the political economy of international communications

... Trang 2The Political Economy of International Trade 6 Trang 36 - 3Chapter 6: The Political Economy of International Trade INTRODUCTION Free trade refers ... 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 ... overall wealth of a nation (to the benefit of all, both producers and consumers) Trang 136 - 13Chapter 6: The Political Economy of International Trade Political Arguments for Intervention Political

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... trade?  There are two types of arguments 1 Political arguments are concerned with protecting the interests of certain groups within a nation (normally producers), often at the expense of other ... 6The Political Economy of International Trade Trang 3Free trade refers to a situation where a government does not attempt to restrict what its citizens can buy from another country or what they ... certain group, but not necessarily the support the interests of the country as a whole Trang 31Development of the World Trading System Since World War II, an international trading framework has

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... Trang 2The Political Economy of International Trade The Political Economy of International Trade 5 Trang 3Key Issues• How do governments ... government intervention self-defeating? • What is the evolution, purpose of the global trading system (GATT, WTO)? • What are the implications on business of government intervention? Trang 4Governments ... much of what product can be imported from which countries – Voluntary export restraint: a quota imposed by the exporting country officially or unofficially • Local Content Requirements – Some % of

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... trade?  There are two types of arguments 1 Political arguments are concerned with protecting the interests of certain groups within a nation (normally producers), often at the expense of other ... opinion Trang 36The Future of the WTO: Unresolved Issues and the Doha Round The WTO is currently focusing on 1 Anti-dumping policies  The WTO is encouraging members to strengthen the regulations ... certain group, but not necessarily the support the interests of the country as a whole Trang 30Development of the World Trading System Since World War II, an international trading framework has

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... contributing to the LAC The main sponsors of theLAC were the US authorities (see Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Office for theComptroller of the Currency 2010), especially the Federal Reserve ... post-crisis reform of resolution The externalities and the developments of post-crisis resolution capacity in the US and the UK are then examined, followed by thediscussion of the post-crisis international ... from their domestic market size, or the network structure of theinternational financial system The early the literature stresses the ‘hegemonic’ power of the US in finance, contending that international

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

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... produced domestically  Percent of component parts  Percent of the value of the good  Initially used by developing countries to help shift from assembly to production of goods  Developed countries ... Trang 19The World Trade Organization The WTO was created during the Uruguay Round of GATT to police and enforce GATT rules  Most comprehensive trade agreement in history  Formation of WTO had ... 23The WTO -achievements 95% of financial services market  102 countries will open, their markets to varying degrees Trang 24WTO in Seattle Millennium round was aimed at further reduction of

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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 ... 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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... 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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... historical roots of the tussle over the naming of football codes can be traced back to the nineteenth century, with much of the battle fought in the pages of the press. Then, as now, the matter was ... written, there is enough evidence to compile a snapshot of these codes in the early part of the twentieth century. In the case of rugby (later rugby union), it is clear that the ante- cedents of the ... considerations were at the heart of the formation of a semi-professional rugby league in the north of England in 1895. 54 Given the class dimensions of the game in the Australian context (described...

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