World Economic Outlook, April 2018

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...

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...

Cada año el equipo GEM España elabora un informe sobre la actividad emprendedora en el país. Después de 23 años, cumpliendo puntualmente con esta cita parecería innecesario explicar por qué este informe se ha convertido en una herramienta fundamental para entender el ecosistema emprendedor y de la innovación en nuestro país. O tener que contar por qué es un referente vital para investigadores, responsables políticos, emprendedores o cualquier persona interesada en el desarrollo empresarial. También es de sobra conocido que el Informe GEM España analiza con rigor científico el...

This work studies and analyses the reality of the different families that shape the Social Economy in the Basque Country: Cooperatives, Labour Companies, Special Employment Centers, Work Integration Social Enterprises, Fishermen’s Guilds, Agricultural Transformation Societies, Mutual Societies, Associations, and Foundations. An aggregate study of the Social Economy in the Basque Country is also carried out and a reference to the Solidarity Economy is made.For each of them, its specific legal structure is analyzed, updated socio-economic data is provided, their associative structure is...

El intelectual lleva medio siglo fascinado y a la vez abochornado por la televisión; intrigado por su poder de atracción y sugestión sobre los demás e irritado por esa influencia, manipuladora para unos, modelo de mal gusto e incivilidad para otros. La imagen perdurable del intelectual de fin de milenio ya no será la del pensador o la del lector, sino la del severo telespectador. Piensa y escribe, desde luego, pero con la pantalla del televisor como manifiesto antagonista o como secreto horizonte. En este libro se analizan y se discuten las últimas bazas del intelectual llamado un día...

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