Image and Reality in Travel Decision-Making: A Case From Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
Carla Pezzia
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Lake Atitlan ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Travel Decision

Recent media reports indicate a decrease in tourism nationwide in Guatemala. In Panajachel, the second most visited destination in Guatemala, there has been an observable decline in both international and national-based tourism. Three primary factors contribute to this decline in Panajachel: 1. Global Economic Crisis 2. Recent history of natural disasters 3. Increased criminal activity and drug-related violence

Trashing Solidarity: The Production of Power and the Challenges to Organizing Informal Reclaimers

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 34-48
Author(s):  
Melanie Samson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Informal Worker ◽  
Informal Workers ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis article presents a nuanced social history of how reclaimers at the Marie Louise landfill in Soweto, South Africa, organized against each other on the basis of nationality instead of uniting to combat the effects of the 2008 global economic crisis. Through this narrative of struggles at one particular dump, the article contributes to debates on informal worker organizing by theorizing the importance of the production of identities, power relations, space, and institutions in understanding how and why informal workers create and maintain power-laden divisions between themselves. The article argues that organizing efforts that seek to overcome divisions between informal workers cannot simply exhort them to unite based on abstract principles, but must actively transform the places and institutions forged by these workers through which they create and crystallize divisive identities and power relations.

A Recent History of Terrorism and Natural Disasters

Insight ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
William Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of

U.S.-Mexican Relations: The 1980s and Beyond

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Peter H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Recent History ◽  
International Debt ◽  
Intergovernmental Cooperation ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The U.S

That does the future hold for U.S.-Mexican relations? Optimistic assessments usually point to the high degree of interpenetration between the two societies, the recent history of intergovernmental cooperation, and the commonality of basic interests. Developments in one country have significant impact on the other, a process that now works both ways: the 1982 economic crisis in Mexico created serious difficulties for retailers on the U.S. side of the border, Mexico's subsequent cutbacks in imports prompted the loss of 200,000 jobs in the U.S., and Mexico's struggles with its international debt have crucial implications for banks in the U.S. Each country needs the other, and this kind of “interdependence” creates mutuality of purpose. According to this logic, the rational pursuit of national goals will build and fortify harmonious bilateral relations.

scholarly journals Lack of fiscal discipline: Challenges and possible solutions

2013 ◽  
pp. 707-718
Author(s):  
Nikola Cirovic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Budget Process ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Fiscal Discipline ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
Implementation Problems

The lack of fiscal discipline is one of the most pressing issues in the framework of various economic systems today. The consequences of the global economic crisis have shown all the weaknesses of measures and mechanisms in terms of decision-making in fiscal policy. This problem can be seen now in almost every country. The problem of inadequate implementation of fiscal policy and the maintenance of fiscal discipline is reflected in the fact that their consequences are not visible right away, but tend to show their negative effects much later. Today, we have a situation where a certain current government suffers badly implemented prior fiscal discipline of a previous government. The paper identified causes of fiscal indiscipline, which is most easily seen in the budget process. In addition to determining the causes of fiscal indiscipline, the author puts forward a set of different possible solutions that could positively affect the stabilization of the growing public debt and eliminate the cause of fiscal indiscipline. Possible solutions are analyzed, as well as the positive and negative aspects of their use, and possible implementation problems of specific solutions.

Italian Political Parties and Their Organisation beyond National Borders

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 918-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela R Piccio
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
National Level ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organisational Model ◽  
National Borders

Abstract According to the most recent statistics, 8.8% of the Italian population is registered as living abroad. This figure has increased considerably following the 2007 global economic crisis, with the number of Italians abroad rising from 3.1 million in 2006 to over 5 million in 2018 (+70% in only 12 years). Additionally, legislation on voting from abroad was amended to allow for postal voting and established 18 reserved seats for Italians abroad. These conditions seem to offer strong incentives for political parties to engage with potential supporters abroad in a structured and stable way. Yet, the analysis revealed significant variation among parties. By undertaking a close analysis of the organisational rules for the Italian party abroad as contained in party Statutes, the article suggests that variation among parties can be explained by their individual history of diaspora representation and by the organisational model established at the national level.

Are the Wages of Sin $30 an Hour? Economic Aspects of Street-Level Drug Dealing

1992 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert MacCoun ◽  
Peter Reuter
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Drug Dealing ◽  
Drug Sales ◽  
Street Level ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Reports

One hundred and eighty-six probationers in Washington, D.C., who acknowledged a recent history of drug dealing were interviewed regarding their legitimate and illegitimate activities. They reported median net earnings of $721 per month from drug sales - $2,000 per month among the 37% who reported selling drugs selling drugs on a daily basis. These figures compare with median monthly earnings of $800 from legitimate employment for the 75% who reported such earnings. Street-level drug dealing appears to be a complement to, rather than a substitute for, legitimate employment, and it appears to be less profitable than media reports would suggest.

South Africa: from apartheid to xenophobia

Race & Class ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Pervaiz Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Working Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Global Economic Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

How to explain the violent xenophobic attacks in South Africa in recent years? Two militant South African activists, Leonard Gentle and Noor Nieftagodien, interviewed here, analyse the race/class bases for the anti-foreigner violence in terms of the echoes/reverberations of apartheid and the rise of neoliberalism. They argue that remnants of apartheid have endured through the reproduction of racial and tribal categories, which has contributed to the entrenchment of exclusionary nationalist politics and the fragmentation of black unity. South Africa’s specific history of capitalist development, the African National Congress’s embraces of neoliberalism, on the one hand, and rainbowism, on the other, have produced the underlying conditions of precarity and desperation that resulted in the normalisation of xenophobia. The unions, too, have failed to recognise the new shape of the ‘working class’. Gentle and Nieftagodien outline the need to contend with the broader social conditions, the global economic crisis, neoliberalism and the deep inequalities it engenders in order to counteract the rising tide of xenophobia and build working-class unity.

Elaborating the role of reflection and individual differences in the study of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Arceneaux
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Beliefs

AbstractIntuitions guide decision-making, and looking to the evolutionary history of humans illuminates why some behavioral responses are more intuitive than others. Yet a place remains for cognitive processes to second-guess intuitive responses – that is, to be reflective – and individual differences abound in automatic, intuitive processing as well.

Physiologic Measures In Patients with PTSD with and Without A Recent History of Alcohol Abuse

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Ahearn ◽  
Mary Mussey ◽  
Catherine Johnson ◽  
Amy Krohn ◽  
Timothy Juergens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of
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