... environment. Indicators capturing the quality of government management of public finances are therefore included here to complement the measures of macroeconomic stability captured in Pillar three below. Although the economic literature has focused mainly on public institutions, private institutions are also an important element of the process of creating wealth. The global financial crisis, along with numerous corporate scandals, have highlighted ... their goods and services to market in a secure and timely manner and facilitate the movement of workers to the most suitable jobs. Econom...

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During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport ... how much liberalization to allow, governments are responding to a variety of factors and politics. Liberals argue that governments should want to promote free trade to make everyone wealthier. Technological change makes the benefits especially large and therefore increases incentives to liberalize trade, particularly as companies will pressure ... in Marxist terms, a monopoly over technical knowledge and managerial techniques creates power that ...

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... different sub-units of multi-divisional organizations, including departments within universities, government agencies, school districts, departments in firms, and local service agencies. Similarly, in the economics and finance literature, conflict is primarily viewed as a problem in multi-divisional firms. Division managers squabble over compensation packages and the produced surplus, respectively. More generally, firms with more hierarchy ... of each division collectively fight for a greater divisional share. As fighting for a greater divisional share is a public good, expending resourc...

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... Strategic Alliances Alliance Management Assuming a dynamic perspective of strategic alliances, this paper focuses on the current collaboration between alliance partners that is extendable towards different aspects of collaborative relationships. Current literature suggests two separate research streams in risk and knowledge management. This is so since, by managing different risks and application of relevant knowledge the ultimate successes of strategic alliances can ... be achieved. Current literature proposes that conscious management of current relationships between partners in allia...

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... loans provided to governments or other entities in developing countries by governments or major multilateral institutions from developed countries in order to promote economic growth and human welfare. A lot of literature have springed arguing on the impact of the development aid on developing countries with some criticising it as a poverty entrenching facility whist some have supported development aid as it leads ... ...

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... of people, what post-development thinkers mean is the rejection of what Matthews calls the post-World War II (WWII) development projects. Cognizant of the lack of post-development focused literature on African development, Matthews provides compelling evidence for post-development theorists to focus their attention on the failure of pWWII projects on the continent. As these projects see the African ... ...

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... disband government barriers against the economics of capital and competition, arguing a policy of government non-intervention with trade. In which, he established an intruiging case for the future promise of free-market capitalism, a system of economics based on the control of production by forces of popular appeal and buying capacity, in which the flow of revenue from such sale would be ... fairly straight forward to understand, yet has very powerful analyses of the capitalistic system of even today. His first premise was that increase in economic growth would only occur with free trad...

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... shantytowns. The modernization of agriculture was also introduced as the only way to contend in international markets, meeting the challenges and opportunities provided in the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The purpose of modernization is to amplify and accelerate awareness of the dramatic human, social and ethical problems caused ... capable of autonomous growth, and of preventing the expulsion of large masses of peasant farmers from the land and their migration to urban centers or to land that is still free, ...

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... shape SAPs gained prominence in the IFIs in the 1980s. The neoliberal philosophy of economic development revived the old precepts of economic liberalism, which hold that an unregulated free market and private sector are the engines for unrestricted growth, the benefits of which will trickle down from the owners of capital to the entire population. Plant ... Leftwich notes, the aim of adjustment was to shutter the dominant post-war, state-led development paradigm and overcome the problems of developmental stagnation by promoting open and free competitive market economies, supervised by m...

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... helped no end to expand neo-liberal approaches to business while presenting opposing views, or occasions of active dissent, in ways that comply with the glorious vision of a world of free economic participation. It needs to be seen by more people that just as is the case in economic participation, not all countries or groups have equal access to the communications ... to both of the forgoing, Hobsbawm also explained that the old stopgaps of governments, as in protectionist legislation, are no longer in place. The emphasis that has been placed on a Free Market ideology has had the result...

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... of the peso to the US dollar. Argentina embraced US-style capitalism and adopted US-backed economic reform in the 1990s in the form of a fixed-currency system and unbridled free-market policies. An exchange rate of one-to-one with the dollar had been fixed by the law and every peso from the central bank was backed by a dollar of ... ...

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... economy the impulse of self-interest would bring about the public welfare. Smith was opposed to monopolies and the concepts of mercantilism in general but he favored some restrictions to free trade, such as the Navigation Acts, as sometimes necessary national economic weapons in the existing state of the world. Smith identified self-interest as the basic economic force and, through ... ...

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... the market (education and public works) with out meddling in it (mercantilism), which is significant because it attempts to balance the social and economic costs of government intervention versus the free market system. All of this is made only more amazing because he managed to construct this theory over 200 years ago and it is still useful today in a society immeasurably ... ...

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