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After more than two decades of widespread hardship for most
nations, what are the different paths available for them to resume
steady growth and welfare? Will they actually succeed in building
new growth models that meet the challenges of the present phase of
internationalisation? This book attempts to answer these questions
by analysing different perspectives and discussing the conditions
for new national growth trajectories to emerge. The book provides
conceptual tools for characterising alternative growth regimes by
analysing their institutional backgrounds and political context.
Unlike standard convergence theories, the authors argue that the
diversity of capitalism is likely to persist as national economies
adapt to the forces of globalisation. Still these national paths
remain strongly conditioned by the kind of governance set up at
both regional and fully international levels. The Hardship of
Nations will be of great interest to undergraduates and graduates
in the social sciences - economics, political sciences, sociology,
geography and management - who require an overview of the debates
on growth of national economies in the present stage of
globalisation.
The issue of universal and free access to treatment is now a
fundamental goal of the international community. Based on original
data and field studies from Brazil, Thailand, India and Sub-Saharan
Africa under the aegis of ANRS (the French nationalagency for
research on Aids and viral hepatitis, this timely and significant
book both assesses the progress made in achieving this objective
and presents a rigorous diagnosis of the obstacles that remain.
Placing particular emphasis on the constraints imposed by TRIPS as
well as the poor state of most public health systems in Southern
countries, the contributing authors provide a comprehensive
analysis of the huge barriers that have yet to be overcome in order
to attain free access to care and offer innovative suggestions of
how they might be confronted. In doing this, the book renews our
understanding of the political economy of HIV/AIDS in these vast
regions, where the disease continues to spread with devastating
social and economic consequences. This volume will be a valuable
addition to the current literature on HIV/AIDS in developing
countries and will find widespread appeal amongst students and
academics studying economics, sociology and public health. It will
also be of interest to international organizations and professional
associations involved in the fight against pandemics.
This book looks at the experience of 13 leading-edge European
companies, drawn from the manufacturing, services and health
sectors. It shows how organisation has been the key to their
productivity growth. It also shows that whilst Europe has much to
learn from Japan and the USA, there is a distinctive European
approach to organisational expertise. This has important
implications for strategic policy, in these institutions
themselves, but also in government at both the national and local
levels. Here, too, as the case studies show, Europe has
considerable expertise on which the production sector can grow.
This study focuses on forms of commons-based entrepreneurship in
sub-Saharan Africa that have developed in response to issues
ranging from land and natural resources management to public
services, employment and training, climate change and biodiversity.
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