The East Asian crisis and financing corporate investment:is there a cause for concern?

In view of limited empirical evidence concerning the microeconomic aspects of corporate financial problems in the East Asian countries in the 1990s, this paper analyses the financing pattern of corporate investment in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel of listed firms during the period 1989–1997. By using firm size, retention practices, and leverage as three different indicators of financial constraint on firm investment, we have examined the role of various internal and external financing variables on corporate investment in the sample countries. Results indicate that a large number of sample firms depend on free cash flow, especially in Indonesia; there was also a steady increase in debt-equity ratio in all countries. There were signs of agency costs in the use of cash flow in Korea and Malaysia and also in the use of debt financing in Malaysia and Thailand. There was also sign of over-investment among the Thai firms during 1994–1997 though it appears very little if at all was done to redress it in time.

Financial market efficiency in a corporate crisis:the case of Bridgestone/Firestone

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Policy on the hoof:the handling of the foot and mouth disease outbreak in 2001

The foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic of 2001 was a disaster for sections of the agricultural industry, a number of businesses and for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), which met its demise as a government department during the crisis, being replaced by the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). There were some 2,030 confirmed cases and over four million animals slaughtered. It caused the postponement of local elections and of a general election. From a public policy perspective it raised questions about contingency planning, the adjustment of policy to take account of change and how to manage a crisis. This article focuses on the background to the crisis and how it was handled.

The impact of the Miami Cuban exile's political culture on the 1996 fiscal crisis of the city of Miami

The purpose of this study was to determine if the political culture of the Miami Cuban exile community was a significant factor in creating the environment that led to the 1996 fiscal crisis of the City of Miami. The study performed an ethnographic case study that utilized a triangulation strategy which included both qualitative and quantitative methods. Focus groups were conducted to ascertain qualitative and quantitative data as to differences among ethnic and generational groups regarding notions of governance, public administration practices, and overall political values and core beliefs. Quantitative data was obtained through a five year and seven month review of newspaper articles from two periodicals based in Miami-Dade County. A review was also conducted of secondary data in audit and management reports, blue ribbon commission studies, Certified Public Manager (CPM) enrollment, and legal case decisions to examine the administrative practices of the City of Miami leading up to and subsequent to its fiscal crisis. The study found that a political subculture of caudillismo was present in Cuban exile core areas of Miami that appears to have had an influence on the administrative practices and notions of governance that led to the fiscal crisis. The author concludes that an imported foreign political culture has imposed itself as a subculture in core areas of the exile community and that the operationalization of this subculture has manifested itself in non-mainstream notions of governance and public administration practices. ^

"La toma del Jockey" Movimiento estudiantil. Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social. UNLP-2001

Fil: González Leegstra, Cintia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Gobernando la seguridad : Entre políticos y expertos. El caso de las políticas de seguridad en la Argentina (1998-2001)

Fil: Galeano, Diego. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

De la derrota a la presidencia : La trayectoria política de Eduardo Duhalde entre 1999 y 2001

Este trabajo intentará abordar la trayectoria política de Eduardo Duhalde entre 1999 y 2001. Para ello se hará una reconstrucción histórica en base a archivos periodísticos y de diversos documentos institucionales dentro de una clave de lectura sociopolítica que destaque el rol de Duhalde dentro de una lógica de acción colectiva. Así, se podrá dar cuenta que Duhalde logró estructurar detrás de su liderazgo un amplio abanico de fuerzas que pudieron ofrecer una opción política y económica frente a la crisis final de la convertibilidad y del gobierno de la Alianza.

De la derrota a la presidencia : La trayectoria política de Eduardo Duhalde entre 1999 y 2001

Este trabajo intentará abordar la trayectoria política de Eduardo Duhalde entre 1999 y 2001. Para ello se hará una reconstrucción histórica en base a archivos periodísticos y de diversos documentos institucionales dentro de una clave de lectura sociopolítica que destaque el rol de Duhalde dentro de una lógica de acción colectiva. Así, se podrá dar cuenta que Duhalde logró estructurar detrás de su liderazgo un amplio abanico de fuerzas que pudieron ofrecer una opción política y económica frente a la crisis final de la convertibilidad y del gobierno de la Alianza.