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Politics, public policies, professionals, power and performance – the 5Ps of 'modernisation' initiatives of the Labour Government in UK
Som, C.V. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 4/5/6, pp. 320-339
This paper presents a critic of the 'modernisation' policies of the previous Labour Government with particular reference to National Health Service (NHS) and explores why the modernisation policies could not achieve its main objectives. How the present Coalition Government's policies intend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130293
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Technocracy questioned: ideology and interests in Nicaragua's economic policies
Dijkstra, Dijkstra, A.G. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730817
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Technocracy questioned: ideology and interests in Nicaragua's economic policies
DIJKSTRA, A.G. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005442260
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Technocracy questioned: ideology and interests in Nicaragua's economic policies
Dijkstra, A.G. - International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus … - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684163
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Discerning Transient from Chronic Poverty in Nicaragua: Measurement with a two period panel data set
Stampini, Marco; Davis, Benjamin - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
from two Living Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS) carried out by the World Bank in Nicaragua in 1998 and 2001 are used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755048
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Economic Puppetmasters
Lindsey, Lawrence B. - American Enterprise Institute
An insider’s perspective on the bureaucratic structure of governmental institutions that shape economic policy, and the incentives and limitations of the individuals who head them.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010992344
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Intermediate Public Economics
Hindriks, Jean; Myles, Gareth D. - The MIT Press
Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy--economic efficiency and the … distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text on public economics covers the core topics of market failure and …. The book covers the theory and methodology of public economics; presents a historical and theoretical overview of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905536
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Banking on Democracy: Financial Markets and Elections in Emerging Countries
Santiso, Javier - The MIT Press
Politics matter for financial markets and financial markets matter for politics, and nowhere is this relationship more … apparent than in emerging markets. In Banking on Democracy, Javier Santiso investigates the links between politics and finance … markets have decoupled politics and finance, in the wake of the 2008Ð2012 financial crisis many developed economies (Europe …
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Africa and the Arab Gulf: A New Economic and Political Alliance?
Nyarko, Yaw; Melitsko, Silvana - In: Journal of African Development 12 (2010) 1
Does the relationship between the Arab Gulf and Africa hold the promise of greatly enhanced and mutually beneficial trade and investment? Can increased collaboration between the two regions increase the economic and political power and influence of each? Are there lessons to be learned from the...
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Jefferson’s moral agrarianism: poetic fiction or normative vision?
Holowchak, M. - In: Agriculture and Human Values 28 (2011) 4, pp. 497-506
Scholars today are divided on the motivation behind what is often called Jefferson’s “moral agrarianism”. On the one hand, some scholars take Jefferson at his word when he mentions that agrarianism is a moral vision. For these individuals, Jefferson’s agrarianism is a moral vision and an...
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