... Benner ThePolitical Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only ThePolitical Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology andthe Competition State Abstract The central hypothesis ... of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA andthe UK, and Australia The aim is to integrate research on innovation systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political ... within and beyond the nation -state The aim is to integrate research on innovation systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political economy (research on the social and political...
... Leibfried and Obinger, TheState 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 ... blocked by the CDU, reflecting the traditionally close relations between the party andthe pharmaceutical industry andthe associations of doctors and pharmacists.67 In November 2004, after long and ... Spetzke ECONOMIC REFORM ANDTHE GERMAN WELFARE STATE 179 fund was continued by the Red –Green government with the introduction of the eco-tax on energy and gasoline, whose fifth and last stage came...
... 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 Pacific Since their full integration into the ... modernize an 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 ... for stateand market forces: in the economic model, thestate retreats from the economy, andthe market ensures the efficient allocation of resources (World Bank 2002, Friedman 1999); in the political...
... society, the “founding fathers”, like Mao and Deng, andthe people at the same age are generally regarded as the first generation The second generation was considered to be the people who lived their ... the real policy making and media agenda setting process, the research also lacks specific data of how thestate officials and media editors actually think and act on the issue Nevertheless, the ... choices andthe chosen traumas that thestate wove itself On one hand, it is obligated to consider the implications from other aspects such as economic factors, the Taiwan issue, and other strategic...
... allusions with her political theme The most obvious of these is the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until theTheStateandthe Novel 35 final page The other is an extended ... anglophobe’, TheStateandthe Novel 15 who feels the British, lacking ‘literature, culture, language and manners’, flatter themselves as the liberators of the French (it is the French andthe Americans ... of the media; a sequence of stock-market scandals; the poisoning of the food chain in the pursuit of profit; andthe displacement of aesthetic values in the art world The chief villains are the...
... laundering and corruption threaten the credibility and effectiveness of international financial institution (IFI) programs andthe integrity of the IFIs themselves Thus, we urge the IMF andthe World ... system If there is obscurity about their ownership, banks and other financial institutions may not be able to discover the identity of the beneficiary of the account and will be unable to meet their ... their financial procedures and controls and those of recipients, and to improve ways to strengthen safeguards on the use of their funds as well as governance and anti-corruption measures in their...
... concerned, the presence of thestate would seem to be redundant and totally unnecessary.”16 Thus, the existence of the parallel realms of thestateandthe tribe secured the early phase of state formation ... Because there is no one more concerned about what the exit strategy is going to look like than the Taliban on the one hand andthe Afghan government on the other They would actually rather like ... ask the Canadians, the Dutch, the Brits, or the Danes, this is about war fighting Others see it rather as a development mission the Swedes andthe Germans believe they are doing development Others,...
... order In the following sections I will argue the need for further theoretical and empirical investigation to better understand the tensions between professions, thestateandthe public andthe dynamics ... change the actual triangle of professions, thestateand citizens in complex and uneven ways The second step of analysis focuses, for the main part, on the linkage between professions andthe state, ... the late 19th and 20th centuries andthe ‘golden age’ of professions in the postwar period This perspective brings into view both the transformability of professionalism andthe role of the state...
... compared to 22 700 in 2000 The respective numbers for the MRR scenario andthe TSAP are approximately 15 300 and 16 900 (IIASA, 2010) The objectives of the TSAP states that the number of years of ... quality regulations and establishing ambient air quality standards Thematic assessment | Air pollution Box 1.1 The main air pollutants and their effects on human health andthe environment Nitrogen ... Northern Europe: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden; North-western Europe: Belgium, France (north of 45 ° latitude), Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the...
... each other by China If one competes andthe other does not, the pay-off is plus 10 for the competitor and minus 10 for the other If both compete, they each get minus If neither competes, they ... governance via the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, the GATT that became the WTO, andthe G-7 governance structure that has now evolved into the G-20 The trans-Atlantic relationship has provided the bedrock ... conflict and problems At the other end is the view, associated with the likes of the Peterson Institute for International Economics andthe Brookings Institution, that globalization is good and China-centric...
