Global Risks 2014, Ninth Edition.

The Global Risks 2014 report highlights how global risks are not only interconnected but also have systemic impacts. To manage global risks effectively and build resilience to their impacts, better efforts are needed to understand, measure and foresee the evolution of interdependencies between risks, supplementing traditional risk-management tools with new concepts designed for uncertain environments. If global risks are not effectively addressed, their social, economic and political fallouts could be far-reaching, as exemplified by the continuing impacts of the financial crisis of 2007-2008

Improving Global Financial Stability

This report concludes that the failure of developing country governments and international financial institutions to adapt to changing markets helped trigger some of the world's financial crises. Arguing that global finance is "more susceptible to crisis than it need be," the report targets both developing and developed countries and the IMF as being in serious need of reform to prevent future breakdowns. The report endorses international standards to be adopted by developing countries, and hails private-sector participation and resources as vital to building an accepted set of best practices

Business Ethics

Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.https://commons.erau.edu/oer-textbook/1006/thumbnail.jp

"Bank Distress and the Borrowers' Productivity"

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model in which a banking crisis (or bank distress) causes declines in the aggregate productivity. When borrowing firms need additional bank loans to continue their businesses, a high probability of bank failure discourages ex ante investments (i.e., "specialization") by the firms that enhance their productivity. In a general equilibrium setting, we also show that there may be multiple equilibria, in one of which bank distress continues and the borrowers' productivity is low, and in the other equilibrium, banks are healthy and the borrowers' productivity is high. We show that the bank capital requirement may be effective to eliminate the bad equilibrium and may lead the economy to the good equilibrium in which the productivity of borrowing firms and the aggregate output are both high and the probability of bank failure is low.

Tattered alliance : Donald Trump and Europe

O mandato de Donald Trump como presidente dos Estados Unidos coincidiu com um período exigente nas relações transatlânticas, repleto de tensões e confrontos de personalidade. Os laços euro-americanos desgastaram-se enquando ambos os lados se envolveram em amargas recriminações sobre a NATO, a União Europeia, o comércio transatlântico e as normas da ordem liberal. Muitos dos conflitos poderiam ter sido prevenidos se as partes envolvidas tivessem evitado uma polarização de posições. Não o fizeram. Este artigo descreve a crise e suas consequências, sugerindo que europeus e americanos partilham a responsabilidade pela mais turbulenta crise vivida na comunidade Atlântica desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The East Asian Financial Crisis: Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects

macroeconomics, East Asian Financial Crisis, East Asia, Financial crisis, Diagnosis, Remedies, Prospects

A Study Of The Causes Of Membership Dropout Among Selected Churches In The East Jamaica Conference Of Seventh-Day Adventists

This project attempts to investigate the causes of membership dropout among selected churches in the East Jamaica Conference of SDA. Several New Testament examples are explored in an effort to determine the church\u27s responsibility in behalf of the missing member. The role and function of the church as a loving, caring community in reclaiming and restoring dropouts is discussed. Paul\u27s teachings in 1 Corinthians, Romans, and Ephesians concerning the church as a body and Christ the head also are examined. A review of literature gives an overview of the dropout problem from the perspective of various Christian churches in an effort to find possible suggestions for reducing the dropout rate. The descriptive method used in the study is based upon 176 responses to a questionnaire and personal interviews with persons who have dropped out of the church. The responses were evaluated by the Research and Statistics Department of Andrews University. The respondents cited a number of reasons for dropping out of the church. The first ten factors are as follows: (1) Violated the commandment on adultery, 45.2 percent; (2) personal spiritual life declined, 42.2 percent; (3) working on Sabbath, 33.3 percent; (4) lack of support in time of crisis, 24.0 percent; (5) members too proud, 23.3 percent; (6) influenced by non-Adventist association, 22.1 percent; (7) lack of fellowship, 18.4 percent; (8) drastic financial change, 18.2 percent; (9) inadequately prepared for baptism, 17.6 percent; (10) members to inconsistent, 16.9 percent. The responses indicated that 47.9 percent are very likely to become regular active members of the church. This indicates that given the proper encouragement, care, nurturing and visitation, these individuals would return to active membership. Consequently, the findings of this study suggest that the church needs to give serious consideration to the factors responsible for membership dropout among selected churches in the East Jamaica Conference of SDA. It is anticipated that the recommended suggestions will be implemented to bring about a significant reduction in the dropout rate