the political economy of communication power and resistance an interview with vincent mosco
Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_1 doc
... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the mythssurrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital ... contemporary theory and practice of policy makers, planners and academics. It offers a radical and innovative insight into theories of devel-opment and country case study analysis. The series ... illustrates the importance of analysing the character of economic and political interna-tionalisation of capital and national strategies of capital accumulation in the global South. It highlights the political, ...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_2 pot
... or so and, by means of this account, introduces the reader to the contours of the political economy of development and the institutionalregime within which ‘creditor states’13compete and co-operate ... of privilege and inequality more generally; and chapter9 presents an example. We examine the relationships of co-operation and competition within and between the bilateral DFIs and the BrettonWoods ... generally.Chapter 8 begins with an examination of aid instruments designedto assist the private sector and then reviews the scale, scope and prof-itability of European and North American DFIs. In chapter...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_3 docx
... and again despite the good intentions of debt campaigners, an absence of surveillance means that debt cancel-lation can provide a one-off rent for elite consumption: even inTanzania and Uganda, ... status and 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. ... control the allocation of international liquidity, are concentrated in the IFIs and large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii),in the boardroom of the global economy, and...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_4 pot
... calculations of risk at many levels, such as the firm, the country and within banks; and then at an international levelby looking at the example of the ‘kingmaker’ of sovereign markets: the IFC. Within ... singularly, and thenoffering shares of the pool on the world market. From 1956, when the IFC was founded, to 2005, the IFC committed more than $49 billion of itsfunds and arranged another $24 ... countries and the international banks.For example, the IFC describes how a loan by it to a Turkish bank in the early 1990s allowed the bank to access other funds from Japanese,European, Scandinavian...
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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_5 docx
... intervention, the former by means of invest-ments, the latter by means of trade and investment insurance, while the Crown Agents manage international logistics and supply for the UK, World Bank and Japanese ... The first association with the IFC and Netherlands development agency was the Kilombero Sugar Companyin Tanzania in 1960, a project later transferred to the Tanzania Govern-ment due to financing ... consultancy company with an impressive market share,but it also owned assets, such as the remnants of ships, ports and vehicles, and so forth, left over from the Empire.In terms of the functions of...
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The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State
... 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 ... historical variants of the Keynesian welfare state. The paper compares three cases of governance of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA and the UK, and Australia. The aim is to integrate ... 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...
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Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc
... democratic plans to extend mandatorypension insurance to additional groups of employees and to other forms of incomeECONOMIC REFORM AND THE GERMAN WELFARE STATE 181 28. Frank Boănker and Hellmut ... between the doctors and the health insurancefunds. 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 ... inconsistent with CDU and CSU remaining the parties of tax relief’, including a significant lowering of the maximum rate of income tax.ECONOMIC REFORM AND THE GERMAN WELFARE STATE195 the principle of...
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State structure and economic development The political economy of Thailand and the Philippines
... that the organization of and balance of power between political and economic elites determine transaction costs associated with doing business in any country, and so represent an important influence ... the case of the Philippines under the Marcos regime, and Thailand during the 1997 Asian financial crisis—in terms of graft and corruption (Campos 2001). Analyses of both economic success and ... 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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The Political Economy of Distress in East Asian Financial Institutions
... investigate the distress and closure decisions for 186 banks and 97 nonbankfinancial institutionswhich include finance companies, investment banks, merchantbanks and specialized banksfrom five ... fromother segments of the economy like the small and medium-sized enterprisesat the time of the systemic crisis. This, coupled with the fact that significant forbearance of already weak financial ... most financialsystem distress, in terms of absolute numbers of distressed and closed institutions,followed by Korea and Thailand, but the rank is the opposite in terms of the percentage of institutions...
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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CENTRAL-BANK INDEPENDENCE pptx
... Scholar at the DeutscheBundesbank, the Bank of Japan, the Banque de France, the Bank of England, and the Federal Reserve System.Professor De Haan is Jean Monnet Professor of EuropeanEconomic ... policy and the procedures for the resolution of conflicts between the government and the bank; the importance of price stability in comparison to other objectives; and the stringency and universality ... Eijffinger and Schaling (1993b) and De Haan and Eijffinger (1994) support this view.23 The standard example is the case of Germany, where the hyperinflation in the 1920s led to a culture and tradition...
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The Political Economy of Taxation pptx
... may 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- ... many areas of the world the economic transition goes hand-in-hand with a political transition towards a modern concept and organization of democracy. Although it is di cult to establish the ... studies have analysed developing coun-tries and their political regimes with the objective of explaining their development and growth. The analysis of tax systems and in particu-lar the tax composition...
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The Games Are Not the Same The Political Economy of Football in Australia pot
... Notwithstanding their own financial and ownership crises, the Eagles reached the finals play-offs in 1991 and won their first pre-miership in 1992. The restructuring of the VFL was accompanied ... either financial discipline or a successful team, and it survived only through subsidies and grants.51 On the other hand, the Eagles, with the luxury of oper-ating in a mature Australian ... version of the code first began in Sydney, where the game was marked by exclusiveness and hyper-masculinity. Both the organisers and the participants were from the upper echelons of society, and...
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