Dime cuánto vale y te diré quién vive : Análisis de la relación entre los precios del suelo y el nivel socio-económico de los hogares en el partido de La Plata entre 2001 y 2010

Luego de la crisis del año 2001, la Argentina experimentó una rápida recuperación económica que se tradujo en una disminución considerable de las tasas de desempleo y pobreza. Sin embargo, el acceso a la ciudad parece ser crecientemente desigual y la forma en la que se divide socialmente el espacio urbano permite poner en evidencia que los sectores populares experimentan una creciente dificultad para sentirse parte de la ciudad. A pesar de su escasa visibilidad, se cree que la dinámica del mercado inmobiliario en las ciudades es uno de los grandes responsables de la división social del espacio, ya que se ha transformado en un destino privilegiado de la inversión financiera. El objetivo general de esta tesis final de la carrera de Licenciatura en Geografía es analizar los cambios en la dinámica de los precios del suelo urbano y su incidencia tanto en la transformación del perfil socioeconómico de las diferentes áreas de la ciudad como en la emergencia de conflictos urbanos en el partido de La Plata en el período 2001-2010. Partiendo del supuesto que el mercado de suelo urbano es el dispositivo fundamental que estructura la división social del espacio se espera observar un alto grado de correlación entre los precios del suelo y el perfil socio-económico de los hogares residentes en las distintas áreas de la ciudad. Sin embargo, se prevé la identificación de ciertos territorios en los que dicha correlación no se verifica y como hipótesis central se sostiene lo siguiente: la baja asociación entre estas dos variables puede explicarse por un proceso de especulación urbana o por constituir áreas de reciente valorización inmobiliaria y, a su vez, que cuando los pobladores de esas áreas se encuentran en condiciones de pobreza puedan verse afectados por procesos de expulsión residencial y otros conflictos urbanos

Chaos Theory as an Approach to Understanding MICE in Time of Crisis

MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions, and exhibitions), has generated high foreign exchange revenue for the economy worldwide. In Thailand, MICE tourists are recognized as ‘quality’ visitors, mainly because of their high-spending potential. Having said that, Thailand’s MICE sector has been influenced by a number of crises following September 11, 2001. Consequently, professionals in the MICE sector must be prepared to deal with such complex phenomena of crisis that might happen in the future. While a number of researches have examined the complexity of crises in the tourism context, there has been little focus on such issues in the MICE sector. As chaos theory provides a particularly good model for crisis situations, it is the aim of this paper to propose a chaos theory-based approach to the understanding of complex and chaotic system of the MICE sector in time of crisis.

The East Asian crisis and financing corporate investment:is there a cause for concern?

In view of limited empirical evidence concerning the microeconomic aspects of corporate financial problems in the East Asian countries in the 1990s, this paper analyses the financing pattern of corporate investment in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel of listed firms during the period 1989–1997. By using firm size, retention practices, and leverage as three different indicators of financial constraint on firm investment, we have examined the role of various internal and external financing variables on corporate investment in the sample countries. Results indicate that a large number of sample firms depend on free cash flow, especially in Indonesia; there was also a steady increase in debt-equity ratio in all countries. There were signs of agency costs in the use of cash flow in Korea and Malaysia and also in the use of debt financing in Malaysia and Thailand. There was also sign of over-investment among the Thai firms during 1994–1997 though it appears very little if at all was done to redress it in time.

Financial market efficiency in a corporate crisis:the case of Bridgestone/Firestone

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Policy on the hoof:the handling of the foot and mouth disease outbreak in 2001

The foot and mouth disease (FMD) epidemic of 2001 was a disaster for sections of the agricultural industry, a number of businesses and for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF), which met its demise as a government department during the crisis, being replaced by the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). There were some 2,030 confirmed cases and over four million animals slaughtered. It caused the postponement of local elections and of a general election. From a public policy perspective it raised questions about contingency planning, the adjustment of policy to take account of change and how to manage a crisis. This article focuses on the background to the crisis and how it was handled.

The impact of the Miami Cuban exile's political culture on the 1996 fiscal crisis of the city of Miami

The purpose of this study was to determine if the political culture of the Miami Cuban exile community was a significant factor in creating the environment that led to the 1996 fiscal crisis of the City of Miami. The study performed an ethnographic case study that utilized a triangulation strategy which included both qualitative and quantitative methods. Focus groups were conducted to ascertain qualitative and quantitative data as to differences among ethnic and generational groups regarding notions of governance, public administration practices, and overall political values and core beliefs. Quantitative data was obtained through a five year and seven month review of newspaper articles from two periodicals based in Miami-Dade County. A review was also conducted of secondary data in audit and management reports, blue ribbon commission studies, Certified Public Manager (CPM) enrollment, and legal case decisions to examine the administrative practices of the City of Miami leading up to and subsequent to its fiscal crisis. The study found that a political subculture of caudillismo was present in Cuban exile core areas of Miami that appears to have had an influence on the administrative practices and notions of governance that led to the fiscal crisis. The author concludes that an imported foreign political culture has imposed itself as a subculture in core areas of the exile community and that the operationalization of this subculture has manifested itself in non-mainstream notions of governance and public administration practices. ^

"La toma del Jockey" Movimiento estudiantil. Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social. UNLP-2001

Fil: González Leegstra, Cintia. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.