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This book offers a comprehensive guide to the on-going Greek debt crisis. It identifies and explains Greece’s idiosyncratic weaknesses, and highlights the existing rigidities in the EU architecture that make the recovery prospects of the Greek economy challenging. Chapters from expert...
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Provides a comprehensive analysis of why reforms in Latin America have failed in achieving growth and equity. The book focuses on three strategic areas of reforms of the Washington Consensus: Macroeconomics, Trade and Finance
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The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine analyses the reasons for the abysmal economic performance of Ukraine during the 1990s. The main thesis is that economic development was blocked by a set of parasitic mechanisms at all levels of the economy that prevented the development of value-added...
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in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their transition and EU integration years, from 1990 …: Kosovo: Can Decentralisation Resolve Ethnic Conflict? -- Part IV: Albania: Struggling with the Legacy of Extreme … Centralisation -- Chapter 9: Albania: Aligning Territorial and Fiscal Decentralisation -- Part V: Conclusions -- Chapter 10 …
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society and ICT sector found in Albania. It measures the information society being created, and compares it to other countries …
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Transition economies, such as the countries in Southeast Europe, face an expeditious institutional transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. The state withdraws from its monitoring function, which results in institutional voids that affect the economy in general and small and...
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This book analyses Jamaica’s ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies. Jamaica is one of the top five indebted nations in the world, and despite entering 13 successive...
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Introduction and Overview -- Part One–International Trade Theory -- The Origins of Trade Theory -- The Ricardian Trade Model.- Factor Intensity -- Stripping Away Ricardo’s Assumptions -- Trade Barriers and Protectionism -- Part Two–Global Macroeconomics -- Global Macroeconomics -- Exchange...
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This book extends Thirlwall's model and adapts its implications to the current problems facing developed and emerging economies. In this context, this book combines theoretical models and empirical applications, unveiling new results and highlighting the importance of the balance of payments as...
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Chapter 1. Almas Heshmati, “Introduction to Economic Growth and Development in Ethiopia and summary of the contributions” -- Chapter 2. Tsegaye Mulugeta, “Impacts of Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption on Rural Poverty: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia” -- Chapter 3. Tsegaye Mulugeta,...
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