This paper evaluates transformative policy innovations with respect to security and taxation in the three main Colombian cities: Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali. In the first two, such policies were associated with huge success. Elsewhere we (Gutiérrez et al. 2009) have tagged these transformation...

Reflection about the role of corporate social investment in Brazil, associated with the presence of a large economic enterprise, is the major stimulus of this paper. It seeks to present how cross-sector governance can contribute to the social development of a city and how this process can be led...

This paper examines the institutional arrangements that organize the arenas of formulation and implementation of development policies in Brazil, asking if such policies are setting up more democratic decision-making processes with the inclusion of a larger number of actors and at the same time...

This essay inquires into the characteristics and historical possibilities of a Developmental State built on democracy, in opposition to the East Asian Developmental State historical model. After a brief introduction, this model and the capitalism development the underdeveloped peoples crave are...

Asian emerging economies are faced with reconciling the requirements of economic reform, meaning the long-term structural transformation of their economies, with effective political governance. They are embarking on essential economic change as growth prospects of the world economy are clouded...

This article argues that New York municipalities should integrate land banks into the tax enforcement process to break the unhealthy cycle perpetuated by real estate and lien speculators. By transferring all tax liens and foreclosed properties to local land banks, municipalities can generate an...

Sovereign nations grow faster than non-sovereign ones. When Pakistan ceded economic management to the IMF in the late 1980s, the turn to neo-liberalism led to 14 years of decline in long-run rate of investment and growth from which it hasn't recovered. This cost the economy an estimated $75.6...

Serbian abstract: U radu se razmatraju međusobni odnosi globalizacije i makroekonomskog planiranja. Ukazuje se na vezu globalizacije i neoliberalizma, kao njene teorijske osnove, koja je našla izraza u Vašingtonskom konsenzusu pripremljenom krajem 1980-ih. Dok je u periodu 1960–1980...

This paper presents a brief account of the Hungarian renationalization and recentralization process under the 2nd and 3nd government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (2010–2018). Under his autocratic rule, Hungary, the former leading reform country in Central and Eastern Europe has made a sharp...

Serbian Abstract: U radu se razmatraju problemi ekonomskog (i nacionalnog) suvereniteta u uslovima globalizacije, u kojima značaj državnih granica postaje sve manji. Pošto su međunarodne finansijske institucije preuzele neoliberalnu doktrinu, one su postale i glavni promoteri globalizacije...