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This text represents the findings of the Socialist Philosophy Group, a body set up by the Fabian Society to assess the direction that the Labour movement should take following the failure of the Labour Party's policies in the British general election of 1983.
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
The demise of communism in the former Soviet Union and the massive political and economic changes in China are the stunning transformations of our century. Two central questions are emerging: Why did different communist systems experience different patterns of transition? Why di…
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
"In Economic Development and Transition, renowned development economist Justin Yifu Lin argues that economic performance in developing countries depends largely on government strategy. If the government plays a facilitating role, enabling firms to exploit the economy's comparati…
"An important and original work ... The collection demonstrates that ... there is no simple equation linking economic liberalization and political democratization to either peace and development or war and state unravelling. Instead, the authors suggest that by analyzing the mec…
Essays on cultural change, economic reform, political development and foreign policy initiated by the 1959 revolution in Cuba - analyses educational policy, health services, food security, social status of women, and evolution of the Catholic Church; examines the emergence of po…
