Think and Grow Rich is a book written by Napoleon Hill released in 1937 and promoted as a personal development and self-improvement book. He claimed to be inspired by a suggestion from business magnate and later-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. However there is no evidence that the two ever met.
The book is considered a classic in the personal development genre and has been widely influential in shaping the way people think about success and wealth.
Les « fonds vautours » sont spécialisés dans le rachat à bas prix de titres de la dette des pays pauvres sur le marché secondaire de la dette, en vue d'entamer à terme une procédure judiciaire pour tenter d'obtenir du pays pauvre endetté le paiement de la totalité de la valeur nominale de sa dette. Il s'agit donc d'exploiter les voies judiciaires pour enregistrer des profits.
The economic take-off of Beijing and other BRIC countries shakes the global economic map. To develop a sustainable economy, they need, as the old industrial countries, raw material that abounds Africa. This book proposes to disentangle the African partner's economic strategies and to penetrate the mysteries of diplomacy and international business relations.
La crise grecque depuis 2008 est profonde. Un regard est particulièrement porté dans ce numéro sur son impact socioéconomique dans les régions : les grandes villes, les territoires ruraux, les zones touristiques, les salaires, le chômage et les marchés locaux du travail, les conditions de vie des ménages et la pauvreté, le logement et le marché immobilier. Contributions en anglais
This collective work addresses key issues surrounding the provision of international assistance. It is based on fieldwork and research undertaken in Afghanistan, and evaluates a number of development programmes. By identifying the gap between the needs of people and the delivery of aid, and examining the decision making processes of donnor agencies in determining which programmes to fund, this book questions the underlying values and assumptions that motivate interventions.
Au sommaire de ce numéro : L'anti-colbertisme n'est pas (toujours) un libéralisme : l'exemple de Quesnay / La société industrielle d'Aron et Galbraith / Les ordres normatifs privés et public de la firme moderne / Le pluralisme industriel repensé dans une perspective d'histoire de la pensée organisationnelle / Les anticipations de prix dans les modèles d'équilibre néo-walrassiens / La macroéconomie à la latino-américaine : Sunkel et la quête d'un modèle structuraliste / Comment peut-on être walrassien ? Réponse à Michel De Vroey
En plaçant la concertation au coeur des systèmes économiques, managériaux, politiques et sociaux, l'auteur démontre qu'en décidant ensemble, les parties prenantes prennent l'engagement de partager les responsabilités qui en découlent et sont dès lors toutes gagnantes. Pour lui, la concertation est, d'une part, un moyen de lutter contre l'autoritarisme et, d'autre part, un moyen par lequel l'autorité peut justifier ses actions. (Articles en anglais et en français).
Economist and Nobel Prize winner
This book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the life and works of Joseph Stiglitz.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
o Recognize and understand the main ideas behind the contributions of Joseph Stiglitz and his New Keynesian approach
o Identify the impact his work had on both economics and politics, and the new concepts and tools that he conceptualized
o Understand the limits of his contributions and the criticisms held by other experts in his field, as well as the many extensions and related ideas that have been developed
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What do you think about Dubai ? Oil, sand, camels ? In this book, the authors offer the keys to understand this modern and innovative City; through its History, its macroeconomy, its Government and all the strategies used and applied to reach such power nowadays. The State objectives and challenges : EXPO 2020, Vision 2021, Area 2071...The will cover the predominant foreign labor force, the ministries and laws governing the State, the taxation, the economic and financial tools, and we will explain how SME's and larger companies can be part of this successful market and how to enter it.
This essay shows that the covid 19 has become a social phenomenon that deeply imprints individual and collective behaviours, both in social distancing and in solid laarity. He interprets the pandemic as a radical change, an unprecedented shift in the course of societies. This Coronavirage is an opportunity for the author to examine, from Tunisia, another order of the world.Tunisian society is apprehended in a new geopolitical framework : its links with the United States and its allies in the Near East, in a context of American-Chinese rivalries and the weakening of Europe. Tunisia is revealed in its internal logic of response to the pandemic, notably by the persistence of political and financial corruption, as well as by the resurgence of the parallel market and informal practices. In this perspective, the author in respondent to a new project of social and solidarity economy, which would take place in the construction of a third sector, in complementarity with the respondent to the private sector, to replace the current informal and clandestine practices.
