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• 1. Public opinion, government policies and distributive justice.
• An introduction 1.1 The importance of public opinion 1.2 What sort of opinion: ideals, perceptions and policy attitudes 1.3 What can explain cross-national variations? 1.4 What can explain variations across time? 1.5 What can explain individual variations? 1.6 Methods and data 1.6.1 International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 1.6.2 The European Value Surveys/ The World Value Surveys (WVS) 1.6.3 International Social Justice Project (ISJP) 1.6.4 Distributive Justice Perception Project (DJPP) 1.6.5 Experiments on Distributive Justice Norms Across Cultures 1.6.6 The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) 1.6.7 ILO data on occupational wages and hours of work 1.7 Plan of the study
• 2. Principles of distributive justice: A theoretical approach 2.1 What is distributive justice? 2.2 The formal and material principles of justice 2.3 Principles of equity 2.4 Principles of utility 2.5 Rawls' difference principle 2.6 Principles of need 2.7 Principles of equality 2.8 Summary
• 3. Public support for distributive principles 3.1 Operationalizing the principles of distributive justice 3.2 Public support for distributive principles 3.3 The magnitude of support for need and equality: the ranking of countries 3.4 Structural differences in public support for the various principles 3.4.1 Individual level differences in public support for the various principles 3.5 Summary
• 4. Opposing principles and trade-offs: Results from an experimental study 4.1 Previous experimental research 4.2 The design of the experiment 4.3 Theoretical predictions: How would the principles interact? 4.4 Support for the individual principles 4.5 Trade-offs and interactions 4.6 Summary
• 5. Perceived distributions: The public understanding of reality 5.1 Conceptualizing and measuring public perceptions 5.2 The causes and consequences of perception 5.2.1 The relationship between socio-economic background and perceptions 5.2.2 The relationship between values and perceptions 5.3 The data: Measuring perceptions and finding the facts 5.4 Analysing perceptions of inequality 5.4.1 Perception of the proportion of poor 5.4.2 Perception of occupational earnings 5.4.3 Does what you see depend on where you stand? 5.5 Summary
• 6. Support for egalitarian ideals and policies: Reaction or adjustment? 6.1 Egalitarian values and policies - a conceptual clarification 6.2 The cultural and historical origin of value preferences 6.3 The shift in support for egalitarian values and policies 6.4 Data 6.5 Public preferences for equality - a comparative perspective 6.6 Summary
• 7. Wages and earning inequalities 7.1 Why some occupations deserve higher earnings then others 7.2 What influences the acceptance of large earning inequalities? 7.3 The data: measuring perceived and ideal occupational earnings 7.4 Occupational earnings differences across countries 7.5 Are the public divided in their view of the fairness of occupational earnings? 7.6 Explaining the dynamic of change over time 7.7 Ideals, perceptions and self interest: the impact of social background. 7.8 Summary
• 8. Taxes and redistribution of income 8.1 Welfare regimes and tax policies 8.2 Tax loads, progressive taxation and income distribution 8.3 Tax policies and public opinion 8.4 Public perception of tax-load and support for redistributive policies 8.5 Explaining public perception and support for redistribution 8.6 Summary
• 9. Conclusion 9.1 The public, the political elite and the philosophers 9.2 The structure of public beliefs: ideals, perceptions and policy attitudes 9.3 Cross-national variations, the effect of regimes and social structure 9.4 When public opinion change over time 9.5 The public of different countries and the argument of self interest 9.6 Future research References Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4.
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This book gives a systematic and extensive comparative analysis of public beliefs about social justice. Contrary to previous studies it attempts to link public opinion to the philosophical debate on distributive justice, but more importantly it connects the different opinion surveys with the current economic and political situation in the various countries. What can explain the cross-national variations, and if opinions do change over time, why is this so? Are people's beliefs influenced by existing welfare practices in the country? Do different policy regimes trigger different pattern of belief among the members of society? This book should be of interest to researchers and students both in the field of Comparative Opinion Studies, but also those interested in the relationship between public opinion and the political elite.
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Sudan; enonomic development.

• Enjeux systémiques de la globalisation pour l'Afrique du nord - Moyen-Orient
• LA MENA : une communauté de contraintes dans la globalisation
• LA MENA : une zone de "développement mécontent"
• LA MENA au défi du changement de régime d'accumulation
• Le rapport conflictuel à la globalisation de l'Afrique du nord - Moyen-Orient
• Cadrage historique sur le rapport au marché mondial de la MENA
• Cadrage théorique sur le rapport au marché mondial de la MENA
• L'Afrique du nord - Moyen-Orient dans le système international de commerce et d'investissement
• L'insertion de la MENA dans les réseaux de production et d'échange
• Le triptyque Diversification ? Attractivité - Compétitivité
• L'Afrique du nord - Moyen-Orient un régionalisme sans régionalisation
• La MENA et la régionalisation de l'économie mondiale
• Déterminants de la régionalisation contrariée dans la MENA
• Les Systèmes Nationaux d'Économie politique et le régionalisme contrarié
• L'Afrique du nord - Moyen-Orient dans l'économie politique globale du régime d'accumulation rentier
• Une anatomie du régime d'accumulation rentier
• Une approche d'économie politique du régime d'accumulation rentier
• Une Économie Politique Internationale du régime d'accumulation rentier.

