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Miracle, Crisis and Beyond : A Synthesis of Policy Coherence Towards East Asia
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ISBN: 9264014683 9786610606689 1280606681 9264035427 9789264014688 Year: 2006 Publisher: Paris : OECD Publishing,

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What factors govern growth and sustainability? The remarkable recent development of several East Asian countries had brought this question to the fore. While other books have examined the impact of domestic policies and their interaction, this volume looks at the impact of OECD country policies on the region in a variety of areas: trade, investment, environment, agriculture, finance and aid, as well as macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. Further, and most importantly, the book examines the coherence lessons of these OECD-country policies in the light of future challenges in East Asia and other developing regions. This publication is the synthesis and first chapter of Policy Coherence Towards East Asia: Development Challenges for OECD Countries, OECD (2005).

Globalization and the Environment
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ISBN: 900415132X 9786611399238 128139923X 9047409612 9789047409618 9781281399236 9789004151321 6611399232 Year: 2006 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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What is missing in the mounting literature on globalization is a focused theoretical foundation with parallel empirical examinations of global structures and their environmental consequences. The articles in this volume examine how the world-economy and related non-economic forms of global structuring impact the natural environment and the living conditions of human populations living across the globe. Environmental dynamics in areas as diverse as Ancient Egypt and the Modern Amazon are presented for readers who are new to the world-systems approach and for others interested in recent efforts to link environmental outcomes and antecedents to global processes.

Mediating globalization : domestic institutions and industrial policies in the United States and Britain
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ISBN: 0791464415 0791483304 1423744136 9781423744139 9780791464410 9780791483305 Year: 2006 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Has globalization fundamentally altered international relations, producing a race to the bottom in which states compete for economic growth and development by adopting similar liberal economic strategies? Mediating Globalization challenges this increasingly dominant perspective, demonstrating that national governments often respond to global competitive pressures with more, not less, economic intervention. Using interviews, archival research, and secondary sources, Andrew P. Cortell explores the strategies adopted by the United States and Britain with regard to one of the world's most globalized sectors, the semiconductor industry. From the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, he argues, increasing globalization pressures in each country led them to more actively intervene in the evolution of their semiconductor markets, rather than assume a more marginal role. The empirical evidence, moreover, indicates that the two countries adopted similar responses, whether liberal or interventionist, as a consequence of similar domestic institutional incentives rather than constraints identified to emerge from globalization.

Globalisation : a systematic Marxian account
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ISBN: 9004147276 9786611396824 1281396826 9047408411 9789047408413 9789004147270 9781281396822 6611396829 Year: 2006 Publisher: Boston : Brill,

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Part One of this book examines the social-state, neoliberal, catalytic-state, and democratic-cosmopolitan models of globalisation. Each necessarily tends to function in a manner contradicting essential claims made by its leading advocates. This "immanent contradiction" provides a theoretical warrant for moving to a new position, addressing the shortcomings of the previous framework. The first three chapters of Part Two are devoted to a Marxian model of capitalist globalisation, in which the irresolvable contradictions and social antagonisms of the capitalist global order are explicitly recognised. The final chapter is devoted to a Marxian model of socialist globalisation, in which those contradictions and antagonisms are overcome, bringing the systematic dialectic of globalisation to a close.

The Germany-Serbia remittance corridor : challenges of establishing a formal money transfer system
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ISBN: 0821366580 0821366599 9780821366585 9786610454556 1280454555 Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank,

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Serbia has become one of the largest remittance-recipient countries in the world. It is estimated that in 2004 Serbia received US2.4 billion dollars in remittances from Serbian workers in Germany, the United States, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and other countries. This amount represented 12 percent of Serbia's GDP. This report provides an overview of remittance flows from Germany to Serbia and analyzes why a large part of remittance transfers take place outside financial institutions. The study presents a series of recommendations on needed policy changes to facilitate the transfer of remitt

Integration in Asia and Europe : Historical Dynamics, Political Issues, and Economic Perspectives
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ISBN: 1280360682 9786610360680 3540287302 3540287299 3642066852 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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Broadening and deepening of economic and political integration are hallmarks of the EU and ASEAN. This book critically analyses the economic and institutional changes in both Europe and Asia. There is considerable potential for instability, but one also finds regional growth opportunities. Comparative policy analysis and evaluation of various cooperation strategies are presented. Emphasis is on banking, financial market dynamics, ICT, and macroeconomic policies as well as trade, energy, and environmental issues. Legal aspects are combined with historical and economic perspectives. Due emphasis also is on the impact of China and the role of international organisations. The comparative analysis of EU and ASEAN integration suggests important policy choices, including those at the multilateral level.

Venture Capitalists' Exit Strategies under Information Asymmetry : Evidence from the US Venture Capital Market
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ISBN: 3835090186 3835001264 Year: 2006 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Deutscher Universitätsverlag : Imprint: Deutscher Universitätsverlag,

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Venture capitalists (VCs) fund ventures with the aim of reaping a capital gain upon exit. Research has identified information asymmetry between inside investors and follow-on investors as a major source of friction. It is thus in the interest of VCs to reduce information asymmetry at exit. Matthias Eckermann analyzes how VCs integrate information efficiency considerations into their exit strategies. He shows that VCs adopt specific strategies to cope with information gaps upon exit in terms of timing, exit vehicles and promotion efforts. On this basis he develops a framework to help VCs to improve profitability through decisive exit strategies.

Overcoming economic vulnerability and creating employment : report of the committee for development policy on the eighth session (20-24 March 2006)
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ISBN: 9211045622 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York United Nations

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