Perspectivas de la economía mundial, abril de 2012

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...

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...

En el libro se desarrollan casos de empresas y empresarios españoles a lo largo de la Historia y considerando diferentes situaciones empresariales, desde las compañías y negocios en Castilla en los siglos XV-XVI, hasta el caso más actual de Lingotes Especiales, que en los últimos cincuenta años ha evolucionado de pyme a empresa multinacional. El objetivo de esta recopilación y sucesión de casos es facilitar la toma de decisiones en el mundo empresarial. Pero, sin duda, al mismo tiempo supone una propuesta relevante en el ámbito de la Historia de la Empresa. Los temas tratados revelan ...

Esta obra aborda la resolución de ejercicios prácticos con comentarios del análisis y las introducciones teóricas sobre las que subyace cada desarrollo. La explicación de la resolución de los casos permite establecer un diagnóstico sobre la situación patrimonial, económica y financiera de las empresas analizadas proponiendo acciones para su futuro. Esta línea de trabajo enlaza con el planteamiento del análisis empresarial fundamental o estructural, que resulta especialmente apropiado para establecer el análisis tanto en épocas de crecimiento normal como, especialmente, en épocas ...

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Now in Spanish... Peaks and Valleys is a story of a young man who lives unhappily in a valley until he meets an old man who lives on a peak, and it changes his work and life forever. Initially, the young man does not realize he is talking with one the most peaceful and successful people in the world. However, through a series of conversations and experiences that occur up on peaks and down in valleys, the young man comes to make some startling discoveries. Eventually, he comes to understand how he can use the old man’s remarkable principles and practical tools in good and bad times and...