Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Are Current Policies on Track to Eliminate Poverty? -- Chapter 3. How Mainstream Economics Works -- Chapter 4. Basic Principles to Understand Macroeconomics -- Chapter 5. Markets Alone Make No Development -- Chapter 6. Developing Countries in Global...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Humanitarian Funding in Crisis and The Rise of Innovative Humanitarian Finance -- Chapter 3: Innovative Vaccine and Immunization Funding: Advance Market Commitment -- Chapter 4: Performance Based Financing -- Chapter 5: Islamic Finance: Role of Traditional...

1. Introduction -- 2. Dynamics of Institutional Change within the Group of Twenty (G20) and the European Union, and an Assessment of Brexit Impact: A Taxonomic Study -- 3. Overview of Institutional Change Contexts and Dynamics -- 4. Institutions and Institutional Change: Concepts and Theories --...

The pursuit of sustainable development and smart growth is a main challenge today in countries around the world. Social capital is an asset of their territorial communities. It is also a precondition for national and local policies that aim to better the economic base and quality of life for...

1. The Wealth Creation Approach to Poverty Reduction -- 2. Economic Theories of Poverty Reduction: Exploitation or Opportunity? Centralization, Economic Nationalism and Economic Freedom -- 3. Mental Frameworks: Psychological, Religious, Philosophical, and Political -- 4. Regional Experiences:...

1. Conventional Macroeconomic Policy -- 2. Islamic Macroeconomic Policies -- 3. Capital Markets: Conventional versus Islamic -- 4. Risk Sharing and Public Policy -- 5. Government Finance and the Debt Market -- 6. Government Finance and the Equity Market -- 7. Macro Market Application -- 8. Micro...

This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution of income taxation since World War II; the...