Built for growth

expanding your business around the corner or across the globe

"A valuable primer on all aspects of retail: brand, location, people, finance, property management, expansion strategy, and long-term thinking. Rubinfeld understands the difficulty of the small guy getting started and the big guy keeping the brand fresh. Even an experienced retailer will want to stop ...

El marco de los negocios en China

aspectos prácticos

El auge de China como potencia económica mundial, es uno de los fenómenos globales de mayor importancia en el presente siglo. Sin embargo, China presenta una serie de peculiaridades que es necesario conocer por todo aquel que desee realizar negocios en el país: la existencia ...

La empresa multinacional

gobernanza y responsabilidad social

ÍNDICE: Prólogo.- 1. Inversión directa en el exterior y alianzas internacionales.- 2. Internacionalización de la producción. Estrategias de integración.- 3. Estrategia y estructura de la empresa multinacional.- 4. La promoción de inversiones exteriores.- 5. El ámbito cultural de la empresa multinacional.- 6. La responsabilidad social ...

El área del libre comercio euromediterránea

hitos conseguidos y perspectivas futuras = The euromediterranean free- trade area : objetives and targets ahead

La obra consta de tres partes. Una parte introductoria en la que se ofrece un balance de los 50 años de cooperación y 10 años de asociación de la Unión Europea con los países del Sur y Este del Mediterráneo. La segunda integra un interesante ...

Operativa y práctica del comercio exterior

Este libro es una completa inroducción para usuarios sin formación previa en la materia que presenta los conocimientos y técnicas fundamentales a aplicar en la gestión de un departamento de exportación.

Estrategia y gestión del comercio exterior

Ofrece una visión integrada de la dirección comercial internacional y aporta una formación rigurosa y completa, a usuarios ya familiarizados con las técnicas básicas, para permitirles identificar las variables que intervienen en la toma de decisiones en materia de negocios internacionales.

La contratación internacional

INDICE: La negociación de contratos internacionacionales. El marco de la contratación internacional. Las condiciones de entrega internacional de mercancías y los incoterms 2000. La compraventa internacional: Parte General. La compraventa internacional: recepción de la mercancías, aspectos financieros y jurídicos. El contrato de agencia comercial internacional ...

International finance

The markets and financial management of multinational business

In this fourth edition, Maurice Levi successfully integrates both the micro and macro aspects of international finance. The author explores managerial issues and focuses on problems that arise from financial trading relations between nations, whilst covering key topics such as: · organisation of foreign exchange markets ...

Insurance against poverty

Poor people in developing countries are often affected by droughts, floods, illness, crop failure, job loss, and economic downturns. Informal insurance mechanisms provide some protection, but are weak in the face of major or recurring calamities. Most people cannot obtain formal insurance, and the lack ...

The plain language guide to the world summit on sustainable development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates with the goal of mapping out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting 54-page technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), outlining government priorities and ...

Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

Economic development finance

Economic Development Finance is a comprehensive and in-depth presentation of private, public, and community financial institutions, policies and methods for financing local and regional economic development projects. The treatment of policies and program models emphasizes their applications and impact, key design and management issues, and ...

The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy

an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy takes the reader on a fascinating, around-the-world journey to reveal the economic and political lessons from the life story of a simple t-shirt. Over five years, business professor Pietra Rivoli traveled from a Texas cotton field ...

La relaciones de la UE con sus vecinos mediterráneos

entre la frustración y la esperanza

El Mediterráneo muestra una preocupante imagen de inestabilidad y escaso desarrollo, con brechas crecientes entre ambas orillas. A los factores estructurales ya conocidos, con el conflicto árabe-israelí a la cabeza, se unen la inseguridad generada por la ilegal campaña militar contra Iraq y la amenaza ...

Ending global poverty

a guide to what works

Two out of every three people in the world live on less than two dollars a day. This is a grim statistic but hundreds of millions of people are breaking free from poverty with the help of grass-roots programs and organizations funded by regular people ...

Communities and communication

building urban partnerships

This book compares three great cities of the South, Nairobi, Colombo and Rio de Janeiro, to explore how local government interacts with the communities of the cities, and to discover how communication can lead to partnership. The authors explore what partnership means, arguing that it ...

Methods in development research

combinig qualitative and quantitative approaches

Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness that the value of research can be enhanced ...

Small customers, big market

commercial banks in microfinance

The end of poverty

how we can make it happen in our lifetime

Marrying vivid, passionate storytelling with profound, rigorous analysis, Jeffrey Sachs explains why, over the past two hundred years, wealth has diverged across the planet and why the poorest nations have so far been unable to improve their lot. He explains how to arrive at an ...

La cooperación internacional con los pueblos indígenas

desarrollo y derechos humanos

¿Cómo se define a los pueblos indígenas? ¿Qué derechos específicos tienen? ¿Cuál es su situación actual? ¿Cuáles sus perspectivas de futuro? ¿Cómo se conjuga el respeto a sus tradiciones con las normas de los Estados en los que habitan? Éste es el primer libro publicado ...