the political economy of social policy
The Political Economy of Distress in East Asian Financial Institutions
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18/10/2013, 08:15
... 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 ... when the bank is 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 ... on the political economy of dealing with financial intermediary distress This also provides some insights on the causes of the East Asian financial crisis as well as on the appropriateness of policy...
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The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State
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13/03/2014, 21:59
... Gertler 2004) Another Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only core theme in the understanding of the role of the state in the knowledge-based economy (innovation ... 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 ... 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...
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CENTRAL-BANK INDEPENDENCE pptx
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15/03/2014, 10:20
... clusters: the appointment, dismissal, and legal term of office of the governor of the central bank; the institutional location of the final authority for monetary policy and the procedures for the ... on the location of final responsibility for monetary policy, the absence or presence of a government official on the board of the central bank, and the percentage of board appointees made by the ... from the governments of the Länder (states) The Zentralbankrat is then again consulted In the Netherlands, the president and the director-secretary of the Nederlandsche Bank are appointed by the...
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The Political Economy of Taxation pptx
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16/03/2014, 14:20
... tenet of the formal voting theory emphasizes the importance of the form of the voting game’ On the contrary, there are positive theories of public policy such as The political economy of democracies ... 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 factors, such as the age of the population, ... 16 The political economy of taxation The volatility of the income will also affect the magnitude of the welfare state If the fluctuation of income increases (for example as a consequence of industrial...
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Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc
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23/03/2014, 20:20
... when the social insurance system was already beginning to crumble under the burden of German unification The main period of expansion of the German social insurance system was during the heyday of ... reductions in one of the social insurance schemes affect not only the other social insurance schemes but often the federal budget also Lowering contributions in one branch of the social insurance ... 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...
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The Games Are Not the Same The Political Economy of Football in Australia pot
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24/03/2014, 02:21
... perish the thought!5 In a similar vein, and in recognition of the national aspirations of the Australian code, the editor of the Footballer suggested in 1881 that the sooner the name of the game ... scholars offer a detailed comparative analysis of the history of each code across various states.2 Geoffrey Blainey, on the other hand, in the penultimate chapter of his book on the origins of Australian ... overview serves as the foundation for more detailed analyses of the political economy of the football world in the period after World War II, a task taken up in the remaining chapters of the book Murky...
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paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment
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01/06/2014, 10:55
... the societal debates about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment Naturally, given the breadth of ... is the first to concentrate exclusively on the political economy of the global environment, striving to integrate the debates within the “real world” of global policy and the “academic world” of ... environments The issues that shape the relationship between the global political economy and the environment are, of course, often technical and scientific But they are frequently also socioeconomic and political...
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State structure and economic development The political economy of Thailand and the Philippines
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01/06/2014, 14:03
... other western countries The Philippines, on the other hand, served as the extension of the US market in the Pacific Since their full integration into the global economy in mid-19th century, the ... and the Philippines, civilian rulers prevailed even during periods of authoritarian rule The differences in the organization of the political leadership owe much to the construction of the political ... been socialized by their respective organizations, and are thus subject to the norms and practices of these organizations These governing elites’ policy orientation or the consistency of their policy...
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the samaritans dilemma the political economy of development aid nov 2005
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10/06/2014, 23:39
... is the product of more than four years of work by a team of researchers who were, until June of 2001, all members of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University The ... individual has of the likely behavior of others Strategies are designed based on the individual’s perceptions of the likely benefits or costs that they will receive in light of their own and others’ actions ... regardless of the level of the target group Finally, since the development agency is the source of the aid, it usually retains a great deal of control over the distribution of these resources...
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the mit press paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment apr 2005
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11/06/2014, 12:44
... the societal debates about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment Naturally, given the breadth of ... is the first to concentrate exclusively on the political economy of the global environment, striving to integrate the debates within the “real world” of global policy and the “academic world” of ... concentrations of carbon dioxide—could mean an even higher rate of extinctions.54 The history of deforestation is typical of the destructive impact of the global political economy Almost half of world’s...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_1 doc
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... xiii The political economy of development Institutions of the global economy Frontier institutions Why is money so important? Institutions matter Chapter plan 12 Money in the political economy of ... readers to put the development industry into the context of the global political economy of development, or at least that is the book’s aim In other words, despite all the recent talk of poverty ... 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...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_2 pot
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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 ... moved into the position of primary lenders In this sense, a process of socialisation of cost in development finance took place, in lieu of a return to the privatisation of profit The weight of credit ... 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 ‘creditor...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_3 docx
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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 beyond the jargon Similarly, we saw ... possibilities and denials In other words, in the promotion of The Market’ of the structural adjustment programme (SAP) period, a deepening of the management of markets by the IFIs took place: markets ... effect of development finance on politics in chapter 11 These problems with the political economy of development have been noted by writers who point to the apparent incoherence of development policy, ...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_4 pot
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction of the ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of assuring profitability in the circuit of finance capital, particularly at the international ... 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 ... were the ‘winners’ of the Second World War Since 1948, these have pooled their resources in a global system of public credit Politically, this system collectivised the management of empire, as the...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_5 docx
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... arguably, the Corporation became the sole acceptable representative of the British state, with promotion of local citizens and the presence of the Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge off ... reintegration into the world economy, with the CDC acting as the chair of the ‘committee managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’, to misquote Marx The CDC was in co-operation with the World ... 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...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_6 ppt
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... 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 economy of concessional ... 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 ... correlations of funds around the same time as privatisation processes: a clear policy link remains between the resource flow and the change of ownership Moreover, the culpability of the CDC and other...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_7 pot
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... in terms of other types of comparative benchmarks, such as large relative to the size of the markets in which they are spent, or large once combined with the additional finance they often ‘leverage ... Israel or Egypt, the worst was to be Cuba from 1959); and, finally, the developmental objective, which is of course the one which is the subject of the most publicity Under the category of geostrategic ... with their own plant and factories, such as roads or electricity Simply put, the workers of the global South are buying, through their debt repayments, the means of their own exploitation Thus, the...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_9 pptx
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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 ... cooperation policy At the end of 2004 had a total invested portfolio of around €55 mill Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sit on the board of directors The ... 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...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_10 pptx
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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 ... more accurately, as rents Whether these ‘developmental’ effects are offset by the consequences of conditionality in terms of political resentment, the encouragement of profligacy and associated drop ... 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...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_11 pdf
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20/06/2014, 20:20
... Instead the concern here is that in the process of ‘giving aid’ in the system we have at the moment, the opportunities to these types of things may be foreclosed, or the effect of doing them be ... 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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