This fourth annual assessment of transparency and tax information policies carried out by the OECD Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information brings to 87 the number of countries covered by the report. Four new countries are covered in this edition: Estonia, India, Israel, and Slovenia. This edition also features for each country new summary assessments providing a snapshot of their legal and administrative framework. The report sets out on a series of tables, on a country-by-country basis, information on: laws and agreements permitting the exchange of information for tax purposes; access to bank information for tax purposes; access to ownership identity and accounting information; and availability of ownership, identity and accounting information relating to companies, trusts, partnerships and foundations.
Durante el período 2000-2006, nuestro país vivió embarcado en una auténtica vorágine inmobiliaria que produjo que la media de los precios de los inmuebles superara 13 veces el salario de un trabajador. En el año 2007 tuvo lugar la famosa crisis financiera, la cual supuso un verdadero varapalo para el sector bancario internacional y, muy especialmente, para el nuestro. Las consecuencias en el mercado inmobiliario español no se hicieron esperar: se dejaron de vender pisos y los precios comenzaron a bajar.
Descubre mediante este libro, de la mano de un experto en mercado inmobiliario, las claves de lo que realmente está sucediendo en el mercado inmobiliario español, cómo los precios de los pisos han bajado más del 30% desde su cresta a mediados de 2006, el precio de los alquileres más del 35%, y entiende por qué bajarán aún más durante los próximos años.
Aprenderemos una serie de técnicas muy efectivas de negociación a la baja de precios de compra y de alquiler.
El libro contiene más de 700 referencias bibliográficas y constituye, tal vez, el mejor y más actualizado estudio sobre el mercado inmobiliario español.
Se plantea como hipótesis de trabajo que la aceptación de reglas estrictas, los cambios en los hábitos productivos y las aptitudes a la negociación que exige la producción de café solidario, depende en gran parte de la existencia de recursos organizativos en el seno mismo de las sociedades rurales y de sus aptitudes para movilizarlos.
Confronted with the major crisis that struck the world economy at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, analysts, researchers, and political leaders studied past experiences to avoid repeating errors of diagnosis, recommendation, or action. The disastrous experience of the Great Depression of the 1930's, which caused social misery, massive unemployment, protectionism, forms of nationalism, and led to a world war whose devastating effects were pushed to an extreme, remained in mind.
Against the background of a projected doubling of world greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, this book explores feasible ways to abate them at least cost. Through quantitative analysis, it addresses key climate policy issues including: an ideal set of climate policy tools; the size of the economic and environmental costs of incomplete country or sector coverage of climate change mitigation policies; how to concretely develop a global carbon market; the case for, and what can we reasonably expect from, R&D and technology support policies; and the incentives for major emitting countries to join a climate change mitigation agreement.
National Accounts data is more than just GDP. This book, to be published annually, and its related database present national accounts in a way that reflects the richness inherent in the data and the value that represents for analysts and policymakers. It responds to the Stiglitz Commission's recommendation that policymakers look beyond GDP to get a fuller picture of the entire economy.
In particular it uses national accounts data to show important findings about households and governments, including important new series on gross adjusted household income and non-financial fixed assets of households. It presents each of the series on a two-page spread, with the page on the left providing information on the meaning, usage, and comparability of the data and the page on the right presenting data from 1995 onwards for the OECD countries as well as graphics highlighting differences among countries.
This book includes OECD's unique StatLink service, which enables readers to download Excel® versions of tables and graphs. Look for the StatLink at the foot of each table and graph.
What impact has globalisation had on transport? And what have been the consequences for the environment? This book aims to answer these questions and more. It looks in detail at how globalisation has affected activity levels in maritime shipping, aviation, and road and rail freight, and assesses the impact that changes in activity levels have had on the environment. The book also discusses policy instruments that can be used to address negative environmental impacts, both from an economic perspective and from the point of view of international law.
Related reading
Environmental Outlook to 2030 (2008)
The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for Global Action beyond 2012 (2009)
Eco-innovation will be a key driver of industry efforts to tackle climate change and realise "green growth" in the post-Kyoto era. Eco-innovation calls for faster introduction of breakthrough technologies and for more systemic application of available solutions, including non-technological ones. It also offers opportunities to involve new players, develop new industries and increase competitiveness. Structural change in economies will be imperative in coming decades.
