... Lofgren & Benner ThePoliticalEconomyoftheNew Biology’ – preliminary draft only ThePoliticalEconomyoftheNew Biology’: Biotechnology andthe Competition State Abstract The central ... Lofgren & Benner ThePoliticalEconomyoftheNew Biology’ – preliminary draft only state) , and one combination ofthe two, with elements from both the coordinated andthe liberal models The first ... (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with politicaleconomy (research on the social andpolitical regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis ofstate forms...
... systematically neglect the incentive effects of these policies 11 Politicaland other variables Thepolitical variables used in the analysis are drawn from the 2012 version ofthe Database ofPolitical Institutions ... party, the smaller is the sharegain ofthe poor andthe larger (although still negative) is the sharegain ofthe rich The effects are large: a one standard deviation increase in the age ofthe governing ... significantly associated with the log of income redistribution (measured as the difference between the ratio ofthe top and bottom quintile’s market income shares andthe ratio of their post- transfer income...
... ruhigen Hand) ofthe 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, TheStateofthe Welfare State , p.212 62 Unlike the other branches ofthe 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 andthe federal budget.14...
... of its market economy was largely influenced by the demands ofthe British Empire and other western countries The Philippines, on the other hand, served as the extension ofthe 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 ofthepolitical leadership owe much to the construction ofthepolitical system The Armed Forces ofthe Republic of Indonesia...
... economic andpolitical orthodoxy ofthe advocates of globalisation Also available The End of Development: Modernity, Post- Modernity and Development Trevor Parfitt ThePoliticalEconomyof 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 ofthe ... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities ofthe trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid andthe degree of capital...
... to the contours ofthepoliticaleconomyof development andthe 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 ofthe developing country into a playground for the rich ofthe ... debt, andthe higher costs of living following the ‘Volcker Shock’12 adjustment Then, the negotiated settlement ofthe debt crisis, between the creditor banks, the creditor governments and the...
... concentrated in the IFIs and large banks They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom ofthe global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the herd ... brief overview ofthe 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 ... primary issues emerge: the problem of risk assessment in economic exchange andthe distribution of costs and profits in the risk regime as a whole The problem of assessment prompts the question [ 39...
... creditor and actually generate a flow of funds from the IMF to the treasury ofthe 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 andthe ... relation to the management of money andthe construction of markets In the next chapter the specific relationships between rich states and governing institutions is examined, before the sum of these...
... interests: those ofthe British state which sponsored it andthe particular interests ofthe people it would employ overseas given the structural position ofthe colonies in the world economyand sterling ... Indonesia andthe compulsory eviction of Kurdish people to make way for the Ilisu Dam (HC 2000) In recognition ofthe collectivised but competitive interests ofthe firms ofthe richer states andthe ... number of factors, ‘including the strength and risk appetite of other types of financial institution, the age and experience ofthe ECA, the support it receives from public and private sectors, and...
... management of development finance andthe socialisation of risk in the markets ofthe South, emerged This chapter has given an historical review ofthe frontier institutions ofthe British stateand ... Africa in both these years, and presumably most of those in between Meanwhile, the aid dependence ofthe countries at the low end ofthe 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, andthe next two, will explore the suggestion that the process ofthe political...
... business, such as in the case ofthe 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 ofthe Bank had dropped from its 1980s and early 1990s high The following tables, 7.6 and 7.7, show the nationality...
... widely, as well as a rare insight on the profitability ofthe Great Predators The MMC ranked the profitability ofthe CDC and other bilateral equivalents in terms ofthe gross income that each organisation ... case ofthe 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 ofthe poorest countries and is in the UK’s favour overall So what about the much publicised...
... measuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within thepoliticaleconomyof aid, both in andof itself in chapter (through direct contracts), and then in terms ofthe market ... term coined in 1977 by The Economist, to describe the effects of oil and gas discovery on theeconomyofthe 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...
... of it, thepoliticaleconomyof development or the bespoke economyofthe poor In this economyofthe ‘publicly aided’, so-called shared institutions are imposed – the IMF, World Bank, RDBs and ... form by thenew economic institutionalists’ of right-minded academic cadre or by the post- war discursive writings ofthenew Marxists The first of these modern groups outlined a theory ofnew economic ... ofthe dollar drops The precedent here is events in the early 1970s, after the Bretton Woods system of fixing the value ofthe dollar was abandoned unilaterally by the United States in 1971 and...
... The current rulers of Africa often borrow and reuse the discursive tropes ofthe 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 thepoliticaleconomyof development ... disciplines of neoclassical economics found in the policy advice ofthe IFIs; by the pretended benevolence ofthe development paradigm; and by the romanticised agency and avowed class positionality of their...
... Economic Outlook 2004/05 Paris: OECD and AfDB Offe, C (1975) The Theory ofthe Capitalist Stateandthe 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 andthe Politics of Structural Adjustment in Kenya’ In G R Murunga and S W ... Onimode, B (1989) The IMF, the World Bank andthe African Debt, Volume 1: The Economic Impact London: Zed Books Oppong, J R (1998) ‘A vulnerability interpretation ofthe geography of HIV/AIDS in...
... to the contours ofthepoliticaleconomyof development andthe 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 ofthe developing country into a playground for the rich ofthe ... economic andpolitical orthodoxy ofthe advocates of globalisation Also available The End of Development: Modernity, Post- Modernity and Development Trevor Parfitt ThePoliticalEconomyof Turkey...
... 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, andthe IP position ofthe EU at the Seattle ... agenda, and (4) the manner in which the data-gathering supported the efficacy and accuracy ofthe case study These methodological foundations are discussed below 1.4.1 The Importance of IPRs to the...
... Emergent StateandNew Industrialism: The Staples State s Golden Era 543 KWS Legacy and Crisis: Wither the Staples State? 546 Competitive State: A Reconsideration ofthe Staples State ... kind of transition from their traditional staples base The Maritime provinces and Newfoundland have been especially hard hit by the rapid decline ofthe fishery, andthe 1993 closure ofthe cod ... incursions ofthe federal state They simply not have the ability to meet thenew requirements As a result of these political alignments, the producing provinces find themselves in conflict with the...
... 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 ofthe particular financial institution to the local economyand its potential...