Deregulation and Its Discontents: Rewriting the Rules in AsiaM. Ramesh, Michael Howlett Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 M01 1 - 264 pages . . . an extremely interesting collection, full of insights and institutional detail. . . The book definitely deserves the attention of those interested in one of the most debated issues of the last 20 years in economics and political science. Herb Thomps |
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... Economics and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, India, a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA. Her research ...
... Economics and Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, India, a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA. Her research ...
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... economy, development, and industrial and technology policy. He has written two books, Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America (1998), and Political Economy of the Southern Cone (2003), and co-authored two others, Development Projects ...
... economy, development, and industrial and technology policy. He has written two books, Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America (1998), and Political Economy of the Southern Cone (2003), and co-authored two others, Development Projects ...
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... economics from Duke University and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Amarendu ... Economic Journal. He has also contributed chapters to several edited books. Jon M. Peha Jon M. Peha is Associate ...
... economics from Duke University and a PhD in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Amarendu ... Economic Journal. He has also contributed chapters to several edited books. Jon M. Peha Jon M. Peha is Associate ...
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... Economic Cooperation (APEC), various energy and environment programmes of the European Commission (EC), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Energy Agency (IEA), New Energy ...
... Economic Cooperation (APEC), various energy and environment programmes of the European Commission (EC), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Energy Agency (IEA), New Energy ...
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... economic realms has been oft - told and is a defining characteristic of the predominant policy style found in modern governments ( Howlett and Ramesh 2002 ; Howlett 2004 ) . Debate about the merits of this development continues in many ...
... economic realms has been oft - told and is a defining characteristic of the predominant policy style found in modern governments ( Howlett and Ramesh 2002 ; Howlett 2004 ) . Debate about the merits of this development continues in many ...
Contents
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race to the bottom top and middle | 29 |
cases in East Asian regulatory reform | 47 |
electricity refoms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia | 49 |
5 Privatization and regulation of competition in the electricity sector | 80 |
6 Independent power producers in Indonesia and the Philippines | 109 |
8 Governance and regulation of provident and pension funds in Asia | 151 |
9 Regulation and deregulation of the stock market in India | 168 |
PART III Policy design pinciples for reulatory reform | 193 |
10 Design principles for smart reglations | 195 |
11 Universal service and the transition from state control to statemonitored competition | 212 |
the dereregulatory cycle learning and spillover effects in regulatory policymaking | 228 |
Index | 237 |
evidence from the Philippines and Thailand | 124 |
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Page x - He currently holds Professorial Research appointments in the Regulatory Institutions Network, Research School of Social Sciences, and in the School of Resources, Environment and Society, at the Australian National University.