"Il y a dix ans, te monde arabe était secoué par une vague de soulèvements - le "Printemps arabe" - qui ébranlèrent les régimes en place. Depuis, le monde arabe est en ébullition. Oubliés, les rêves d'unité (utopie panarabique, baassisme, Union du Maghreb Arabe, etc.) : de partout, les conflits n'ont cessé de se multiplier et de s'exacerber : peuples contre dictateurs, chiites contre sunnites, Arabie Saoudite contre Iran, Daech contre tous... Des États s'effondrent (Libye), ou meurent d'immobilisme et de corruption (Liban)... Les conflits Syrien et au Yémen sont de vraies guerres internationales. Les peuples oscillent entre révolte, résignation et désespoir (Algérie). Ce livre traite d'une des bases de tous ces sujets et maux en analysant la situation des économies arabes, les modalités de leur insertion dans les réseaux internationaux de production et d'échange, dans le système énergétique mondial, et dans le système monétaire et financier international. Il analyse les opportunités, les contraintes et les dilemmes auxquels ces pays font face, et les stratégies adoptées par les classes dirigeantes. Il met en perspective historique la trajectoire économique de la région MENA et la façon dont évolue son rapport au marché mondial. Comment expliquer le décrochage économique des pays de la région ? Quelles stratégies de spécialisation pour les économies arabes dans la globalisation ? Quelle diversification pour sortir de la dépendance aux hydrocarbures ? Quel modèle de croissance face à la compétition internationale ? Peut-on et doit-on relancer l'intégration régionale alors que les pays de la région sont engagés dans des stratégies de chacun pour soi (quand ils ne sont pas plus ou moins en guerre entre eux) ? Telles sont quelques unes des questions qui jalonnent les différents chapitres de cet ouvrage. Conçu comme un manuel à destination des étudiants en économie internationale et du développement, en relations internationales, en sciences politiques et/ou spécialisés sur le monde arabe et les pays méditerranéens, cet ouvrage intéressera également tous ceux qui souhaitent mieux comprendre les dynamiques à l'oeuvre dans une région au coeur de l'actualité."--Page 4 of cover.

• The nature of SAPs and experiences with reform
• common obstacles to policy design and implementation
• overcoming obstacles to macroreform
• reforms in a world with limited domestic policy options
• the new role of the state.
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Successful implementation of economic reform is largely dependent on the political and social environment in which they are introduced. This paper was commissioned because Commonwealth countries have an interest in understanding the dynamics and management of economic reform. Dr Abbey emphasizes the importance of mobilising political support for the reform process, and identifies the obstacles met at both the design and implementation stages. He considers: how the interests of different groups should be balanced; the nature of the political environment; information asymmetries; the competence and capacity of the bureaucracy to manage reform programmes; the role played by donors; the new emerging role of the state; the need for strong institutions to support reforms; and good government. The paper stresses that political stability is essential to effective adjustment and economic growth, and emphasizes the need for the state to modernise its processes.
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This work addresses the complexity of the WTO's August 30, 2003 decision on the implementation of paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health. It provides an explanation of the decision and model legal texts for the required notifications to the WTO and for the amendments of their patent law that most developing countries will need to pass in order to incorporate the decision in their domestic legal framework.
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• Introduction. Syrian Trade Policy. The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Syrian Industry: The Cases of the Textile and Olive Oil Industries.
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Does Syria's external trade policy have any significant impact on its internal process of economic reform? Against the backdrop of this question, the authors focus on the country's engagement with two free-trade regimes - the EU-Mediterranean partnership and GAFTA - as well as on its involvement in several bilateral agreements. They also look specifically at the impact of trade liberalization on Syria's all-important textile and olive oil industries. This title assesses Syria's evolving foreign trade policy and the impact of that policy on the country's economic reform process.
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Exploring the recent trajectory of Syria's economy, the authors consider the utility of the transition paradigm - developed to study change in the former communist states - as an explanatory approach. In the first part of the book, Samer Abboud examines Syria's shift to a 'social market economy', focusing on similarities in and differences between the Syrian and Chinese cases. In the second part, Ferdinand Arslanian compares empirical indicators for Syria with those from the aggregate of transition countries to predict Syria's economic performance and the rate of liberalization. A foreword by Raymond Hinnebusch provides context for the study.
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Arab countries; economic conditions.

Information society; Arab countries.

Sudan; economic conditions; forecasting.

• Stabilization experience before the 1990s
• economic "reform" in the 1990s
• the macroeconomic effects of ERSAP - structural reform or Dutch disease?
• main features of the manufacturing sector
• the microeconomic effects of ERSAP - the aluminium industry
• the microeconomic effects of ERSAP - the iron and steel industry
• ERSAP and industrialization - concluding remarks.
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This work studies the impact of Egypt's Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Programme (ERSAP), the effects of which have been of great interest to the international community. Organizations such as the World Bank and the IMF uphold the programme as a success story and example for other countries to follow. ERSAP also has its critics, however, who resent its tendency to downsize government and fear possible negative effects on growth and development. The author discusses these concerns along with those regarding the possible negative social effects of ERSAP.
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Lessons from the global financial crisis for the Sudan.