In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries. PES programs use market and institutional incentives in order to meet both...

The Role of SMEs in Western Economies -- SME Financing: A Life Cycle Approach -- SME Financing: Investigation of Firm and Industry Effects -- SME Owners’ Financing Preferences -- Discussion and Conclusions

The Challenge: A Transnational Response to HIV/AIDS -- Profiling the Provision Status of Health-Promoting Public Goods Against AIDS -- International Transfers -- Regional Constraints and HIV/AIDS -- Summary and Concluding Remarks

As a contribution to the search for suitable and sustainable solutions to finance rising medical care expenditures, the book proposes a typology of healthcare financing and insurance schemes, based on the dimensions of basic vs. supplementary services and mandatory vs. voluntary coverage, to...

Introduction -- Relevance of WCM and its weaknesses -- Characteristics of SCF -- Segmentation of SCF solutions -- Value proposition of SCF -- The market size for SCF solutions -- Concluding remarks -- Annex: OECD ↔ non-OECD exports per country in 2006 -- OECD ↔ non-OECD imports per country...

Airlines follow different strategies of aircraft sourcing and financing. Basic decisions include the choice of buy versus lease and long term versus short term acquisition of aircraft. Additional fleet and fleet planning characteristics include the desired fleet size, average aircraft age, or...