Beyond Market Liberalization

Author : Bart Minten,Manfred Zeller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351770088

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Beyond Market Liberalization by Bart Minten,Manfred Zeller Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: Most African countries experienced dramatic agricultural market reforms over the 1990s. This has resulted in significant changes in the operation of the agricultural markets and, consequently, in income generation and welfare of rural households. In the case of Madagascar, the results suggest that market reforms and corresponding adjustments in rural markets have had an average positive effect on food security for the rural households. However, richer households seemed to have benefited more than the poorer households. This text provides a study of the market reforms, focusing particularly in the changes brought to welfare, income and environmental sustainability in rural areas. The study aims to be of particular interest to economists and those involved in development and environmental issues.

Author : P. Arestis,M. Sawyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230522381

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Financial Liberalization by P. Arestis,M. Sawyer Pdf

The financial liberalization thesis emerged in the 1970s and has been of considerable importance ever since, not merely in terms of its theoretical influence but, perhaps more importantly, in terms of its impact on policy makers and policy debates. Although it has encountered increasing scepticism over the years, it nevertheless had a relatively early impact on development policy, which still continues unabated, through the work of the IMF and the World Bank. The latter two institutions, perhaps in their traditional role as promoters of what were claimed to be free market conditions, were keen to encourage financial liberalization policies as part of more general reforms or stabilization programmes. This book explores what we have learned from the vast experience of the theoretical and policy aspects of the financial liberalization.

Author : Aad van Tilburg,Henk A.J. Moll,A. Kuyvenhoven
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461545231

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Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization by Aad van Tilburg,Henk A.J. Moll,A. Kuyvenhoven Pdf

Agricultural markets have entered a long-term process of liberalization, with the aim of reducing imposed market imperfections such as monopolistic public trade, entry barriers and subsidies. The experience of more than a decade of agriculture liberalization offers a good opportunity to review and analyze the outcome of this process and to draw lessons for the future. The central topic in Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization is the relationship between market structure and how markets perform in a dynamic context during a liberalization process. The topic is studied from both a micro and macro viewpoint and refers to different types of agricultural markets. This volume brings together the dynamics of agricultural markets in several parts of the world, with a special focus on transition economics and Africa. The different studies cover geographical areas as wide as a district as well as a group of countries, and institutions from individual contracts to multi-national organizations. The analysis of liberalization under different circumstances, and the different methods of analysis used by the authors provide a valuable foundation for the assessment of liberalization.

Author : Andras Koves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429722561

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Foreign Economic Liberalization by Andras Koves Pdf

This groundbreaking volume combines theories of economic liberalization with a wide variety of case studies from market and socialist economies. Internationally regarded scholars and Eastern European policymakers have collaborated to evaluate the dramatic economic changes taking place throughout the world. The opening essays contribute to the theoretical debate by showing that foreign economic liberalization goes beyond reducing import barriers to policies on investment, financial liberalization, convertability, and export promotion. Case studies compare successful and unsuccessful liberalization attempts world wide. The disintegration of the CMEA and the policy dilemmas facing Central and Eastern Europe are examined in great detail, as the authors explore the pitfalls and opportunities inherent in the transformation from a centrally planned economy. This up-to-date text will be invaluable for courses on the history and transformation of socialist economies, comparative economic systems, and international trade and investment.

Author : Sol Picciotto,Ruth Mayne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349277384

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Regulating International Business by Sol Picciotto,Ruth Mayne Pdf

This timely book points the way towards a new positive regulatory framework for international investment following the failure of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). It examines the flaws in free-market strategies underpinning the recent phase of globalization, in particular drawing out the lessons from the MAI, which was suspended in October 1998. The authors explore an alternative based on a positive regulatory framework for international business aimed at maximizing the positive contribution to development of foreign investment and minimizing its negative social and environmental impacts. The contributors include academics, researchers for non-governmental organizations, and business and trade-union representatives, writing from a combination of economic, legal and political perspectives. The book combines academic analysis with grass-roots and practical experience, and suggests concrete policy proposals.

Author : Minh Son Le,Tarlok Singh,Duc-Tho Nguyen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317501527

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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty by Minh Son Le,Tarlok Singh,Duc-Tho Nguyen Pdf

This book uses Alan Winters’ analytical framework to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. The country launched a programme of economic and trade reforms, known as Doi Moi, in the mid-1980s which placed the economy on a transitional path from central planning to a market economy. Since then Vietnam has attained a number of remarkable achievements in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction. Although some formidable problems (such as inequality and inflation) remain, it is apparent that trade liberalisation has been associated with a big reduction in poverty. The analysis in the book focuses on the microeconomic (household) level, and there is an emphasis on tracing the effects of trade liberalisation through the four separate channels identified by Winters. Such in-depth and micro-level analyses yield new insights that support important policy lessons and recommendations for Vietnam in particular and, more generally, for similar developing countries.

