Global Economic Institutions (GEI) Research Programme

Books

The following volumes resulting from the GEI Research Programme are scheduled for publication in 1999. All the volumes will be published by Cambridge University Press and are available through CUP.

 

PUBLISHED MAY 1998

 

Europe, East Asia and APEC: A Shared Global Agenda?

Edited by: Peter Drysdale and David Vines

 

This book is the  first in a major new series examining Global Economic Institutions and contrasts regional economic integration in the Asia Pacific Region and in Europe. In the Asia Pacific Region, regionalism is developing by means of `open regionalism', constructed through the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Process). This is different from the regionalism which has developed in Europe, through the construction of a single European Market and Monetary Union within the European Union. In the light of this contrast, a number of important contemporary policy questions are considered by an international team of contributors. How should Europe and other parts of the world respond to the development of open regionalism in the Asia Pacific Region? Can these regions develop a shared global agenda directed toward sustaining genuinely multilateral solutions to international trade policy problems over the coming years?

 

Copies are available through bookshops or can be ordered on-line direct from Cambridge University Press at http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/

Price: £35-00

ISBN: 0 521 6315 X

 

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1999

 

 

The Asian Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences and Contagion
Edited by: Pierre-Richard Agenor, Marcus Miller, David Vines, Axel Weber

 

The Asian Financial Crisis has been a truly extraordinary event. The crisis hit the most rapidly growing and successful economies in the world, which were suddenly plunged into deep crisis. Still, a year on, the events are not well understood. These happenings are a major development in the world economy, whose effects will almost certainly be felt for years to come. 

 

This book contains a selection of papers from two important conferences on these events which were held in London in May and July 1998, respectively.

Price: £45.00               
ISBN  0521 770807

 

ANTICIPATED PUBLICATION, JUNE 2000

 

The World Bank: Policies and Structures

Edited by: Christopher L Gilbert and David Vines

 

The World Bank is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable economic development and to poverty reduction throughout the developing world. It faces new challenges as capital shortages are replaced by large but volatile capital flows. The contributors to this volume argue the Bank's greatest asset is its accumulated knowledge and experience of the development process, and propose that it organise itself around the concept of a "Knowledge Bank". They propose a shift in priority, away from lending with conditionality imposed on borrowing governments, towards assistance to governments in devising good development strategies. Part I examines the existing structure of the Bank and considers the World Bank as an institution. In Part II the effectiveness of World Bank assistance is evaluated. This book provides essential reading for politicians, civil servants, workers in the non-official sector, and academics and students involved or interested in the development process.

 

A list of contents and three chapters of this book are available by clicking here.

 

ANTICIPATED PUBLICATION, APRIL 2001

 

The Future of Global Economic Institutions

Edited by: David Vines

 

This book will present an overview of the GEI Programme as it draws to a close.