Praise for Value Planning \"Serven demystifies shareholder value creation and provides a pragmatic, actionable guidebook for executives. Value Planning?s step-by-step management system focuses business planning on delivering, not just predicting results. The book?...

Analyzing the experience of Mexico under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the authors draw lessons for other countries considering free trade agreements with the United States. The authors conclude that NAFTA raised external trade and foreign investment inflows and had a modest effect on Mexico’s average income per person....

The single greatest impediment to an organization\'s success isn\'t any outside threat--it\'s internal divisiveness and political wrangling. Now, at last, a refreshingly intelligent book shows how to rid your organization of the \"politics as usual\" that stifles top performance....

Latin America?s macroeconomic crises of the 1980s and ?90s forced a severe fiscal adjustment across the region. More often than not, fiscal stability was achieved at the cost of a drastic compression of public infrastructure spending, accompanied by the hope that the private sector would take the leading role in infrastructure provision....