This book provides a full account of a totally new approach to making international comparisons in the field of special needs education. It makes comparisons of students with disabilities, learning or behaviour difficulties and disadvantages on the basis of the additional resources made...

This paper applies structural econometric methodology to estimating and forecasting the greater London office market. We assemble a time series covering the 1970-1995 period and estimate equations for net space absorption, movements in rents and new building orders. Together with two identities,...

By focusing on the concrete history of attempts by the two major newly industrialized countries (NICs) - Brazil and South Korea - to promote indigenous innovation in the computer industry, the paper explores the interaction of state structures and industrial organization in shaping developmental...

Institutions and economic adjustment / Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman -- International influence on economic policy: Debt, stabilization, and structural reform / Barbara Stallings -- External influence, conditionality, and the politics of adjustment / Miles Kahler -- The state as problem...

We argue that several easily identifiable structural features constitute the key ingredients of effective state bureaucracies and should help to predict ratings of bureaucratic performance: competitive salaries, internal promotion and career stability, and meritocratic recruitment. We collect a...