the political economy of human rights pdf

... deriving from the global system, we can apply his analysis to our smaller part of it, the political economy of development or the bespoke economy of the poor In this economy of the ‘publicly ... growth.4Instead the concern here is that in the process of ‘giving aid’ in the system we have at the moment, the opportunities to do these types of things may be fore-closed, or the effect of doing them ... bound together by their part in the transmission of a relationship of power within political economy In other words, the needs of recipients could not be undermined by contamination by other prerogatives

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... and other engineering works in the Colonies (CDC 1949: 7) The CDC was already aware of the more particular interests of the primary producers who they would employ when they term the policy of ... 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 ... Monetary Fund (IMF) most often stay in the country of the creditor and actually generate a flow of funds from the IMF to the treasury of the core state For example, the UK quota at the IMF changes as

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... the war were quashed and postponed A timeline of other key events in the history of the CDC is reproduced in Figure 5.1 Trang 3The 1948 Act charged the Corporation with:the duty of securing the ... the Corporation became the sole acceptable represen-tative of the British state, with promotion of local citizens and the presence of the Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge off ... reintegra-tion into the world economy, with the CDC acting as the chair of the ‘committee managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’, to misquote Marx The CDC was in co-operation with the World

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... since the: security offered for the loan was not and could not be chal-lenged Apart from the fact that the assets of the Corporation amounted to many times the amount of any loan contem-plated, the ... these ‘problems’ facing the American investor that the current global system, characterised by the collectivisation of the management of development finance and the socialisation of risk in the ... 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 an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing

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... absolute terms, but also the process of multilateralisation of aid finance which took place in the years following the onset of the debt crisis in the context of a drop-ping off of private finance ... or Egypt, the worst was to be Cuba from 1959); and, finally, 3 the developmental objective, which is of course the one which is the subject of the most publicity Under the category of geostrategic ... with their own plant and factories, such as roads or electricity Simply put, the workers of the global South are buying, through their debt repayments, the means of their own exploitation Thus, the

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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 ... is because the actual amounts members pay in are only tiny: the bulk of the money is then subse- quently raised on capital markets using the reputation of the members. This reputation of members ... Also, however, the set of institutions often work together. There was, after the onset of the debt crisis, a sharp growth in the co-financing of projects between the Bretton Woods institutions, EC

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... because they are seen as part of the fruits of reform’ (CDC 1993: 1) A brief look at the CDC country portfolios in post-adjustment African countries of the 1980s and 1990s confirms this point: there ... million in the mid-1980s to more than £29 million at the end of 1992 (CDC 1993: 33) Table 9.5 shows the CDC portfolio in Ghana following structural adjustment, and then the provenance of the investments ... 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 World

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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 ... outside their inherited ways of thinking and doing Because of this, and because of what they do, the institutions of the development age have become critically constrained in their ability to sell the ... Always, the language and practice of benevolence hides the underlying capitalist profitability and priva-tised extraction of wealth within the political economy of development In this narrative there

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... Strategy’, Review of African Political Economy, 35(115), pp 116–28. National Audit Office (NAO) (1989) Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, on the efficiency and effectiveness of the Commonwealth ... (2005) African 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 ... Onimode, B (1989) The IMF, the World Bank and the African Debt, Volume 1: The Economic Impact London: Zed Books. Oppong, J R (1998) ‘A vulnerability interpretation of the geography of HIV/AIDS in

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... interrogation of the World Bank procurement database13gives a snapshot of how procurement has developed since the era of the effec-tively closed business communities of the 1980s and 1990s, and since the ... cent of cases overall, and in the rest of the cases it wasn’t When a company bids for a contract funded under EU authority it is expected that the procurement office of the country borrowing the ... of which the regional development banks (RDBs) are the chief beneficiaries The AfDB receives more than double the amount from the Department for International Development (DfID) than any of the

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... “dangerous” products • furthering the goals of foreign policy • protecting the human rights of individuals in exporting countries Trang 14Chapter 6: The Political Economy of International Trade ... issues on the current agenda of the WTO are the rise of anti-dumping policies, the high level of protectionism in agriculture, and the lack of strong protection for intellectual property rights ... 12Chapter 6: The Political Economy of International Trade THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION There are two types of arguments for government intervention: political and economic • Political arguments

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... define the nature of the region’s develop-ment model in the future: the restructuring of the financial and corporatesectors and the redefinition of the social contract A central feature of the Asian ... lower base than the other three crisis countries A striking feature of the financial profile of the Asian corporates wasthe bias in the maturity structure of their debt toward the short term.1Not ... during the current crisis The political economy of the DTCs was contentious After the ment suspended 24 of them, depositors argued that their deposits should govern-be guaranteed in full However, the

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... thatreduce rather than increase the protection of property rights Forwhat they are worth, the data show that, between 1946 and 1994(the last year for which we have the U.S Code data), the size of theU.S ... sprop-ince the Copyright Act of 1976,the first major revision of the copyright laws in the United States innearly seventy years The act added unpublished works to the cate-gory of covered works (thereby ... illustrate the ability of owners of intellectual prop-erty to organize coalitions to protect their ownership rights It isnoteworthy that “most of the statutory language” of the CopyrightAct of 1976

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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 ... with the observation that coalition-building is a function of the proximity of middle class income shares to those of the poor or the rich Consistent with this, they show that when the ratio of the ... likely to vary depending on the total population of the country and the proportion of the population that is older than 65 The regressions also control for the proportion of the population that resides

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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...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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... 58 3 The Rights of the Defence: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century 61 A The Institutional Nature of the Rights of the Accused’ 61 B The Rights of the Defence at Trial 63 (i) The Presence of the ... defence of the accused, the hearing and discussion of the evidence of witnesses, the examination of all of the facts and the assessment of the evidence’. Further, it was necessary that the judge, ... coherent understanding of fairness requires recognition of the reliance of the role of the defence (and therefore the rights of the accused) on the institutional structure of the proceedings. Introduction xx Columns...

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... 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 ... 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 ... regime the size of the public sector should be small, a substantial part of the electorate being excluded from the decision- making process. So, independent of the type of economy, the level of...

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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 ... 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...

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