Turismo

más allá del ocio y del negocio

En los últimos cien años el turismo se ha convertido en el negocio más importante del mundo, muy pocos países cuestionan que el sendero del desarrollo económico está asfaltado con los dólares del turismo. Se analiza por primera vez la estrecha relación entre el ámbito ...

Poverty and exclusion in North and South

essays on social policy and global poverty reduction

Since 1990 there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialized countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North ...

Global markets and the developing economy

E.V.K. FitzGerald takes a fresh approach to the macroeconomics of developing countries, based on the influence of global markets on domestic savings, private investment, firm behaviours, employment levels and income distribution. He suggests that a Keynesian approach is still relevant today when reformulated ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Effective domestic debt

management in developing countries

A compendium prepared by the Economic and Legal Advisory Services Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat

The size of nations

The authors of this timely and provocative book use the tools of economic analysis to examine the formation and change of political borders. They argue that while these issues have always been at the core of historical analysis, international economists have tended to regard the ...

Regionalism, multilateralism, and economic integration

the recent experience

In recent years, the central question relating to regional trade agreements has been whether or not they have led to a new form of economic cooperation by promoting deeper integration in the regulatory structures of the participating countries. The answer to this question has profound ...

El precio de un sueño

[los microcréditos, un a alternativa para el progreso]

El precio de un sueño, publicado por la Universidad de Chicago, es el relato de la sorprendente historia de una exitosa organización para el desarrollo. Fundado en Bangladesh (India) en 1076, el Banco Grameen ha concedido préstamos a más de dos millones de mujeres. Por ...

Perspectives on growth and poverty

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may ...

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 ...

Translational conflitcts

Central America, social change and globalization

Contemporary capitalism has disrupted the conventional pattern of revolutionary upheaval, civil wars and pacification in Central America. This study maps the transnational processes that have shaped the region's past and its possible futures

Globalization in historical perspective

As awareness of globalization grows, so too does our need to understand it historically. This volume is one of few to consider globalization in the context of the history of international trade: its eleven papers explore how the process of globalization can be measured by ...

Economic dynamics in transitional economies

the Four-P governments, the EU-enlargement, and the Bruxelles consensus

Examines the post-Communist, transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe

Construir la paz

Dalai Lama, Kate Dewes, Richard Falk, Jostein Gaarder, Tulle Elster, Mijaíl Gorbachov, Sheikh Hasina, Nelson Mandela, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Howard Zinn y 25 autores más. Si sueño solo, se trata de sólo un sueño, pero si soñamos juntos, es el comienzo de una nueva realidad ...

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 ...

The globalization reader

Globalization effectively captures the growth of linkages across national boundaries, the global expansion of a market economy and the rise of a complex but integrated world society. "The Globalization Reader" makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debates. The ...

Intégrations euro-méditerranéenne et stratégies economiques

Le libre-échange avec l'Europe impose aux Pays du Sud et de l'Est de la Méditerranée (PSEM) une révolution économique: passer d'une économie fermée, fortement encadrée par l'État, à une économie déprotégée, régulée selon une logique de marché ouvert. Les acteurs économiques ...

El entorno económico actual

INDICE 1.La globalización 2.Las migraciones 3.Los procesos de integración económica 4.El papel de los organismos internacionales 5. Las nuevas tecnologías: su impacto en el crecimiento económico 6. Retos para el futuro

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 ...

El despertar de la nueva China

implicaciones del ingresio de China en la Organización Mundial del Comercio

China constituye uno de los focos más dinámicos de crecimiento económico a escala mundial, por lo que la evolución de este país está siendo objeto de atención por la comunidad internacional de forma continuada. El ingreso de China en la Organización Mundial del Comercio(OMC ...