Shrinking the State in Mexico
Author : Mark Eric Williams
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Deregulation
ISBN :
Shrinking Cities
Author : Harry W. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136162100
Book Description
This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities. Much coverage is given to declining fertility rates, ageing populations and economic restructuring as the factors behind shrinking cities, but there is also reference to resource depletion, the demise of single-company towns and the micro-location of environmental hazards. The contributions show that shrinkage can occur at any scale – from neighbourhood to macro-region - and they consider whether shrinkage of metropolitan areas as a whole may be a future trend. Also addressed in this volume is the question of whether urban shrinkage policies are necessary or effective. The book comprises four parts: world or regional issues (with reference to the European Union and Latin America); national case studies (the United States, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Romania and Estonia); city case studies (Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Naples, Belfast and Halle); and broad issues such as the environmental consequences of shrinking cities. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the fields of urban studies, economic geography and public policy.
Downsizing the State
Author : Dag MacLeod
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0271046694
Book Description
Beginning in 1983, the Mexican government implemented one of the most extensive programs of market-oriented reform in the developing world. Downsizing the State examines a key element of this reform program: the privatization of public firms. Drawing upon interviews with government officials, business executives, and labor leaders as well as data from government archives and corporate documents, MacLeod highlights the difficulties of linking market reforms to improved public welfare. Privatization failed to live up to its promise of raising living standards or decentralizing the economy. Indeed, privatization actually increased the concentration of wealth in Mexico while redirecting the economy toward foreign markets. These findings contribute to theoretical debates regarding state autonomy and the embeddedness of economic action. MacLeod calls into question the autonomy of the Mexican state in its privatization program. He shows that the creation of markets where public firms once dominated has involved both the destruction of social relations and the construction of new relations and institutions to regulate the market.
Under-Rewarded Efforts
Author : Santiago Levy Algazi
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1597823058
Book Description
Why has an economy that has done so many things right failed to grow fast? Under-Rewarded Efforts traces Mexico’s disappointing growth to flawed microeconomic policies that have suppressed productivity growth and nullified the expected benefits of the country’s reform efforts. Fast growth will not occur doing more of the same or focusing on issues that may be key bottlenecks to productivity growth elsewhere, but not in Mexico. It will only result from inclusive institutions that effectively protect workers against risks, redistribute towards those in need, and simultaneously align entrepreneurs’ and workers’ incentives to raise productivity.
Shrinking Cities
Author : Karina Pallagst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135072213
Book Description
The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack the precision of systemic analysis where other factors now at work are analyzed: the new economy, globalization, aging population (a new population transition) and other factors related to the search for quality of life or a safer environment. This volume places shrinking cities in a global perspective, setting the context for in-depth case studies of cities within Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Germany, France, Great Britain, South Korea, Australia, and the USA, which consider specific economic, social, environmental, cultural and land-use issues.
The Paradox of the Shrinking State
Author : Christina Schatzman
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Privatization
ISBN :
Book Description
Barbarous Mexico
Author : John Kenneth Turner
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Book Description
An early 20th century American journalist's articles on Mexico before the Revolution.
Global Trends 2040
Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2021-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781646794973
Book Description
"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Mexico's Economic Dilemma
Author : James M. Cypher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742568482
Book Description
Written by two leading scholars, this book provides a detailed analysis of Mexico's political economy. James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise begin with an examination of Mexico's pivotal economic crisis of the 1980s and the consequent turn toward an export-led economy, later anchored by NAFTA. They show how Mexico, after abandoning frequently successful past practices of state-led development, disastrously tied its future to an unconditional reliance on foreign corporations to promote an export-led growth strategy. Focusing on Mexico's cheap labor export model, the authors use the maquiladora sector and the auto industry as case studies of the perils of globalization—the "race to the bottom" as capital becomes ever more international. The government's unconstrained free-market policies, they convincingly argue, have resulted in a fragmented economy marked by stagnation, falling wages, informal part-time employment, and massive migration, which define daily life for all but a tiny minority.
The Political Logic of Poverty Relief
Author : Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107140285
Book Description
The Political Logic of Poverty Relief places electoral politics and institutional design at the core of poverty alleviation. The authors develop a theory with applications to Mexico about how elections shape social programs aimed at aiding the poor. They also assess whether voters reward politicians for targeted poverty alleviation programs.
