1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460896303321

Autore

Velasco Alejandro <1978->

Titolo

Barrio rising : urban popular politics and the making of modern Venezuela / / Alejandro Velasco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-520-95918-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Disciplina

987.06/3

Soggetti

Political participation - Venezuela - Caracas

City planning - Political aspects - Venezuela - Caracas

Squatters - Political activity - Venezuela - Caracas

Electronic books.

Venezuela Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: A History of Place and Nation -- 1. Dictatorship's Blocks: The Battle for the New Urban Venezuela -- 2. Democracy's Projects: Occupying the Spaces of Revolution -- 3. From Ballots to Bullets: The Rise of Urban Insurgency, 1958-1963 -- 4. "The Fight Was Fierce": Uncertain Victories in the Streets and the Polls, 1963-1969 -- 5. Water, Women, and Protest: The Return of Local Activism, 1969-1977 -- 6. "A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote": Seizing the Promise of Participation, 1979-1988 -- 7. Killing Democracy's Promise: A Massacre of People and Expectations -- Conclusion: Revolutionary Projects -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning in the late 1950's political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America's most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising-unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion. Based on years of archival and ethnographic research in Venezuela's largest public housing community, Barrio Rising delivers



the first in-depth history of urban popular politics before the Bolivarian Revolution, providing crucial context for understanding the democracy that emerged during the presidency of Hugo Chávez. In the mid-1950's, a military government bent on modernizing Venezuela razed dozens of slums in the heart of the capital Caracas, replacing them with massive buildings to house the city's working poor. The project remained unfinished when the dictatorship fell on January 23, 1958, and in a matter of days city residents illegally occupied thousands of apartments, squatted on green spaces, and renamed the neighborhood to honor the emerging democracy: the 23 de Enero (January 23). During the next thirty years, through eviction efforts, guerrilla conflict, state violence, internal strife, and official neglect, inhabitants of el veintitrés learned to use their strategic location and symbolic tie to the promise of democracy in order to demand a better life. Granting legitimacy to the state through the vote but protesting its failings with violent street actions when necessary, they laid the foundation for an expansive understanding of democracy-both radical and electoral-whose features still resonate today. Blending rich narrative accounts with incisive analyses of urban space, politics, and everyday life, Barrio Rising offers a sweeping reinterpretation of modern Venezuelan history as seen not by its leaders but by residents of one of the country's most distinctive popular neighborhoods.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796670603321

Autore

Brooks Petya

Titolo

The Mechanics of a Strong Euro Area : : IMF Policy Analysis / / Petya Brooks, Mahmood Pradhan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2015

ISBN

1-5135-7943-6

1-5135-7224-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations, graphs

Altri autori (Persone)

PradhanMahmood

Disciplina

339.5/3094

Soggetti

Financial crises - European Union countries

Monetary policy - European Union countries

Currency question - European Economic Community countries

Fiscal policy - European Union countries

Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - European Union countries

Banks and Banking

Corporate Finance

Investments: General

Labor

Macroeconomics

Public Finance

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Fiscal Policy

Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Labour

income economics

Banking

Investment & securities

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Finance

Small and medium enterprises

Fiscal stance

Securitization

Financial statements



Bank resolution framework

Financial crises

Economic sectors

Fiscal policy

Securities

Financial institutions

Financial services

Public debt

Fiscal union

Banks and banking

Unemployment

Crisis management

Small business

Loans

Debts, Public

Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Investment in the Euro Area: why has it been weak? / Bergljot Barkbu ... [et al.] -- Indebtedness and deleveraging in the Euro Area / Fabian Bornhorst and Marta Ruiz-Arranz -- Rebalancing: where do we stand and where to go? / Thierry Tressel and Shengzu Wang -- Fragmentation, and monetary transmission mechanism, and monetary policy in the Euro Area / Ali Al-Eyd and S. Pelin Berkmen -- Possible subordination effects of Eurosystem bond purchases / Nico Valckx, Kenichi Ueda, and Manmohan Singh -- An early assessment of quantitative easing / S. Pelin Berkmen and Andreas (Andy) Jobst -- Fiscal consolidation under the stability and growth pact: some illustrative simulations / Derek Anderson ... [et al.] -- Fiscal governance in the Euro Area: progress and challenges / Luc Eyraud and Tao Wu -- A banking union for the Euro Area / Rishi Goyal ... [et al.] -- Toward a fiscal union for the Euro Area / IMF staff team led by Ćeline Allard -- Capital market development: financing of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Euro Area / Ali Al-Eyd ... [et al.] -- Youth unemployment in Europe: Okun's Law and beyond / Angana Banerji ... [et al.].

Sommario/riassunto

Among member states, many structural weaknesses were exposed when economic performance declined significantly and financial markets became more discerning. This book focuses on the analytical underpinnings of real-time policy advice given to euro area policymakers during four cycles of the IMF’s annual Article IV consultations (2012–15) with euro area authorities.