Left and Right in Global Politics
they acted as disincentives to work and, in monetarist terms, con- tributed to increase the “natural”rate of unemployment. Third ...
between 1980 and 1998, the average growth of social expenditures went down compared to the previous two decades, but it did not ...
The evolution of programs for the unemployed, a central worry for conservatives, proved particularly striking. Between 1985 and ...
for a competitive, high-wage, knowledge economy. These differences manifested themselves in the public policies of the period. P ...
inadequate and often misleading description of the complex inter- relationship that now exists between countries in a wide varie ...
summit would serve as a launching pad for global negotiations on international economic issues. The meeting, however, yielded on ...
The global rise of the right led to profound transformations in development diplomacy. The UN, in particular, lost ground throug ...
of that body, which, the American government felt, had culminated in the debate on a new world information and communication ord ...
As the UN watched its political influence wane, the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT – which became the World Trade Organizatio ...
extolled the spirit of GATT rules. In addition, conservatives and the business community actively pushed the GATT–WTO to extend ...
States completely rejects the idea that there is such a thing as ‘devel- opment economics’.”^76 The premise that the economic po ...
Free trade became promoted as never before. For conservatives, there was a natural step from recognizing the benefits of markets ...
took the part of an instrument in the service of “an old-fashioned form of realist power politics.”^81 As for the promotion of f ...
Annan, when he described the goals of the UN – promoting peace and development – and the goals of business – creating wealth and ...
reduction in aid budgets was presented as part of a larger effort to limit government spending, and as the price to pay to ensur ...
programs. For much of the 1980s, aid was thus adapted to the impera- tives of adjustment policies, either to hasten their implem ...
market-oriented policies associated with monetarism and neoliberal- ism. Most countries made a priority of fighting inflation, e ...
7 Twenty-first-century rapprochement On May 1, 1997, Tony Blair and his New Labour Party won the British general election with 4 ...
Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom).^4 Among the few coun- tries still governed by conservatives, Germany was also about t ...
popularity of the welfare state, as well as growing worries about inequality and poverty.^10 The end of the 1990s was also marke ...
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