World Economic Outlook, April 2018

This report describes the world economic outlook as of April 2018, projecting that advanced economies will continue to expand above their potential growth rates before decelerating, while growth in emerging markets in developing economies will rise before leveling off. It details global prospects and policies, including risks to the forecast, and essential determinants of long-term economic growth: labor force participation in advanced economies, the declining share of manufacturing jobs globally and in advanced economies, and the process through which innovative activity and technological...

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...

Lazos comunicantes es un libro de negocios, donde se demuestra que el mejor negocio es que todos ganen. Muestra el rumbo, la estrategia y las herramientas necesarias para que todos los actores de una comunidad produzcan y obtengan beneficios compartidos sobre la base de una auténtica Responsabilidad Social Empresaria (RSE). El autor presenta aquí recursos para que distintas organizaciones desarrollen acciones potenciadas por la comunicación, que permitan transmitir criterios y soluciones a sus diferentes públicos y forjen una mejor imagen y más prestigio y reputación para sí mismas. La ...

El proyecto «Global Entrepreneurship Monitor» (GEM), por su metodología, alcance y resultados fiables y comparables en 65 países participantes constituye el observatorio más importante a nivel mundial sobre emprendimiento. GEM analiza de forma anual el fenómeno emprendedor en cada país con procedimiento y metodología analítica comunes y muestra sus resultados a través de informes como el que un año más tenemos ante nosotros. El informe está organizado en dos partes. En la primera, se estudia el fenómeno emprendedor en España comparando nuestra situación con la de otros países ...

The travel and tourism industry is one of the world's largest industries and is a significant growth area in the developing countries of the Caribbean. The Bahamas, Costa Rica, Mexico, Barbados and Jamaica have become major players in the tourism industry. The growth rate while welcome in economic terms has also brought associated problems. Throughout the region tourism development has led to local discontent, rising land prices and environmental problems. It seems that to a large degree the traditional tourism development model pursued in many developing countries is flawed. Tourism has been ...

Se analiza, con ayuda de ejercicios y estudio de casos particulares, cómo se pueden aplicar las nuevas tecnologías y tendencias sociales en la cultura, los negocios y el estilo de vida.