Authors:Jose Antonio Ocampo, Rob Vos,
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: development, economic, uneven
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 184813195X
ISBN-13: 9781848131958

Inequality in the world is high and rising. The problem of global uneven development is central to, and inseparable from, the international development agenda. In Uneven Economic Development, leading economists and development experts examine the causes and implications of international economic divergences. This comprehensive and timely book reviews economic growth and structural change patterns since the 1960s, before critically reviewing the respective role and impact of trade liberalization, macroeconomic policies, governance and institutions on comparative national economic performance,

Author: Jose Antonio Ocampo
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: american, development, forums, latin, vulnerability, structural, dynamics, macroeconomic, reforms
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2005-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821358197
ISBN-13: 9780821358191

This collection presents the difficult challenges of the new economic era as well as a set of alternative economic policies for managing the open Latin American economies of the early twenty-first century. Ideas that were removed from the reform agenda over the past two decades are seen as critical to the improved economic and social performance that liberalization has so far failed to produce. These ideas include a role for counter-cyclical macroeconomic policies, including restrictions on capital mobility; active productive sector and technological development policies; and the need to pay

Authors:Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jose Antonio Ocampo,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: policy, dialogue, series, initiative, development, market, liberalization, capital
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199230587
ISBN-13: 9780199230587

Capital market liberalization has been a key battle in the debate on globalization for much of the previous two decades. Many developing countries, often at the behest of international financial institutions such as the IMF, opened their capital accounts and liberalized their domestic financial markets as part of the wave of liberalization that characterized the 1980s and 1990s and in doing so exposed their economies to increased risk and volatility. Now with even the IMF acknowledging the risks inherent in capital market liberalization, the central intellectual battle over the effects of ca

Authors:Joseph E. Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: policy, dialogue, series, initiative, development, market, liberalization, capital
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-06-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0199238448
ISBN-13: 9780199238446

Capital market liberalization has been a key battle in the debate on globalization for much of the previous two decades. Many developing countries, often at the behest of international financial institutions such as the IMF, opened their capital accounts and liberalized their domestic financial markets as part of the wave of liberalization that characterized the 1980s and 1990s and in doing so exposed their economies to increased risk and volatility. Now with even the IMF acknowledging the risks inherent in capital market liberalization, the central intellectual battle over the effects of capi

Authors:Rob Vos, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Ana Luiza Cortez,
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: development, ageing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 1848130538
ISBN-13: 9781848130531

This book is an authoritative analysis of the social and economic implications of global increased life expectancy.  Can we provide enough pensions for old people to live comfortably?  How can old people be empowered to play a more positive role in society?  What will the role of grandparents be in the emerging new social structures?  What are the implications for health services? How can the very old be cared for?  Providing a wealth of statistical and quantitative evidence and compiled by leading economists working at the forefront of this area, the authors argue that these challenges

Authors:Jose Antonio Ocampo, Jan Kregel, Stephany Griffith-J
Publisher: Zed Books
Keywords: development, finance, international
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1842778625
ISBN-13: 9781842778623

This is a comprehensive and unique survey of how the relationship between finance and economic development has changed since the historic Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development in 2002. It has become clear that mechanisms are needed to ensure that international private capital flows, including FDI, enhance productive investments and thereby contribute to development. Recent trends in official development financing offer some grounds for optimism, although many developing countries are constrained by their the external debt problems, and this book will

Authors:Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jose Antonio Ocampo, Shari Spieg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: policy, dialogue, series, initiative, development, growth, macroeconomics, liberalization, stability
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-11-09
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199288135
ISBN-13: 9780199288137

There is growing dissatisfaction with the economic policies advocated by many international financial institutions. This book presents an alternative to "Washington Consensus" neo-liberal economic policies by showing that both macro-economic and liberalization policy must be sensitive to the particular circumstances of developing countries. One-size-fits-all policy prescriptions are likely to fail given the vast differences between countries. This book discusses how alternative approaches to economic policy can better serve developing countries both in ordinary times and in times of crisis.