The emergence of macroeconomics created the ground for governments. The function of such advisors, however, is much more complex than simply increasing the level of expertise in public policies.
Category Archives: Former issues
The World Bank and Hungary
A newnon-governmental organisation, with assistance from Development GAP Washington, D.C., has published some documents formerly kept secret by the Hungarian Ministry of Finance and the National Bank of hungary. These documents throw a new light on the origins of transition policies in Hungary.
Proposal for green taxes
A new initiative to introduce ecological taxes adopdet by a European conference held in Athens in 1997 November. The document explains the arguments too.
GDP and te lack of eco-logic
The Sytem of National Accountas used by the UN to mesure the annual income of countries hardly takes into account any environmental factors and particularly the degradation of human and environmental capital the reuslt of the operation of capitalist markets.
The eco-trap and the abolition of the North
Most of the participants of the ecological debate pretend that the mere repetition of slogans like "sustainable development" will lead to a mor epresent future. To reach a more liveliable ecological condition, however, the global society needs to abolish its inequalities. First of all the North must be prevented to dominate the agricultural territories of the South.