Die Studie über die sozialen Auswirkungen von Wirtschaftskrisen und Strukturanpassungspolitik in Argentinien, Bolivien, Chile, Peru und Uruguay hat gezeigt, daß undifferenzierte staatliche Abgabenkürzungen unter den gegenwärtigen Rahmenbedingungen in den sozialen Sektoren die Probleme noch...

Emerging countries in many cases are more crisis-prone than highly developed industrialized countries. This is in many cases due to a weak or volatile financial sector. The best policy to strengthen crisis resistance is the building up of a sound financial position. A sound financial position of...

Now, at the end of the 20th century, many OECD countries face serious problems in achieving both prosperity and social cohesion. One important - and sadly neglected - source of these problems are the very policy systems that are meant to address them. I will argue that these policy systems -...