Télécharger le livre :  Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance
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This book argues that the new actors in global health constitute a 'private turn' in global health governance, and provides theoretical and practical grounds for viewing global health partnerships and philanthropic foundations as closely aligned in their ideational and...

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Parution : 2011-02-01
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Investment Incentives and the Global Competition for Capital
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This is a global study of government subsidies to attract investment. The book shows how corporations use site selection as rent extraction, with developing countries investing more than developed ones. It demonstrates that incentive use is rarely a good policy,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-24
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Marginalization in Urban China
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This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-28
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of Sovereign Wealth Funds
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This book examines the origin, nature, the portfolio, organizational structure and operation of the seven largest SWFs from the perspective of the holding countries. Uniquely it tackles the issues from the perspectives of those non-OECD countries whose access to funds...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-10-13
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The International Political Economy of Work and Employability
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International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-17
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  China and the Mortgaging of America
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In 2008, the economic relationship between the United States and China almost collapsed due to a crisis at two American mortgage corporations, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This book explains how that crisis came about, and analyzes the consequences and implications.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-04
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Agro-Food Trade and Standards
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Standards are replacing tariffs as the main trade barriers facing African agro-food exports. This book examines the challenges and opportunities that new public and private standards present to African countries – focusing on food safety, environmental and climate...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-21
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  World Orders, Development and Transformation
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The book examines how hegemonic development ideas and practices emerged in the context of the changing world order post-1945 and how this transformation was characterized by neoliberalism and securitization of development and security. Sahle also explores the rise of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-21
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Business, Politics and Public Policy
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This is the second volume on the changing nature of state-business relations.This book examines how the dynamics of business have influenced public policy in the context of economic liberalization and democratization. It identifies the circumstances under which business...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-13
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The Currency of Power
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This book examines how the International Monetary Fund engages in the politics of ideas to shape domestic institutional change. Drawing on case studies from post-Soviet Central Asia, André Broome explains that how governments interpret their policy options mediates the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-03-10
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Celtic Tiger in Collapse
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Since the first edition there have been fundamental changes in the Irish growth model. The sudden collapse of the Irish economy in 2008 raises questions such as: why the sudden and deep decline in economic growth? What are the prospects for a return to growth? Answering...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-02-17
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Automotive Modernization
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As a window for understanding the relationship between globalization and the state's pursuit of national industrial development, this book examines how and why the Chinese government succeeded in leveraging China's international competitive advantages to modernize the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-01-29
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Economic Regionalism
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While major theories of economic regionalism in the existing literature are primarily constructed to explore institutionalized regional integration, European integration in particular, the analytical framework developed in this work explains the unique process and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-01-20
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese Capitalisms
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In Chinese Capitalisms , experts examine the rise of capitalism on China and Taiwan, analyzing impacts exerted by global capitalism, Chinese civilization, and remnants of socialist practice.In focusing on these, they also address longstanding issues such as Weber's...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-01-13
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance
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This is the first of two volumes that examine the changing nature of state-business relations.This book assesses the potential and limits of CSR in developing countries, by focusing on aspects that are often ignored in the CSR literature: historical experience,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-12
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalizing Social Justice
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A study of the international NGO advocacy for social and environmental justice, it looks at the fundamental issues of legitimacy, accountability and democracy that such activities involve and how they are manifested. It presents case studies on trade issues, labour...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-09-30
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Sugar: Refined Power in a Global Regime
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Sugar is a commonplace product with a complex background, mainly because of the high degree of protectionism given to the industry and the benefits of ensuring domestic producers stay in business. This book asks why there are such disagreements over trade policy, who...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-09-23
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries
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This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-08-14
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Health Governance
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Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of the challenges to global health governance and the contradictory and ineffective responses to them. They draw on a wide range of disciplines to uncover the critical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-07-23
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts
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This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-06-25
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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