The UK financial system : theory and practice
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The UK financial system : theory and practice
Manchester University Press, 1998
3rd ed
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Previous ed.: 1995
Includes bibliograpical references (p. 400-406) and index
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Transforming conflict through social and economic development examines lessons learned from the Northern Ireland and Border Counties conflict transformation process through social and economic development and their consequent impacts and implications for practice and policymaking, with a range of functional recommendations produced for other regions emerging from and seeking to transform violent conflict. It provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the region's transformation activity, largely amongst grassroots actors, enabled by a number of specific funding programmes, namely the International Fund for Ireland, Peace I, II and III and INTERREG I, II and IIIA. These programmes have been responsible for a huge increase in grassroots practice which to date has attracted virtually no academic analysis; this book seeks to fill this gap.
In focusing on the politics of the socioeconomic activities that underpinned the elite negotiations of the peace process, key theoretical transformation concepts are firstly explored, followed by an examination of the social and economic context of Northern Ireland and the border counties. The three programmes and their impacts are then assessed before considering what policy lessons can be learned and what recommendations can be made for practice. This is underpinned by a range of semi-structured interviews and the author's own experience as a project promoter through these programmes in the border counties for more than a decade.
The book will be essential reading for students, practitioners and policymakers in the fields of peace and conflict studies, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, post-agreement reconstruction and the political economy of conflict and those interested in contemporary developments in the Northern Ireland peace process. -- .
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the financial system
- financial intermediation and financial structure
- retail banking
- wholesale and international banking
- building societies
- investment institutions
- financial markets - introduction
- the market for equities
- interest rates and the bond market
- the sterling money markets
- the foreign exchange market
- Euro-securities markets
- financial derivatives
- managing risk via the financial markets
- the single European Market in financial services
- the efficiency of the UK financial system
- central banking
- regulation of the financial system.
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