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"It will be of particular interest to researchers and policy makers working in the fields of competitiveness and growth in the context of economic and monetary integration as well as to academics of European studies in general."--BOOK JACKET.
Azerbaijan experienced a golden age in the last decade, during which the average growth rate reached record high levels and poverty decreased significantly. This report takes an inclusive growth approach to investigating the ways in which the country s high growth was translated into significant poverty reduction.
"The Berlin Workshop Series 2009 presents selected papers from meetings held from September 30 - October 2, 2007, at the 10th Annual Forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank's World Development Report. At the 2007 meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries met to identify and brainstorm on agriculture the development challenges and successes that are later examined in-depth in the World Development Report 2009. This volume presents papers from the Berlin Workshop sessions on issues relating to Understanding spatial trends: perspectives and models; new economic geography and the dynamics of technological change-implications for LDCs; perspectives: rural-urban transformation: leading, lagging and interlinking places; spatial disparity and labor mobility; country realities and policy options; learning from Europe's efforts at integration and convergence and spatial policy for growth and equity.
Having stagnated for decades in the shadow of the UK, the Irish economy's performance improved after it joined the European Union (EEC) in 1973. This Element shows how the challenge of EU membership gave focus and direction to Irish economic policy. No longer dependent on low value-added agricultural exports to Britain, within the EU Ireland became a hub for multinational corporations in IT and pharmaceutical products. This export success required and facilitated a strengthening of education and social policy infrastructures, and underpinned the achievement of high average living standards. EU membership has also brought challenges, and several severe setbacks have resulted from Irish policy mistakes. But the European flavour of Ireland's structural policies (leavened with exposure to US experience) has helped it navigate the hazards of hyper-globalization with fewer political tensions than seen elsewhere.
This book provides a cogent summary of the economic history of the Irish Free State/Republic of Ireland. It takes the Irish story from the 1920s right through to the present, providing an excellent case study of one of many European states which obtained independence during and after the First World War. The book covers the transition to protectionism and import substitution between the 1930s and the 1950s and the second major transition to trade liberalisation from the 1960s. In a wider European context, the Irish experience since EEC entry in 1973 was the most extreme European example of the achievement of industrialisation through foreign direct investment. The eager adoption of successive governments in recent decades of a neo-liberal economic model, more particularly de-regulation in banking and construction, has recently led the Republic of Ireland to the most extreme economic crash of any western society since the Great Depression.
Une hypothèse nourrit l'ensemble des travaux sur les politiques locales : celle de leur croissante standardisation. Au questionnement " does politics matter ? " des années 1970 et 1980, en particulier autour de la réalité du pouvoir des maires, les chercheurs répondent dans la décennie suivante en invoquant les multiples facteurs qui pré-déterminent le champ de possibilité de l'action publique. Tout le monde ferait à peu près la même chose partout, plus ou moins vite, plus ou moins bien, en fonction des ressources disponibles. La variable politique, aveuglante en période électorale, perdrait toute pertinence à mesure que le processus décisionnel se durcit. Cette livraison de ...
Les enjeux liés à l'accessibilité à l'eau en milieu urbain, qu'il s'agisse des villes européennes ou des villes des pays en développement, sont liés aux choix opérés par les acteurs entre différentes modalités d'accès et de gestion. Les tentatives de généraliser des formes de partenariat entre le privé et le public dans ce domaine ont suscité des conflits et la recherche de compromis entre des acteurs aux logiques parfois divergentes. Ces évolutions doivent être analysées à travers des grilles de lecture variées émanant tant de l'histoire que de la géographie, des sciences politiques, des sciences économiques, etc.