Quince minutos de fama financiera: la historia de Marc A. Hélie el "hombre que le quebró al Ecuador" (Jurisprudencia)

La problemática de la deuda externa ecuatoriana puede mirarse a través de varias formas y puntos de vista, notablemente, en virtud de técnicas jurídicas, financieras, sociales, etc. El problema con estos puntos de vista es que al ser orientados a grupos específicos, terminan siendo de difícil digestión para el común de las personas. Este artículo pretende revisar un importante episodio financiero desde una perspectiva histórica, más cálida y alejada de tecnicismos, es una historia de ambición que narra un pequeño capítulo en la vida de un hombre: Marc Hélie quien, a nombre de la transparencia e integridad de los mercados internacionales, por poco destruye a un país solo para terminar relegado de los mercados a los que decía defender.

Assessing financial competence in older adults with cognitive impairment

One common problem brought before Courts and Tribunals in Australia is whether or not someone is able to manage his or her own financial affairs. The problem is that currently in Australia there are no universally agreed upon standards for assessing financial competence. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a new measure of financial competence, The Financial Competence Assessment Inventory (FCAI), in assessing financial competency of older adults with a cognitive impairment. The sample comprised 18 older adults with acquired brain injury, 10 adults with schizophrenia, 21 adults with dementia and 27 older adults without cognitive impairment. Ages ranged from 55 to 91. Each participant was individually interviewed using the FCAI. The findings revealed that the FCAI is a reliable and valid assessment tool for assessing financial competence of older adults with different types and levels of cognitive impairment. In particular, the FCAI was able to distinguish between older adults with global brain impairment and older adults with specific brain impairment; and older adults who had a legal administrator and older adults who did not. In addition, using the FCAI it was possible to obtain a profile of participants’ strengths and weaknesses across six domains of financial competence including; everyday financial abilities, financial judgment, estate management, cognitive based financial tasks, debt management, and support resources. The FCAI has the potential to assist clinicians and legal decision-makers regarding ‘least restrictive alternatives’ when financial competence is in question.

Social responsibility and credit availability

There has been a widespread increase in the use of consumer credit and therefore consumer indebtedness. Some of this increase has been within that segment of the population least able to afford debt of any kind – welfare recipients. This qualitative study demonstrates some interesting attitudes to debt, as well as differences in peoples’ perceptions of acceptable debt and their debt-management strategies. This study suggests that action is required by those responsible for the marketing of credit to this vulnerable group and government policymakers to provide a socially responsible approach to manage this societal concern.

Gestão da inovação no setor público: acumulação de capacidades tecnológicas e os processos subjacentes de aprendizagem: evidências da Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional do Brasil durante o período de 1986 a 2005

Estudo de caso, referente a acumulação de capacidades tecnológicas e aos processos subjacentes de aprendizagem no âmbito da Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional do Brasil - entre 1986 a 2005

La gran crisis de la deuda latinoamericana: un decenio de ajuste asimétrico

Incluye Bibliografía

La gran crisis de endeudamiento: una década de ajuste asimétrico

Incluye Bibliografía

Macroeconomic policies in times of crisis: options and perspectives

Includes bibliography

¿Existe aún una crisis de deuda latinoamericana?

Incluye Bibliografía

Capital flows to Latin America: year end 2005

Includes bibliography

Capital flows to Latin America: first quarter 2006

Includes bibliography

Capital flows to Latin America: year end 2006

Includes bibliography

Capital flows to Latin America: quarterly developments

Includes bibliography

Caribbean development report: Exploring strategies for sustainable growth and development in Caribbean small island States

The Third Caribbean Development Roundtable (23-24 April 2014) was held under the theme “Exploring strategies for sustainable growth and development in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS)”. The Roundtable focused on challenges faced in stimulating growth and creating a capacity for resilience among the Caribbean SIDS. The conference examined the continuing challenge of igniting robust growth in Caribbean Small States, and at the same time, mitigating structural and cyclical risks and uncertainty. The presentations made at the Roundtable can be placed under six themes which comprise the sections of this report, namely: Macroeconomic reorganisation in the context of risk and uncertainty; fiscal adjustment, stabilisation and debt management; services, public/private partnership and development; social protection; human capital formation; and environmental protection.