European Union economics

European Union Economics is ideal for students of economics, business, finance and government who wish to have a comprehensible and clear picture of the European Union and its policies. This new edition retains the style of previous editions and continues to focus on the economic ...

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 ...

International political economy

state-market relations in a changing global order

Finance of international trade

Introduction to International Trade Finance covers the complete cycle of international trade and explains the roles of the specialist operators. Introduction to International Trade Finance aims to: Guide the reader through every phase of typical trade transactions, examining in detail the relationships between the various ...

Los riesgos y su cobertura en el comercio internacional

La actividad exterior, por sus especiales características, se desenvuelve en un entorno de incertidumbre mucho más acusado que en el comercio doméstico, lo que obliga al empresario a tener que soportar un mayor número de sobresaltos y contingencias. Para enfrentarse a tales eventualidades, lo primero ...

Global economic prospects

and the developing countries

La Europa de las migraciones

por una política proactiva de la inmigración

Developement policy as public finance

How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost- benefit analysis as a ...

The handbook of country risk 2003-2004

a guide to international business and trade

Global governance and financial crises

Are global financial markets rational or are manias possible? Should crises be allowed to run their course and purge the system? Should a lender of last resort intervene to dampen their impact on the real economy? This text addresses these and other questions. The editors ...

La inversión directa extranjera en España en la década final del siglo XX

nuevas perspectivas

Subdesarrollo e innovación

navegando contra el viento

La obra de Arocena y Sutz constituye una importante y novedosa contribución desde la óptica latinoamericana a la reflexión sobre la naturaleza de los procesos de innovación y de su impacto sobre el desarrollo. El libro es el fruto de una continuada labor de análisis ...

EL ALCA y las cumbres de las Américas

¿una nueva relación público-privada?

Un equipo de invetigadores de distintas instituciones de la región, coordinados por el Programa de Estudios sobre Instituciones Económicas Internacionales (PIE) de FLACSO- Argentina y con el apoyo de la Fundación Ford, analiza los alcances e impactos de esta nueva dialéctica generada entre gobiernos, mercados ...

Contratos y exportación y comercio electrónico

Recientemente se ha aprobado en España una nueva Ley que regula el comercio electrónico. A la luz de esa Ley, de las Directivas europeas sobre la materia y la legislación y práctica internacional, el presente manual analiza los varios aspectos legales que concurren en una ...

Political economy of transition and development

institutions, politics and policies

The economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe has now entered its second decade. Although the post-communist countries shared many similarities at the outset of the transition, their economic and political experiences have been strongly divergent. Some countries succeeded in stabilizing their economies ...

Corporate governance and capital flows in a global economy

This volume is a timely and insightful exploration into the issues of corporate governance and the impact of corporate governance practices on investments in developing countries. It analyzes global aspects of governance in relation to such issues as corporate performance, privatization, venture capitalism, and workers ...

Aspectos financiero, administrativo y jurisdiccional de las ayudas de Estado en la Unión Europea

El tema de las «ayudas de estado» (en minúscula porque no comprende tan sólo las medidas adoptadas por el Estado, como entidad, sino también de otros Entes públicos, como las Comunidades Autónomas, Entes Locales, etc.) es un tema novedoso que surge con la integración de ...

Trade, inequality, and justice

toward a liberal theory of just trade

Recent crises in trade policy and globalization highlight both the problematic role of economic inequality in international trade law and the shortcomings of contemporary, largely economic, approaches to this problem and to international trade law generally. This book argues for an alternative approach to the ...

Rio plus ten

politics, poverty and environment

Rio Plus Ten took place in South Africa in 2002. In this book, the authors revisit the agenda established in Rio ten years ago and cover the events of the intervening years: global warming and the unfolding of the arguments over climate change, GM crops ...

The Kimchi matters

global business and local politics in a crisis-driven world

Globalization hype has obscured a few basic truths-that political stability and economic growth are usually determined on the local level,and that they're most affected by local institutions, local ledarship,and other such factors.Tha Kimchi Matters shows that globalization (and events like the ...