Constantine Michalopoulos
Greek Foreign Trade and Finance: The Mixed Blessings of Economic Dependence
This book examines the role of international trade and finance in the Greek economy since the beginnings of the Greek state two centuries ago to the present day. It focuses on the benefits and challenges of Greece’s economic dependence on the larger and higher income countries of Western Europe, and in particular the European Union, have played in its economic development.
The volume begins by examining Greece’s links to Europe in the 19th century and its desultory participation in the Latin Monetary Union. Its main focus is the post- World War II period, starting with Greece’s efforts to establish sustainable economic growth, at a time when the country was facing severe foreign exchange constraints and relied on assistance from the US under the Marshall Plan. It then examines relations between Greece and the European Community, particularly on its efforts to integrate into the European Union, the debt crisis and the reforms and recovery in its aftermath.
The book details in accessible and engaging style how the story of Greece’s economic integration in Europe has involved both successful development but also failures by Greek, Eurozone and IMF policymakers. With valuable historical insights, this book will be of interest to academics and policymakers in Greece, the EU and emerging economies weighing economic integration. It will also be of interest to economic historians and political economists more broadly.
Aid, Trade and Development: The Future of Globalization
This volume presents a broad sweep of modern economic history underpinning aid, trade, development and globalization in the last half century and the salient challenges facing the global community today. The author draws on his long years as an academic and development practitioner to recommend what needs to be done to cope with the backsliding of the fight against global poverty, fractured geopolitics and the threats to the multilateral economic order. The new, revised edition analyses how unilateralism, rising protectionism and the Covid-19 pandemic seriously threaten global sustainable development. It concludes with recommendations on the policy changes needed to make globalization more equitable and development more sustainable. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of economic development and economic history, as well as all those concerned about global inequality and sustainability.
Ending Global Poverty: Four Women's Noble Conspiracy
Ending poverty continues to be a major challenge for the global community. It is even more urgent and relevant today when the world is facing the covid-19 pandemic as it was two decades ago, when four women rose to prominent positions as ministers in charge of international development in their governments. Ending Global Poverty: Four Women's Noble Conspiracy tells the story of Eveline Herfkens from the Netherlands, Hilde F. Johnson from Norway, Clare Short from the United Kingdom, and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul from Germany who joined forces to challenge the establishment policies of international institutions.
Named for the Norwegian Abbey where the formalized their collaboration in 1999, the so-called Utstein Four embarked on a 'conspiracy of implementation', using foreign aid as a tool to end global poverty, rather than pursue narrow political or commercial interests. They helped achieve primary education for women, used developing countries' debt relief to lift individuals out of poverty, and put development partners in charge of setting priorities and implementing programs of assistance. Their story of female empowerment and the importance of working together is a crucial lesson, and Ending Global Poverty focuses on the implications of this for today's development challenges, including the struggle to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals which is becoming more difficult every day.
The Utstein Four's collaboration lasted for only about half a dozen years but their influence continues to be felt. Much has been achieved but some lessons have been forgotten and large new challenges remain.Ending Global Poverty: Four Women's Nobel Conspiracy considers the lasting legacy of the Utstein group and the lessons that their experience of commitment, collaboration and leadership offers to a new generation of leaders as they work to eradicate global poverty and achieve sustainable development.
Aid, Trade and Development: 50 Years of Globalization
This enlightening book offers a comprehensive historical analysis of the main development challenges of the last half century and the international community’s response through aid and trade. Much has happened: the oil crises of the 1970s, the debt crises of the 1980s, the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the Millennium Development Goals, the onslaught of Globalization and the rise of its opponents since the financial crisis of the 2000s. Through it all, development has spread and global poverty declined. The volume assesses the contributions and coherence of developing and developed country policies and the role played by global institutions entrusted with responsibilities to enhance trade and support development. The volume concludes with a focus on the prospects for the future and the changes needed to make globalization more equitable. With 50 years of professional experience in the World Bank, the WTO and bilateral aid agencies, Michalopoulos brings an insider’s perspective on the workings of these institutions and what needs to be done to make them more effective and responsive to changing global needs.
Emerging Powers in the WTO: Developing Countries and Trade in the 21st Century
This volume examines the main factors for developing country trade performance in the last thirty years, their own trade policies, market access issues they face, and their increasingly more effective participation in the WTO and the Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations.
Developing Countries in the WTO
Globalization means that today, more than ever before, growth in developing countries and the reduction of poverty depend on world trade and a well functioning trading system. This volume reviews developing countries trade policies and institutions, and the challenges they face in the World Trade Organization - where the rules that govern the international trading system are set.
MIGRATION CHRONICLES: Revised Edition Kindle Edition
Migration issues make headlines and demand global attention, as millions of Ukrainians, Syrians, Venezuelans and others, pour out of their countries fleeing the scourge of war and persecution and tens of thousands are waiting at the Mexican border to cross over to the US,. This book chronicles the lives of a dozen migrant and refugee families, over a period stretching back to the beginning of the 2Oth century. It starts with the story of the author’s grandfather who migrated to the US and died there in the early 1900’s. It details the lives of people coping with events that shook the world, like the Armenian genocide, the Jewish holocaust, and the demise of the Soviet Union; or simply because they wanted a better life elsewhere. The volume concludes with recommendations on what the global community must do to address today’s migration challenges.
MIGRATION CHRONICLES
It all started with a simple crop failure that forced the author's grandfather to migrate from a small backward Greek village to the U.S. a hundred years ago. It evolved into a saga of tragedy and triumph spanning four generations and two continents. This is a chronicle of the struggles of a Greek immigrant family to survive and prosper in the U.S. and the lives of other immigrants who crossed paths with the Michalopoulos clan. Partly an autobiography, it is also an account of people coping with events that shook the world during the last century, like the Armenian genocide, the Jewish holocaust and the Second World War, or uniquely Greek calamities such as the war with Turkey in 1920-1921, and the civil war of the 1940's.
Aid and Development
Aid and Development. By Anne O. Krueger, Constantine Michalopoulos, and Vernon W. Ruttan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2014
Memoirs
Α fascinating autobiography of the author's father, Nicholaos, a senior military man, growing up in rural Greece, in the early 20th century. Contains extraordinary, first person accounts of Nicholaos' fight againt the Nazis in World War II and during the communist insurrection in the war's aftermath.
