Can Germany be saved?

the Malaise of the world's first welfare state

What has happened to the German economic miracle? Rebuilding from the rubble and ruin of two world wars, Germany in the second half of the twentieth century recaptured its economic strength. High-quality German- made products ranging from precision tools to automobiles again conquered world markets ...

¡En qué mundo vivimos!

infórmate, piensa y actúa

¿Qué sabemos de este mundo? Poca cosa; se nos dice que estamos en la sociedad de la información, pero sabemos que es engañosa, parcial, tendenciosa... Lo poco que sabemos nos demuestra que va bastante mal...: 40 millones de enfermos de sida; 700 millones de personas ...

El continente olvidado

la lucha por el alma de América Latina

Este libro surge de la experiencia periodística del autor como editor y corresponsal para América Latina durante más de veinticinco años para los más prestigiosos medios de comunicación ingleses.

Reforming the World Bank

twenty years of trial-and error

In the many studies of the World Bank a critical issue has been missed. While writers have looked at the bank's political economy, lending, conditions, advice, ownership and accounting for issues such as the environment, this study looks at the bank as an organization ...

Un inversor en China

Si el siglo XX fue el siglo de América, el siglo XXI lo será de China. Jim Rogers muestra en este libro cómo cualquier inversor puede encontrar un amplio abanico de vías para participar en el #mayor boom económico desde la revolución industrial inglesa#. Esta ...

The new Silk Road

how a rising arab world is turning away from the west and rediscovering China

The author provides the insight necessary for the reader to understand the links between the rise of the Arab world and China and shows the steps we have to take to adjust to this ongoing change. The author uses fifteen years of research gathered from ...

China en África

Pekín a la conquista del continente africano

Fotografías de Paolo Wood. Entre 1980 y 2005 el comercio bilateral entre China y África se multiplicó por cincuenta y en 2006 había 900 empresas chinas operando en territorio africano. Dos prestigiosos periodistas franceses, Serge Michel y Michel Beuret, ofrecen una reveladora visión de lo ...

África despierta

la oportunidad de un mercado por descubrir

Prol. Alicia Varela Donoso. África es el mayor mercado del mundo por descubrir. Un continente lleno de oportunidades crecientes. #Este libro proporciona una buena descripción de las oportunidades en África. Nos parece evidente que cualquier empresa global que tenga interés en crecer debe considerar que ...

Dubai

the vulnerability of success

Dubai is a remarkable success story. From its origins as a small fishing and pearling community, the emirate has gone from strength to strength, having established itself as the premier trading entrepot of the Arabian Gulf and, in more recent years, having boomed into a ...

Internationalisation and economic institutions

comparing european experiences

This book examines when, how, and why internationalisation affects national economic institutions. It confronts questions at the heart of debates in political economy and comparative politics: What does internationalisation of markets mean? Who are its carriers in domestic arenas? Through which mechanisms does it affect ...

Para salir de la crisis global

análisis y soluciones

En este libro Para salir de la crisis global. Análisis y soluciones, el profesor Ramón Tamames se pronuncia sobre cuestiones fundamentales de lo que ha sido un naufragio financiero y económico de dimensiones mundiales y de perspectivas más que complicadas. Prácticamente en todo el planeta ...

China's emerging financial markets

challenges and global impact

Eds. Zhu Min, Cai Jinqing, Marthe Avery. This comprehensive resource presents the views of China's most highly respected economists, bankers, and policy makers - along with opinions from Western authorities - on the current state of banking and finance in China. Tracing the history of China ...

Economic reforms in India and China

emerging issues and challenges

Ed. B. Sudhakara Reddy. The role of India and China is expanding in the global economy. A whole new array of economic and financial issues are emerging which need to be tackled if the current period of growth is to endure. The issues that need ...

Poland's new capitalism

Poland was central to the historic changes that took place across Eastern Europe at the end of the Cold War. It is the largest economy in the region, and was at the forefront of opposition to communism, with the rise of Solidarity in the 1980s ...

Brazil as an economic superpower?

understanding Brazil's changing role in the global economy

Eds. lael Brainard, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz. Brazil is once again getting attention in the northern hemisphere-attention long overdue, given its huge and diverse population, its physical size and diversity, and its geopolitical and economic importance as the largest country in Latin America. Long seen as an ...

Combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism

a comprehensive training guide

Elaborated by World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund. "Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism" has been developed by the Financial Market Integrity Unit of the World Bank to support the World Bank's Capacity Enhancement Program on Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing ...

Imperialism and global political economy

In "Imperialism and Global Political Economy", Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of ...

Finance, development, and the IMF

Eds. James M. Boughton, Domenico Lombardi. This book provides an assessment of the role of the International Monetary Fund in poor countries. In recent years, a large portion of the work of the IMF has focused on the economies of low- income countries by aiming ...

Empresariado asiático en España

red de investigación sobre comunidades asiáticas en España

Eds. Joaquín Beltrán Antolín, Amelia Sáiz López. La actividad empresarial de las personas de origen chino, pakistaní, indio, japonés, coreano, bangladeshí y taiwanés en España sobresale en la historia y actualidad de los flujos migratorios internacionales que se han dirigido y asentado en el país ...

The caribbean economy in the Age of Globalization

Examines how globalization is altering the structure of the extremely foreign trade-dependent Caribbean economies. This book treats these small economies together as a single economy by focusing on their common features.