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...

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...

This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank’s governance systems. It explores the relationship between bank governance and performance frameworks, both in terms of financial-economic indicators and development impact. It seeks to observe,...

Using a heterodox perspective, this book discusses the real possibilities of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico ever achieving economic development through industrialization. Through their discussion of the three most industrialized countries of Latin America, the contributors compare trajectories and...

Chapter 1. Financial Inclusion and the Middle of the Pyramid, a New Public Revenue Strategy for the 21st Century -- Chapter 2. Public Revenue, Financial Inclusion and Value Added Tax in Argentina -- Chapter 3. Financial Inclusion and Value-Added Taxes in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting State theory in Knowledge Capitalism after markets failure and pandemic crisis through a space – time approach -- Chapter 2. The socio – space – time relativity of the State -- Chapter 3. Long – term cyclicality of capitalism as State time dimension --...

1. Crime and (No) Punishment: Business Corporations and Dictatorships -- 2. Business and the Military in the Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983): Institutional, Economic, and Repressive Relations -- 3. Building the Dictatorship: Construction Companies and Industrialization in Brazil -- 4....

Introduction -- 1. China: Interpreting the Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of National Goals -- 2. COVID-19 and the Indian Economy: The Debate about a Wage-led Recovery -- 3. Palestine: The Pandemic Between Occupation and Neoliberalism -- 4. Economic Policy Debates in...