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Middle East oil exporters : what happened to economic development?

Askari, Hossein - 2006

Middle East Oil Exporters presents a detailed picture of the economic structure and a critical survey of the recent economic performance of the Middle East. The focus is especially on the large oil-exporting nations, although the smaller producers are represented as well. The author illustrates...

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Handbook of human resource management in the Middle East

Budhwar, Pawan S. (contributor); Mellahi, Kamel (contributor) - 2016

Part 1 contextual and functional issues -- 1. The Middle East context: an introduction / Pawan S. Budhwar and Kamel Mellahi -- 2. Cultural perspectives in HRM in MENA / Pari Namazie and Barbara Covarrubias Venegas -- 3. Society level factors impacting HRM in the Middle East / Wes Harry -- 4....

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Capital flight and capital controls in developing countries

Epstein, Gerald A. (ed.) - 2005

Capital flight - the unrecorded export of capital from developing countries - often represents a significant cost for developing countries. It also poses a puzzle for standard economic theory, which would predict that poorer countries be importers of capital due to its scarcity. This situation...

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The entrepreneur in youth : an untapped resource for economic growth, social entrepreneurship, and education

Kourilsky, Marilyn L.; Walstad, William B.; Thomas, Andrew - 2007

The Entrepreneur in Youth offers one of the most comprehensive assessments to date of African American, Latino, and … over 11,000 respondents from high school youth and other groups, including adults and business owners. The key findings … exhibit an extraordinarily high level of interest in entrepreneurship among youth as well as a strong desire to give back to …

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Central banking and monetary policy in Muslim-majority countries

Hossain, Akhand Akhtar - 2015

The introduction of Islamic banking and finance across the globe strengthens the argument for low and stable inflation and rule-based monetary policy for sustained economic growth. Although Islamic banking and finance may have created some complexities in financial transactions it remains...

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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city

Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.) - 2020

Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and...

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Handbook on place branding and marketing

Campelo, Adriana (contributor) - 2017

Contents: Section 1: Place branding: strategies and perspectives -- 1. The state of art: from country-of-origin to strategies for economic development / Adriana Campelo -- 2. Place branding in strategic spatial planning: challenges and opportunities of branding regions / Eduardo Oliveira and...

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Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations

Jones, Eric (contributor); Bernholz, Peter (contributor); … - 2004

Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...

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Creative cities, cultural clusters and local economic development

Cooke, Philip N. (contributor); … - 2008

This book analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives, examining and differentiating them as two related but distinct segments of contemporary city economies. The authors argue that although they are normally conflated, the first...

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Incentives, regulations and plans : the role of states and nation-states in smart growth planning

Knaap, Gerrit-Jan (contributor) - 2007

This unique book allows readers to compare analyses of how North American states and European nation-states use incentives, regulations or plans to approach a core set of universal land use issues such as: containing sprawl, mixed use development, transit oriented development, affordable...

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