the political economy of transnational regimes the case of human rights

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... 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 systemic impact on the rest of the financial ... credit away from other segments of the economy like the small and medium-sized enterprisesat the time of the systemic crisis. This, coupled with the fact that significant forbearance of already weak ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 08:15

... and other state agencies as core participants. Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only 5 core theme in the understanding of the role of the ... Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only 6 These then are the state functions ... and the Birth of the US Biotechnology Enterprises. American Economic Review 88 (1). Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only 2 The Political...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:59

... Section of the De- partment of Economics of Princeton University. Although the Section sponsors the publications, the authors are free to develop their topics as they wish. The Section welcomes the ... characteristics of central- bank charters grouped into four clusters: the appointment, dismissal, and legal term of office of the governor of the central bank; the institutional location of the final ... pre- sence of a government official on the board of the central bank, and the percentage of board appointees made by the government. Central-bank laws in which the central bank is the final authority...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... authoritarian regimes the level of redistributive spending should be minimal. The third tenet of the formal voting theory emphasizes the importance of the form of the voting game’. On the contrary, there ... and political regimes: the impact of population density (DENSITY) 154 6.3e Tax revenue and political regimes: the impact of the shadow economy (SHADOW) 156 6.3f Tax revenue and political regimes: ... interact with the main macroeco- nomic 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...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... 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 ... 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 ... weakening of the tripartite structure of the Bundesagentur to a rather vague appeal to the ‘elites of the nation’ to assist in creating employment opportunities for the unemployed. The commission’s...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... historical roots of the tussle over the naming of football codes can be traced back to the nineteenth century, with much of the battle fought in the pages of the press. Then, as now, the matter was ... written, there is enough evidence to compile a snapshot of these codes in the early part of the twentieth century. In the case of rugby (later rugby union), it is clear that the ante- cedents of the ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:21

... capture 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 ... include the notion of physical limits, which involves changing our measures of “progress” and the methods we use to promote it. Only then, these thinkers argue, can we reduce the impact of humans ... 88 4.5 The economy as a circular flow system 89 4.6 The environmental Kuznets curve 92 4.7 The vicious cycle of poverty and environmental degradation 96 4.8 The economy as a subsystem of the ecosystem...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 10:55

... factions of the military competing against each other for political power and the spoils of office. Nevertheless, under a bureaucratic polity, where the governing elites are embedded in political ... of career development and training in the civil service: in the ASEAN-Four cases, technocrats become members of the civilian bureaucracy either as career officers rising up from the ranks of ... 1963). The relationship of technocrats to the specific bureaucracies in which they work influences the leverage that they have with the political leadership. 16 indigenous elites, and the economy, ...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:03

... 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’ ... perceive to be related to their actions and those of others. The payments people receive or costs they have to pay, the respect they earn from others, the acquisition of new skills or knowledge ... now includes of cials of the agencies themselves. What’s wrong with development aid? Almost every part or process of the aid system has been criticized, from the geopolitical agenda of donors to the distributive...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 23:39

... capture 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 ... communication. The World Wide Web had just 50 pages in 1993; by the end of the decade there were 50 million. 6 The number of Internet users went from 25 million in 1995 to 400 million by the end of 2000. The ... 88 4.5 The economy as a circular flow system 89 4.6 The environmental Kuznets curve 92 4.7 The vicious cycle of poverty and environmental degradation 96 4.8 The economy as a subsystem of the ecosystem...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:44

... readers to put the development industry into the context of the global political economy of develop- ment, or at least that is the book’s aim. In other words, despite all the recent talk of poverty ... 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 flight and ... canvass but below the canopy there remain only discrete stalks descending into the soil below. Metaphorically, these stalks are the nation states, emerging from the THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT [5] Bracking_02_cha01.qxd...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... 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 international...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... 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 ... 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 ... 1674 of April 2006, which endorses the 2005 World Summit statement of the same. 2. In some countries, such as Nigeria, these claims ran into billions of pounds. MONEY IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF...

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 ... present consumption of finance and working capital. In the case of the poorest, there has even developed a tendency to highlight the relevance of such flows by the use of the annual ‘net receipts’ ... investors’ belief in the power of the creditor states to control risk on their behalf, ominously, by more crude political means if necessary. The banks endorse the political management of the system itself. In...

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