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... management of development finance and the socialisation of risk in the markets of the South, emerged This chapter has given an historical review of the frontier institu-tions of the British state and ... Africa in both these years, and presumably most of those in between Meanwhile, the aid dependence of the countries at the low end of the HDI ranking is reflected in the high figures of Official Development ... centre of the political and cultural problem of relational poverty As Mayer summarises, again in terms of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: the real problem remains one of political will on most fronts, of

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... examining aid to the private sector, and exploring the beneficiaries of the system and the pattern of risks and rewards entailed Trang 7Objectives for development financeWe can theorise that official ... 4in 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 ... the years following the onset of the debt crisis in the context of a drop-ping off of private finance (Lele and Nabi 1991: 8) Of total resource flows in 2005 (in Table 6.2, of nearly $320,000

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... 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 ... state-owned Sweden At the end of Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign 2004 had a Affairs sit on the board of directors. The bank’s terms of reference aligned ... European and North American DFIs at least The sheer size, scope and profitability of these DFIs... gave a telling analysis of the political gain to the British elite of having the

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... 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 on export ... interest and their share of profits of foreign subsidiaries and associates Earnings are after deduction of provisions for depreciation and. .. the supply chains, the equity and connections ... well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recy- cling, of finance capital from the core states. In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration with the

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... smaller part of it, the political 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 ... houses at the top of the system, the Great. .. in the early 1970s, after the Bretton Woods system of fixing the value of the dollar was abandoned unilaterally by the United ... continues that these were, and are, shaped by the better off and imposed on the worse off, and that this: institutional order is implicated in the reproduction of radical inequality in that there is

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... gift to the poor, while simultaneously pursuing the export of capital from the North and the reconstruction of Northern power and privilege The nightmare of the past in the everyday lives of the ... The current rulers of Africa often borrow and reuse the discursive tropes of the nationalist and liberationist past, and then repackage them in a patriotic and racial nationalism, while all the ... ownership and votes They stand at the helm of a Keynesian system of public underwriting and sponsorship of private accumula-tion, using the peoples of the South as a vast reservoir of surplus

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... Economic Outlook 2004/05 Paris: OECD and AfDB. Offe, C (1975) ‘The Theory of the Capitalist State and the 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 and the Politics of Structural Adjustment in Kenya’ In G R Murunga and S ... Globalisation Work for the Poor’, New Political Economy, 6(3), 391–7. Mosley, P., Harrigan, J and Toye, J (1991) Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, vol 1: Analysis and Policy Proposals.

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... systematically neglect the incentive effects of these policies.11 Political and other variables The political variables used in the analysis are drawn from the 2012 version of the Database of Political Institutions ... the rich Consistent with this, they show that when the ratio of the incomes shares of the top to the middle income deciles is higher and the ratio of the middle to the lowest income deciles is ... in the next section We then present a series of results and robustness checks 2 Trang 51 Theory and HypothesesThe seminal paper of Meltzer and Richard (1981) concludes that the poorer is the

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... Tracing the American economy from the 1970s and 1980s into the 2000s, she argues that the problems of the crisis stemmed from a financialisation of the economy Defining the central thesis of her ... between the two crises and periods of crisis resolution One of the key distinctions between the two groups—the trade unions and the banking sector—is the composition of the groups and their role ... Britain as the “sick man of Europe” or the presentation of some politicians and journalists of the crisis of the 1970s Rather than viewing the crisis in international terms, I wish to emphasise the

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... on the one hand, and who have also been employing the conceptual and ana-lytical framework of standard political economy to the analysis of these countries on the other hand Therefore, first and ... permanent features of the country for at least the past 50 years The main hypothesis of the study is, therefore, that the reform success of the country in terms of marketization and liberalization ... cycles The chapter introduces the reader to both the theory of opportunistic political business cycles and partisan models Whereas the former is dedi-cated to the study of the general incentives of

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... level of centralization of resource management gives thebasis of comparison among the three case studies The application of acomparative political economy analysis reveals rather the ascent of “Soybean ... project, and toJuan Pablo Luna in representation of REPAL (Network for the Study ofPolitical Economy in Latin America) They have delivered on the promise of promoting new studies in the political economy ... Grobocopatel, and FernandoLugo for their interest, time, and comments Trang 121 The International Political Economy of Agriculture 1Linkages, Commodity Chains, and the Political Finance and Infrastructure

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... fromthe lenses of political economy—the combined use of “state-of-the-art economicsand political science” (Elsenhans1996, 15)—and not the discipline of Marxist dog-matism (Moore1989, 584–586) The ... eliminated the incentives ofland-owning elites of engaging in political violence The consolidation of the stateremoved the incentives of a powerful landowner gathering a peasant army and mak-ing ... dissertation and provide athorough, critical, and constructive review of it He went above and beyond the call of duty of a reviewer, thus helping me to accentuate the strengths and amend theweaknesses of

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... 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 and the UK, and the ... 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 ... draft only 2 The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State Abstract The central hypothesis of this paper is that the bio -economy is critically...

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... 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 ... the doctors and the health insurance funds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf of the doctors and negotiates collec- tive contracts with the funds. Because of the KBV system, the funds ... 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 and the federal budget. 14 Social...

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... the embeddedness of governing elites (that is, the political leadership and the economic technocracy) in state institutions, and the way technocrats and political leaders relate to each other ... discussion of the institutional configuration of state power in Thailand and the Philippines, a discussion that will occupy the rest of this dissertation. Thailand’s Bureaucratic Polity and the ... Thailand’s history has been rife with coups and counter- coups, with different factions of the military competing against each other for political power and the spoils of office. Nevertheless,...

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... 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 and the degree of capital ... 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 Zülküf ... book examines the empirical bases for these narratives of the political economy of development with reference to Africa primarily and focuses on the economies in which the poorest, or the ‘Bottom...

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... 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 ... 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 ... 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...

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... 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 ... concentrated in the IFIs and large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the herd ... primary issues emerge: the problem of risk assessment in economic exchange and the distribution of costs and profits in the risk regime as a whole. The problem of assessment prompts the question MAKING...

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... 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 ... of equity, and the institutionalisation of risk which underwrites it, forms the skeleton of the political economy of development in the poorest and most indebted countries. It secures and returns ... greater prof- itability of merchant capital through ‘opening’ markets and the promotion of ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction of the ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of...

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