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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"International financial institutions"”.
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ESSAYS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS' AID
… dissertation studies how conditional lending by International Financial Institutions (IFIs) affects the implementation of economic reforms. In the presence of asymmetric information about the outcome of a structural reform between an opportunistic agenda-setter government and an opposition with …
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A critical analysis of international financial institutions' understanding of political corruption : a focus on the IMF, World Bank, and the ANC
This dissertation argues that the IFIs’ understanding of corruption, and thus their anticorruption and good governance policies and prescriptions, is based on the conceptualisation of corruption as a state centric phenomenon. As such, they are not concerned with corruption as a systematic problem. …
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An assessment of South Africa’s membership in the BRICS formation in relation to IBSA and SADC
… the grouping has been debated in the parlance of international relations. Many accounts have been made on this topic focusing mainly on the question of why South Africa sought BRICS membership and why it was granted the membership. These accounts do not only ignore the questions around the …
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Sovereignty and intervention in financial crises
… Taking as a case study Indonesia during its financial crisis in 1997-1998, this thesis explores the sovereign ability of a state such as Indonesia to act effectively and independently in its own economic interest in a crisis. The argument of this thesis that sovereignty today is conditional, …
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Responsible resettlement: implementing the corporate responsibility to respect human rights in the context of mining induced displacement and resettlement
… of those affected. However, current models of international best practice in resettlement, based on guidelines developed by International Financial Institutions, do not adequately frame resettlement as a human rights issue. In operating contexts where the human rights protections offered to …
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Reforming Kenya: Explaining the Influence of Internal and External Actors in the Process of Liberalization
… external actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in forcing the Moi government to concede to liberalization. To make its argument, the dissertation analyzes the influence of Kenya's colonial history, <em>Harambee</em> (self-help groups), the economic decline of …
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Economic and societal effects of structural adjustment in Guyana
… adoption of austerity measures designed by the international financial institutions (IFIs). This analysis therefore begins with an examination of the rise of these two dominant political parties, the role of colonialism in their emergence and the impact their actions and policies have had in …
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Essays on sovereign debt and international capital flows
… three essays on public and private borrowing on international capital markets, with a focus on optimal policy for the government and international financial institutions. Chapter 1 focuses on sovereign debt and default. Recent sovereign default episodes have been associated with substantial …
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The Euromarket and the making of the transnational network of finance 1959 - 1979
… of various markets for Eurodollars, but also institutions and policies that shaped them from the return to convertibility in 1958 to the ill-fated efforts to regulate the nascent market by international financial institutions. By examining the nature of Eurodollars as both a US and global …
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The Politics of Bread: State Power, Food Subsidies and Neoliberalization in Hashemite Jordan
… and given meaning. Despite repeated attempts by international financial institutions to eliminate them, authoritarian regimes throughout the region have gone to great lengths to maintain this and similar welfare programs, even extending them during the tumult of the so-called ‘Arab Spring.’ This …
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The contribution of official development assistance to poverty reduction in Zambia
… Public Expenditure Management (PEM) system. The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have also been channelling ODA in the form of budget support under the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs). While implementing PRSPs, Zambia, a poor country, showed remarkable improvement in the …
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An investigation into strategies for mobilising resources within the adult education directorate in Otjozondjupa region
… highlight the lack of infrastructural, financial and human resources in adult education but the studies do not mention strategies to mobilise these resources. Fourteen regions exist in Namibia and most of them show some improvements in terms of availability of resources in adult …
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How do national employment policies influence Human Resource practices? A comparative study of the Integrated Resort and Hotel Industry in Macau and Singapore
… a phenomenon that has seen some governments and international financial institutions defining the twenty-first century as the Asian Century, in which Asia will be the focus of economic growth (Kohli, Sharma & Sood, 2011). The wealth in the major economies of Asia will see an increase in a …
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China’s Foreign Aid Loans to Africa; Acts of Extraction or Development?
… common among nations even though respected international financial institutions warn against the hidden conditionalities that are likely be attached to such loans.</p> <p>This thesis focuses on Chinese lending practices and why these two countries, Angola and Zambia, resolved to borrow from …
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International Development Cooperation from Below: Recipient Agency in Agriculture Development Cooperation in Haiti
… in development has gained popularity among international financial institutions, donor and recipient governments, and aid practitioners. At the same time, with the ‘rise of the South’, the development cooperation landscape became much more polycentric; including around ideational claims on …
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Water is More Important than Gold: Local Impacts and Perceptions of the 1995 Omai Cyanide Spill, Essequibo River, Guyana
… of this study points to a direct link between international economic liberalization policies (which emphasize privatization, foreign direct investment, and economic growth) and the creation of disaster circumstances in developing countries. This thesis research is the result of a total of ten …
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The making of regulatory independence
… The result is that in spite of efforts of international financial institutions, governments, and regulatory staffers worldwide to create independent regulatory agencies, many of these agencies are severely constrained in their ability to function effectively. Using unprecedented access to …
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Governing globalization in South Asia through a legal praxis of human rights, development and democracy
… administrative law, comparative law and public international law, but the author draws extensively on political economy and history, and partially on philosophy, and cultural studies. Chapter 1 traces the Western evolution of the universal human rights regime, first globalized in 1948 by the …
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The Institutionalization of Homeownership in Emerging Economies: A Case Study of Peru
… an emerging economy. This is a case study of the institutions, actors, and financial practices at play. It contributes to the debates in the areas of the financialization of housing, the production of urban space, and economic globalization. I focus on developments in Peru from 1990-2014. During …
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