Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia
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In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-13
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Promoting Good Governance, Development and Accountability
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In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the literature. Brown-Shafii does this by investigating whether a WTO Agreement can be used to promote good governance, development and accountability.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-28
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Internet Gambling Offshore
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the US and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Quality and Legitimacy of Global Governance
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As the international community struggles with major issues such as deforestation, it is increasingly turning to sustainable development and market-based mechanisms to tackle environmental problems. Focusing on forestry, this book investigates the legitimacy of global...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-02-08
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Negotiating Trade Liberalization at the WTO
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This book shows how domestic political institutions and the lack of time pressure have an impact on negotiations at the WTO. It provides detailed information on WTO ministerial meetings as well as on the political economy of trade policy in the EU, U.S., Brazil, and...

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Parution : 2011-02-08
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Medicines
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This book shows why contests over intellectual property rights and access to affordable medicines emerged in the 1990s and how they have been 'resolved' so far. It argues that the current arrangement mainly ensures wealth for some rather than health for all, and points...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-02-01
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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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 :  Critical International Political Economy
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Amidst the continued debate surrounding the foundations of IPE, coupled with recent methodological and theoretical divides this book argues that an attempt should be made to re-visit the notion of the 'critical'. The challenge posed by contributors to this volume is to...

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Parution : 2011-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Commodity Governance
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The Forest and the Marine Stewardship Councils constitute new global governance institutions using voluntary certification and labelling as market incentives to encourage sustainable management. Utilizing a comparative political economic framework, the authors analyse...

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Parution : 2011-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Governing Cotton
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This book traces the historic relationships between cotton production, the international cotton trade and poverty south of the Sahara, and assesses various approaches to corporate social responsibility and nongovernmental policy advocacy in this area.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-28
Collection : International Political Economy Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Inter-American Cooperation at a Crossroads
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Fifteen years after the first Summit of the Americas, the world and the Americas have changed enormously. Competing strategies for economic development and political representation have shattered the hemispheric consensus of the 1990s. This book analyzes these...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-12-02
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 :  Globalization and Labour in China and India
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Globalization has pushed China and India to the centre of the stage but what has been the impact on workers in these countries? This book demonstrates the complexity of the processes and responses at play. There are signs that both states are shifting their role in a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-04
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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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