Perspectivas de la economía mundial, abril de 2012

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...

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...

The pace of recovery has disappointed in recent years, and downside risks have increased, including from heightened geopolitical tensions. These increased risks make it a priority to raise actual and potential growth. In a number of economies, an increase in public infrastructure investment can also provide support to demand and help boost potential output. And in advanced economies as well as emerging and developing economies there is a general, urgent need for structural reforms to strengthen growth potential or make growth more sustainable. The four individual chapters examine the overall...

Este libro establece un marco innovador para las relaciones humanas y los caminos de lo posible. Al extraordinario talento del músico y director de orquesta Benjamin Zander, capaz de estimular y alentar, comunicar y enseñar, se añade el genio creador de su esposa, la artista Rosamund Stone Zander, y ambos nos explican sus novedosos descubrimientos para lograr una realización personal y profesional completas. En un original texto, los autores desvelan las múltiples posibilidades vitales que nos rodean, si tan sólo aceptamos que está en nuestro mano cambiar la noción de lo que es...

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Natural disasters and armed conflicts leave millions of people in need of aid every year. To meet this challenge, humanitarian agencies must be committed more than ever to respect the rights and meet the needs of disaster-affected people. In an international initiative aimed at improving the effectiveness and accountability of disaster response, The Sphere Handbook sets out what people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian agencies. The cornerstone of this book is the Humanitarian Charter, which is based on the principles and provisions of international humanitarian,...

El enfoque de servicio es, en esta era global, una estrategia clave para desarrollar la ventaja competitiva y lograr la diferenciación entre las organizaciones de clase mundial. Desde que el profesor T. Levitt advirtiera a inicios de los 70 la relevancia de los intangibles en todo tipo de organizaciones hemos sido testigos del auge observado por el servicio como una orientación relevante en diversos sectores. Tom Peters y R. Waterman en sus impactantes obras de los 80, también apostaron por el servicio al cliente como un camino esencial para competir y distinguirse. Charles Garfield ya en...