Melba Falck

Professor-researcher at the Department of Pacific Studies at the University Center for Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) since 1989. She holds a PhD in Trans-Pacific International Relations from the University of Colima; PhD Candidate in Economics and a Master in Economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

She is a member of the National System of Researchers of the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt). She is founder and editor of the journal México y la Cuenca del Pacífico. She is a founding member of the Center for Japanese Studies of the UdeG. She participated in the bi-national study group to strengthen relations between Mexico and Japan. She is a founding member of the Mexico Chapter of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC-MX) and a member of the Mexican Consortium of APEC Study Centers.

She has been a visiting professor at the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS) of Kyoto University and at the Institute of Developing Economies of Japan. In 2016 she received from the Japanese Foreign Ministry, the Recognition for Promoting Understanding between Japan and Mexico. She has published articles and book chapters on Japan's economy and development; Mexico-Japan economic relations and on Japanese migration to Guadalajara.

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2023 | Alicia GirónMore information

En economías monetarias de la producción, el dinero crédito es el medio para las transacciones de intercambio entre los agentes económicos. El dólar, moneda hegemónica, ha jugado un papel importante en el desarrollo económico, político y social durante las últimas siete décadas de constantes crisis económicas y financieras. Sin embargo, el dólar se está desdibujando en los mercados emergentes. Las tensiones financieras están surgiendo a raíz del alza de las tasas de interés por la injerencia de los bancos centrales y por el creciente endeudamiento de los países soberanos. Lo anterior, sumado a la crisis del cambio climático, así como al avance de la economía digital y a una frágil recuperación del empleo, vuelven necesario el análisis y el estudio del comportamiento del crédito. El libro Crédito, dinero y mercados emergentes. Crisis y retos en el nuevo orden monetario internacional aborda los cambios ocurridos a nivel mundial cuyo resultado fue la conformación de un mundo multipolar con implicaciones en los circuitos financieros.

2017 | Carlos UscangaMore information

This book has three axes of transversal analysis. The first one addresses the experience of economic development in Japan, which went from a model of sustained high growth to a pattern of lower performance, but with a great internationalization of its productive schemes and capital flows.

The second vector analyses the foreign policy responses that the Japanese government has had to the changes in the commercial and financial architecture in the Asia-Pacific, especially to the rise of China as an economic power but also to the emerging schemes for the search for a comprehensive regional economic liberalization process, which the first step, undoubtedly, is represented by the 12-country negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (better known by its acronym TPP).

The third and last one focuses on taking a balance of the initiative called "Abenomics" presented by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as a mechanism to deal with the long cycle of low growth and attend the emerging challenges of Japanese society. The ten co-authors who participate in the work converge on the idea of reflecting on how Japan has gone through and faced the hasty changes within the contemporary international economy –now more globalized– in the last seven decades that have witnessed the deepest and intense transformations that the world has undergone since the modern era.

In this sense, it is clear that for the Japanese government, both the Abenomics and the TPP possibly represent the most viable responses, but not the only ones to gradually restore economic health and contain the erosion of the social welfare pact to which the Japanese people were able to enjoy in the post-war period. That is the great challenge that the Shinzō Abe government faces at the domestic and international levels.