A bond scheme for common agricultural policy reform

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is at an impasse. While it is said that existing policies are not tenable, all recent reform plans have been condemned as unacceptable. However, a #bond scheme#, as part of reform that pays more attention to society#s aspirations for ...

Unsocial Europe

social protection or flexploitation?

This book presents a critical analysis of trends in European welfare systems and labour market policies, how and why they are changing and how they affect the daily lives of those facing unemployment or precarious work. As a contribution to debates about `globalisation' and the ...

A Constitution for the European Union

The leaders of European Union member states have declared that a European constitution should take "a clear, open, effective, democratically controlled Community approach." Their goal -- that within the Union, "European institutions should be brought closer to its citizens" -- raises many questions about implementation. What is ...

El mercado interior europeo

las libertades económicas comunitarias: mercancias, personas, servicios y capitales

El mercado interior constituye el eje central del proceso de integración económica europea y uno de sus principales logros. Esta obra se centra en el análisis pormenorizado de las libertades de circulación que representan el núcleo fundamental de este gran mercado unificado. La publicación de ...

La economía española en la Unión Europea

(1986-2002)

La economía española en la Unión Europea (1986-2002) ofrece una panorámica general de la integración económica y monetaria de España en la Unión Europea,desde 1986 hasta nuestros días. La adaptación al nuevo entorno competitivo ha exigido profundas reformas en la economía española.Cada uno ...

Financial intermediation in the New Europe

banks, markets and regulation in EU accession countries

What role will the current evolution of banking systems play in the newly adopted EU countries during the historic challenges following enlargement? This book, a blend of economics and political economy, offers a systematic analysis of the current trends in financial intermediation in the countries ...

Draft treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe as approved by the Intergovernmental Conference on 18 june 2004

La república islámica de Irán

dinámicas sociopolíticas y relevo de las élites

Entender la situación de la República Islámica de Irán, cuando se cumplen veinticinco años de la revolución que le dio origen, obliga a profundizar en su vida sociopolítica para reconsiderar falsas evidencias y esclarecer algunas claves de explicación. El eje en torno al cual se ...

Continentalizing Canadian telecommunications

the politics of regulatory reform

In Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications Vanda Rideout examines active political resistance to the radical, neo-liberal transformation of Canadian telecommunications that has been orchestrated by the federal government, big business, and their powerful lobbyists over the last two decades. Rideout focuses on the protection of the public ...

Japan's financial crisis

institutional rigidity and reluctant change

At the beginning of the 1990s, a massive speculative asset bubble burst in Japan, leaving the nation's banks with an enormous burden of nonperforming loans. Banking crises have become increasingly common across the globe, but what was distinctive about the Japanese case was the ...

Territorial politics and health policy

UK health policy in comparative perspective

CONTENTS: 1. Laboratories of democracy? 2. Medical politics and the politics of medicine 3. Scotland: professionalism 4. England: markets 5. Wales: localism 6. Northern Ireland: permissive managerialism 7. Creating divergent policy in the UK 8. Conclusion: international debates, local conclusions

Ermpresa y negocios en Asia Oriental

estrategias y acciones

Asia oriental es en la actualidad uno de los principales focos de crecimiento económico a nivel mundial, debido al tremendo dinamismo de países como China y la recuperación económica del Japón y Corea. Sin embargo, las diferencias en el sistema legal, modelo empresarial o la ...

Myths about doing business in China

China is rapidly becoming an economic superpower, yet has a very different business culture that is often misunderstood outside of China. This can result in costly financial and strategic errors. This book confronts the myths about China and Chinese business practice and gives the reader ...

Harvard business review on doing business in China

All eyes are on China. Home to a quarter of the world's population, China's rapid growth, expanding openness, and developing consumer market have made the region a hotbed of opportunity--and risk--for today's multinationals. Harvard Business Review on Doing Business in China offers ...

Crossing cultures

insights from master teachers

Crossing Cultures provides a bold and refreshing new resource for teachers and trainers with proven methods for developing coping strategies and problem-solving skills in the cross-cultural arena. A comprehensive study structured to provide a framework for teaching; each chapter contains a teaching module, highlighting the ...

Capitalismo (financiero) global y guerra permanente

el dólar, Wall Street y la guerra contra Irak

International Economic Law

This treatise presents a comprehensive exploration of the legal foundations of the international economy. Covering all aspects of international economic law, such as the GATT/WTO, the International Monetary System, transnational investment, and economic sanctions, this book will be of interest to international lawyers and ...

World Bank literature

Social construction and the logic of money

financial predominance and international economic leadership

While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally ...

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