“…Las literaturas nacionales e incluso los constructos regionales están, desde entonces, en crisis. Fórmulas teóricas divergentes y también complementarias buscan resituar las literaturas latinoamericanas en dinámicas globales y superar, así, los marcos que se han revelado como obsoletos. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Subnational capacity building: An international perspective of the Asia Pacific region -- Introduction -- Current socio-economic and territorial organisation trends in Asia Pacific -- Fast urbanisation and diverse levels of development -- Economic development and impact of COVID-19 crisis -- Trends in decentralisation and territorial organisation -- Levels of government -- Number and size of municipalities -- Subnational government finance in Asia Pacific -- Subnational spending and revenue -- Subnational spending responsibilities -- Public investment at national and subnational levels -- Real degree of autonomy more limited than what fiscal indicators indicate -- Typical challenges in subnational capacities -- Broader enabling environment: Institutional quality -- Size and scale -- Challenges linked to fiscal decentralisation -- Challenges linked to administrative decentralisation -- Challenges linked to political decentralisation -- Enabling conditions to foster subnational capacity building -- Clarify the responsibilities assigned to different government levels, and ensure that all responsibilities are sufficiently funded -- Strengthen subnational fiscal autonomy to enhance accountability -- Support subnational capacity building -- Build adequate co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government -- Reaching the right scale by merging and/or cooperating…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…La desigualdad de los ingresos y la pobreza han aumentado durante la crisis -- Figura 18. Los impuestos y las transferencias reducen la desigualdad en la renta disponible de los hogares -- Figura 19. …”

“…This is Austrian Investing, an archetypal, counterintuitive, and proven approach, gleaned from the 150-year-old Austrian School of economics, that is both timeless and exceedingly timely.In The Dao of Capital, hedge fund manager and tail-hedging pioneer Mark Spitznagel--with one of the top returns on capital of the financial crisis, as well as over a career--takes us on a gripping, circuitous journey from the Chicago trading pits, over the coniferous boreal forests and canonical strategists from Warring States China to Napoleonic Europe to burgeoning industrial America, to the great economic thinkers of late 19th century Austria. …”

“…Traditionally a niche asset class pre-crisis, corporate direct lending has become an increasingly important allocation for institutional investors—assets managed by Business Development Company structures, which represent 25% of the asset class, have experienced over 600% growth since 2008 to become a $91 billion market. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Fraud and Accounting Manipulations -- 1.1 Fraud and Its Effects -- 1.2 Modifying Companies' Financial Information -- 1.3 Calling Things by Their Name: From Creative Accounting to Big Baths -- References -- Chapter 2 Accounting Fraud: An Ancient Practice -- 2.1 The First Accounting Frauds -- 2.2 Accounting Frauds Continue with the Double Entry -- 2.3 The Crash of 1929 and the Obligation to Audit Accounts -- 2.4 Reinforcement of the Commercial Law and Auditing After the String of Scandals of 2000 -- 2.5 With the Crisis of 2008, History Repeats Itself -- References -- Chapter 3 Problems with Legislation and Those Involved in the Financial Information -- 3.1 How Financial Information Is Generated -- 3.2 Auditing of Accounts: Essential, but Not Infallible -- 3.3 Analysts and Rating Agencies -- 3.4 Regulators and the Limitations of Accounting Regulations -- 3.5 Role of the Media -- References -- Chapter 4 Why Are Accounts Manipulated? …”

“…While society is grappling with a solution to the burgeoning crisis of spam proliferation, the pressure is on system administrators to find a solution to this massive problem in-house. …”

“…The first edition of The Economist Guide to Investment Strategy explained the fundamentals of investment risk, how to put together ""keep-it-simple"" investment strategies, and the need to guard against our own behavior leading to dreadful investment mistakes. The global crisis that erupted in 2008 exposed the flaws in many more complicated investment strategies.The second edition starts with a new section on financial fraud and how investors can help to protect themselves against this ""hearty perennial."" …”

“…A detailed guide to financial market performance during financial crises With the financial markets seemingly careening from one crisis to another, it's vital for today's investors and traders to have an historical perspective on market performance during times of great turmoil. …”

“…Events from the collapse of Lehman Brothers to the Greek sovereign debt crisis demonstrate the urgent and abiding need for statistical tools adequate to measure and anticipate the amplitude of potential swings in the financial markets—from ordinary stock price and interest rate moves, to defaults, to those increasingly frequent "rare events" fashionably called black swan events. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…When you're on a good thing, stick to it -- Finding investors was no longer a problem -- Our secret weapon: the multi-factor model (MFM) -- Chapter 6 Build your team -- How to build a loyal team -- Hire slow, fire fast -- Don't hire rock stars -- Check references -- How to keep staff -- Sharing the success -- Developing an intrapreneurial culture -- When ability doesn't match ambition -- Be slow to criticise and quick to praise -- Reinvesting in your team -- Chapter 7 Build your resilience -- How to manage bad days -- No mud, no lotus -- Don't annoy the authorities -- Supporting your team in a crisis -- How any small-business owner can fight for what's right -- Chapter 8 Build your knowledge -- You never know who you're dealing with -- What it says 'on the box' is not necessarily what's 'in the box' -- What does 'doing due diligence' actually mean? …”

“…The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have made the authorities to increasingly turn inward and use ethnocentrism, protectionism, and top-down approaches to guide policy on trade, competition, and industrial development. …”

“…Millions of dollars have been invested in bringing leaders together from organizations around the world to design solutions for global challenges such as the climate crisis, child labor, racism, war, and many more. Despite executive buy-in, alignment of core capabilities and resources, passionate leadership, and well-designed strategies, these initiatives inevitably fail (with a few, notable exceptions). …”

“…Al igual que otras regiones españolas, Aragón sufrió la profunda crisis de estado que, iniciada en torno al cambio de siglo, se había agudizado considerablemente durante la II República. …”

“…El Tratado de Funcionamiento de la Unión establece detalladamente las políticas, la delimitación de las competencias y los procesos de decisión y control. Posteriormente, la crisis económico-financiera y de las deudas soberanas propiciaron nuevas reformas mediante nuevos Tratados e importantes novedades en el Derecho derivado y desarrollos jurisprudenciales. …”

“…Sin embargo, y para sorpresa de muchos sociólogos de la religión, los datos empíricos ha puesto en crisis este indiscutido paradigma cultural. Con algunas excepciones - concretamente Europa y una gran parte de las élites intelectuales -, el mundo actual es todo menos secular; incluso podría afirmarse que es tan religioso como siempre, si no más. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…M. 22029. No 10 : Para una crisis "actual y constructiva" : Plan de estudio para el uso de las alumnas de preuniversitario. …”