The global financial crisis and recession have placed great strains on the free market ideology that has emphasized economic objectives and unregulated markets.
An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, NigeriaIn Capitalism in the Colonies, A.
Porque nunca es demasiado pronto para cuestionar la sociedad y sus desigualdades, los sociólogos Monique y Michel Pinçon-Charlot, maestros en el arte de diseccionar los mecanismos de dominación social, explican con claridad las cuestiones económicas del mundo social.
Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.
Electrical Load-Curve Coverage covers the proceedings of the Symposium on Load-Curve Coverage in Future Electric Power Generating Systems, organized by the Committee on Electric Power, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Rome, Italy, on October 24-28, 1977.
Underlining why gender equality is a core component of sustainable infrastructure design, this report considers four key ADB investment sectors in Asia and the Pacific and sets out ways to evaluate gender-enhanced project outcomes.
This report assesses how to finance an extensive overhaul of transport infrastructure in the BIMSTEC subregion, considers the challenges of public and private financing, and outlines how to create an overarching financial framework.
In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse.
Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.
Este libro no es solo una enumeración de temas, sino que invita a descubrir y a seguir un camino: la trayectoria que ha recorrido una persona emprendedora-fundadora, hasta transformarse en alguien cuyo legado más importante es la Familia Empresaria que generosamente deja.
Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with marginal variations.
This book examines China's economic development since 1949, with special emphasis on the economic transition of the past two decades and the role of special economic zones in this gradually evolving process.
The Sino-US trade accord signed in November 1999 in Beijing set a milestone for China's protracted journey towards becoming a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Economics and the social sciences are, in fact, the "e;hard"e; sciences, as Herbert Simon argued, because the complexity of the problems dealt with cannot simply be reduced to analytically solvable models or decomposed into separate subprocesses.
With Asia, - especially China and India, - leading world energy consumption, Asian energy trends are now of global interest, with deep implications for the world economy and geopolitics.
This book provides the analysis on capital markets in China, focusing attention upon (1) the bubble phenomena (whether or not a Chinese bubble really exists and might burst), (2) foreign direct investment and (3) integration, through all of which we could recognize the current situation and the future prospects of Chinese marketization.
Buku ini memuat laporan oleh Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) yang diperbaharui setiap tahunnya untuk menganalisis daya saing Indonesia, baik di 33 provinsi maupun di enam wilayah berdasarkan Masterplan Percepatan dan Perluasan Pembangunan Ekonomi Indonesia (MP3EI).
History has proved that communism failed at many levels during the first global competition between the capitalist and socialist camps during the Cold War.
Este es un libro en el que debatimos sobre la gobernanza global y la gobernanza regional para el desarrollo, a partir de la perspectiva teórica que nos ofrece el pensamiento decolonial latinoamericano.
En los actuales momentos de globalización económica, una de las principales estrategias que pueden adoptar los países del mundo y en particular los países de América Latina para obtener un crecimiento económico sostenible en el largo plazo, es estimular la creación de empresas de base tecnológica basada en la innovación, con el fin de generar encadenamientos productivos extensos y empleos formales.
La integración económica ha sido un tema fundamental en la agenda de los Gobiernos en todo el mundo, no solo por su relevancia en el comercio internacional, sino por el impacto que puede generar a nivel político y social.
Los autores, dos reconocidos economistas y exponentes del liberalismo en toda Latinoamérica, exponen en este libro, de forma directa y sin intermediarios, las principales ideas libertarias.
This publication provides an overview of institutional investors' interest in green bonds issued in the Philippines, along with an assessment of the perspectives of local arrangers and underwriters on their clients' interest in green bond issuances.
