... policy debate. All around the world, including inthe European Union, policymakers are rethinking their privacy frameworks. As a leader inthe global Internet economy, it is incumbent on the ... how their information will be used, and they know that it will not be used in other ways. The combined force of the purpose specification and use limitation principles stands in contrast to the ... covered by these sectoral laws as “gaps” inthe framework of privacy policy. 26 Much of the personal data traversing the Internet falls into these gaps. The United States adopted and maintained...
... (e.g. the removal of subsidies andthe dismantling of the marketing board system) andthe increase in input costs over the years. It is expected that the introduction of the minimum wage inthe ... HousingOne of the most significant institutions impacting on and shaping the sourcing and management of labour inthe Western Cape is the provision of housing. Tied housing – the linking of ... businesses in Dihlophaneng, three shops were visited during the course of the research, and their owners interviewed. All five businesses in Dihlophaneng involve the retailing of groceries and...
... a Southern a liate and all the remainingintermediates are produced inthe home country by the parent.Now consider the sourcing decision of the multinationals a liate inthe other Northerncountry. ... within the multinational enterprise. That increases the cost ofproducing each intermediate in a Northern a liate relative to the cost of producing at the parent so that for the threshold intermediate ... variation inthe e ciency of Y productioninduces diÔerences in wages across countries. The wage inthe North wNexceeds the wage in the South wS. In each Northern country, there is a continuum...
... According to the Scottish Executive (1999) creating and sustaining employability is the responsibility of the state, individuals and training providers. However, inthe UK there has been a shifting ... capacity to sustain employment—‘doing the job’— in the style labour market. The need for this kind of training and an indication of the current mismatchbetween training, skills and employability ... selection and training criteria demanded by potential employers. It offerededucation and training inthe skills needed to be successful inthe processes ofrecruitment, selection and working in industries...
... being done or planned for the area.ã Since the building of the new freeway, local business was now dying. Inthe past, the passing traffic used to stop at the local shopping complex; since they ... (both land-based andinthe other sectors of the economy) by reducing the severity of the impoverishment, providing inhabitants with some monetary resources and, more importantly, uplifting the ... (both inthe formal and informal sectors) andthe poor cash flow inthe Mount Frere district takes place inthe context of:ã An expanding monetisation of services (including health, education and...
... development inthe South. The series questions neoliberal theories of development and modernisa-tion and, in highlighting the poverty of the mainstream, offers criticalinsight into the theoretical ... institutionsof the global concessional financing system (see also Gélinas 2003) and the narratives in political economy which explain what they do. Itexamines obscure and peripheral parts of the Northern ... spite of it and alongside it, and systemically with the support of development finance institutions(DFIs). Bearing this in mind, the book examines the proposition that the political economy of...
... negative real interest rates inthe mid 1970schanging to high interest rates in 1979 after the Volcker Shock, and even higher in 1981; global recession inthe early 1980s and again in the early ... www.mountainvoices.net/lesotho.asp.html2. The inadequacy of the development duopoly of the modern and ‘other’, the developed and developing, is well critiqued since the seminal Culture and Imperialism ... relative price. The word we use in a particular contextrelies on how much the price is, who is doing the lending and borrowing and where inthe world they are doing it. Thus, as a hypo-thetical example,...
... probably the ‘centraldynamic’ in widening domestic and global inequality since the 1980s,since they ‘bet on the strong, privilege the privileged, help the winners,expose the losers and prompt ... 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 ... banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively smallnumber explains in part both the herd behaviour of investors...
... official inthe CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would takeinvestment decisions:by understanding the human nature of these people, how theyare moving andthe politicians, ... impacting on the institutions and companies of the British state predominantly, creating a claim on theirunderwriting resources, which they in turn were seeking to share withother, less financially ... disbursements by usingfinancing through the IDA to pay the IMF! Indeed, Oxfam cite the shock-ing statistic that, inthe case of Zambia during the late 1990s, ‘well overhalf of the finance provided...
... agricultural investigations for the WorldBank.(CDC 1971: 7) The CDC andthe other bilateral and multilateral institutions, from thishighpoint, then intermeshed operationally and financially inthe ... 12:34 Page 85 In 1961 the CDC won the 1961 Financial Settlement andthe primaryresponsibility for maintaining a proper balance in its own portfolio, and in 1963 restoration inthe independent ... colonies inthe world economyand sterling area. Thus, in 1949 theyurged the British Government to pay ‘closer consideration’ to pricingpolicies andthe ‘relative place inthe UK markets of the...
... five of the seven yearssince 2000, and were only positive in 2002 and 2003. The ODF flowsremained healthily positive, but as the definitions indicate, theseinclude finance transferring at non-concessional ... account of the changing role of the CDC in managing investment and liquidity. The case study shows how onedominant core lender inthe global interstate system, Britain, workedwithin the Bretton Woods ... existing, and a further twelve remained negative in 2005, with seven notrecording. In other words, there was considerable disinvestment of‘free-floating’ portfolio holdings within Africa in both...
... medicine, should they choose to. Ofcourse, there is another economyin Africa which is informal and possible quite large, but the official one reviewed here showsincreasing inequality and income ... Scandinavian engineeringfirms and French and German firms whose employees are increasinglymultilingual (ibid.). The multilateral organisations can thus be seen as the intermediaries in an institutionalised ... of goods and works and consultancy contractsfrom the ADB inthe years 2006 and 2007 and for all the years since 1966.Two recent Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between the UK and ADB illustrate...
... while the GreatPredators retain a leading role in listing stock for companies, and in sponsoring financial institutions and instruments. The IFC set up itsCapital Markets Department back in 1971 ... of banks and large US and European industrial companies (MMC 1992: 146). Most of the organisations weremaking investments inthe form of equity and loans, with EIB and OPIC investing in only ... 1971 and initiates a ‘high propor-tion’ of financial sector interventions itself, as an advisor and investor, and sees its role inthe financial sector as transmitting efficiency to the economy...
... sector, illustrating 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 ... enclave-based firms in Anglophone Africa, andthe British frontier institutions, the ECGD and CDC, have had a leading role in shaping the extractiveagricultural and mineral industries inthe countries ... wemeasuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economy of aid, both inand of itself in chapter 7 (throughdirect contracts), and then in terms of the...