... Moresby and Canberra, and some further papers subsequently added After a lengthy gestation, this volume presents the results of the project The volume comprises a review of the longer-term andthe ... from the World Bank to revise the constitution to pave the way for a reduction in PSC powers and then restructure the public service The request was positively received by the World Bank and in ... mission-debating, but the RMS did not eventuate as the guiding force of the public sector There were few supporters outside of the PMU Many departments did not understand the RMS and saw it as theory devoid...
... the CDM and JI up to 2020 (MtCO2e)108 Table 14: Investment funds and land-use carbon 113 Stateand Trends of the Carbon Market 2012 Stateand Trends of the Carbon Market 2012 SECTION State ... including carbon, with the onset of the Arab Spring, the shutdown of nuclear power stations in Japan and Germany in the wake of the Fukushima disaster,1 andthe downgrade of the United States’ AAA credit ... either reach the benchmark or purchase additional allowances 19 20 Stateand Trends of the Carbon Market 2012 Germany, Poland, andthe United Kingdom informed the European Commission (EC) of their...
... sense there might be in the phrase ‘capitalist stateThe next chapter examines the coterminous development over the past millennium of the modern state, of thestate agenda, andthe nature of the ... Italy), the land routes to China through Central Asia, andthe sea routes (the Gulf andthe Red Sea) to India, Southeast Asia and thence also to China Like the ancient trade networks of the Mediterranean, ... trade, the external, it included the ancient trade lands of the Levant, the rich production centres of Egypt (with Alexandria the access point to the Mediterranean andthe trade with northern...
... to hCt Since the peptides were monomers, this finding suggested they were b turn stabilized On the other hand, the similarity of the spectra of 2–4 to the spectrum of suggested that the introduced ... 16–22) andthe amide chromophores [44,45] This suggestion was further supported by the observation that the intensity of the 220 band, that most likely corresponds to the phenylalanyl La band [42,45], ... of the results of the CD studies, the receptor binding affinities, andthe hypocalcemic potencies in vivo of hCt, sCt, analogues 1–6 and/ or the partial sequence analogues 1a, 1b, 2a, and 3a The...
... establish the sincerity of claimants both in the sense of whether they present themselves as sincere to the court and in relation to their past history and practices.22 The validation condition The ... because they were more authentically collectivist than the majority, but rather because their ways of life were less secure and they were more worried about the survival of their language and culture ... sacrosanct In the case of FGC in Africa, understanding the function and importance of the practice in the ways of life of people in Senegal and elsewhere, andthe processes by which the practice...
... across the Pacific rim of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, andthe Pacific Islands Collectively, these include some of the largest and smallest, richest and poorest, and most and least populous states ... of the cold war The geographical focus of the series will primarily be Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia OTHER BOOKS IN THE ... population) andthe large Chinese and smaller Indian minorities, but also between peninsula Malaysia andthe more fragmented eastern states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo The Philippines...
... 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 ... insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice andthepoliticaland social forces that are available across the globe, providing alternatives to economic andpolitical ... offers a radical and innovative insight into theories of development and country case study analysis The series illustrates the importance of analysing the character of economic andpolitical internationalisation...
... 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 ... introduces the reader to the contours of thepolitical economy of development andthe institutional regime within which ‘creditor states’13 compete and co-operate in the extension of markets The term ... sources The Great Predators then lend, with attendant terms of conditionality But because these Great Predators are captured by firms of Northern states, and because they serve the interests of their...
... since the 1980s, since they ‘bet on the strong, privilege the privileged, help the winners, expose the losers and prompt a “race to the bottom”’ (Pieterse 2002: 1032), a view shared by the robust ... who ‘set the terms’ of operation, the ‘market makers’, and who control the allocation of international liquidity, are concentrated in the IFIs and large banks They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ ... overview of the availability of liquidity from the private sector andthe public sector in the form of development finance, and has examined the intimate relationship conceptually and practically...
... 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 takes from its reserves or draws from the ... members, with the rest borrowed in the international capital markets (HC 1990: 140) Thus, the relationship between the Bank andthe core states has them as shareholders and underwriters In the former ... well, as the ‘Great Predators’) can only generate and regulate markets because they themselves are underwritten and their risk is managed by their joint owners: the rich economies of the global...