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Bank Performance, Risk and Firm Financing (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by Philip MolyneuxThis text comprises a selection of papers that provide state of the art insights into bank performance, risk and firm financing post crisis that were presented at the European Association of University Teachers of Banking and Finance Conference (otherwise known as the Wolpertinger Conference) held at Bangor University, Wales, 2010.
Institutions, Human Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies (Studies in Economic Transition)
by P. TridicoThis book analyses the development path of transition economies in European Countries and former Soviet Republics that have experienced the transformation from planned economies to market economies since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It examines economic growth, institutional change and human development performance.
EU Payments Integration: The Tale of SEPA, PSD and Other Milestones Along the Road (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by Ruth WandhöferAn inside view of the forces which shaped SEPA and the PSD written from the unique perspective of someone closely involved throughout the process. It uncovers the strategic, legal and practical implications of the full harmonization agenda and provides an assessment of where these initiatives stand today, including key lessons learned.
International Development Policy: Energy and Development (International Development Policy)
by Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesCo-published with The Graduate Institute, this book examines how energy issues have intensified with modern development, how they shape geopolitics and access to energy in Africa, and how inconsistent energy governance really is. It discusses energy policy options in developing and emerging countries and questions the role of development aid.
St. James's Place Tax Guide 2011-2012
by W. Sinclair E. LipkinThe 40th annual edition of the leading guide to taxation in Britain. This practical and user-friendly guide is a bestseller with students, professionals, accountants and private individuals; explaining in simple terms how the UK tax system works and how best to minimise tax liabilities.
The Global Curse of the Federal Reserve: Manifesto for a Second Monetarist Revolution
by B. BrownThe book reveals how the Global Credit Bubble and Bust of 2003-10 stemmed from giant monetary disequilibrium created by the Federal Reserve. Almost continually that institution has pursued flawed monetary practice and principle which has mutated into Bernanke-ism. The book dissects this and shows how it threatens the return of economic prosperity.
Humanistic Ethics in the Age of Globality (Humanism in Business Series)
by Claus Dierksmeier Wolfgang Amann Ernst Von Kimakowitz Heiko Spitzeck Michael PirsonCultures and moral expectations differ around the globe, and so the management of corporate responsibilities has become increasingly complex. Is there, however, a humanistic consensus that can bridge cultural and ethnic divides and reconcile the diverse and contrary interests of stakeholders world-wide? This book seeks to answer that question.
Handbook of Doing Business in South East Europe
by Dietmar Sternad and Thomas D�ringA comprehensive insight into a region which is characterized by rapid economic and social changes with a significant rise in foreign direct investments and privatization. Analysis covers political, legal, economic and social trends, and topics such as the influence of informal networks and corruption, as well as cultural diversity.
Chinese Investment in Australia: Unique Insights from the Mining Industry
by X. Huang I. AustinThis book provides comprehensive coverage on the key issues of Chinese investment in the Australian minerals industry. It offers unique insights into the entry process, the management of Chinese investments, and their success factors and lessons learnt as being impacted upon by the entangling of political, economic, social and competitive forces.
Global Politics and Financial Governance
by R. GermainThe financial crisis prompted many to ask how financial systems from America and Iceland to Russia and Hungary could have been so misgoverned that their near collapse plunged the entire world into recession. Randall Germain assesses what needs to be done, and by whom, to avoid a repetition of what he calls the 'great freeze'.
Comparative Entrepreneurship Initiatives: Studies in China, Japan and the USA (Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series)
by Chikako UsuiThis book investigates entrepreneurial initiatives in the three largest economies of the world: China, Japan and the USA. It brings together historical, institutional, and ethnographic approaches and highlights entrepreneurial patterns that result from cultural, legal, and political forces that facilitate and constrain entrepreneurship.
Inflation Targeting in MENA Countries: An Unfinished Journey
by Mongi BoughzalaThis volume assesses the current state of play for Middle East and North African countries, in the light of wider work on inflation targeting, and provides lessons from the evolution of monetary policy in Europe.
The Challenges of Vulnerability: In Search of Strategies for a Less Vulnerable Social Life
by B. MisztalProposing an aggregative conception of vulnerability, this book provides a new framework for understanding individual experience of, and resilience to, vulnerability and promotes the need to find remedies for exposure to involuntary dependence, the unsecured future and the painful past.
The World's Largest Humanitarian Agency: The Transformation of the UN World Food Programme and of Food Aid
by D. ShawThis book focuses on the transformation of the WFP into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required to make food more available to those in dire need.
South-South Cooperation: Africa on the Centre Stage (International Political Economy Series)
by Renu ModiThis book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the centre of the world stage because of its existing and potential economic prowess and purchasing power that the continent has to offer.
Liberalizing Financial Services and Foreign Direct Investment: Developing a Framework for Commercial Banking FDI
by L. PáezThis book focuses on the relationship between FDI and financial service liberalization in the context of the WTO. By conducting an economic assessment on the extent of GATS liberalization in commercial banking it seeks to empirically clarify if the multilateral liberalization efforts under the WTO promote FDI.
Forecasting, Warning and Responding to Transnational Risks
by Chiara De Franco Christoph O. MeyerAssembling a high profile group of scholars and practitioners, this book investigates the interplay of forecasting; warnings about, and responses to, known and unknown transnational risks. It challenges conventional accounts of 'failures' of warning and preventive policy in both the academic literature and public debate.
Understanding Terrorist Finance
by T. WittigWittig presents the first unified coherent framework for the systematic analysis of terrorist finance. With empirical examples from around the globe, he dispels several popular myths about these activities to make an important step forward in our understanding of not only terrorist finance, but also the place of terrorism in the contemporary world.
Globalization and Human Rights in the Developing World (Global Ethics)
by Derrick M. Nault Shawn L. EnglandFocusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human rights in our global age.
Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China: Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan (Consumption and Public Life)
by J. GambleThis book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labour-management systems in China, as well as their impact on consumer culture.
Shaping Global Industrial Relations: The Impact of International Framework Agreements (International Labour Organization (ILO) Century Series)
by Konstantinos PapadakisThis book assesses the phenomenon of international framework agreements (IFAs), examining their implementation and impact around the world as well as their promotion of ILO standards. This volume includes contributions from fifteen international specialists to give a comprehensive discussion of the 80-plus IFAs that existed in July 2010.
Values and Stakeholders in an Era of Social Responsibility: Cut-Throat Competition?
by P. D'AnselmiAssuming a pro-business viewpoint, this book criticizes sustainability and responsibility as it appears in the reports of corporations. It launches an appeal to the representatives of SMEs around the world to make accountability happen in government organizations and monopolies.
Delivering Development: Globalization's Shoreline and the Road to a Sustainable Future
by E. CarrCalls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Compels the reader to question conventional wisdom and explores alternative ways of achieving meaningful, enduring improvements to human well-being.
Innovations in Stress and Health
by S. Cartwright C. CooperThe costs of stress and ill-health to society are enormous. In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on workplace initiatives to reduce stress and improve individual resilience. This volume brings chief medical officers, leading health professionals and academics to present their views on innovations in the field of stress and health.
Crisis: Cause, Containment And Cure
by T. Thomas F. HuertasAnalysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority). New edition updated to take account of changes in regulation and legislation in the US, EU and UK. Many of these changes were in line with the recommendations made in the original edition