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    Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
    UID:
    b3kat_BV044213895
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 212 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: 1st edition
    ISBN: 9781137274557
    Series Statement: International political economy
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-137-27454-0
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-349-44575-2
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
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    Keywords: Weltbank ; Internationaler Währungsfonds
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  • 2
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265994
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (68 p)
    Content: This paper investigates the interaction between corruption and governance at the sector level. A simple model illustrates how both an increase in regulatory autonomy and privatization may influence the effect of corruption. The interaction is analyzed empirically using a fixed-effects estimator on a panel of 153 electricity distribution firms across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1995-2007. Greater corruption is associated with lower firm labor productivity, but this association is reduced when an independent regulatory agency is present. These results survive a range of robustness checks, including instrumenting for regulatory governance, controlling for a large range of observables, and using several different corruption measures. The association between corruption and productivity also appears weaker for privately owned firms compared to publicly owned firms, though this result is somewhat less robust
    Additional Edition: Wren-Lewis, Liam Do Infrastructure Reforms Reduce the Effect of Corruption?
    Language: English
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  • 3
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048269839
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (27 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Those at risk from natural disasters are typically under-protected, possibly because they expect benefactors such as governments and donors to come to their aid. Yet when relief comes, it is often insufficient, delayed or misallocated. Benefactors may wish to commit to provide an efficient amount of fast well-targeted relief, and leave the rest up to recipients, but such commitments are difficult. This article analyses how transferring risk to third-parties such as private insurers may help resolve these commitment problems. Using a simple model of disaster risk finance is used to identify three distinct commitment problems and then show how various properties of risk transfer schemes can help to resolve these problems. The paper illustrates how these commitment problems play out using examples from around the world, and demonstrates where risk transfer schemes seem to have helped in practice. Overall, the findings show that the benefits of such schemes depend on the relative severity of the different commitment problems
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Clarke, Daniel J Solving Commitment Problems in Disaster Risk Finance Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2016
    Language: English
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  • 4
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047937692
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (38 Seiten) , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers
    Content: Summary of trends on public opinion and international development co-operation in OECD DAC member countries: i) Public support in OECD DAC member countries for helping poor countries has remained consistently high for almost two decades: there is no aid fatigue; ii) Donations from the public to development and emergency NGOs have been increasing, mostly in reaction to emergencies and natural disasters in developing countries; iii) Concern among the public about aid effectiveness exists alongside continued high support for aid; iv) The relationship between public support and ODA volumes is complex, but a positive correlation exists at the national level between satisfaction with ODA volume, and reaching or bypassing the UN target of 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income; v) People's understanding of poverty and development issues remains very shallow. Public awareness about ODA and development co-operation policies is also low; vi) Awareness does increase significantly as a result ...
    Language: English
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  • 5
    UID:
    b3kat_BV045113944
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 269 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781108552141
    Content: In this study of new atheism and religious fundamentalism, this book advances two provocative - and surprising - arguments. Liam Jerrold Fraser argues that atheism and Protestant fundamentalism in Britain and America share a common historical origin in the English Reformation, and the crisis of authority inaugurated by the Reformers. This common origin generated two presuppositions crucial for both movements: a literalist understanding of scripture, and a disruptive understanding of divine activity in nature. Through an analysis of contemporary new atheist and Protestant fundamentalist texts, Fraser shows that these presuppositions continue to structure both groups, and support a range of shared biblical, scientific, and theological beliefs. Their common historical and intellectual structure ensures that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism - while on the surface irreconcilably opposed - share a secret sympathy with one another, yet one which leaves them unstable, inconsistent, and unsustainable
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-108-42798-2
    Language: English
    Subjects: History , Theology
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    Keywords: Großbritannien ; USA ; Atheismus ; Fundamentalismus ; Reformation
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  • 6
    UID:
    gbv_1020661941
    Format: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (320 pages)) , illustrations, graphs
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    ISBN: 9781780329932 , 9781780329949
    Content: A renewed call for radical change and systemic transformation in the face of an emerging, new form of capitalist imperialism.
