Economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2016
Published since 1948, This is the sixty-eighth edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, which corresponds to the year 2016, consists of three parts. Part I outlines the region's economic performance in 2015 and analyses trends in the first half of 2016, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines the external and internal factors influencing the region's economic performance and highlights some of the macroeconomic policy challenges that have arisen in...
Budgeting practices and procedures in OECD countries
Clinton and Blair (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Flavio Romano
The former President of the United States, Bill Clinton and, at the time of publication, still current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair have described their style of government as a 'Third Way'. In this important and timely book, Flavio Romano identifies and clarifies the economic implications of this particular approach to public governance. Testing the validity of President Clinton's and Prime Minister Blair's claims of practising a Third Way Romano submits their economic polic...
Central bankers like the idea of low inflation, but their actions have a distribution effect of richness. During the 1990s, the independence of central banks increased. What have central banks done with this independence? When we infer that all actors have interests, whether governments, voters or interest groups, why would we assume that central banks are technocratic institutions maximizing the welfare of the state? To answer these questions, this study looks at the Argentinean Central Bank be...
The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe
by Edmund Dell
This book provides the first detailed examination of the Attlee government's rejection of British participation in the Schuman Plan in 1950, which proposed the establishment of a common market for steel and coal as a way of avoiding future Franco-German conflict. This also represented Britain's rejection of a leading role in fashioning European political and economic intergration. Many received myths are contested: the Schuman Plan was not a bolt from the blue; domestic political circumstances...
From a hardscrabble childhood in the Great Depression on the dusty plains of rural Nebraska, Clayton Yeutter (1930-2017) rose to work for four U.S. presidents, serving in the cabinets of two of them. His challenge, posed by one of President Ronald Reagan's aides, was this: go and change the world. As U.S. trade representative he did just that, opening the global trading arena with bold efforts that led to NAFTA, the creation of the World Trade Organization, and extraordinary growth in cross-bord...
Safeguarding Prosperity in a Global Financial System – The Future International Financial Architecture
by Morris Goldstein
Foreign Direct Investment, Democracy and Development (Routledge Advances in International Political Economy)
by Indra de Soysa
The effects of globalization on economy and society are highly contested subjects in academic and political arenas. This study brings an empirical perspective to the crucially important arguments that encapsulate the major debates in this area. Using quantitative data, this book addresses the shape and degree of internationalisation by focussing on
A New Europe
Examen Des Politiques Commerciales, Armenie 2010 / Trade Policy Review, Armenia 2010
by World Trade Organization
Examen De Las Politicas Comerciales, Malawi 2010 / Examination of the Commercial Policies, Malawi 2010
by World Trade Organization
Examen Des Politiques Commerciales, Chine 2010 / Examination of the Commercial Policies, China 2010
by World Trade Organization
Human Development Report 2006 (Human Development Report)
In the early 21st Century, prospects for human development are threatened by a deepening global water crisis. Debunking the myth that the crisis is the result of scarcity, this report argues poverty, power and inequality are at the heart of the problem.
The WTO Basic Instruments & Selected Documents is the official, one-stop source for documents pertaining to the operation and scope of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It contains the Protocols for Accession for new WTO member nations along with other legal instruments. The 2005 volume contains Protocols, Decisions and Reports adopted in 2005. The WTO BISD is co-published by the World Trade Organization and Bernan Press.
Indian Ocean Region (The Political Economy of the Asia Pacific)
by Manoj Gupta
It is a privilege to introduce the reader to this book, as I believe that it will make a signi?cant contribution to, given the dif?culties in the knowledge of the Indian Ocean, developing cooperation in the Indian Ocean region. There have been numerous failed efforts at regional cooperation in different fora in the Indian Ocean. As a result of the land-based orientation of the people in the region, the importance for countries to develop the power to govern the sea has largely been ignored. The...
This study examines the relationship between multinationality and the performance of Japanese manufacturing companies during the period 1999-2008 by using geographic segment information. Despite the enormous interest in and importance given to multinationality from the academic and business worlds, prior findings about the multinationality-performance relationship are conflicting and inconsistent. The overall results of the present study show that multinationality has a positive impact both on a...
Die Frage, ob die EG-Mitgliedschaft der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Griechenlands forderlich ist, wurde von Anfang an kontrovers diskutiert und hat auch heute nicht an Aktualitat verloren. Ausgehend von einer Analyse der Wirtschaftsstruktur Griechenlands, versucht die vorliegende Arbeit, eine umfassende Darstellung der mit dem Beitritt verknupften Erwartungen zu geben, wobei die einzelnen Aspekte in Beziehung zu den Instrumenten der EG-Politik gesetzt werden. Anhand der Erfahrungen der Anpassun...
Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire. The book argues that, particularly between 1550 and 1680, Chinese elite editors rewrote and printed early plays and songs, so-called Yuan-dynasty zaju...
Lastenteilung in Verteidigungsbuendnissen (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #266)
by Horst Weber
Das Thema Lastenteilung, d.h. die gerechte Verteilung kollektiver Aufwendungen, stellt seit Grundung der NATO einen kontroversen Gegenstand der Diskussion dar. Als Ursache fur diesen mangelnden politischen Konsens gelten vorrangig die bisher angelegten Massstabe zur Bewertung der Verteilungsgerechtigkeit innerhalb des Bundnisses, welche der Vielschichtigkeit des Problems nicht gerecht werden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird erstmals ein multidimensionaler Verteilungsansatz entwickelt, der es erm...
Market Dynamics and Productivity in Developing Countries
To what degree are trade liberalization, productivity, and economic growth correlated? Can economic policies designed to encourage competition and curtail industry protection result in large-scale improvements, such as increased innovation and reduced unemployment? After 20 years of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), economic performance is still lagging behind many regions of the world. Even in those countries that are the most advanced in implementing reforms, includin...