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As usual in this series, Chapter 1 reviews the configuration of global risks and assesses the outstanding short term opportunities and challenges facing the LAC region. We document the significant slowdown in economic activity across the region, and explore the possibility of this being the ‘new normal’. In Chapter 2 we assess if the major social gains achieved during the ‘Golden Decade’, in particular the decline in inequality, will hold in this less supportive environment, and discuss alternative policy responses to preserve and further the equity gains in the region.

"Why didn't I think of that genius idea?" This is the remarkable, at times funny, story of a young entrepreneur who, aged 18 and with $4,000 and no other funding, started up invisibobble - the revolutionary hair ties that have taken the haircare industry by storm. Today, Sophie Trelles-Tvede's company has sold over 100 million hair ties around the world and turns over $15 million. As a first-year university student, getting ready for a party, Sophie spotted an old telephone cord and decided to use it to tie her hair with. The next morning, she noticed something different with her hair: she...

30 años han pasado desde el día en que los tentáculos asesinos del Cartel de Medellín acabaron con la vida de uno de los más destacados periodistas del último siglo: Guillermo Cano.

A lo largo de ocho capítulos, el autor pone bajo su lupa el análisis de grandes tragedias como la del Huracán Katrina, en Nueva Orleans; las denuncias contra el presidente colombiano, Álvaro Uribe Vélez por los supuestos aportes hechos a su campaña, por grupos paramilitares; los entretelones de la renuncia del ex presidente Andrés Pastrana a la embajada en Washington; las consecuencias sobre la imagen de América Airlines, tras la masacre de las torres Gemelas; en fin, un variado muestrario de casos que dejaron sus huellas en el imaginario público. Este libro resulta una valiosa...