This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the...

This book emphasizes the need for experimenting with more deliberate and rigorous policy processes to attain balanced regional development, which can promote both equity and efficiency in India’s development discourse. The institutional mechanisms for dealing with regional imbalance in India...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book delves into the widely held belief that the 21st century will be the "Asian Century" by examining the Asia's rapid economic development in the post-war era and the challenges it faces in forging ahead of world leaders in the West. The...

Chapter 1. Introduction by Ratan Khasnabis and Indrani Chakraborty (IDSK) -- Chapter 2. Monetary Policy, Financial Stability and Macroprudential Regulation: An Indian Perspective by Dilip Nachane (Emeritus Professor, IGIDR).- Chapter 3. Crisis as Paradigm Shifter: Reflections on 2008 by Subir...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is considered a significant factor in economic growth and development. Over the past two decades, scholars have studied the impact of ICT on economic growth, but there has been little research that has addressed the impact of ICT on human...

The article presents the sectoral structure of cruise (maritime) tourism and identifies the factors influencing the level of demand and supply of cruise tourism products. The sources of the influence of the cruise industry on the economic growth of the state and the welfare of its citizens are...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Technology Standards and Competition in the Mobile Industry by Kirti Gupta -- Chapter 3. Standard Setting Organizations and Competition Laws: Lessons and Suggestions from the United States by Donald E. Knebel -- Chapter 4. FRAND Commitments and Royalties for...

This book illustrates approaches for implementing ICT in primary education. Through different initiatives and case studies, the book shows different approaches for successful implementation of ICT. While it gives details of theoretical concepts related to ICT, it also provides live examples from...

This book teaches IT service managers how to onboard ServiceNow ITSM tools by evangelizing, educating, and coordinating their organization's service desk, developers, and stakeholders. Drawing on his own story of lessons learned in spinning up the adoption of ServiceNow throughout the Al Jazeera...

This book presents strategies and practices to allow everyday companies to cope with the fundamentally changing landscape of business models and to take advantage of the huge business opportunities arising from the advent of big data. It develops several case studies from companies in...