La nueva Asia Central

realidades y desafíos

World Bank Atlas 2003

Brasil

Información Comercial Española. Revista de Economía, Nº 810, 2003

La España del siglo XX

Economía, demografía y sociedad

Durante el siglo XX, España experimentó una profunda transformación que afectó a todos los planos de la realidad nacional. En este volumen se analizan aquellos cambios producidos en los ámbitos económico, demográfico, social y cultural. Aunque con notable discontinuidades y violentas rupturas, el proceso de ...

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 ...

Japan's economic recovery

commercial policy, monetary policy, and corporate governance

The contributors to this book, from the US and Japan, explore the main issues involved in the international trade, foreign direct investment and macro/financial relations of the US and Japan and provide guidance to policymakers for measures to help overcome Japan's economic stagnation ...

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 ...

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 ...

African economic development

Growth and development are among the most exciting subjects in economics, and the application of their principles to African economies is both needed and timely. African Economic Development comprises a collection of articles written especially for this volume, which offer an authoritative statement about economic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 shift

reshaping the global economic map in the 21st century

This fourh edition of Global Shift has been completely updated and thoroughly revised. It provides: -a detailed account of the theories informing the globalization debate -comprehensive discussion of the interplay between transnational corporations, states, and changing technologies -sectoral case studies, including services, each of which ...

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 ...

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 ...