Perspectivas de la economía mundial, abril de 2014

The upswing in global investment and trade continued in the second half of 2017. At 3.8 percent, global growth in 2017 was the fastest since 2011. With financial conditions still supportive, global growth is expected to tick up to a 3.9 percent rate in both 2018 and 2019. Advanced economies will grow faster than potential this year and next; euro area economies are set to narrow excess capacity with support from accommodative monetary policy, and expansionary fiscal policy will drive the US economy above full employment. Aggregate growth in emerging market and developing economies is...

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...

Esta obra contiene información relevante acerca los antecedentes de los contratos de franquicia internacional, la naturaleza jurídica de este tipo de acuerdos, sus aspectos económicos y comerciales y los principales conflictos contractuales que pueden derivarse de la implementación del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Colombia y Estados Unidos. Además, se presentan propuestas de resolución de controversias en este campo del comercio internacional y un ejercicio de simulación que, sin lugar a dudas, será de gran ayuda a profesionales y empresarios interesados en profundizar sus...

In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them--but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922,Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough...

En esta segunda entrega de sus Ensayos liberales, Carlos Rodríguez Braun aborda la defensa de la libertad con varios enfoques. Desde la historia del pensamiento económico, entra en el debate sobre si Adam Smith fue realmente un pensador liberal, y pondera asimismo el liberalismo presente en el libro más famoso de Hayek, Camino de servidumbre. Cuestiona los dogmas predominantes en economía y política, y critica en particular el antiliberalismo de los populistas. Varios de estos ensayos prestan especial atención a la literatura. Así, se analiza la economía y la libertad en Don Quijote...

Una introducción accesible al tema de la evaluación de impacto y a cómo aplicarla al ámbito del desarrollo. Este tipo de evaluaciones sirve para determinar si un programa ha logrado o no los resultados previstos y para explorar si existen estrategias alternativas con las que alcanzar mejor dichos resultados.