Author: Mercedes Peñas
Publisher: Programa de Las Naciones Unidas Para El Desarrollo
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 328
Book Description
La sociedad civil y los procesos de concertación en Centroamérica
Author: Mercedes Peñas
Publisher: Programa de Las Naciones Unidas Para El Desarrollo
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Programa de Las Naciones Unidas Para El Desarrollo
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : es
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Quest for Universal Social Policy in the South
Author: Juliana Martínez Franzoni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107125413
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume examines the concept of global social policy architectures and its emergence across issues and through time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107125413
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This volume examines the concept of global social policy architectures and its emergence across issues and through time.
Central America Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Revival of Civil Society
Author: Michael G. Schechter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349277320
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
What is meant by the concept of civil society? Why do some equate it with liberal democracy, while others think it simply a guise for a market economy? Who benefits from globalization and who loses out? Can civil society prosper in an era of globalization? Can global civil society restrain some of the negative consequences of economic globalization? Through a series of unique case studies and theoretical inquiries, this volume provides a set of concrete answers to questions such as these.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349277320
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
What is meant by the concept of civil society? Why do some equate it with liberal democracy, while others think it simply a guise for a market economy? Who benefits from globalization and who loses out? Can civil society prosper in an era of globalization? Can global civil society restrain some of the negative consequences of economic globalization? Through a series of unique case studies and theoretical inquiries, this volume provides a set of concrete answers to questions such as these.
Limiting Resources
Author: LaDawn Haglund
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074752
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts of the world, including developing countries. The record of the past twenty-five years of market-led development, however, has not been encouraging. Not only has it failed to improve public services significantly, but it has also undermined democratic institutions and processes, reproduced authoritarian relations of power, and suppressed alternatives made possible by an increasing global acceptance of the importance of economic and social rights. In Limiting Resources, LaDawn Haglund seeks an understanding of public goods that can better serve the needs of people in developing countries today. Haglund critiques the narrow conception of public goods used in economics, which tends to limit the range of resources considered “public,” and proposes an expanded conception drawing from multiple disciplines that incorporates issues of justice, inclusion, and sustainability. She then uses case studies of electricity and water provision in Central America to illuminate the conditions for success and the causes of failure in constructing adequate mechanisms for the supply of public goods. She follows with an analysis of political conflicts over privatization that reveals how neoliberal policies have made effective state action difficult. The book concludes with suggestions for ways in which this reformulated conception of public goods can be applied to promote justice, sustainability, and economic and social rights in developing countries.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074752
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts of the world, including developing countries. The record of the past twenty-five years of market-led development, however, has not been encouraging. Not only has it failed to improve public services significantly, but it has also undermined democratic institutions and processes, reproduced authoritarian relations of power, and suppressed alternatives made possible by an increasing global acceptance of the importance of economic and social rights. In Limiting Resources, LaDawn Haglund seeks an understanding of public goods that can better serve the needs of people in developing countries today. Haglund critiques the narrow conception of public goods used in economics, which tends to limit the range of resources considered “public,” and proposes an expanded conception drawing from multiple disciplines that incorporates issues of justice, inclusion, and sustainability. She then uses case studies of electricity and water provision in Central America to illuminate the conditions for success and the causes of failure in constructing adequate mechanisms for the supply of public goods. She follows with an analysis of political conflicts over privatization that reveals how neoliberal policies have made effective state action difficult. The book concludes with suggestions for ways in which this reformulated conception of public goods can be applied to promote justice, sustainability, and economic and social rights in developing countries.
Challenges to Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Mitchell A. Seligson
Publisher: LAPOP
ISBN: 9780979217876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher: LAPOP
ISBN: 9780979217876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Two to Tango
Author: Eduardo Fernández-Arias
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN: 1597822590
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
It takes two to tango. Strong public-private collaboration is key for discovering and implementing effective productive development policies to bring out the best in existing economic activities and to foster economic transformation. The 25 Latin American cases analyzed in this volume show how and why many public and private partners are dancing smoothly while others stumble or follow different drummers. This book is a resource for designing institutions to make public-private interaction a win-win strategy.
Publisher: Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN: 1597822590
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
It takes two to tango. Strong public-private collaboration is key for discovering and implementing effective productive development policies to bring out the best in existing economic activities and to foster economic transformation. The 25 Latin American cases analyzed in this volume show how and why many public and private partners are dancing smoothly while others stumble or follow different drummers. This book is a resource for designing institutions to make public-private interaction a win-win strategy.
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Nicaragua
Author: James D. Rudolph
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is an attempt to treat in a compact and objective manner the dominant social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Nicaraguan society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nicaragua
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is an attempt to treat in a compact and objective manner the dominant social, political, economic, and national security aspects of contemporary Nicaraguan society.