Perspectivas de la economía mundial, abril de 2012

Major macroeconomic realignments are affecting prospects differentially across the world’s countries and regions. The April 2016 WEO examines the causes and implications of these realignments—including the slowdown and rebalancing in China, a further decline in commodity prices, a related slowdown in investment and trade, and declining capital flows to emerging market and developing economies—which are generating substantial uncertainty and affecting the outlook for the global economy. Additionally, analytical chapters examine the slowdown in capital flows to emerging market economies...

Global growth for 2018–19 is projected to remain steady at its 2017 level, but its pace is less vigorous than projected in April and it has become less balanced. Downside risks to global growth have risen in the past six months and the potential for upside surprises has receded. Global growth is projected at 3.7 percent for 2018–19—0.2 percentage point lower for both years than forecast in April. The downward revision reflects surprises that suppressed activity in early 2018 in some major advanced economies, the negative effects of the trade measures implemented or approved between...

After strong growth in 2017 and early 2018, global economic activity slowed notably in the second half of last year, reflecting a confluence of factors affecting major economies. China’s growth declined following a combination of needed regulatory tightening to rein in shadow banking and an increase in trade tensions with the United States. The euro area economy lost more momentum than expected as consumer and business confidence weakened and car production in Germany was disrupted by the introduction of new emission standards; investment dropped in Italy as sovereign spreads widened; and...

El autor ha pensado este libro como si se tratara de un proceso de aprendizaje en donde el alumno y el maestro son la misma persona. Tanto el objetivo del coaching como del proceso aquí presentado consiste en liberar el potencial de la persona para llevar al máximo tanto su rendimiento como su satisfacción, estimularla a pensar de modo diferente y mejorar su forma de comunicarse. Todos, en algún momento, nos hemos enfrentado a los dilemas que han sido las causas de las búsquedas: ¿Cuál es el sentido de mi vida? ¿Qué es lo que deseo lograr? ¿Qué es importante para mí? ¿Con qué me ...

Este libro aborda el tema de la agricultura colombiana desde sus antecedentes hist ricos e institucionales hasta su evoluci n y estructura a lo largo de todo el siglo XX; aborda puntos como la distribuci n y tenencia de la tierra, la reforma agraria, los impuestos, la pobreza, el narcotr fico y la debilidad estatal, entre otros.

A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeed—and those that don’t Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at all times and at all costs. In this masterful book, three of today’s leading policy experts cut through the political noise to demonstrate that there is not one type of austerity but many. Looking at thousands of fiscal measures adopted by sixteen advanced economies since the late 1970s, Austerity assesses...

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