the September 2006 election An important political side benefit of ... Leibfried and Obinger, The State of the Welfare State , p.212 62 Unlike the other branches of the German social insurance system, the health insurance funds not receive regular subsidies from the ... of Modell Deutschland in the 1970s and early 1980s, the success of which was based on a subtle interaction between the welfare state, the system of collective bargaining and the federal budget.14...

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... of its market economy was largely influenced by the demands of the British Empire and other western countries The Philippines, on the other hand, served as the extension of the US market in the ... economy inherited from the colonial period and, on the other hand, to shore up their political standing as claimants to the post- colonial state Thailand holds the distinction of never having been ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:03

... 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 ... shape the character of uneven and combined capitalist development in the South The series questions neoliberal theories of development and modernisation and, in highlighting the poverty of the ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 ‘creditor state ... 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 ... 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...

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... 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 ... brief overview of the availability of liquidity from the private sector and the public sector in the form of development finance, and has examined the intimate relationship conceptually and practically ... primary issues emerge: the problem of risk assessment in economic exchange and the distribution of costs and profits in the risk regime as a whole The problem of assessment prompts the question [ 39...

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... creditor and actually generate a flow of funds from the IMF to the treasury of the core state For example, the UK quota at the IMF changes as debtor countries demand sterling, which the IMF then either ... 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 ... relation to the management of money and the construction of markets In the next chapter the specific relationships between rich states and governing institutions is examined, before the sum of these...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... Indonesia and the compulsory eviction of Kurdish people to make way for the Ilisu Dam (HC 2000) In recognition of the collectivised but competitive interests of the firms of the richer states and the ... number of factors, ‘including the strength and risk appetite of other types of financial institution, the age and experience of the ECA, the support it receives from public and private sectors, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 institutions 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 ... it, and sometimes because of it, as the analysis in this book argues Bearing this in mind, the rest of this chapter, and the next two, will explore the suggestion that the process of the political...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... business, such as in the case of the post- war use of Public Law 480 by the United States); a geostrategic objective (the best way to attract ODA from the United States in the post- war period was ... to the share base Table 7.8 shows the UK’s share of goods and works and consultancy contracts from the ADB in the years 2006 and 2007 and for all the years since 1966 Two recent Memorandums of ... 2000s, the share of contracts collectively won by the major creditor states and owners of the Bank had dropped from its 1980s and early 1990s high The following tables, 7.6 and 7.7, show the nationality...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... case of the European and North American DFIs at least The sheer size, scope and profitability of these DFIs justifies their being called the ‘Great Predators’, as they have collectivised the common ... overseas, rather than the reality of a situation where the flow is in the other direction in terms of many of the poorest countries and is in the UK’s favour overall So what about the much publicised...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... measuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economy of aid, both in and of itself in chapter (through direct contracts), and then in terms of the market ... term coined in 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 effect ... well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recycling, of finance capital from the core states In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration with the World...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 Bank, RDBs and ... form by the new economic institutionalists’ of right-minded academic cadre or by the post- war discursive writings of the new Marxists The first of these modern groups outlined a theory of new economic ... of the dollar drops The precedent here is events in the early 1970s, after the Bretton Woods system of fixing the value of the dollar was abandoned unilaterally by the United States in 1971 and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... between aid and growth Always, the language and practice of benevolence hides the underlying capitalist profitability and privatised extraction of wealth within the political economy of development ... disciplines of neoclassical economics found in the policy advice of the IFIs; by the pretended benevolence of the development paradigm; and by the romanticised agency and avowed class positionality of their...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... Economic 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 Capitalism ... 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 S W ... Onimode, B (1989) The IMF, the World Bank and the African Debt, Volume 1: The Economic Impact London: Zed Books Oppong, J R (1998) ‘A vulnerability interpretation of the geography of HIV/AIDS in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 ‘creditor state ... 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 ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2014, 16:54

... the trade-off between the protection and dissemination of IPRs, the former serve as the basis of every IP agency institution: Despite the exposed tension in the core IP trade-off, the main mandate ... ʻsame measures, new unitsʼ).37 It is based on three primary observations (the dispute between the EU and Canada, the dispute between the EU and India, and the IP position of the EU at the Seattle ... agenda, and (4) the manner in which the data-gathering supported the efficacy and accuracy of the case study These methodological foundations are discussed below 1.4.1 The Importance of IPRs to the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2016, 11:52

... Emergent State and New Industrialism: The Staples State s Golden Era 543 KWS Legacy and Crisis: Wither the Staples State? 546 Competitive State: A Reconsideration of the Staples State ... kind of transition from their traditional staples base The Maritime provinces and Newfoundland have been especially hard hit by the rapid decline of the fishery, and the 1993 closure of the cod ... incursions of the federal state They simply not have the ability to meet the new requirements As a result of these political alignments, the producing provinces find themselves in conflict with the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2017, 19:47

... between 80% and 100%; and in terms of number of banks between 36% and 100% In terms of assets of nonbank financial institutions, the coverage of our sample is between 47% and 90% Almost 42% of these ... 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 ... 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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