Our trade deficit increases by $2 billion a day. Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists have such influence in Washington that Medicare, by current law, is not allowed to negotiate lower drug prices. We import oil on an ever-increasing scale, putting ourselves into dept with the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, and other Middle Eastern nations. With their windfall profits, they continue to buy American assets. China's booming economy and abundance of cheap...

Les débats suscités par la signature du CETA, accord économique et commercial entre l'Europe et le Canada, ont révélé une méfiance toujours plus profonde du public à l'égard de tels traités. Négociés dans l'opacité, sans véritable débat démocratique, ces traités sont perçus par une part croissante de la population comme de réelles menaces pour nos législations sociales et environnementales, pour la protection de nos services publics...

El mall más grande del mundo nos ofrece una mirada amena a la industria de los centros comerciales. ¿Es casual que frecuentes tal o cual tienda o restaurante? ¿Qué factores inciden para que un local comercial tenga mayor o menor valor? ¿Cuáles son los cambios en los hábitos de consumo, sociodemográficos e innovaciones tecnológicas que están acelerando la evolución de esta industria? A partir de estas simples preguntas, el autor desentraña...

Azerbaijan has set the course for the economy to reduce its dependence on oil by promoting new drivers of growth. By 2025, under the government's Strategic Roads Maps, a more diversified economy should take shape led by three sectors: agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. Bold reforms need to strengthen areas of the economy that could otherwise impede this transition, and policy makers must resolutely stay on the reform path. The core message of...

The first edition of the Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Monitor tracks the development of the PPP business environment as well as the challenges of doing PPPs in nine of the developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It is divided into four main categories: Regulatory Framework, Institutional...

This short book throws some light on the modern-day pathologies that are crippling the productivity, resilience, innovation and survival of our private, public and social organizations, and therefore of our standard of living. It probes the proximate sources of dysfunction at five interfaces: between the organization and its employees (x-inefficiency), its value chain upstream (escaping fault), its socio-physical environment (externalities), its governance...

Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing. In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built...

El mayor halago que me hacen, en todos estos años mis alumnos, es que, tras impartir un Curso de Ventas, de Comunicación o Liderazgo Personal o cualquier otra temática, cuando me los encuentro años después me dicen: "Oye, David, ¡qué bien estuvo aquel curso de motivación que nos diste!". Al principio, no entendía nada, ponía cara de póquer y me decía a mí mismo ¿de motivación? Es muy gratificante, no hay nada más bello que motivar...

The Ha Noi Action Plan 2018–2022 addresses the unfinished and expanded agenda of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program for the remaining 5 years of the GMS Strategic Framework 2012–2022. The Ha Noi Action Plan provides directions and operational focus to the GMS program and guides identification of projects in transport, urban development, energy, agriculture, environment, tourism, trade facilitation, human resource development,...

The Master Key System is a personal development book by Charles F. Haanel (1866–1949) that was originally published as a 24-week correspondence course in 1912, and then in book form in 1916. The ideas it describes and explains come mostly from New Thought philosophy. It was one of the main sources of inspiration for Rhonda Byrne's film and book The Secret