[PDF] The Politics Of Economic Adjustment eBook

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691188033

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In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort. Building on the case studies in Economic Crisis and Policy Choice, these essays offer comparative analysis of these divergent experiences with macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment. Barbara Stallings and Miles Kahler explore the external pressures on governments. Peter Evans and John Waterbury examine the role of the state in the adjustment process, Evans through the lens of earlier historical experience with economic restructuring, Waterbury by focusing on the politics of privatization. Joan Nelson analyzes the politics of income distribution in the adjustment process, and Haggard and Kaufman investigate the political correlates of inflation and stabilization. A final essay assesses the prospects for combining market-oriented reforms with political democratization.

Author : Joan M. Nelson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412823852

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"Economic reform by Third World governments is usually portrayed as the product of outside pressure, especially from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. This welcome collection provides an important counter-perspective by putting domestic politics at center stage. Miles Kahler demonstrates that international institutions only rarely play an important role."--Orbis' "Joan Nelson and her collaborators have performed a valuable service for those concerned about the politics of reform by bringing together a series of informed and insightful essays that address clearly and concisely the difficult political dilemmas of economic adjustment."--Merilee S. Grindle,Economic Development and Cultural Change

Author : Richard E. Foglesong
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1989-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This study considers both the determinants of a government's choice between adjustment strategies for the transformation of mature industrial economies and how that choice affects the nature of liberal democracy.

Author : Lewis W. Snider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,43 MB
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429722419

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This book addresses the question of how political capacity of the government of a developing country affects its ability to implement structural adjustments in its economy in response to external pressures. It builds on the inductive foundation of comparative case studies and speculative insights.

Author : M. J. Trebilcock
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Research report, comparison of industrial policy approaches to specific industry restructuring and adjustment assistance in Australia, France, Germany, Federal Republic, Japan, UK and USA, reviewing implications for Canada - examines employment policies, training policies, trade policies, regional development, role of trade unions and employers organizations, concentrating on the textile industry shipbuilding, coal mining, motor vehicle industry, etc. References, statistical tables.

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691003948

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This is a collection of essays offering comparative analysis of the divergent experiences of developing countries responding to economic crises by adopting macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment policies.

Author : Martin Beck
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526149087

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The downhill slide in the global price of crude oil, which started mid-2014, had major repercussions across the Middle East for net oil exporters, as well as importers closely connected to the oil-producing countries from the Gulf. Following the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, the oil price decline represented a second major shock for the region in the early twenty-first century – one that has continued to impose constraints, but also provided opportunities. Offering the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle Eastern political economy in response to the 2014 oil price decline, this book connects oil market dynamics with an understanding of socio-political changes. Inspired by rentierism, the contributors present original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The studies reveal a large diversity of country-specific policy adjustment strategies: from the migrant workers in the Arab Gulf, who lost out in the post-2014 period but were incapable of repelling burdensome adjustment policies, to Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, who have never been able to fulfil the expectation that they could benefit from the 2014 oil price decline. With timely contributions on the COVID-19-induced oil price crash in 2020, this collection signifies that rentierism still prevails with regard to both empirical dynamics in the Middle East and academic discussions on its political economy.

Author : Tony Heron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136293256

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Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book tackles arguably the most perennial and deep-rooted of all questions in political economy, and questions the incumbent orthodox liberal theories of collective action. Using a historical institutionalist framework to explore and explain the political economy of trade protectionism and liberalization, this book is based on detailed case studies of the textiles and clothing sector in the EU, United States, China, Caribbean Basin and sub-Saharan Africa. From this, the book expands to discuss the origins of trade protectionism and examine the wider political effects of liberalization, offering an explanation of why a successful conclusion to the WTO ‘Doha’ round has proven to be so elusive. The book argues that the regulation of global trade - and the economic consequences that this has for both developed and developing countries - has been the result of the particular way in which trade preferences are mediated through political institutions. The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization will be of interest to those studying and researching international and comparative political economy, developing area studies, economics, law and geography.