La crisis de la deuda de los ochenta constituyó un parteaguas en las economías y en las políticas económicas de los países de América Latina: marcó el fin del modelo de industrialización liderada por el Estado y el inicio del esquema basado en las exportaciones y las inversiones extranjeras, redefiniendo la forma de inserción de la región en el mundo.
Este volumen repasa las estrategias de desarrollo económico seguidas en la región durante las últimas seis décadas, para después concentrarse en el análisis de temas como las ventajas y desventajas de las estrategias de industrialización por medio de la sustitución de importaciones y de reformas promercado; los distintos tipos de estrategias de integraciónregional; la lucha por abatir la desigualdad y la pobreza de ingreso; o el crecimiento económico y su relación con el deterioro ambiental, entre otros.
Dos tipos de sangre corren por este libro: la estadística, del investigador Charles Kepner, y la experiencia, de Jay Henry Soothill, quien fuera superintendente y testigo de la empresa más poderosa de transporte y producción de fruta en Centroamérica durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.
La participación del sector privado en la agenda del desarrollo es un tema que ha venido cobrando mayor interés desde el lanzamiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (odm) a principios del presente siglo.
El desarrollo sustentable tiene que ver con la articulación de lo complejo, supone realizar análisis interdisciplinarios para respuestas estratégicas e integrales a los desafíos sociales, políticos, culturales, económicos, ambientales e institucionales.
En este tomo de la edición conmemorativa del XXX aniversario del Departamento de Estudios Regionales – INESER se presenta una parte de los trabajos de investigación que se hacen al interior del Centro de Estudios Globales (CEG).
Desarrollo regional, medio ambiente y cultura es el primer volumen de la edición conmemorativa del xxx aniversario del Departamento de Estudios Regionales – INESER.
Esta obra entra en un proyecto editorial que tiene como objetivo dar a conocer de forma sencilla y breve, a un publico amplio y no necesariamente especializado (jovenes estudiantes y adultos sin conocimiento previo del tema), las reformas transformadoras emprendidas durante la gestion del presidente Enrique Pena Nieto.
Coordinada por Rolando Cordera y con un prologo de Jose Narro Robles, esta obra reune los ensayos realizados a partir del Grupo Nuevo Curso de Desarrollo (GNCD) de la UNAM.
Ensayo sobre la desigualdad que se desarrolla en torno a una triple problematica: en la primera, el autor ofrece un detallado diagnostico de la desigualdad de ingreso desde el siglo XX hasta la actualidad, ademas de una aguda critica de las principales explicaciones de la economia; posteriormente, se vierten una serie de propuestas de acciones que permitirian una reduccion significativa de la desigualdad, explicando en que condiciones serian efectivas; por ultimo, Atkinson defiende la viabilidad de estas en el marco del contexto contemporaneo.
En ésta obra póstuma, el autor hace un análisis moderno de la región latinoamericana desde el punto de vista de la economía del desarrollo; "no es un libro para economistas de altos vuelos, que se interesan sólo en las etapas de posgrado, con grandes refinamientos técnicos de análisis.
This book deals with the major problems that Japan and East Asian countries have faced during the turbulent years of their reconstruction and development from 1945 to the present time.
This book investigates the relationship between environmental degradation and income, focusing on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from around the world, to explore the possibility of sustainable development under global warming.
While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices.
With motivated human resources and a rich natural bounty, Myanmar is expected to take off with sustained growth and eventually attain a unique welfare state.
To provide an understanding of financial globalization from a historical point of view, this book sheds light on international banking in Asia before World War II.
This book provides an economic analysis of various aspects of 'market quality', a new concept which emerged in the 21st century, using the tools of 'oligopoly theory' and 'auction theory' that evolved over the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Asian model of export-led growth served it well in the post-war period, but prolonged sluggish growth of the developed economies following the global financial crisis, together with growing inequality and rising environmental problems, point to the need for a new growth model.
This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium "e;Beyond Global Capitalism"e; that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013.
This is the first English book that presents a professional analysis of the recent dynamic movement of the Chinese economy by focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the main engine of the Chinese economy.
By providing a comprehensive overview of policy proposals for the international monetary system from an Asian perspective, this book aims to identify what innovations are needed to reform the international monetary and financial system to promote financial stability and sustainable economic growth for emerging economies.
This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience.
This book integrates three levels of political-economic analysis: first a comparative institutional analysis of the varieties of capitalism in both Europe and Asia, second a macroeconomic analysis of industrial structural change and economic dynamics of the national economies in Europe and Asia, and then an encompassing analysis of international production linkages and international financial instability which determine the long-term patterns of regional integration in Europe and Asia.
One of the key ingredients of success in building internationally competitive industries lies in amassing a sizeable pool of competent suppliers of parts, components and accessories.
This book contributes to the theoretical and empirical literature on Asian regionalism, with a focus on the innovations needed to reform the current institutional architecture in Asia.
This study examines the relationship between multinationality and the performance of Japanese manufacturing companies during the period 1999-2008 by using geographic segment information.
The study of poverty dynamics is important for effective poverty alleviation policies because the changes in income poverty are also accompanied by changes in socioeconomic factors such as literacy, gender parity in school, health care, infant mortality, and asset holdings.
This book explores the significant impact of FinTech on the financial industry and how it could be used to promote legitimate development in the global economy.
The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people and the division of labour, which are social institutions of the feudal period (9th15th c.
The overall context of this book is set by the decline of the globalization paradigm's ability to grasp the complexity and uncertainty of the current era.
Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance (APBBEF) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Emerald Publishing and is designed to focus on interdisciplinary research in finance, economics, and management among Pacific Rim countries.
Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century.