    Content: Intro -- About the editors -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Imperialism in historical and theoretical perspective -- The new extractivism in Latin America -- 1 A new model or extractive imperialism? -- A system in crisis -- The politics and economics of natural resource development -- Foreign investment in Latin America: natural resource development or imperialist plunder? -- Table 1.1 Long-term north-south financial flows, 1985-2001 -- Table 1.2 Average annual flows of inward FDI by sector and region, in developed and developing countries, 1990 and 2009 -- From neoliberalism to post-neoliberalism -- The new political economy of natural resource development -- The resistance to extractive capitalism and the dynamics of class struggle -- Conclusion -- 2 Argentina: Extractivist dynamics of soy production and open-pit mining -- The soy model -- 2.1a Grain production in Argentina, 1969-2012 -- 2.1b Land dedicated to grain production in Argentina, 1969-2012 -- 2.2 Land under cultivation in Argentina, 1990-2009 -- Open-pit mining in Argentina -- 2.3 Mining companies in Argentina by country of origin -- 2.4 Stage of activity of the mining companies in Argentina -- Resistance to extractivism -- Conclusion -- 3 Bolivia: Between voluntarist developmentalism and pragmatic extractivism -- The political economy of natural resource extraction in Bolivia -- Table 3.1 Exports of primary products -- Public sector investment in natural resource development -- MAS and the predominance of foreign capital in the extractive sector -- Table 3.2 Mining projects and their relation to the state -- Between pragmatic extractivism and developmental voluntarism -- Table 3.3 Budgetary expenditures on public investments, 2012 -- Extractivism: a development strategy for living well (para vivir bien)?.
    Content: Table 3.4 Annual growth rates of GDP -- Bolivian nationalization: a model of progressive extractivism? -- Labor, conflict and class struggle in the new Bolivia -- Conclusion -- 4 Colombia: The mining boom: a catalyst of development or resistance? -- The 'new' imperialism and class struggle in the center and periphery -- Paving the way for extractive capital -- Extractives at war: from 2002 to 2010 -- Extractives at peace? From 2010 to 2014 -- The driving force of resistance to extractive capital -- 4.1 Participation of various actors in social struggles relating to the extraction of oil, coal and gold, 2001-11 -- Conclusion -- 5 Ecuador: Extractivist dynamics, politics and discourse -- Table 5.1 Public investment in the social sector, 2001-11 -- The fallacies of extractivism: extractive rents and social spending -- 5.1 Distribution of oil rents, 2007-12 -- Table 5.2 Total fiscal revenues, 2000-12 -- Table 5.3 Total educational expenditure by type, 2010 -- Extractivism and middle-class income -- Table 5.4 Imports of total oil products, costs, revenues and subsidies, 2006-11 -- The middle class in Ecuador: beneficiary of and accomplice in extractivism -- The fallacy of public investment and extractive rent: IIRSA and territorial privatization -- The equity fallacy: conditional cash transfers and extractive rent -- The expansion of the extractive frontier -- 5.2 Map of oil concessions in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 2012 -- Extractive rent from mining: so much for so little? -- Green capitalism -- The strategic discourse on extractivism -- Table 5.5 Key actors in REDD in Ecuador -- 6 Mexico: The political ecology of mining -- Contextualizing mining in Mexico -- Neoliberal reforms in Mexico's mining sector -- Panorama of resistance -- Theoretical implications and final reflections -- 7 Peru: Mining capital and social resistance
