L'année stratégique 2007

analyse des enjeux internationaux

Quelles sont les grandes évolutions stratégiques mondiales en cours ? Comment se redessinent les lignes de force planétaires à la suite de la guerre en Irak et de l'explosion de la croissance en Chine ? Une synthèse complète de la situation géopolitique en 2007 > situation stratégique ...

Juicio a las multinacionales

inversión extranjera e imperialismo

El poder de las grandes empresas multinacionales que dominan la economía mundial y su papel en el proceso de desarrollo generan una intensa polémica. La dinámica del poder empresario y el rol de la inversión extranjera han sido objeto de innumerables análisis, muchas veces elogiosos ...

Adjustment policies, poverty and unemployment

the IMMPA framework

Pierre-Richard Agenor's pioneering work on Integrated Macroeconomics Models for Poverty Analysis (IMMPAs) is cataloged for the first time in this must-read volume. A class of Computable General Equilibrium models, IMMPAs are designed to analyze the impact of adjustment policies on unemployment figures and poverty ...

Debt defaults and lessons from a decade of crises

This work provides detailed case studies of debt defaults by Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Ecuador, Moldova, and Uruguay, framed by a comprehensive discussion of the history, economic theory, legal issues, and policy lessons of sovereign debt crises. The debt crises in emerging market countries over the ...

Living with debt

how to limit the risks of sovereing finance

Public indebtedness has been a central factor in several financial crises in Latin America. Drawing on in-depth country studies, Living with Debt traces the history of sovereign borrowing in Latin America and focuses on how countries can manage sovereign debt safely and effectively, presenting a ...

The dragon and the elephant

China, India and the new world order

The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the 21st century, raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and the balance of global geopolitical power. Will China still be a repressive and undemocratic regime, embracing free market ...

Poverty and discrimination

Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In "Poverty and Discrimination", economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty ...

La vida en la frontera

El principal reto para España es la creciente desigualdad en su frontera sur. España viene sufriendo oleadas periódicas de emigración, como otros países cuyos vecinos son mucho más pobres. A lo largo de este libro se analizan las 20 fronteras más desiguales del mundo por ...

The economics of international integration

The splintering of the multilateral trading system into a number of trading blocs and arrangements has been one of the most important issues in international economics, particularly after the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995 and especially after the launch of the Doha ...

All politics is global

explaining international regulatory regimes

Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is ...

Economic development

a regional, institutional, and historical approach

This innovative textbook provides an introduction to economic development in both an historical and contemporary, comparative, and systems framework. The text takes a regional approach, with the theory developed within regional contexts. This leads to the second innovative aspect, an emphasis on institutional structures unique ...

International trade and economic growth

Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well known theory on international trade, and then take ...

Making AID work

This title offers an encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a ...

Los objetivos del milenio

no valen escusas

¿Puede soportar el mundo-la paz, la convivencia, nuestros principios morales y éticos-que la mitad de la población viva en la indignidad de la pobreza?¿Pueden soportar nuestras conciencias 10 millones de muertes infantiles cada año, 1000 millones de personas pasando hambre, 40 millones de infectados ...

Perspectivas de las migraciones internacionales 2006

La presente obra analiza las tendencias recientes de los movimientos migratorios y de la política de migración en todos los países de la OCDE y contiene, por primera vez, estadísticas armonizadas sobre los flujos internacionales de inmigración de larga duración de la mayoría de los ...

International trade and economic growth

Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well-known theory on international trade, and then take the ...

The international monetary fund

politics of conditional lending

This is an ideal book for students who need a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in ...

Understanding emerging markets

China and India

Emerging markets (Ems) are the focus of increasing interest in the field of international business, as they provide significant challenges and great opportunities. Focusing on the dynamics of emerging markets, this informative book provides an academically rigorous yet business- oriented analysis of the key issues ...

How China grows

investment, finance and reform

Although China's economy has grown spectacularly over the last twenty- five years, economists disagree about how the Chinese economy is likely to fare in the short- and long-term future. Is China's growth sustainable, or has China relied too much on investment, which is ...

Breve tratado de microfinanzas

El presente libro pretende cubrir una laguna bibliográfica en nuestro país relativa a las microfinanzas, y, en general, a las finanzas éticas o finanzas solidarias. De hecho, este Breve Tratado de Microfinanzas abre la colección que la editorial La Hidra de Lerna dedica a las ...