This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a...

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals. Further, energy is one of the critical raw materials in companies’ production processes. Therefore, ensuring a steady energy supply is essential to increasing production; otherwise, countries...

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Economic Development, Sustainable Development and Agriculture -- 3. Sustainability of Agricultural Systems -- 4. Challenges of Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Countries -- 5. Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development in High-Income Countries -- 6. Pathways to...

Chapter 1 Rural Households and Generational Evolution -- Chapter 2 Transition in Household Economic Structure and Its Origin -- Chapter 3 Farmland, Farmland Transfer and The Origins -- Chapter 4 Evolution of Saving and Lending Behaviour -- Chapter 5 Imbalanced Economic Development and Its Origin...

1. CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Activities and Impact on Firm Value: The Case of Technology Company Group -- 2. Financial determinants of development in the process of gmina management in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland -- 3. Objective assumptions for the Monte Carlo simulation when...