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Orhangazi, Özgür - 2008

Özgür Orhangazi brings together a comprehensive analysis of financialization in the US economy that encompasses the historical, theoretical, and empirical sides of the issues. He explores the origins and consequences of the dramatic rise of financial markets in the US economy and focuses on...

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The international handbook on financial reform

Hall, Maximilian (contributor) - 2003

1. Financial reform in Australia -- 2. Price stabilization, the banking crisis and financial reform in Brazil -- 3. Financial reform in Canada : past, present and future -- 4. Financial system reform in China -- 5. Financial reform in Germany -- 6. Financial reform in Hong Kong -- 7. Financial...

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Migration and remittances

Connell, John - 2015

At a time when remittances are widely recognised as of growing importance for development in many countries, John … Connell and Richard Brown present this comprehensive overview of the role of remittances in economic and social development …. They investigate various topics including reflections on methodology, the motives and determinants of remittances, their …

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Uneven paths of development : innovation and learning in Asia and Africa

Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanji - 2009

This book focuses on what can be learned from the complex processes of industrial, technological and organizational change in the sectoral system of information hardware (IH). The IH innovation system is deliberately chosen to illustrate how sectors act as seeds of economic progress. Detailed...

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Women's entrepreneurial journeys in sub-saharan Africa

Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh - 2023

"This innovative book traces women's entrepreneurial journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa, examining the linkages between entrepreneurship, gender and development context. With extensive case studies of women's experiences across the enterprise life-cycle, it gives new insight into how to support and...

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Handbook of Islamic banking

Hassan, M. Kabir (contributor); Lewis, Mervyn K. (contributor) - 2007

The handbook of Islamic banking comprises 25 studies by leading international experts on Islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. This comprehensive handbook provides a succinct analysis of the workings of...

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Money, financial intermediation and governance

Falaschetti, Dino - 2008

Dino Falaschetti and Michael Orlando unify the treatment of the many deeply related topics in money and banking in this wide-ranging book. By continually building on the assumption that economic actors are maximizers, they explain how monetary and financial services, as well as related...

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The political economy of financial market regulation : the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion

Weber, Beat (contributor); Schuberth, Helene (contributor); … - 2006

This book focuses on recent financial market reforms, and their implications for social, economic and political exclusion. In particular it considers the hitherto under-researched question of whose interests govern the design of regulatory mechanisms and who influences the decision-making...

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Industries in Europe : competition, trends, and policy issues

Johnson, P. S. (contributor) - 2003 - 2nd ed

This important book, a successor volume to European Industries, brings together a number of in-depth and authoritative studies of key European industries, providing fascinating insights into their nature and characteristics

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Financial innovation in retail and corporate banking

Llewellyn, David T. (contributor); … - 2009

1. Financial innovation and the economics of banking and the financial system / David T. Llewellyn -- 2. Is financial innovation still a relevant issue? / Luisa Anderloni and Paola Bongini -- 3. Microfinance, innovations and commercialisation / Reinhard H. Schmidt -- 4. Technological innovation...

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