Author: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la AgriculturaPublisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290396598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Informe Anual 2004 / 2004 Annual Report
Author: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la AgriculturaPublisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290396598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Minerals Yearbook
Author: Memoria anual 2004
Author: Banco MiBanco (Lima)Memoria anual 2004
Author: EDELNOR.Minerals Yearbook, 2007, V. 3, Area Reports, International, Latin America and Canada
Author: U S Geological Survey & Orienteering SPublisher: Geological Survey
ISBN: 9781411325340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Providing the latest available mineral data on the countries of Africa and the Middle East, this yearbook discusses the importance of minerals to these nations economies. It also includes production tables and industry structure tables.
Memoria anual 2004
Author: Telefn̤ica del PerMemoria Y Cuenta 2004
Author: Chile Underground
Author: Audrey MayerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300253559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A fascinating historical examination of the Santiago Metro system as a microcosm of Chilean national identity during the twentieth century The Santiago Metro, the largest urban infrastructure project in Chile’s history, was designed in the 1960s in response to rapid urban growth. Despite the upheavals of Salvador Allende’s democratic socialism (1970–1973) and Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship (1973–1990), the project survived and is now the largest metro system in South America. What explains its success? How did its meaning shift under democracy and dictatorship? What does its history reveal about struggles for a more just city? Drawing on Chilean and French archives, Andra B. Chastain demonstrates that Chilean-French relations and French financing were crucial to the project’s survival during the Cold War. The Metro’s history also illuminates the contested process of implementing neoliberalism and the unexpected continuities of state planning and visions for a rational city that persisted despite free-market reforms. Most important, this story shows that the Metro came to symbolize the nation and became a critical site where planners, workers, and urban residents contested Chile’s path to modernity.
Voice and Vote
Author: Stephanie McNultyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080477398X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book investigates a recent Peruvian decentralization reform that is considered to be one of the most participatory in Latin America.
Sun & Sea Tourism
Author: Linda M. AmbrosiePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443882291
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Cruise ship passengers and all-inclusive hotel-guests are increasing exponentially as these floating and fixed properties proliferate in size and number. This is especially true for developing economies that consider sun, sand and sea tourism as a form of growth. Tightly integrated, multi-billion dollar global enterprises mix with weak local institutions populated by local officials, some corrupt, vying for more investment to create a toxic cocktail with diminished social benefits as the hangover. Within view of the shoreline and the towering monoliths of hotels and ships, post-secondary education facilities teach normative concepts of good management to students who, upon graduation, fight for a decreasing number of poorly paid jobs. Meanwhile, local government officials tout vacuous GDP figures and hospitality companies make inflated claims of employment to garner federal funding for infrastructure expansion. Many observers have made similar claims that have been easily ignored to date due to an absence of studies integrating tax revenue, private and public finance, and social outcomes. This combination illustrates not only current structures, but also how they are engendered. Rather than relying on tourist satisfaction, much investment is driven by windfall profits and tax-loss carryforwards thanks to tax loopholes and willing local officials that ignore or aid in the violation of regulations. While foreign companies condemn the corruption and cronyism at destinations, local nationals decry the exploitative foreign companies. The simple truth is that they flourish symbiotically. As such, this book necessarily addresses both actors. However, rather than being simply critical or numerical, this book provides recommendations for multinational enterprises increasingly running the risk of detection of aggressive tax planning and greenwashing. For host countries, it provides recommendations of a virtuous cycle for improved public sector accountability to restore the beneficial effects of tourism. There is also a discussion on how a value-added study of the tourism industry within a jurisdiction could detect untaxed profits that are withheld through astute transfer-pricing schemes. This is a book for tourism managers and experts, as well as policy-makers in the Caribbean and any sun, sand and sea destination that attracts floating and fixed all-inclusives.