Desarrollo

Todo el mundo está a favor del desarrollo, que en la mente de las personas ha llegado a equipararse con casi todas las facetas de la buena sociedad. No obstante, pocas veces se define el término y, menos aún, se pondera o pone en tela ...

The growth map

economic opportunity in the BRICs and beyond

Ten years ago, Jim O'Neill made a startling prediction: that the world would no longer be run from New York, London or Tokyo. A new era was rising in which Brazil, Russia, India and China, overflowing with raw materials and ambition, would overtake the ...

Prosperidad sin crecimiento

economia para un planeta finito

¿Es hora de replantearse el crecimiento económico? El debate ha comenzado. Es la polémica más importante de nuestro tiempo. Hace falta una macroeconomía ecológica sin crecimiento. "Tim Jackson admite que el bienestar material es un componente esencial de la prosperidad, y que el crecimiento económico ...

The limits to growth revised

"The Limits to Growth" (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, "The Limits to Growth" was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at ...

Economics and the challenge of global warming

Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the central environmental issue of the twenty-first century. It avoids a technical exposition in order to reach a wide audience and is up ...

Globalization and new international public works agreements in developing countries

an analytical perspective

This book scrutinizes the new legal nature and stipulations of International Public Works Agreements and provides an in-depth analysis of new forms of infrastructure agreements which have been created in developing countries, such as PPPs. The volume also examines the direct impact of the new ...

Understanding long-run economic growth

geography, institutions, and the knowledge economy

The conditions for sustainable growth and development are among the most debated topics in economics, and the consensus is that institutions matter greatly in explaining why some economies are more successful than others over time. "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth" explores the relationship between economic conditions ...

La silenciosa conquista china

una investigación por 25 países para descubrir cómo la potencia del siglo XXI está forjando su futura economía

Basada en su creciente poderío económico, su particular modelo autoritario y el músculo de 1.300 millones de personas, China está convirtiéndose en la potencia hegemónica del siglo XXI. La crisis económica de 2008, cuyas consecuencias han afectado profundamente a Occidente, no ha hecho más ...

The four colors of business growth

Defining an organization by its growth strategy enables business leaders to make better decisions about the ways their companies compete. Anjan Thakor's four categories of growth, which he arranges into the Competing Values Framework, delivers methods for developing strategies grounded in internal cultures and ...

Pillars of prosperity

the political economics of development clusters

"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a ...

Creating wealth

growing local economies with local currencies

Local currencies have been introduced in thousands of communities around the world in response to the economic crisis because they offer an alternative to money as a way of meeting important human needs. Community leaders can mobilise assets using complementary currencies to address social and ...

Political parties, business groups, and corruption in developing countries

Political corruption is one of the globe's most pressing yet seemingly permanent problems. It is a root cause of low growth and inequality, and plagues numerous nations throughout the world in varying degrees. In the past, it proved difficult to measure, and the political ...

A pesar de los dioses

el extraño ascenso de la India moderna

Un libro sobre las transformaciones político-económicas y sociales de un país cuyo futuro afectará de forma creciente al resto del mundo «El presente libro no es un canto de amor a la cultura y las antigüedades de la India. He leído demasiadas alabanzas a la ...

La disminución de la desigualdad en la América Latina

¿un decenio de progreso?

Serie de ensayos que examinan la disminución de los niveles de desigualdad del ingreso en América Latina, a través de una variada muestra de análisis y estudios profundos para los casos de Argentina, Brasil, México y Perú. El libro pone de manifiesto los factores principales ...

Los métodos de decisión multicriterio y su aplicación al análisis del desarrollo local

aplicación de un caso en los municipios de la Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León

En el interés de comprender la organización territorial de los países, cada vez es más necesario estudiar el entorno socioeconómico de las regiones y de las localidades. En un mundo dominado por el enfoque macro, el enfoque micro ha sido uno de los grandes olvidados ...

Decrecimiento

10 preguntas para comprenderlo y debatirlo

El término “decrecimiento” hace referencia a un movimiento intelectual y militante que estima que la crisis climática y el callejón sin salida del modelo capitalista sólo podrán ser superados al precio de abandonar el actual modelo de desa­rrollo productivista y de sus fundamentos: el culto ...

The Oxford handbook of economic inquality

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic inequality in highly developed countries. Bringing together the world's top scholars this comprehensive and authoritative volume contains an impressive array of original research on topics ...

Unified Growth Theory

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and ...

Economía de las microfinanzas

Ensayo en el que los economistas Beatriz Armendáriz y Jonathan Morduch analizan el impacto de las instituciones de microcrédito sobre la economía de los habitantes de regiones pobres del mundo. Los autores conceptualizan a las microfinanzas como una herramienta para permitir una mejor distribución de ...

Postcolonial economies

Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy. Despite the ...