Author: Stephen L. Mangum
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Strategies for Creating Transitional Jobs During Structural Adjustment
Author: Stephen L. Mangum
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Our Continent, Our Future
Author: P. Thandika Mkandawire
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 155250204X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 155250204X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.
Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies
Author: Yelena Kalyuzhnova
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378331
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies. The book does not dwell on the administrative or procedural aspects of privatisation. Instead it attempts to understand the bigger picture in terms of underlying policy environment and supporting legal and economic measures which helped to a large extent to determine the eventual success or failure of privatization programmes.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230378331
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Privatisation and Structural Change in Transition Economies brings together specialists from different areas (governance, regulation, macro-econometrics, micro-econometrics, enterprise culture, foreign direct investment, technology transfer) to focus on the many different aspects of the privatization process in transition economies. The book does not dwell on the administrative or procedural aspects of privatisation. Instead it attempts to understand the bigger picture in terms of underlying policy environment and supporting legal and economic measures which helped to a large extent to determine the eventual success or failure of privatization programmes.
Nicaragua Without Illusions
Author: Thomas W. Walker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Contains succinct chapters on Nicaraguan politics in the 1990s, examining the aftermath of hegemonic intervention and manipulation, regime transition and democratization, and structural adjustment and economic neoliberalism in a postrevolutionary society. Offers sections on the international setting, the new order in government and in economic and social policy, and key groups and institutions, such as the FSLN, the mass media, and the church. An epilogue discusses the October 1996 general election. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Contains succinct chapters on Nicaraguan politics in the 1990s, examining the aftermath of hegemonic intervention and manipulation, regime transition and democratization, and structural adjustment and economic neoliberalism in a postrevolutionary society. Offers sections on the international setting, the new order in government and in economic and social policy, and key groups and institutions, such as the FSLN, the mass media, and the church. An epilogue discusses the October 1996 general election. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets
Author: Michael P. Dooley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226155420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy debates on these issues-consider how best to reduce the frequency and cost of such crises. The contributions here explore the management process from the beginning of a crisis to the long-term effects of the techniques used to minimize it. The first three chapters focus on the earliest responses and the immediate defense of a currency under attack, exploring whether unnecessary damage to economies can be avoided by adopting the right response within the first few days of a financial crisis. Next, contributors examine the adjustment programs that follow, considering how to design these programs so that they shorten the recovery phase, encourage economic growth, and minimize the probability of future difficulties. Finally, the last four papers analyze the actual effects of adjustment programs, asking whether they accomplish what they are designed to do-and whether, as many critics assert, they impose disproportionate costs on the poorest members of society. Recent high-profile currency crises have proven not only how harmful they can be to neighboring economies and trading partners, but also how important policy responses can be in determining their duration and severity. Economists and policymakers will welcome the insightful evaluations in this important volume, and those of its companion, Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel's Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226155420
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy debates on these issues-consider how best to reduce the frequency and cost of such crises. The contributions here explore the management process from the beginning of a crisis to the long-term effects of the techniques used to minimize it. The first three chapters focus on the earliest responses and the immediate defense of a currency under attack, exploring whether unnecessary damage to economies can be avoided by adopting the right response within the first few days of a financial crisis. Next, contributors examine the adjustment programs that follow, considering how to design these programs so that they shorten the recovery phase, encourage economic growth, and minimize the probability of future difficulties. Finally, the last four papers analyze the actual effects of adjustment programs, asking whether they accomplish what they are designed to do-and whether, as many critics assert, they impose disproportionate costs on the poorest members of society. Recent high-profile currency crises have proven not only how harmful they can be to neighboring economies and trading partners, but also how important policy responses can be in determining their duration and severity. Economists and policymakers will welcome the insightful evaluations in this important volume, and those of its companion, Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel's Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets.
Economic Evolution and Structural Adjustment
Author: David Batten
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662025221
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Since the beginning of the fifties, the ruling paradigm in the discipline of economics has been that of a competitive general equilibrium. Associated dynamic analyses have therefore been preoccupied with the stability of this equilibrium state, corresponding simply to studies of comparative statics. The need to permeate the boundaries of this paradigm in order to open up new pathways for genuine dynamic analysis is now pressing. The contributions contained in this volume spring from this very ambition. A growing circle of economists have recently been inspired by two distinct but complementary sources: (i) the pathbreaking work of Joseph Schumpeter, and (ii) recent contributions to physics, chemistry and theoretical biology. It turns out that problems which are firmly rooted in the economic discipline, such as innovation, technological change, business cycles and economic development, contain many clear parallels with phenomena from the natural sciences such as the slaving principle, adiabatic elimination and self-organization. In such dynamic worlds, adjustment processes and adaptive behaviour are modelled with the aid of the mathematical theory of nonlinear dynamical systems. The dynamics is defined for a much wider set of conditions or states than simply a set of competitive equilibria. A common objective is to study and classify ways in which the qualitative properties of each system change as the parameters describing the system vary.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662025221
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Since the beginning of the fifties, the ruling paradigm in the discipline of economics has been that of a competitive general equilibrium. Associated dynamic analyses have therefore been preoccupied with the stability of this equilibrium state, corresponding simply to studies of comparative statics. The need to permeate the boundaries of this paradigm in order to open up new pathways for genuine dynamic analysis is now pressing. The contributions contained in this volume spring from this very ambition. A growing circle of economists have recently been inspired by two distinct but complementary sources: (i) the pathbreaking work of Joseph Schumpeter, and (ii) recent contributions to physics, chemistry and theoretical biology. It turns out that problems which are firmly rooted in the economic discipline, such as innovation, technological change, business cycles and economic development, contain many clear parallels with phenomena from the natural sciences such as the slaving principle, adiabatic elimination and self-organization. In such dynamic worlds, adjustment processes and adaptive behaviour are modelled with the aid of the mathematical theory of nonlinear dynamical systems. The dynamics is defined for a much wider set of conditions or states than simply a set of competitive equilibria. A common objective is to study and classify ways in which the qualitative properties of each system change as the parameters describing the system vary.
Structural Change, Welfare Systems, and Labour Reallocation
Author: Tito Boeri
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198293651
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book studies the interaction between labour and social policies, showing the crucial role labour plays in both the scope and the speed of transition. By including the influence of education systems, institution-building, and policy-enforcement mechanisms, this book goes beyond previous studies of the transition experience to provide a detailed analysis of the many contributing factors to the success or failure of the transition process.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198293651
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This book studies the interaction between labour and social policies, showing the crucial role labour plays in both the scope and the speed of transition. By including the influence of education systems, institution-building, and policy-enforcement mechanisms, this book goes beyond previous studies of the transition experience to provide a detailed analysis of the many contributing factors to the success or failure of the transition process.
Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy
Author: Dean Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521643764
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Prominent economists analyze the impact of the emerging global economy on national sovereignty and standards of living.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521643764
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Prominent economists analyze the impact of the emerging global economy on national sovereignty and standards of living.
Econometrics and Structural Change
Author: Lyle D. Broemeling
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824775001
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780824775001
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Structural Crisis and Institutional Change in Modern Capitalism
Author: Bruno Amable
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198787812
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book analyses the changes that took place in the French political economy since the 1980s. It links the question of the economic institutions that characterize the French variety of capitalism to the search for a socio-political equilibrium.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198787812
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book analyses the changes that took place in the French political economy since the 1980s. It links the question of the economic institutions that characterize the French variety of capitalism to the search for a socio-political equilibrium.