Author : Dali L. Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134824922

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Beyond Beijing by Dali L. Yang Pdf

This book offers a balanced assessment of the dynamics and consequences of the decentralization of power and resources in post- Mao China. The author argues that decentralization has increased tensions amongst ethnic groups and unleashed much competition and emulation among local governments. This book is an authoritative study of an issue that will remain highly visible on China's political agenda for the forseeable future.

Author : Masaaki Kotabe,R.P.C. Leal
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780080438979

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Market Revolution in Latin America by Masaaki Kotabe,R.P.C. Leal Pdf

The ratification in 1994 of the North American Free Trade Agreement among the United States, Canada, and Mexico awakened them to look to the south of the US border. This book offers an analysis of trade and liberalization movements in Latin America, and explores macro- and micro-financial implications of investing in Latin American countries.

Author : Costas Lapavitsas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134240692

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Beyond Market-Driven Development by Costas Lapavitsas Pdf

Because their economies were regulated, their financial systems ‘repressed’ and their states interventionist, for many years the countries of East Asia challenged the Washington consensus, offering an alternative development paradigm. However, in the 1990’s, Asian capitalism was disrupted following Japan’s stagnation and the financial crisis of 1997-98. Treading the unexplored theoretical terrain created by the simultaneous decline of the Washington Consensus and Asian developmentalism, this revealing book analyzes the comparative political economy of East Asia and Latin America. Divided into four key sections, it covers: Theoretical Framework Results of Globalization Converging and Diverging of Paths of Economic Development Finance and Regionalism. Through the juxtaposition of countries in East Asia and Latin America, leading academics analyze the impact of government intervention, institutional malfunction, social transformation and financial change as well as conflict and power on economic development. This book will prove to be invaluable to students and academics of development economics.

Author : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín,Gerd Schönwälder
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745330631

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Economic Liberalization and Political Violence by Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín,Gerd Schönwälder Pdf

A study of workers struggles against management regimes in Britain's car industry from the Second World War to the late 1980s.

Author : Kidane Mengisteab,Bernard Ikubolajeh Logan
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D01268819C

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Beyond Economic Liberalization in Africa by Kidane Mengisteab,Bernard Ikubolajeh Logan Pdf

Have structural adjustment programmes in Africa largely failed? Ought the World Bank and the IMF to be paying more attention to the particular circumstances of individual countries and to the alternative policies being proposed by the Africans? The contributors to this volume assert both positions. Case studies of education, health, public services and import-export performance demonstrate the frequent lack of success of structural adjustment. These are followed by alternative approaches to overcoming Africa's economic and human crises, including the importance of democracy in securing responsiveness of state policy to public needs, the structural advantages of regional integration, sustainable development strategies that build on the continent's resource base, and a new partnership between state and market.

Author : Amitava Krishna Dutt,Kwan S. Kim,Ajit Singh
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009577003

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The State, Markets, and Development by Amitava Krishna Dutt,Kwan S. Kim,Ajit Singh Pdf

The state-market debate is largely the intellectual legacy of neoclassical economics. This book attempts to go beyond the state-market dichotomy, arguing that development can be helped or hindered by both the state and markets. It further argues that co-operation between the two factors is best.

Author : A. Kuyvenhoven,H. A. J. Moll,A. van Tilburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:66868230

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Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization by A. Kuyvenhoven,H. A. J. Moll,A. van Tilburg Pdf

Author : Jean-Pierre Chauffour,Jean-Christophe Maur
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821386439

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Preferential Trade Agreement Policies for Development by Jean-Pierre Chauffour,Jean-Christophe Maur Pdf

The Handbook offers an introduction to the key elements of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), addressing the practical economic and legal aspects of the regulatory policies in PTAs.

Author : Don Zillman,Catherine Redgwell,Yinka Omorogbe,Lila K. Barrera-Hernández
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191559761

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Beyond the Carbon Economy by Don Zillman,Catherine Redgwell,Yinka Omorogbe,Lila K. Barrera-Hernández Pdf

The present energy economy, with its heavy dependence on fossil fuels, is not sustainable over the medium to long term for many interconnected reasons. Climate change is now recognized as posing a serious threat. Energy and resource decisions involving the carbon fuels therefore play a large role in this threat. Fossil fuel reserves may also be running short and many of the major reserves are in politically unstable parts of the world. Yet citizens in nations with rapidly developing economies aspire to the benefits of the modern energy economy. China and India alone have 2.4 billion potential customers for cars, industries, and electrical services. Even so, more than half of the world's citizens still lack access to energy. Decisions involving fossil fuels are therefore a significant part of the development equation. This volume explains how the law can impede or advance the shift to a world energy picture significantly different from that which exists today. It first examines the factors that create the problems of the present carbon economy, including environmental concerns and development goals. It then provides international and regional legal perspectives, examining public international law, regional legal structures, the responses of international legal bodies, and the role of major international nongovernmental actors. The book then moves on to explore sectoral perspectives including the variety of renewable energy sources, new carbon fuels, nuclear power, demand controls, and energy efficiency. Finally, the authors examine how particular States are, could, or should, be adapting legally to the challenges of moving beyond the carbon economy.