US Power in International Finance
US Power in International Finance

Author: L. Seabrooke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-04-17

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0230513360

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Leonard Seabrooke argues that they key to understanding 'change' in international finance in the last forty years rests with US structural power. He demonstrates for the reader how structural power draws from embedded state-societal relations and how the US promotion of 'direct financing' has encouraged Britain, Japan, and Germany to 'catch-up' to US-led innovations. In drawing considerably on multidisciplinary insight, the book will benefit all those who wish to understand more about 'change' in the international political economy.

Brazil
Brazil

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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This paper describes major economic developments in Brazil in 1997. A number of issues were analyzed in the paper, including the slow progress being made in the negotiation of the fiscal adjustment programs with the states, the sustainability of the growing current account deficit, as well as the strength of the banking system following macroeconomic stabilization. The paper discusses the post-Real crisis in the states and the state adjustment programs being negotiated with the federal government. Privatization and the associated foreign direct investment flows are also described.

Global Change
Global Change

Author: T. Inoguchi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-04-17

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 0333985559

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This book examines global change from a dialectical perspective. Looking at global change in terms of unipolarisation in international security, globalisation in the world economy, and democratisation in global governance, the volume provides a refreshingly Japanese angle on addressing complex interplays between the social forces underlying these themes. The book is indispensable reading for undergraduate and graduate students or IR theory, international security, international political economy, and global governance, as well as American and Japanese foreign policy.

Providing Food Security for All
Providing Food Security for All

Author: Mohiuddin Alamgir

Publisher: Intermediate Technology Publications

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9781853391170

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This book is by Mohiuddin Alamgir and Poonam Arora with an introduction by Idriss Jazairy. This book from IFAD is an in-depth user-friendly study of global food security, focused at the household level, which includes dozens of revealing figures, charts and tables. This introduction to global food security issues provides an analysis of production and supply systems, factors contributing to domestic production growth and variability, the relationship between the macro-economic environment and food security, and options for the future. The authors illustrate how a micro-economic grassroots approach, rooted in the self-help capabilities of the poor, is not only feasible, but is in fact a productive means of enhancing food security. The text contains charts and tables and a food security index that ranks developing countries in terms of their vulnerability to hunger.

Food Aid and Human Security
Food Aid and Human Security

Author: Edward Clay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1136334556

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Food aid is historically a major element of development aid to support longer-term development, and the primary response to help countries and peoples in crisis. This examination of food aid focuses in particular on institutional questions.

Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South
Globalization and the Dilemmas of the State in the South

Author: F. Adams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-06-23

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0230372600

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Globalization poses a formidable dilemma for the third-world state. While there are compelling external pressures to liberalize domestic economies, market-oriented reforms threaten the economic well-being of various societal groups. Popular resistance to these reforms has been strong throughout the developing world. This volume examines the political strategies employed by third world governments to maintain programs in the face of domestic opposition.

Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization
Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalization

Author: Peter Waterman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1349270636

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This is an edited collection of items on unionism worldwide, recognising the crisis that an informatised and globalised capitalism implies for work, workers and the trade-union movement. It considers radical alternatives for labour organisation and action in the 21st century. The book includes contributions by informed academics and unionists and proposes alternative union policies or models in relation to the working class(es), to women, democracy, ecology, internationalism.