Biofuels and development
"There is significant policy interest in liquid biofuels with appealing prospects
for energy security, farm security, poverty alleviation, and climate change.
Large-scale commercial biofuel production could have far reaching implications
for regional and global markets – particularly those related to energy and land
use"...
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Bureaucratic
socialism
"Politicaly, it ( the Chinese cultural revolution ) is an attempt to get rid of that section in the Chinese
society which form a new bureaucratic class, a new ruling class, whose
core is constituted mainly by the high and medium rank membership of the
Chinese Communist Party and the so-called "intelligentsia". The political
target of the cultural revolution are the Chinese counterpart of the new
ruling class dominating already societies like the ones in Soviet
Union, Yugoslavia and the rest of Eastern Europe. In short, one section
of the Chinese people is trying to get rid of what we call in Latin
America "bureaucratic socialism". ( From Róbinson Rojas, "La Guardia Roja Conquista China",
Ediciones ML, Santiago de Chile, 1968)
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Balance of
Payments Statistic from the International Monetary Fund, etc
Balance
of Payments Accounts: a definition
Róbinson Rojas - 1997 Structural
deficit on Balance on Payments (notes)
"Neo-classical trade theory will argue that "international prices
and costs of production determine how much a country should
trade", and, therefore, outward-looking strategies of production
are neccesary. Of course, if international prices and costs of
production are mainly the business of transnational corporations
and not domestic economies, then the neo-classical argument will
be valid only for the welfare of transnational corporations and
not the host countries".
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Desarrollo Interamerican Development Bank
Oficina central Central Office
Investigacion y
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Countries
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the Institute for the Integration of Latin America (INTAL) |
| Data
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conditions and trends in regional labor markets. |
| Report
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the Caribbean. |
| Insight
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Bank of
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European
Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank was created by the Treaty of Rome in 1958 as the
long-term lending bank of the European Union.
The task of the Bank is to contribute towards the
integration, balanced development and economic and social cohesion of the EU
Member States.
The EIB raises substantial volumes of funds on the capital
markets which it lends on favourable terms to projects
furthering EU policy objectives . The EIB continuously adapts its
activity to developments in EU policies.
The EIB: enjoys its own legal personality and financial autonomy within the EU
- operates in keeping with strict banking practice and in close collaboration
with the wider banking community, both when borrowing on the capital markets and
when financing capital projects.
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Bank
for International Settlements
Research at BIS
Statistics at BIS
Central banks hub
Central Bank websites (all countries)
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international organisation
which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a
bank for central banks.
The BIS fulfils this mandate by acting as:
a forum to promote discussion and policy analysis among central banks and
within the international financial community -
a centre for economic and monetary research -
a prime counterparty for central banks in their financial transactions -
agent or trustee in connection with international financial operations
The head office is in Basel, Switzerland and there are two representative
offices: in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic
of China and in Mexico City.
Established on 17 May 1930, the BIS is the world's oldest international
financial organisation.
As its customers are central banks and international organisations, the BIS
does not accept deposits
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