La protección de la familia en la Unión Europea

análisis comparado y simulación de reformas aplicadas a España

El envejecimiento demográfico, la caída de la natalidad, la conciliación de la vida familiar y laboral o los fenómenos de dependencia han aumentado el protagonismo de las políticas familiares en los últimos años. La protección de la familia constituye uno de los principios rectores del ...

El mercado interior europeo

las libertades económicas comunitarias: mercancías, personas, servicios y capitales

El mercado interior constituye el eje central del proceso de integración económica europea y uno de sus principales logros más visibles. Esta obra se centra en el análisis pormenorizado de las libertades de circulación que representan el núcleo fundamental de este gran mercado único. Esta ...

Competition policy in the European Union

This is a new edition of the only book to provide an overview of the political dimensions of EU competition policy. It is a comprehensively revised and updated edition of the leading text on EU competition policy. It is accessible and non-technical but informed by ...

El Tribunal de Cuentas Europeo

la superación de sus limitaciones mediante la colaboración institucional

Este estudio pretende, analizar en profundidad el Tribunal de Cuentas con dos son los objetivos primordiales: ofrecer al lector un conocimiento actualizado sobre el Tribunal en cuanto a marco jurídico e interpretación doctrinal; y elaborar un análisis empírico de la actuación del Tribunal que permita ...

Ireland and the European Union

Ireland's membership in the European Union has coincided with its transformation from a peripheral poor state into a dynamic economy with a level of wealth in line with the union's core states. This has led to great interest in the Irish model among ...

The future of Europe

reform or decline

Unless Europe takes action soon, its further economic and political decline is almost inevitable, economists Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi write in this provocative book. Without comprehensive reform, continental Western Europe's overprotected, overregulated economies will continue to slow - and its political influence will become ...

Fiscal policy in the European Union

edited by Jesús Ferreiro, Giuseppe Fontana and Felipe Serrano--------------------- This book offers a comprehensive analysis of national fiscal policies in the EU and EMU and provides insights into the consequences of these policies on economic activity.It offers a comprehensive analysis of national fiscal policies ...

Unveiling the Council of the European Union

games governments play in Brussels

edited by Daniel Naurin and Helen Wallace------------------------------------------------------- For a long time our textbook knowledge of what is happening in the Council of the European Union - the major decision forum of the EU - was to a large extent based on limited interview-based evidence. One reason for ...

European Union encyclopedia and directory 2009

This ninth edition of this well-informed and comprehensive "Encyclopedia and Directory" charts the European Union's development. Thoroughly updated, this extensive reference source provides in-depth information on all matters relating to the European Union: the expansion of the EU under the Nice Treaty is covered ...

Global rice and agricultural trade liberalisation

poverty and welfare omplications for South Asia

Rice has long been one of the most protected commodities in world trade. Now the probable significant liberalisation of trade in rice is likely to have huge welfare implications for many countries dependent on its production and trade, particularly those in South Asia. This book ...

Natural gas in Asia

the challenges of growth in China, India, Japan, and Korea

The next decade will be crucial for Asian gas markets and determine whether natural gas will become a major fuel in the key energy markets of China, India, Japan and Korea, or will remain a "promising" but peripheral energy source. Natural Gas in Asia is ...

The second world

empires and influence in the new global order

This book provides a bold and visionary tour of the most important, and least understood, countries shaping the future of the global order. At the end of the Cold War, we found ourselves living in a world with one superpower, the United States. Now, at ...

International migration

a very short introduction

Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of woman migrating? This very short introduction looks at the global phenomenon of ...

Asia, cada vez más cerca

Les déséquilibres financiers internationaux

Face à l'énorme déficit de la balance courante américaine, les pays d'Asie comme les pays exportateurs de pétrole ont accumulé des excédents tout aussi spectaculaires. L'économie la plus riche de la planète emprunte ainsi massivement à des pays beaucoup moins développés. Comment ...

The Jurisprudence of GATT and the WTO

insights on treaty Law and economic relations

This book contains a selection of essays and articles by John H. Jackson previously published over four decades and collected together into one volume. Each article has been selected for its continued relevance to contemporary issues in international trade. Particular attention has been given to ...

Los Estados Unidos y el ascenso de China

implicaciones para el orden mundial

Análisis con trasfondo histórico del estado actual de las relaciones bilaterales entre China y los Estados Unidos y de los elementos que hacen de esta cuestión un factor determinante para la composición del sistema internacional. Con experiencia diplomática en Asia Central y en la Organización ...

Los Derechos Humanos y la OMC

La economía internacional siglo XXI

Free trade reimagined

the world division of labor and the method of economics