Big in Asia

30 strategies for business success

Asia is constantly changing and "Big in Asia" is a completely revised and updated edition of Michael Backman and Charlotte Butler's bestselling book with five additional, entirely new chapters. This book combines management school theory with the grit of Asian corporate realities and is ...

The China code

what's left for us?

China is growing at an extraordinary pace and exerting a powerful influence upon the global economy. As China emerges as a dominating global player, it is also having a significant impact upon America, Europe and Japan in terms of manufacturing, employment and economic arrangements. The ...

China's new consumers

social development and domestic demand

Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand at the centre of which lies exaggerated expectations of China's new consumers. Combining economic trends with the author's anthropological background ...

Trabajo infantil

teoría y lecciones de la América Latina

El trabajo infantil está lejos de ser un asunto trivial. El derecho a una educación adecuada en la infancia y a una juventud sin la obligación de trabajar son principios éticos básicos, y el trabajo infantil puede, en ciertas circunstancias, disminuir los salarios de los ...

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 ...

La economía en América Latina ante el siglo XXI

del Congreso de Washington al pacto de Estabilidad y Crecimiento de la Unión Europea, la cumbre de Monterrey de Naciones Unidas, la agenda del Desarrollo de Barcelona y la Cumbre Iberoamericana de Salamanca

Estudios de historia económica argentina

desde mediados del siglo XX a la actualidad

El hilo conductor de este agudo análisis es el endeudamiento externo argentino desde los primeros gobiernos peronistas hasta la actualidad. El trabajo aborda así la relación de la deuda externa con el capital extranjero, con lo que fue la burguesía nacional y, esencialmente, con el ...

Latin America's political economy of the possible

beyond good revolutionaries and free-marketeers

The political and economic transformation is now emerging in Latin America, as some countries eschew rigid ideologies and adopt a more pragmatic combination of neoclassical orthodoxies and progressive social policies. Neither socialism nor free market neoliberalism has been a very helpful model for Latin America ...

Knockoff

the deadly trade in counterfeit goods

Counterfeiting is one of the fastest growing industries in the world? it is a market worth more than $500 billion, or 7 per cent of the world's trade. In this compelling account, Knockoff exposes the truth behind the fakes and uncovers the shocking consequences ...

Otro mundo, desde abajo y desde dentro

La humanidad nunca ha contado con más conocimientos y medios para producir alimentos, bienes y servicios. Sin duda estamos viviendo en los tiempos más brillantes del ingenio humano, de la creatividad y la productividad de millones de seres humanos desarrollando una capacidad de transformación jamás ...

The regional multinationals

MNEs and "global" strategic management

Although many firms label themselves 'global', very few can back this up with truly global sales and operations. In The Regional Multinationals Alan Rugman examines first-hand data from multinationals and finds that most multinationals are strongly regional, with international operations in their home regions of ...

El poder de la competitividad

Esta obra está motivada por la urgencia de encontrar soluciones a los grandes y pequeños retos que nos aquejan y que erosionan la posición competitiva del país de manera sistemática. Sin empresas que tengan éxito y sin un entorno que lo haga posible, el país ...

El Gran Caribe

Historia, Cultura y Política

Adjusting to globalization

The handbook of international trade

.Vol.II: Economic and legal analyses of trade policy and institutions

Économie politique internationale

Liberal internationalism and the decline of the state

the thought of Richard Cobden, David Mitrany, and Kenichi Ohmae

The state and the global ecological crisis

Countering the current view of many environmental activists that sovereign nations cannot provide effective environmental governance, The State and the Global Ecological Crisis offers analyses and case studies that explore the prospects for "reinstating the state" as a facilitator of progressive environmental change rather than ...

The rise of spanish multinationals

european business in the global economy

Since 1992, Spanish companies in a variety of industries have acquired a prominent presence in the global economy, especially in Latin America and Europe. Companies such as Telefónica, Banco Santander, Repsol-YPF and Inditex (the owner of the Zara brand) have catapulted themselves to become major ...

Identifying international financial contagion

progress and challenges

This book reviews the state-of-the-art of the literature on international financial contagion. The individual contributions bridge the gap between econometric theory and evidence, while the comprehensive range of financial market and country regions under consideration highlights the future challenges facing econometricians, international policymakers, and financial ...