The new political economy of Russia

Can Russia's burst of economic growth be sustained? Taking a comprehensive look at the economic and political regime shift from Yeltsin to Putin, this book explores the key challenges facing the Russian economy: to narrow the productivity gap between Russian and Western firms and ...

Arab economic integration

between hope and reality

Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Meeting these challenges requires ...

Global corruption report 2003

transparency international

Observatorio de análisis de tendencias

después del 11 de septiembre

African economic development

Growth and development are among the most exciting subjects in economics, and the application of their principles to African economies is both needed and timely. African Economic Development comprises a collection of articles written especially for this volume, which offer an authoritative statement about economic ...

Sociedad del futuro

Los nuevos gobernantes del mundo

En este libro,John Pilger hace un alegato contra la globalización de la economía,la comunicación y la pobreza en un mundo donde el ochenta por ciento de la riqueza está en manos de un grupo minoritario.Sin duda,el mismo grupo que controla los ...

Global governance

an architecture for the world economy

Globalization deeply affects economic structures and raises the issue of how governments should respond to new challenges. In this book, various ways of improving the institutional setup for global governance are discussed by renowned experts. The discussion focuses on further liberalizing international trade, preventing international ...

Global economic prospects

and the developing countries

Resistencia de la economía palestina

Aborda se una forma clara y sencilla la situación económica de la economía palestina en la actualidad

Doing business with China

This new edition of Doing Business with China marks the country´s first two historic events of the twenty-first century. On 11 December 2001, it finally became a member of the Word Trade Organization, and on 15 November of the same year, with the official ...

Global shift

reshaping the global economic map in the 21st century

This fourh edition of Global Shift has been completely updated and thoroughly revised. It provides: -a detailed account of the theories informing the globalization debate -comprehensive discussion of the interplay between transnational corporations, states, and changing technologies -sectoral case studies, including services, each of which ...

The diversity advantage

multicultural identity in the new world economy

Why is Japan, a country that looked economically invincible a decade ago, stagnating, while long-moribund Ireland booms? What are the qualities that will ensure the continued dominance of US culture, society and business? In this text G. Pascal Zachary provides a provocative roadmap to the ...

The end of diversity?

prospects for German and Japanese capitalism

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing US capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties ...

Challenges to the world economy

Festschrift to Horst Sieber

This volume, in a sense, aims at reflecting the qualities of the honoree and it does so in two respects. On the one hand, it covers a great variety of subdisciplines of economics. On the other hand, the book ranges from theoretical and mathematical economics ...

L'industria italiana

numeri, peculiarità, politiche della nostra economia industriale

The handbook of country risk 2003-2004

a guide to international business and trade

Historia de Iraq

Este recorrido por la historia de Iraq es la historia de un conflicto social, de la lucha por el poder entre clanes rivales, de la hostilidad y las guerras entre Estados vecinos, pero también de sus secuelas y de las cada vez peores relaciones de ...

Tiempos difíciles. Guerra y poder en el sistema internacional

Anuario CIP 2003

El Anuario CIP 2003 aborda las siguientes cuestiones: *Los cambios en el sistema mundial *La guerra contra Irak *EEUU: ¿renace el Imperio? *El futuro de China y la UE *La campaña "antiterrorista" de Putin en Chechenia *Incertidumbres en América Latina *Adiós a la paz en ...

El fracaso del Consenso de Washington

la caída de su mejor alumno: Argentina