In the 80's and 90's, many companies looked to the emerging markets for low-cost sourcing. Now, though, more companies are looking to places like China as important markets in their own right. In this paper, they highlight some examples of manufacturing companies who are already building plants, working with local partners and governments, conducting research - and most importantly, generating signifi cant sales - in some key emerging markets. They take a look at why they've been successful, and what they think is likely to happen next.

Austria is one of the world's top tourist destinations. According to the World Economic Forum, the alpine republic is second in the world in terms of its attractiveness to tourists. The tourism sector consistently accounts for over 15% of GDP, and during the 2009 crisis was able to even gain market share. The positive mood is reflected in the plans made by tourism executives - another 16,000 hotel beds are planned over the next five years.

Public-private partnership solutions can substantially ease the financial burden natural disasters put on government budgets. The economic costs of natural catastrophes have risen from an average USD 25 billion per annum in the 1980s to USD 130 billion in the 2000s. With climate change unfolding, catastrophic events such as hurricanes, floods and droughts are likely to increase further, hitting in particular emerging markets and developing countries.

On 24-25 June 2010, the BIS held its Ninth Annual Conference, on "The future of central banking under post-crisis mandates" in Lucerne, Switzerland. The event brought together senior representatives of central banks and academic institutions who exchanged views on this topic.

Los operadores alternativos sumaban en junio de 2010 un 34% de la cuota de mercado en las zonas competitivas, lo que supone un total de 1,6 millones de líneas, frente al 29,5% que registraban en junio del año anterior, según el 'Informe de Seguimiento de la Situación Competitiva de la Banda Ancha en España' publicado por la Comisión del Mercado de Telecomunicaciones (CMT).

Alternative fuels are the ultimate solution to decarbonise transport, by gradually substituting the fossil energy sources, which are responsible for the CO2 emissions of transport. Other measures, such as transport efficiency improvements and transport volume management, play an important supporting role.

OEMs have to create new strategies to face global challenges. Having been hit severely by the global recession in 2009, the mechanical engineering industry is expected to fully recover until 2012 on a global level.

Europe faces major investment in infrastructure in the coming decade in the context of the credit crisis and the broader economic crisis that followed. The article considers what the core market failures in infrastructure are, focussing on the gap between marginal and average costs, the system nature of infrastructures, and the time inconsistency problem.

Nueva presentación del FROB que usa como reclamo para captar inversores las posibles "nuevas reformas legales", que abrirían la vía a la nacionalización parcial y temporal de las entidades de ahorro.

La Unión Europea es el segundo mercado en tamaño para el sector de la joyería a nivel mundial, tan sólo superado por los Estados Unidos de América. En 2008, el consumo europeo fue de 23.3 billones de €, con una media per cápita de 47.2 €, de los cuales 6.4 € fueron de bisutería.

Novedades relevantes en el ámbito de las normas internacionales que pueden conllevar la necesidad de adecuar los sistemas de gestión de las compañías. Hay que prepararse con tiempo para una correcta evaluación de los impactos que pudieran acarrear.

Custody is supposed to be a boring transactional business where size counts and consistent revenues keep the machine well oiled. However, custodians are not immune from the volatility that has hit the market over the last year.

La actividad turística rebota y crece de forma moderada en 2010 y favorece una leve mejora de las ventas, gracias al sacrificio empresarial, bajando precios para garantizar ingresos y a su buena gestión de costes.

This annual report by PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts the outlook for M&A activity in the global technology sector in 2010 and reviews the challenges the sector faced during 2009.

Anatomía de la edición nació hace un año con el fin de ayudar a los editores a entender los cambios que se estaban produciendo en un sector muy conservador que veía como una amenaza los cambios en los hábitos de los consumidores y el peso que se estaba otorgando a Internet como medio de difusión de los contenidos. El resultado es este libro.

La nueva coyuntura ha derivado en un cambio en el patrón de consumo de alimentos: comprar menos productos y a buscar las mejores ofertas y promociones. Muchas empresas ven en este escenario no un problema, sino una verdadera oportunidad...

The software industry is in the midst of significant change as new technologies (cloud and mobile) and customer behaviours emerge. Here, PwC presents not just the leading software companies from key markets around the world but, more importantly, insights into where the industry is going in the next five years shared by executives from companies such as Symantec, Dassault, Sage, SAP, and Wipro.

The 2011 World Insurance Report explores ways insurers can dissect their business to identify opportunities that will make fundamental and lasting improvements to their core operations, with a focus on enhancements to claims transformation.