Microcrédito en países desarrollados

problemas, retos y propuestas

Los microcréditos son préstamos de pequeña cuantía para personas que no pueden optar a un préstamo bancario convencional. Su situación socioeconómica, las características del préstamo que necesitan, la imposibilidad de aportar garantías o de cumplir con los requerimientos administrativos que exigen las entidades financieras les ...

Ayuda, mercado y buen gobierno

los lenguajes del desarrollo en África en el cambio de milenio

El desarrollo ha conformado, desde su aparición en las portrimerías de la época colonial, un lenguaje y un ámbito de intensos debates sobre el bien común y los procesos sociales deseables para conseuirlo. El continente africano, donde la pobreza, la opresión y los conflictos son ...

El mediterráneo en la Unión Europea ampliada

INDICE: Descubrir el mediterráneo. Nuevo valor estratégico del mediterráneo en la Unión Europea ampliada. La custión chipriota. Diversidad religiosa ¿ choque cultural?. Solidaridad grupal e individualismo universal: un conflicto entre culturas. Mitos, leyes de extranjería y migraciones internacionales en el mediterráneo. Las relaciones de la UE ...

Fair trade for all

how trade can promote development

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They ...

The aid effect

giving and governing in international development

Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean for the local and international dimensions of aid relationships? Giving Aid demonstrates the fruitfulness of an ethnographic approach to aid, policy reform and global governance. The ...

Global politics of regionalism

theory and practice

Examines 'regionalism' - countries working together in small trade groups, instead of the 'free' market of globalisation Shows that regionalism is growing, as a result of the pressures of globalisation Multidisciplinary - ideal for students in economics, globalisation, geography and international studies Explores issues including security, money ...

The poverty of the State

reconsidering the role of the State in the struggle against global poverty

The specter of poverty has had an enduring within the history of humankind. However, in these times the eradication of extreme poverty may be feasible. The resources to do so in a reasonable period of the time are available. The desire and willingness of international ...

European migration

what do we know?

First, it studies migration streams since World War II, and reviews major migration policy regimes. Second, it summarizes the empirical evidence measuring wages, unemployment, and occupational choices. Third, it investigates how migrants affects the labour markets of their host countries, and evaluates econometric studies into ...

Monetary Union

the European Union as a neo-liberal construction

This volume presents a radical reinterpretation of the European Community or Union as a neo-liberal construction. It was neo- liberal rather than classically liberal because it was designed and used as an external instrument to weaken the interventionist welfare state that protected working people and ...

EU enlargement and the environment

institutional change and environmental policy in Central and Eastern Europe

This volume focuses attention on key environmental and institutional changes associated with eastern expansion of the European Union, assessing and challenging prevailing views about the outcomes and processes of this historic development. Looking at four central themes - capacity changes and limitations, the EU's mixed ...

The principles of mutual recognition in the european integration process

Mutual Recognition (MR) implies that each Member State is free to use the standards for production it prefers but cannot inhibit the import from other Member States lawfully using other standards, unless justified by emergency reasons. The home country rule then prevails on the host ...

The European Union and the regulation of media market

National broadcasting and press regulation is undergoing a process of convergence in Europe. This book explains how this process has been shaped by the actions of the European Union (EU) institutions. Alison Harcourt observes that whilst communications is one of the EU?s most successful ...

La Constitución Europea

manual de instrucciones

Por primera vez en España, aparece un libro que explica el contenido de la Constitución Europea "para todos los públicos".Este Manual aspira a acercarla a los lectores de una manera sencilla,clara y concisa. Una Constitución es un texto vivo que debe permitir a ...

Mi Europa

dos ensayos sobre la llamada Europa Central

Estos dos ensayos, escritos cada uno por un destacado y singular joven escritor «periférico» (Andrujovich es ucraniano y Stasiuk, polaco) son expresión del anhelo de equilibrio de fuerzas entre un Oeste, promesa de dudoso bienestar, y un Este resignado por un pasado que ha abierto ...

El comercio de productos agrícolas entre la Unión Europea y Marruecos

régimen jurídico

Esta obra tiene como marco general las relaciones exteriores de la Unión Europa, campo minado de problemas jurídicos y por tanto, muy adecuado para realizar sobre él investigaciones desde el mundo del Derecho. La autora ha realizado un solvente análisis del régimen jurídico del comercio ...

La constitución destituyente de Europa

razones para otro debate constitucional

Invasiones, alianzas y revoluciones han ido forjando una peculiar forma de convivencia en Europa. El espanto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, unido a los avances sociales, alumbra un proyecto de cooperación entre Estados que ya supera el medio siglo. Los primeros pasos fraguan en el ...

La relaciones de la UE con sus vecinos mediterráneos

entre la frustración y la esperanza

El Mediterráneo muestra una preocupante imagen de inestabilidad y escaso desarrollo, con brechas crecientes entre ambas orillas. A los factores estructurales ya conocidos, con el conflicto árabe-israelí a la cabeza, se unen la inseguridad generada por la ilegal campaña militar contra Iraq y la amenaza ...

International monetary policy after the Euro

This fascinating book, a dialogue by leading economists, offers an extensive review of the impact of the introduction of the Euro on the international monetary system. The authors dissect the impact of the euro on living standards in developed and developing countries, the growth of ...

Public expenditure control in Europe

coordinating audit functions in the European Union

Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not invest in best-practice ...

CE marking, product standards and World Trade

CE Marking, the European system of mandatory product safety standards, has created major obstacles for US exporters to the European Union (EU). CE Marking, Product Standards and World Trade is one of the first books to analyze the nature and dynamics of this major non-tariff ...