{"id":2538,"date":"2009-06-10T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2009-06-10T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:59:04","slug":"the-global-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2538","title":{"rendered":"The Global Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like the majority of what I blog about is the economy and trying to come up with synonyms for recession. I guess that as the business librarian, it is expected of me.<\/p>\n<p>America is not alone in the current economic hardship &#8211; the rise of globalization and the ever-connected societies of the world have the entire world feeling the pinch. However, some countries are feeling it worse than others. So just how is Italy or Venezuela or [insert favorite country here] dealing with the slowdown?<\/p>\n<p>In response to this question, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euromonitor.com\">Euromonitor<\/a> has published a series of <strong>Global Risks and Vulnerabilities<\/strong> briefings as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/www.portal.euromonitor.com\/portal\/server.pt\">Passport Reference &amp; Markets<\/a> (formerly known as Global Market Information Database). These reports address external sector shocks, real estate, government finance, energy, socio-political shocks and environmental shocks as part of a measure of the country&#8217;s economic health.<\/p>\n<p>To get to the documents, click on the <strong>Countries<\/strong> link in the main navigational bar and the <strong>Country Briefings<\/strong> are located in the upper-right corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like the majority of what I blog about is the economy and trying to come up with synonyms for recession. I guess that as the business librarian, it is expected of me. America is not alone in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2538\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,38],"tags":[521,198,1728,286,1997,1992],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-online-the-library","tag-countries","tag-economics","tag-electronic-resources","tag-euromonitor","tag-passport-reference-and-markets","tag-recession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}