Los transportes y los servicios postales

informe anual 2002

The no-nonsense guide to global media

Postal savings and fiscal investment in Japan

the PSS and the FILP

Japan's Postal Savings System (PSS) and Fiscal Investment and Loan Programme (FILP) are major institutional features of Japanese finance that support a wide ranging system of government financial intermediation. Despite their size and importance, they have not received extensive attention outside of Japan. These ...

Arab economic integration

between hope and reality

Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Meeting these challenges requires ...

La identidad de la televisión pública

evolución de sus fundamentos económicos, políticos e ideológicos

The new political economy of Russia

Can Russia's burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian economy: to narrow the productivity gap between Russian and Western firms and ...

Los nuevos gobernantes del mundo

En este libro,John Pilger hace un alegato contra la globalización de la economía,la comunicación y la pobreza en un mundo donde el ochenta por ciento de la riqueza está en manos de un grupo minoritario.Sin duda,el mismo grupo que controla los ...

Doing business with China

This new edition of Doing Business with China marks the country´s first two historic events of the twenty-first century. On 11 December 2001, it finally became a member of the Word Trade Organization, and on 15 November of the same year, with the official ...

Global governance

an architecture for the world economy

Globalization deeply affects economic structures and raises the issue of how governments should respond to new challenges. In this book, various ways of improving the institutional setup for global governance are discussed by renowned experts. The discussion focuses on further liberalizing international trade, preventing international ...

The diversity advantage

multicultural identity in the new world economy

Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago, stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What are the qualities that will ensure the continued dominance of US culture, society and business? In this text G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the ...

The end of diversity?

prospects for German and Japanese capitalism

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing US capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties ...

Challenges to the world economy

Festschrift to Horst Sieber

This volume, in a sense, aims at reflecting the qualities of the honoree and it does so in two respects. On the one hand, it covers a great variety of subdisciplines of economics. On the other hand, the book ranges from theoretical and mathematical economics ...

Historia de Iraq

Este recorrido por la historia de Iraq es la historia de un conflicto social, de la lucha por el poder entre clanes rivales, de la hostilidad y las guerras entre Estados vecinos, pero también de sus secuelas y de las cada vez peores relaciones de ...

Tiempos difíciles. Guerra y poder en el sistema internacional

Anuario CIP 2003

El Anuario CIP 2003 aborda las siguientes cuestiones: *Los cambios en el sistema mundial *La guerra contra Irak *EEUU: ¿renace el Imperio? *El futuro de China y la UE *La campaña "antiterrorista" de Putin en Chechenia *Incertidumbres en América Latina *Adiós a la paz en ...

Turismo y conjuntos monumentales

capacidad de acogida turística y gestión de flujos de visitantes

Economic and financial crises in emerging market economies

In the late 1990s, economic and financial crises raged through East Asia, devastating economies that had previously been considered among the strongest in the developing world. The crises eventually spread to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America, and impacted the economies of many industrialized nations as ...

Gold and the modern world economy

Respected international experts such as Michael Bordo, Larry Sjaastad and Ken Clements are brought together in this comprehensive volume to provide all you need to know about gold and the modern world economy INDICE Gold and the world economy - overview Western Australian mineral commodity outlook ...

The economics of Russian transition

The end of the Cold War saw an unprecedented number of countries changing economic policies at the same time. One result has been the emergence of a new field of economics, postcommunist transformation theory. Written by prominent Russian analysts, the essays in this book discuss ...

The world economy

global trade policy 2002

This volume is the ninth in an annual series in which top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Each annual volume examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements ...

Sistema español de indicadores ambientales de turismo. Spanish system of environmental tourism indicators