Labor and the state in Egypt: workers, unions, and economic restructuring

1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (01) ◽  
pp. 36-0459-36-0459
Keyword(s):  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
The State

The Pittsburgh Transition: Not Quite So Simple

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124242110248
Author(s):  
Sabina Deitrick ◽  
Christopher Briem
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Development Strategies ◽  
The State ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Economic Development Strategies

Benjamin Armstrong’s article compares state economic development policies in Pittsburgh and Cleveland in the 1980s, the period of major regional economic restructuring. Armstrong argues that what separated Pittsburgh from Cleveland in the ensuring years was the state-mandated inclusion of the city’s universities as major economic development decision makers and the role that advanced technology played in Pittsburgh’s recovery—much more prominent than in Cleveland’s. The authors agree that the 1980s expanded stakeholders in the region’s traditional economic development strategies, but not to the extent that Armstrong argues, and that significant other factors have affected the two regions in recent decades. The authors also find that the divergence in economic trends between the two regions is not a strong as Armstrong suggests.

Popular Belief in State Intervention for Social Protection in China

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHACK KIE WONG ◽  
NAN SHONG PETER LEE
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recent Developments

The paper starts with a brief discussion of recent developments of economic restructuring of the State Owned Enterprises in China and their related reforms in social insurance and social assistance. It then reports the findings of an attitude survey of residents in Shanghai in 1996 towards the social and economic consequences of economic reform. It reveals that, despite the fact that most people feel better off with the reforms, there is still a need for the state to play a role in social protection.

Britain at the End of Empire

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Esmonde Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
The State ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Roman Britain ◽  
Wide Context ◽  
Funerary Archaeology ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Aristocratic Culture

Later Roman Britain is viewed in a wide context to identify which developments are expressions of wider trends and which are more insular. Four major factors are considered. First, the withdrawal of the imperial presence from northern Gaul and Germany, in particular as it affected the society and economy of these regions, which had become increasingly militarized. Second, the disintegration of the economic formations of the wider West following the removal of the imperial system, especially the economic nexus promoted by the fiscal requirements of the state. Third, the continuing vitality of ‘traditional’ urbanism derived from imperial and senatorial models, expressive of a common aristocratic culture and very visible in southern Britain. Fourth, the changes to settlement and funerary archaeology in the fifth century as expressions of social and economic restructuring. Britain is considered in relation to all these developments, to try to combat over-insular perspectives.

Housing New Zealand Ltd: Privatisation by Stealth

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Murphy ◽  
R A Kearns
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Company Housing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Service Sector

Like a number of other capitalist countries, New Zealand has recently undergone considerable economic restructuring. As part of this process, and representing a major policy redirection, the state has introduced a process of corporatisation and privatisation into the social service sector. In this paper we examine the processes involved in the shift from social rented housing to the emergence of a state-owned, commercially-oriented company, Housing New Zealand Ltd. We propose that the policy changes are ill-conceived, risking fiscal blowout for the state, and are likely to increase the marginalisation and poverty of tenants.

Capitalist Coalitions, the State, and Neoliberal Economic Restructuring: Chile, 1973–88

1993 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Silva
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
The State ◽  
Free Market Economy ◽  
Relative State ◽  
Power Resources ◽  
High Degree

This article argues that a high degree of relative state autonomy and ideology, while necessary, was not sufficient to explain fully the change from import-substitution industrialization to an open, free-market economy in Chile. A comparison across three distinct policy periods in authoritarian Chile reveals that shifting coalitions of businessmen and landowners, with varying power resources, also played an important part in the outcome. This approach does not seek to vitiate other interpretations of economic change in Chile and elsewhere. The question is not so much which factor is most important, but how and when the different factors matter.

Urban Planning and the Entrepreneurial State: The View from Victoria, Australia

1993 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Winter ◽  
T Brooke
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
State Government ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
The State ◽  
Fiscal Crisis ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Financial Costs

It is argued that the state in Victoria, Australia, has pursued five key trends in urban planning throughout the 1980s: Privatisation, liberalisation, subsidisation, commercialisation, and elitism. These trends are a response to conditions wrought by global economic restructuring, the dominance of economic fundamentalism as a political discourse in Australia, the institutional structure of federal–State government financial relations, and a resultant perception of fiscal crisis. These developments in urban planning have resulted in financial costs and a loss of democratic accountability to the Victorian community.

scholarly journals Die Zukunft der Staatsunternehmen in China

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (119) ◽  
pp. 266-280
Author(s):  
Zhongliang Shi
Keyword(s):  
Private Equity ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Status ◽  
Official View

The author, president of the Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics at Peking and personally involved in the process of economic restructuring, describes the Status Quo and the future measures concerning privatization in China. Zhongliang represents the official view about how to reform the state-owned Enterprises (SOE). He emphasizes the necessity to reduce the sector of SOEs by privatization of small SOEs and private equity partizipation in large SOEs which were to be transformed into corporations (shareholder companies).

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