Scarcity, conflicts, and cooperation

essays in the political and institutional economics of development

This wide-ranging review of some of the major issues in development economics focuses on the role of economic and political institutions. Drawing on the latest findings in institutional economics and political economy, Pranab Bardhan, a leader in the field of development economics, offers a relatively ...

Financing development

the power of regionalism

The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. Editors Nancy Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez call for a more open and radical regionalism. They ...

The poverty reduction strategy initiative

an independent evaluation of the World Bank's Support through 2003

This book provides an independent assessment of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative for the World Bank as well as the broader development community. It offers a frank and in-depth review of the progress thus far, with particular focus on the role and effectiveness of the ...

El patrocinio de los proyectos de desarrollo social

inversión de futuro

Estamos asistiendo a la redefinición de las relaciones entre las empresas y las distintas entidades no lucrativas de desarrollo social. Unas y otras se deben a sus distintos públicos y buscan beneficios que no están tan enfrentados como pudiéramos creer. El patrocinio surge como una ...

Empowering squatter citizen

local government, civil society and urban poverty reduction

With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. The civil and political rights of these people are either ignored or constantly contravened. They face ...

El comercio justo en España 2004

situaciones y perspectivas

INDICE: Agradecimientos. Presentación. Prólogo. I. Comercio justo: una cuestión de ética. II. El sello FLO: la certificación de productos de comercio justo. III. El comercio justo en España 2000-2003. IV. Comercio justo y administraciones públicas. V. La responsabilidad social corporativa y el comercio justo. Anexos.

Hacia otra integración sudamericana

críticas al Mercosur neoliberal

#Luego del desastre de la crisis económico-social argentina de 2001 y de los problemas estructurales de Brasil, no podemos conformarnos con cambiar las políticas económicas de los países sin repensar nuevamente el tipo de integración latinoamericana. Este libro se propone desarrollar una crítica del modelo ...

Monetary policy, fiscal policies and labour markets

macroeconomic policymaking in the EMU

Three years after the birth of the European Monetary Union (EMU) economists are still divided in their assessment of the ability of its key institutions to provide macroeconomic stability and foster the reforms necessary to stimulate economic growth. In this collection, experts focus on issues ...

Building a dynamic Europe

the key policy debates

Edited by Jordi Gual. This succinct book provides a broad panorama of the key economic policy challenges facing the European Union today. The enlargement of the EU and its lacklustre performance over the last decade in terms of employment and productivity growth have prompted wide-ranging ...

Monetary strategies for joining the euro

In this book, well-known economists an policymakers look at the next step in the integration process for accesssion countries: accession to European Monetary Union

Europe, globalization and sustainable development

This edited volume considers the ways in which European states and the European Union can and should organize themselves economically and socially in order to address the challenges of sustainable development. It will interest students and researchers of environmental policy and European politics. INDICE Part ...

The European Union

economics and policies

The European Union is designed for readers from all disciplines studying the EU, its economics and policies, and the effects of economic integration. Its wealth of information, detail and analysis will ensure that it is read by students, researchers and professional policymakers alike. The European ...

Shaping the New Europe

economic policy challenges of European Union enlargement

This volume brings together contributions on the major economic policy issues which have opened up as a result of the process of European Union enlargement. The issues analysed range from modelling and analysing the costs and benefits of enlargement, to challenges for macroeconomic policy both ...

European Union and the Race for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe

The purpose of the volume is to analyze the impact of European Union on inward foreign direct investment in Europe and to discuss what type of effects are being created by this race for FDI. The volume deals with two levels of discussion: First, by ...

Growth and employment in Europe

Zagler investigates the interaction between changes in the level of unemployment and changes in the economic rate of growth. It asks, both in theory and in evidence, whether a change in the growth rate of the economy will affect the level of unemployment which the ...

Fiscal federalism and european economic integration

The pace of economic integration amongst European Union (EU) member states has accelerated considerably during the past decade, highlighted by the process of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Many aspects of the EU's apparatus, however, have failed to evolve in order to meets these ...

Making european space

mobility, power and territorial identity

Making European Space crystallises and critically examines the key policy ideas emerging in the new field of European spatial planning, and explores the arguments surrounding policy themes such as polycentric development, sustainability, mobility and peripherality. It develops a theoretically informed critique based on discourse analysis ...

A business guide to EU enlargement

trade and investment opportunities in Europe and the accession states

This important new book looks dispassionately at the overall enlargement process and at each individual accession state and provides a clear assessment of the opportunities and difficulties presented to these countries and their business partners by their joining the EU. It is written in a ...

European collaboration in research and development

business strategy and public policy

#[This book] addresses the relevant topic of collaborations in research and development at two complementary levels. First, it focuses on their determinants, performance and impact through a survey of more than 500 companies in seven European countries and through case studies on several research joint ...

Making a european welfare state?

convergences and conflicts over european social policy

This volume provides an up-to-date account of developments in Europe across a range of policy fields, from labour markets to disability and poverty to health care. An up-to-date account of a rapidly changing field. Covers developments across a range of policy fields, from labour markets ...