... 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 andthe degree of
capital ... contemporary theory and practice of policy makers, planners and
academics. It offers a radical and innovative insight into theories of devel-
opment and country case study analysis. The series ... illustrates the
importance of analysing the character of economic andpolitical interna-
tionalisation of capital and national strategies of capital accumulation in
the global South. It highlights the political, ...
... or so and, by means of this account, introduces the reader to the
contours ofthepoliticaleconomyof development andthe institutional
regime within which ‘creditor states’
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compete and co-operate ... of privilege and inequality more generally; and chapter
9 presents an example. We examine the relationships of co-operation
and competition within and between the bilateral DFIs andthe Bretton
Woods ... generally.
Chapter 8 begins withan examination of aid instruments designed
to assist the private sector and then reviews the scale, scope and prof-
itability of European and North American DFIs. In chapter...
... and again despite the good intentions of
debt campaigners, an absence of surveillance means that debt cancel-
lation can provide a one-off rent for elite consumption: even in
Tanzania and Uganda, ... status and 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
politicaleconomyof development. ... control the
allocation of international liquidity, are concentrated in the IFIs and
large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii),
in the boardroom ofthe global economy, and...
... calculations of risk at many levels, such as the
firm, the country and within banks; and then at an international level
by looking at the example ofthe ‘kingmaker’ of sovereign markets: the
IFC. Within ... singularly, and then
offering shares ofthe pool on the world market. From 1956, when the
IFC was founded, to 2005, the IFC committed more than $49 billion of its
funds and arranged another $24 ... countries andthe international banks.
For example, the IFC describes how a loan by it to a Turkish bank in
the early 1990s allowed the bank to access other funds from Japanese,
European, Scandinavian...
... intervention, the former by means of invest-
ments, the latter by means of trade and investment insurance, while
the Crown Agents manage international logistics and supply for the
UK, World Bank and Japanese ... The first association withthe IFC and
Netherlands development agency was the Kilombero Sugar Company
in Tanzania in 1960, a project later transferred to the Tanzania Govern-
ment due to financing ... consultancy company withan impressive market share,
but it also owned assets, such as the remnants of ships, ports and
vehicles, and so forth, left over from the Empire.
In terms ofthe functions of...
... both the coordinated and
the liberal models. The first will be exemplified by the Nordic countries, in particular
Finland and to some extent Sweden; the second by the US andthe UK, andthe ... historical variants ofthe Keynesian welfare state. The
paper compares three cases of governance ofthe biotechnology sector: Finland
and Sweden, the USA andthe UK, and Australia. The aim is to integrate ... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors)
with politicaleconomy (research on the social andpolitical regulation of
economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state...
... democratic plans to extend mandatory
pension insurance to additional groups of employees and to other forms of income
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nker and Hellmut ... between the doctors andthe health insurance
funds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf ofthe doctors and negotiates collec-
tive contracts withthe funds. Because ofthe KBV system, the ... inconsistent with CDU and CSU remaining the
parties of tax relief’, including a significant lowering ofthe maximum rate of income tax.
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the principle of...
... that the organization ofand balance ofpower between
political and economic elites determine transaction costs associated with doing business
in any country, and so represent an important influence ...
the case ofthe Philippines under the Marcos regime, and Thailand during the 1997 Asian
financial crisis—in terms of graft and corruption (Campos 2001). Analyses of both
economic success and ... Thailand’s history has been rife with coups and counter-
coups, with different factions ofthe military competing against each other for political
power andthe spoils of office. Nevertheless,...
... investigate the distress and closure decisions for 186 banks and 97 nonbank
financial institutionswhich include finance companies, investment banks, merchant
banks and specialized banksfrom five ... from
other segments oftheeconomy like the small and medium-sized enterprisesat the
time ofthe systemic crisis. This, coupled withthe fact that significant forbearance of
already weak financial ... most financial
system distress, in terms of absolute numbers of distressed and closed institutions,
followed by Korea and Thailand, but the rank is the opposite in terms ofthe percentage
of institutions...
... Scholar at the Deutsche
Bundesbank, the Bank of Japan, the Banque de France,
the Bank of England, andthe Federal Reserve System.
Professor De Haan is Jean Monnet Professor of European
Economic ... policy andthe procedures for
the resolution of conflicts between the government andthe bank; the
importance of price stability in comparison to other objectives; and the
stringency and universality ... Eijffinger and Schaling (1993b) and De Haan and Eijffinger (1994) support this view.
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The standard example is the case of Germany, where the hyperinflation in the
1920s led to a culture and tradition...
... may interact withthe main macroeco-
nomic variables, such as the level of GDP per worker, the openness
of the economy, the level of debt andthe share of agriculture, and
with other socio- ... many areas ofthe world the economic transition
goes hand-in-hand with a political transition towards a modern
concept and organization of democracy. Although it is di cult to
establish the ... studies have analysed developing coun-
tries and their political regimes withthe objective of explaining their
development and growth. The analysis of tax systems and in particu-
lar the tax composition...
... Notwithstanding their own financial and ownership crises,
the Eagles reached the finals play-offs in 1991 and won their first pre-
miership in 1992. The restructuring ofthe VFL was accompanied ... either financial
discipline or a successful team, and it survived only through subsidies
and grants.
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On the other hand, the Eagles, withthe luxury of oper-
ating in a mature Australian ... version ofthe code first began
in Sydney, where the game was marked by exclusiveness and hyper-
masculinity. Both the organisers andthe participants were from the
upper echelons of society, and...