This book presents the research and analysis carried out during the first phase of the OECD Project on Sustainable Manufacturing and Eco-innovation. Its aim is to provide benchmarking tools on sustainable manufacturing and to spur eco-innovation through better understanding of innovation mechanisms. It reviews the concepts and forms an analytical framework; analyses the nature and processes of eco-innovation; discusses existing sustainable manufacturing indicators; examines methodologies for measuring eco-innovation; and takes stock of national strategies and policy initiatives for eco-innovation.
The world is currently facing the aftermath of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Going for Growth 2010 examines the structural policy measures that have been taken in response to the crisis, evaluates their possible impact on long-term economic growth, and identifies the most imperative reforms needed to strengthen recovery. In addition, it provides a global assessment of policy reforms implemented in OECD member countries over the past five years to boost employment and labour productivity. Reform areas include education systems, product market regulation, agricultural policies, tax and benefit systems, health care and labour market policies. The internationally comparable indicators provided enable countries to assess their economic performance and structural policies in a wide range of areas.
In addition, this issue contains three analytical chapters covering intergenerational social mobility, prudential regulation and competition in banking, and key policy challenges in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa.
Is this a good idea for a company?
Do I have a sound business plan?
Is this a good startup to invest in?
These are questions that always surface in the world of seedling startups. Whether you are an entrepreneur, a business angel, an investor or even a Board member, this book presents a method you can use to make an objective analysis of any business plan. The simple to use Pimento Map can be filled in quickly and provides an immediate and in-depth analysis.
Even if no one can predict the future, this method can at least let you take a peek between the shades.
This 2014 OECD Economic Survey of Norway examines recent economic developements, policies and prospects. Special chapters cover real estate markets and financial risk and entrepreneurship.
This report assesses the extent to which Dutch water governance is fit for future challenges and sketches an agenda for the reform of water policies in the Netherlands. It builds on a one-year policy dialogue with over 100 Dutch stakeholders, supported by robust analytical work and drawing on international best practice.
National research systems face an increasingly competitive environment for ideas, talent and funds, and governments have shifted funds from institutional core funding to project funding, often on a competitive basis, or reward success in raising third-party funds in performance-based funding schemes. It is in this context that "research excellence initiatives" (REIs) have emerged. This is an instrument designed to encourage outstanding research by providing large-scale, long-term funding to designated research units. They provide funds for research and research-related measures, such as the improvement or extension of physical infrastructure, the recruitment of outstanding researchers from abroad and researcher training.
This report presents new evidence on how governments steer and fund public research in higher education and public research institutions through REIs. The report can help inform discussions on future government policy directions by providing information on how REIs work and on the functioning and characteristics of institutions that host centres of excellence. The findings show some of the benefits to be gained through REIs and note some pitfalls to be avoided.
This report contains a "Phase 2: Implementation of the Standard in Practice" review for Qatar, as well as a revised version of the "Phase 1: Legal and Regulatory Framework review" already released for this jurisdiction.
The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is the multilateral framework within which work in the area of tax transparency and exchange of information is carried out by 120 jurisdictions, which participate in the Global Forum on an equal footing. The Global Forum is charged with in-depth monitoring and peer review of the implementation of the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes. These standards are primarily reflected in the 2002 OECD Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters and its commentary, and in Article 26 of the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital and its commentary as updated in 2004. The standards have also been incorporated into the UN Model Tax Convention.
The standards provide for international exchange on request of foreseeably relevant information for the administration or enforcement of the domestic tax laws of a requesting party. Fishing expeditions are not authorised but all foreseeably relevant information must be provided, including bank information and information held by fiduciaries, regardless of the existence of a domestic tax interest or the application of a dual criminality standard.
All members of the Global Forum, as well as jurisdictions identified by the Global Forum as relevant to its work, are being reviewed. This process is undertaken in two phases. Phase 1 reviews assess the quality of a jurisdiction's legal and regulatory framework for the exchange of information, while Phase 2 reviews look at the practical implementation of that framework. Some Global Forum members are undergoing combined - Phase 1 and Phase 2 - reviews. The Global Forum has also put in place a process for supplementary reports to follow-up on recommendations, as well as for the ongoing monitoring of jurisdictions following the conclusion of a review. The ultimate goal is to help jurisdictions to effectively implement the international standards of transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.
All review reports are published once approved by the Global Forum and they thus represent agreed Global Forum reports.
For more information on the work of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, and for copies of the published review reports, please refer to www.oecd.org/tax/transparency and www.eoi-tax.org.
