Awakening giants, feet of clay

assessing the economic rise of China and India

The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention - and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-fifth of the global economy and are projected to represent a full third of the world's income by 2025. Yet ...

Historias chinas

mito y realidad del nuevo gigante económico

Prol. Jesús Perrero. China es un país fascinante con infinidad de desafíos internos por resolver. Problemas sociales y económicos que le obligan a pisar con mucho tiento. El país está a las puertas de convertirse en la segunda economía del planeta, superando a Japón, y ...

The mystery of economic growth

Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth - its makings and workings - is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. In "The Mystery of Economic Growth", Elhanan Helpman discusses the vast research that has ...

Overlapping generations economies

In the past two decades the overlapping generations (OG) model has become a dominant framework in macroeconomic analysis. This book provides a clear and self-contained introduction to OG economies. Starting with the existence of equilibrium and the optimality of allocations, the discussion then turns to ...

América Latina y el Caribe

mapa estratégico para la cooperación del siglo XXI

Desde la creación del Comité de Ayuda al Desarrollo de la OCDE en 1960, los países de América Latina y el Caribe han recibido un desembolso neto de ayuda oficial al desarrollo (AOD) equivalente al 0,48% del PIB regional. Obviamente, de esta limitada cantidad ...

Exploring general equilibrium

With a previously unpublished paper by the author and a new foreword by Edward Glaeser Fischer Black was known for his brilliance as well as for his sometimes controversial opinions. Highly respected for his scholarly writings in finance, with this book he moved into different ...

Challenges of social cohesion in times of crisis

Euro-Latin American dialogue

Eds. M. Zupi and E. Estruch Puertas. We are living in a change of era, not an era of change. The current crisis poses challenges but is also an opportunity for Europe and Latin America. And it seems clear the way out of the crisis ...

Decentralized development in Latin America

experiences in local governance and local development

Eds. Paul van Lindert, Otto Verkoren. Table of Contents: Foreword: David Hulme.- Chapter 1: Paul van Lindert & Otto Verkoren: Local governance and local development in Latin America: views from above and below.- Section one: Urban perspectives.- Chapter 2: Axel Borsdorf & Rodrigo Hidalgo: From polarisation to ...

Brazil on the rise

the story of a country transformed

A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. Brazil on the Rise, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country ...

Fuentes del crecimiento y productividad en Europa y América Latina

Eds. Ariel A. Coremberg, Francisco Pérez García. Las diversas experiencias de crecimiento que han tenido lugar en Europa y América Latina y los problemas derivados de la crisis actual refuerzan la relevancia de precisar los diagnósticos sobre las fuentes de crecimiento y su papel en ...

Principles of quantitative development

With CD-ROM. "Principles of Quantitative Development" is a practical guide to designing, building and deploying a trading platform. It is also a lucid and succinct expose on the trade life cycle and the business groups involved in managing it, bringing together the big picture of ...

Microfinanzas y políticas públicas

objetivos de eficiencia para un sector respondable

Eds. Bernd Balkenhol, Ana Laura Valazza. Este libro invita a los organismos de ayuda y gobiernos a considerar la eficiencia como el criterio más robusto y fiable que debe guiar sus decisiones sobre la continuación o suspensión de instituciones de microfinanzas (IMF). Se trata de ...

The economics of abundance

a political economy of freedom, equity, and sustainability

No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough. "The Economics of Abundance" is a balanced book in which Wolfgang Hoeschele challenges why this is so. He claims that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured ...

A fistful of rice

my unexpected quest to end poverty through profitability

This is an 'engaging account! - Fast Company of the world's most pressing problems, poverty is perhaps the most troubling. Various solutions have been proposed; and microfinance - the lending of small loans and financial services to impoverished individuals - is the latest solution with great promise ...

Global Poverty

how global governance is failing poor

Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of global ...

El hombre que cambió su casa por un tulipán

qué podemos aprender de la crisis y cómo evitar que vuelva a suceder

¿Qué curiosa lógica pudo llevar a que un neerlandés antes sensato viese como un buen negocio cambiar su casa por un tulipán? ¿Qué paralelismos existen entre nuestra crisis inmobiliaria, la burbuja de los Mares del Sur y la del Japón de los noventa? ¿Qué extraño ...

Saturno devora a sus hijos

miradas críticas sobre el desarrollo y sus promesas

Ed. Víctor Bretón. Este volumen colectivo trata diferentes aspectos relacionados con la teoría y la práctica de eso que convencionalmente llama¬mos "desarrollo": sus problemas, sus trampas, sus limitaciones y sus posibles vías de superación. Lo hace desde atalayas muy distintas y desde posicionamientos epistémicos también ...

The rise and fall of an economic empire

with lessons for aspiring economies

While many authors have documented empires maintained through military strength, power derived solely from economic might is a more modern phenomenon. These different sources of power share one important characteristic, though. There is an inevitability to the decline of empires that rest on either foundation ...

Dimensions of competitiveness

Ed. Paul De Grauwe. Competitiveness among nations is often approached as if it were a sports competition: some countries win medals, others lose out. This view of countries fighting it out in the economic arena is especially popular in business circles and among politicians. Economists ...

Portfolios of the poor

how the world's poor live on 2$ a day

Aut. Daryl Collins...[et al]. Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the ...