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William Cobbett (1763-1835) was a prolific writer, best known as the anti-Radical founder of Cobbett's "Political Register" which ran from 1802-35. This collection of his writings presents the texts fully reset and annotated with biographical and analytical introductions. Volume 4: Popular Politics and Power 1817-1826.

Southern-Led Development Finance examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have emerged in recent years, as countries from the Global South seek to transform their economies and to shield themselves from global economic turbulence Even before the Covid-19 crisis, it was clear to many that the global economy needed a reset and a massive increase in public investment In the last decade southern-owned development banks, infrastructure funds, foreign exchange reserve funds and Sovereign Wealth Funds have doubled the amount of long-term finance available to developing countries Now, as the world considers what a post-Covid-19 future will look like, it is clear that Southern-led institutions will do much of the heavy lifting This book brings together insights from theory and practice, incorporating the voices of bankers, policymakers and practitioners alongside international academics It covers the most significant new initiatives stemming from Asia, tried and tested examples in Latin America and in Africa, and the contribution of advanced economies Whilst the book highlights the potential for Southern-led initiatives to change the global financial landscape profoundly, it also shows their varied impacts and concludes that more is needed for development than just the technical availability of funds As governments and businesses become frustrated by the traditional North-dominated mechanisms and international financial system, this book argues that southern-led development finance will play an important role in the search for more inclusive, equitable and sustainable patterns of investment, trade and growth in the post-Covid landscape It will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers, researchers and students working on development and finance everywhere © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Diana Barrowclough, Kevin P Gallagher and Richard Kozul-Wright;individual chapters, the contributors

'Euro-sclerosis' was a term widely used in the 1980s to characterise sluggish European economic and employment growth following the OPEC oil price shocks of the 1970s; slow economic adjustment and growth were attributed to labour market regulation and inflexibility in the European countries, and West Germany was held up as an exemplar of the malaise. The Washington Consensus reflects a static conception in which there are two alternative states—a worker is either employed or unemployed; by 'making work pay', policy can encourage the former over the latter. In contrast, the flexicurity conception is of 'transitions' through a multiplicity of alternative states. The neoliberal argument in support of flexible labour markets is that they facilitate structural change in the economy over time by enabling firms to reset production systems in response to competitive pressures in the markets for their output.

This second part of an eight-volume reset edition, traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonization of America. It covers the period from 1764 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783.

Achievements in the political, cultural, and social fields have been quite dramatic: ASEAN has become a visible and effective bloc in the United Nations. While the broader role of ASEAN has progressed steadily and has kept the idea of unity alive, economic cooperation continues to remain minimal. ASEAN was established on the ideals of cooperation, but the course of events has necessitated a rigorous reassessment of the type and direction of such cooperation. This realization will enable ASEAN to reset its priorities and targets, and, in so doing, evolve a more credible yardstick that can accurately reflect its achievements. There are some possible impediments that may stand in the way of ASEAN participating in the larger Pacific Community movement. The financial sector of ASEAN has reached a fairly high degree of sophistication, enabling it to identify and exploit viable areas of financing more efficiently if existing opportunities are broadened via the proposed Pacific Community.