La asociación estratégica entre la Unión Europea y América Latina

¿Se consolidará el espacio euro- latinoamericano en un futuro próximo? ¿Son compatibles los modelos de libre comercio europeo y norteamericano? ¿Existe una posibilidad de entendimiento entre América Latina y Europa? Éstas son las cuestiones de fondo que nos asaltan cuando reflexionamos sobre las claves que ...

La banca en el comercio internacional

La globalización imparable en la que estamos inmersos, está incidiendo directamente en el cambio de las economías a nivel mundial, afectando a todas las fases de la actividad empresarial y a su vez a las relaciones contractuales, comercial es y financieras, que están ligadas obligatoriamente ...

Corporate investment opportunities in the new Europe

Now that Cyprus, Malta and eight new countries from East and Central Europe have successfully joined the EU, their European neighbours and business partners in the rest of the world are watching closely to see what sustainable investment opportunities may develop. This new title looks ...

Poverty traps

Much popular belief - and public policy - rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape. But the persistence of poverty and ever- growing economic inequality around the world have led many economists to seriously question the model of ...

How Europe's economies learn

coordinating competing models

When seeking to bench mark the performance of European economies, commentators often look to compare them to the economies of Japan and the United States. "How Europe's Economies Learn" shows how this is seriously misleading, and how any such comparison needs to be complemented ...

Sovereign debt at the crossroads

challenges and proposals for resolving the third world debt crisis

Recent world events have created a compelling need for new perspectives and realistic solutions to the problem of sovereign debt. The success of the Jubilee 2000 movement in raising public awareness of the devastating effects of debt, coupled with the highly publicized Bono/O'Neill ...

International competition policy

maintaining open markets in the global economy

The opening up of world markets, rapid growth of trade and foreign direct investment create manifold problems for competition policy. Thus, international mergers may have adverse effects on many countries, international cartels may carve up world markets and dominant firms may seek to maintain their ...

The emergence of China

opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean

China is emerging as a truly global economic and political power. China's impact on Latin America and the Caribbean region is mixed, however-- fostering a trade market for some countries, but creating competition for others. This pioneering volume, produced by the Inter-American Development Bank ...

Operadores logísticos

claves y perspectivas de los servicios de los operadores logísticos

Este libro expone las claves y las perspectivas de las actividades de los operadores logísticos que intervienen en la cadena de suministro de las empresas. Perspectivas histórica del transporte, la logística y la gestión empresarial. La globalización de los mercados y las empresas. Operadores logísticos ...

Electricity services in remote rural communities

the small enterprise model

This work describes the design and use of a particular management model for electricity services in isolated rural communities. This model was designed with the clear objective of efficient financial and technical management, taking into account the social and economic environment and the committed participation ...

International competitiveness and technological change

Technological change is central in explaining industrial leadership, but the relationships and interactions between scientific research, industrial innovation, and competitiveness are neither clear nor straightforward. Public research funding and business strategy dictate to a significant extent the manner in, and extent to which innovation occurs ...

European integration

methods and economic analysis

The third edition offers a fundamental discussion, and detailed analysis, of European integration. Uniquely it combines economic analysis with a detailed knowledge of the integration methods employed in the EU. Whilst being academically rigorous and assuming some prior knowledge, it is full of practical examples ...

The economics of european integration

theory, practice, policy

Through four previous editions "The Economics of European Integration" by Willem Molle has established itself as a preferred textbook for students of the economics of the EU as well as a reliable reference work for those with a professional interest in the European Union. Carefully ...

El comercio justo en España 2006

Analiza la trayectoria del Comercio Justo de los últimos cinco años en nuestro país, la situación de la certificación de estos productos en España y los efectos que esta potente herramienta de desarrollo tiene para los productores y cooperativas de los países del Sur.

Financiación internacional de la empresa

The new generations of europeans

demography and families in the enlarged European Union

Analysing the alarming European demographic trends: aging populations, shrinking families, dropping fertility rates and mass migration, this title presents the potential ramifications for pensions, health, housing, transport, the family unit and more in over 100 tables and graphs along with a full discussion. From a ...

El precio de un sueño

la aventura de Muhammad Yunus y el Grameen bank

El libro trata de un fenómeno nuevo que se extiende por el mundo; los emprendedores sociales. Gente que pone toda su experiencia al servicio de proyectos que pueden cambiar radicalmente la comunidad en la que viven y todo esto, sin ánimo de lucro. En Estados ...

El siglo de China

de Mao a primera potencia mundial

Ramón Tamames analiza en esta obra los principales hitos de la evolución de China: desde la fundación de la República Popular por Mao en 1949 hasta la actualidad, cuando ya se manifiesta como primera potencia mundial del siglo XXI.

Reivindicar el desarrollo

un manual de política econçomica alternativa

"No hay alternativa»# a la economía neoliberal, a la americanización de las economías mundiales ni a la globalización. Ésta sigue siendo la suposición impulsora de la clase dirigente en materia de política internacional de desarrollo. En este libro dos economistas, Ha-Joon Chang e Ilene Grabel ...

Gestión internacional de crisis

La respuesta a la devastación producida por un tsunami, la prevención ante una pandemia provocada por infecciones virales, la preparación de una operación pacificadora en una guerra civil, la vigilancia de indicadores selectivos que anuncian la inminencia de desestabilizadores conflictos sociales, grandes alteraciones económicas o ...