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Understanding green finance : a critical assessment and alternative perspectives
Jäger, Johannes (ed.); Dziwok, Ewa (ed.) - 2024 - First edition
"Exploring how green finance has become a key strategy for the financial industry in the wake of the 2007-08 financial … crisis, this timely book critically assesses the current dominant forms of neoliberal green finance. Understanding Green … Finance delivers a pioneering analysis of the topic, covering the essential tenets of green finance with an emphasis on …
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Socially responsible investment in a global environment
Fung, Hung-gay - 2010
Socially responsible investment (SRI) is becoming increasingly popular and can be potentially rewarding to all parties concerned. This book discusses the opportunities, challenges, and practices of SRI in a global financial environment in a consistent and integrated framework of risk management....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851371
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Economics of corporate social responsibility
McWilliams, Abagail - 2014
, accounting, finance and management to examine the importance of considering both the private and social economic benefits of … Banking and Finance, 29 (7), July, 1751-67 -- Todd Shank, Daryl Manullang and Ron Hill (2005), '"Doing Well While Doing Good …" Revisited: A Study of Socially Responsible Firms' Short-Term versus Long-Term Performance', Managerial Finance, 31 (8), 33 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852191
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Sustainable and responsible investment in developing markets : a companion
Abor, Joshua Yindenaba (ed.) - 2023
be a useful guide for finance, business, environment, geography and innovation students, and researchers, practitioners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287407
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The political economy of inter-regional fiscal flows : measurement, determinants and effects on country stability
Solé Ollé, Albert (contributor); Espasa, Marta (contributor) - 2010
Struggles over what a region receives, or should receive, from the budget of the central government are common to many countries. Discussions often focus on the measures of 'net fiscal flows' or 'fiscal balances' provided by the government or other actors. This unique book shows just how these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850574
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Fiscal federalism and political decentralization : lessons from Spain, Germany, and Canada
Durán, José María (contributor);  … - 2008
This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues required for a well designed financing system are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850968
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State and local finances under pressure
Sjoquist, David L. (contributor) - 2003
finance -- 6. The federal government's impact on state and local government finances -- 7. Prospects and challenges for state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851271
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State and local fiscal policy : thinking outside the box?
Wallace, Sally (contributor) - 2010
In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that … evaluations and analyses by well-known scholars in the area of state and local public finance of actual practices and analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851296
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The reality of budgetary reform in OECD nations : trajectories and consequences
Wanna, John (contributor); Vries, Jouke de (contributor);  … - 2010
The Reality of Budgetary Reform in OECD Nations investigates the impacts and consequences of budgetary reform through a comparative assessment of advanced Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) democracies that have undertaken budget reforms over the past two to three decades
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851517
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The political economy of financing Scottish government : considering a new constitutional settlement for Scotland
Hallwood, Paul - 2009
Can the UK survive widespread dissatisfaction in both Scotland and England with the financing of public spending by Scotland's parliament? This timely book explains how fiscal autonomy could raise economic growth and efficiency in Scotland- to the benefit of both Scotland and the rest of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851832