The first analytical research book on financing for development (FFD), in response to the 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Agenda on FFD, focuses on forward-looking tax policies for sustainable development in four priority areas. The city finance chapter discusses challenges and solutions in the...

Waste activated sludge (WAS) is the most favorable inoculum for dark fermentative hydrogen-producing processes, because it can be collected economically. In order to accelerate the start-up process and develop the efficiency and stability of a hydrogen production system, pretreatment of the seed...

Past literature has proven that liquidity plays a role in stock pricing, but our study shows that this role is remarkably bigger during an unstable period – the subprime crisis. The market became more sensitive to illiquidity costs and investors were paying a higher premium in crisis than in...