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 ...

El mundo chino

Hace cincuenta años que Mao Zedong proclamó el nacimiento de la República popular China pero, aún hoy, ese inmenso país es incomprensible para nosotros, occidentales, si lo aislamos de su formidable dimensión histórica. Esta historia general de China y de su civilización es el único ...

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 ...

El Gran Caribe

Historia, Cultura y Política

Brasil y la economía social de mercado

Committee decisions on monetary policy

evidence from historical records of the Federal Open Market Committee

Russia in the 21st Century

the prodigal superpower

This book demonstrates that Russia intends to re-emerge as a full fledged superpower before 2010 that would challenge America and China and potentially threaten a new arms race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this goal is easily within the Kremlin's grasp, but the cost to ...

Economies of the World

This new title provides up-to- date information on the economies of the world. Listed by country, Economies of the World details of each country's trade, finance, and industries.

The making of the State entreprise system in Modern China

the dynamics of institutional change

Towards a labour market in China

Combining remarkable economic transition and dynamic growth, China may well have the most fascinating economy in the world. Over the period of economic reform China has moved from an administered labour system towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation, involving ...

The evolution of the US airline industry

theory, strategy and policy

The Evolution of the US Airline Industry discusses the evolution of the hub-and-spoke network system and the associated price discrimination strategy, as the post-deregulation dominant business model of the major incumbent airlines and its breakdown in the early 2000s. It highlights the role that aircraft ...

The public financing of pharmaceuticals

an economic approach

This book provides a complete approach to the economics of financing medicines and policy implications for the efficiency and equity of health systems. In all health systems with majority public financing, pharmaceutical reimbursement is one of the key factors in policies of change and transformation ...

Economía china

su prospectiva en los bloques del siglo XXI

La irrupción de la demanda china de bienes y servicios en los mercados mundiales es una señal clara de que el eje económico mundial comienza a desplazarse hacia el Lejano Oriente bajo los impulsos del colosal desarrollo económico de esa Nación. Para Carlos García Martínez ...

Tourism and hotel development in China

from political to economic success

Tourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success is a comprehensive guide to the development of the tourism industry in Mainland China following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Conceived as a textbook but equally valuable as a professional resource for consultants ...

Kellogg on China

strategies for Success

As the People's Republic of China continues to implement the various economic commitments it made as part of its admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the environment for multinational corporations in China is changing rapidly. This book examines some of the changes WTO ...

Made in China

what western managers can learn from trailblazing chinese entrepreneurs

Executives worldwide have studied and emulated U.S. entrepreneurs from Bill Gates to Michael Dell. Yet, we know next to nothing about the pioneers who are reshaping the world's second largest economy: China. In the face of murky ownership structures, inconsistent access to capital ...