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Mendez, Ruben Policarpio was born on June 28, 1933 in Manila, Philippines. Came to United States, 1948. Son of Mauro and Paz Policarpio Mendez.
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This pathbreaking text develops a seminal theory and discipline of international public finance, for the first time advancing public economics into the international arena. Offering a new post-Cold War approach that combines support for development, the environment, and international peacekeeping, it proposes an original system of global cooperation, resource allocation, taxation, and financing, focusing on the global commons and conflicts between environmental concerns and the economic needs of developing nations. Written to appeal to students at many levels, the book synthesizes and clarifies a wide range of theoretical, historical, and practical issues. It examines the very concept of finance and traces its development through its separation into private and public spheres. It then provides an overview of public finance theory, extending the main elements of the theory into an international context, with discussions of market failures, distributional equity, the political process, and coordination and stabilization among nations. Finally, the author shows how international public finance developed into its present patchwork of voluntary contributions and oligarchic power structures, and offers instead a comprehensive, systematic approach comprising international taxation, management of the global commons to generate revenues for international use, monetary and other measures, and international institutional reform. The book's theoretical framework puts important environmental, economic, and political issues into a fresh perspective, while its practical recommendations cover important subjects usually neglected, including disputed commons such as Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, the deep ocean bed, the high seas, air space, the electromagnetic spectrum, the geostationary orbit, and the pollution of what is apparently our last frontier--outer space--with high-speed "space junk." A pioneering exploration of a topic of vital and growing concern to most of the Earth's people, International Public Finance is a basic resource for a great variety of courses in development, finance, public administration, international relations, and environmental studies.
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The Riverdale Yacht Club is a small private association on the shoreline of the Hudson River in the Riverdale section of New York City's borough of The Bronx. While author Ruben Mendez furnishes a chronicle of the institution, he also discloses valuable historical information about Riverdale, the Hudson River, the building of what is today the Metro-North railroad's Hudson Division, and the creation of the New York-New Jersey Palisades into an interstate park. Founded in 1931, the yacht club's first decade coincided with the Great Depression. During World War II, over sixty of its members served in the military. Mendez not only describes the sports and other activities that occurred on the club's ground, he also provides thumbnail sketches of some noted members. They include Nobel Prize laureates; professors, deans and presidents of institutions of higher education; journalists; authors; diplomats; medical doctors; lawyers; and other figures of historical importance. Thus he has produced a work recounting a little-known, but essential part of the history of The Bronx and of New York City. Lloyd Ultan Bronx Borough Historian
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Mendez, Ruben Policarpio was born on June 28, 1933 in Manila, Philippines. Came to United States, 1948. Son of Mauro and Paz Policarpio Mendez.
AB cum laude, Harvard University, 1953. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1984.
Economist Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, New York City, 1959-1963. Economic adviser to chairman National Economic Council, Manila, 1964-1966. Project officer United Nations Special Fund, New York City, 1963-1965.
Various positions United Nations Development Program, Africa, Asia, 1966-1993. Chief economic advisor United Nations Environmental Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 1977-1981. Principal officer, historian United Nations Development Program, New York City, since 1993.
Adjunct professor, fellow, visiting lecturer New York University, since 1991, Columbia University, 1992, Yale University, since 1994. Consultant Oxford University Press, New York, 1999-2000. Panelist academic and mixed intergovernmental conferences United States, Europe and Latin America.
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Yale representative Academy Council on United Nations Systems, 1997-1998. Member American Economic Association, New York Academy of Sciences, Society International Development, Harvard Club (New York City), Harvard Faculty Club, Riverdale Yacht Club, United Kenya Club (Nairobi).
Married Matilda Currier McEwen, April 8, 1961. Children: Katherine McEwen, Tomas Currier.