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Globalization includes complex processes, easy to identify but difficult to explain. Why, for instance, are globalizing processes so unevenly distributed between poor and wealthy countries? What effect does this uneven distribution have on the everyday lives of ordinary people? The contributors to this volume find answers to these questions in the Mediterranean, a region divided between the people of the north shore, who are engaged with Europe and modernized, and their poorer neighbours to the south, who struggle daily to atain the same standards of living and modes of governance as their more Westernized neighbours. In these two regions’ divergent histories, economies, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, education systems, and political structures lead to explanations not only for uneven globalization but also for the wave of demonstrations for political and cultural autonomy that sparked the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Near East.
Financing Africa takes stock of Africa's financial systems in light of recent changes in the global financial system --including the greater risk aversion of international investors, a shift in economic and financial powers towards emerging markets and the regulatory reform debate - and the increasing role of technology. Using a wider and more detailed array of data than previous publications, we observe a trend towards financial deepening, more stability and more inclusion leading up to the crisis; serious challenges, however, continue, including limited access to financial services, focus on short-term contracts and hidden fragility, related to weak regulatory frameworks, undue government ...
This book aims to be the key introductory volume for understanding the regional IOs of the Middle East. It assesses the reasons why IOs in the Middle East are so ill developed, explores their history, evolution and the successes and failures of each IO. It also analyses the reasons for the specific difficulties faced by each organisation through the context of intra-regional relations, before examining the impact of external factors such as: globalisation, moves towards global governance which have impacts in the Middle East and external influences from the great powers. Finally, it explores the likely impact of the Arab Spring upon the prospects for the further development of these regional International Organisations
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Les privatisations à l'Est, depuis 1990, sont à la fois originales par le contexte dans lequel elles s'insèrent (l'abandon de l'économie planifiée), complexes par les méthodes retenues, singulières par les résistantes nombreuses auxquelles elles se sont heurtées. Après avoir défini le concept de privatisation, l'auteur resitue ce concept dans le cadre des théories de la propriété, de l'agence et du gouvernement d'entreprise. Il expose les différentes méthodes de privatisation à l'Est, en soulignant celles qui ont été privilégiées dans chacun des pays de l'Est. L'auteur dresse un bilan de ces privatisations. Il propose d'expliquer les résultats mitigés de ce processus comme une conséquence du comportement de certains acteurs publics (politiques, bureaucrates, managers des entreprises publiques) hostiles à toute perte de leurs prérogatives institutionnelles sur les entreprises publiques.
It is increasingly important to understand the complexity of central and southeastern Europe following the enlargement of NATO into Central Europe, the ongoing problems of the Balkans, and the subsequent focus of global attention on the entire region. Gardner brings together exceptional French and Eastern European scholars who present first-hand accounts of their experience and knowledge of the region. Each provides differing political, social, cultural, and economic perspectives on Central and Southeastern Europe. The volume begins with a general discussion of the place of central and southeastern Europe in the greater scheme of European history. This is followed by an examination of the we...
Als 1989 die Mauer fiel und der Ostblock auseinanderbrach, verschoben sich die Koordinaten der Weltpolitik. Am spürbarsten waren die Folgen jedoch für Europa. Andreas Wirsching zieht erste zeithistorische Linien in die Geschichte unserer Gegenwart und liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Verständnis der aktuellen Entwicklungen. In den letzten zwanzig Jahren erlebte Europa einen gewaltigen Zuwachs an Freiheit, politisch, gesellschaftlich und im Bereich der Wirtschaft. In gewisser Weise wird in der gegenwärtigen Krise die Rechnung für diese Entwicklung präsentiert. Die demokratische Transformation der Ostblockstaaten hat ebenso ihren Preis wie die Einführung des Euro, die eine nicht geka...
Daniel Labaronne, maître de conférences en sciences économiques à l'université de Bordeaux IV, enseigne l'économie générale - en première et deuxième années - dans le département gestion des entreprises et des administrations de l'IUT de Bordeaux. Professeur associé en économie internationale, dans le département économie et finances internationales. Groupe école supérieure de commerce de Bordeaux. Chargé de conférences à l'Académie d'études économiques de Bucarest.