    Content: Overview: mining capital in Peru -- The commodities boom and its significance for Peru: some data -- Table 7.1 Peruvian export structure, 2000-12 -- Table 7.2 Basic social expenditure, 2002-11 -- The social and ecological impact of mining in Peru: the facts -- The capitalist state and imperialism in Peru -- Profits and corporate social responsibility -- Peruvian governmental policies and mining capital -- Ollanta Humala: neoliberalism with state intervention -- Table 7.3 Contribution of the mining sector to total income tax revenue, 2005-12 -- Table 7.4 Peruvian poverty rates by department, 2004-10 -- The limits of the struggle for survival -- Conclusion -- 8 Theses on extractive imperialism and the post-neoliberal state -- Extractivism: a defining feature of the post-neoliberal state in the current context -- From classical extractivism to the new extractivism -- Contradictions of the new extractivism -- Dependence on foreign investment in a policy of resource extraction is a development trap -- The fallacious belief that extractive rents can finance and sustain a process of inclusive development (progressive extractivism) -- The costs of extractive capitalism exceed any actual and potential benefits -- Class analysis versus neoclassical cost-benefit analysis -- The resistance is united in regard to extractivism but divided on capitalism -- An alternative model: post-neoliberalism or post-capitalism? -- Conclusion -- Notes on contributors -- Notes -- Introduction -- 1 New model or extractive imperialism? -- 2 Argentina -- 3 Bolivia -- 4 Colombia -- 6 Mexico -- 7 Peru -- 8 Theses on extractive imperialism -- References -- Index -- About Zed Books
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 11, 2014) , About the editors; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; Imperialism in historical and theoretical perspective; The new extractivism in Latin America; 1 A new model or extractive imperialism?; A system in crisis; The politics and economics of natural resource development; Foreign investment in Latin America: natural resource development or imperialist plunder?; Table 1.1 Long-term north-south financial flows, 1985-2001; Table 1.2 Average annual flows of inward FDI by sector and region, in developed and developing countries, 1990 and 2009 , From neoliberalism to post-neoliberalismThe new political economy of natural resource development; The resistance to extractive capitalism and the dynamics of class struggle; Conclusion; 2 Argentina: Extractivist dynamics of soy production and open-pit mining; The soy model; 2.1a Grain production in Argentina, 1969-2012; 2.1b Land dedicated to grain production in Argentina, 1969-2012; 2.2 Land under cultivation in Argentina, 1990-2009; Open-pit mining in Argentina; 2.3 Mining companies in Argentina by country of origin; 2.4 Stage of activity of the mining companies in Argentina , Resistance to extractivismConclusion; 3 Bolivia: Between voluntarist developmentalism and pragmatic extractivism; The political economy of natural resource extraction in Bolivia; Table 3.1 Exports of primary products; Public sector investment in natural resource development; MAS and the predominance of foreign capital in the extractive sector; Table 3.2 Mining projects and their relation to the state; Between pragmatic extractivism and developmental voluntarism; Table 3.3 Budgetary expenditures on public investments, 2012 , Extractivism: a development strategy for living well (para vivir bien)?Table 3.4 Annual growth rates of GDP; Bolivian nationalization: a model of progressive extractivism?; Labor, conflict and class struggle in the new Bolivia; Conclusion; 4 Colombia: The mining boom: a catalyst of development or resistance?; The 'new' imperialism and class struggle in the center and periphery; Paving the way for extractive capital; Extractives at war: from 2002 to 2010; Extractives at peace? From 2010 to 2014; The driving force of resistance to extractive capital , 4.1 Participation of various actors in social struggles relating to the extraction of oil, coal and gold, 2001-11Conclusion; 5 Ecuador: Extractivist dynamics, politics and discourse; Table 5.1 Public investment in the social sector, 2001-11; The fallacies of extractivism: extractive rents and social spending; 5.1 Distribution of oil rents, 2007-12; Table 5.2 Total fiscal revenues, 2000-12; Table 5.3 Total educational expenditure by type, 2010; Extractivism and middle-class income; Table 5.4 Imports of total oil products, costs, revenues and subsidies, 2006-11 , The middle class in Ecuador: beneficiary of and accomplice in extractivism
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781780329925
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781780329925
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Electronic books
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    Author information: Petras, James F. 1937-
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