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The places where community is practiced : how store owners and their businesses build neighborhood social life
Steigemann, Anna - 2019
In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696969
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Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods
Beckouche, Pierre (ed.); Besnard, Pierre (ed.);  … - 2016
, Palestine, Syria, and the Ukraine as well as explores such essential issues as Europe's energy procurement. In addition, it also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685857
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Law, Economics and Finance of the Real Estate Market : A Perspective of Hong Kong and Singapore
Li, Rita Yi Man - 2014
Law, economics and finance issues in Singapore’s housing development board flats -- Internalization of environmental externality in dwellings: review of court cases in Hong Kong in the past two decades -- The institutional analysis of fittings in residential units -- Asymmetric information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014017641
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Human Security and Philanthropy : Islamic Perspectives and Muslim Majority Country Practices
Hasan, Samiul (ed.) - 2015
Section 1: The Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 1: Muslim Majority Countries, Philanthropy, and Human Security: Concepts, and Contexts- Samiul Hasan -- Chapter 2: Human Security in A Globalised World: Concepts and Issues for the Muslim World- Ishtiaq Hossain and Adams Isiaka...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819103
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The Impact of Economic Freedom on State Legitimacy : An Empirical Investigation
Hindermann, Christoph Michael - 2018
Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of law is the most important area of economic freedom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396801
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State and Entrepreneurs in Egypt : Economic Development since 1805
Sherbiny, Naiem A. - 2015
The state and entrepreneurs are two players that have shaped both economic activity and economic history throughout the world since the Industrial Revolution. This book analyzes the history of economic development in Egypt to show the impact of the relationship between state and entrepreneurs on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019458
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Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation
Small, Garrick - 2008
Sponsored by the American Real Estate Society (ARES), Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation addresses a wide variety of timely issues relating to property ownership, rights, and use, including: ancestral burial, historical record of occupancy, treaty implementation problems, eminent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521108
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Community, Market and State in Development
Otsuka, Keijiro (ed.); Kalirajan, Kaliappa (ed.) - 2010
'How to combine the community, the market, and the state in the total economic system is probably the most important agenda for economists geared towards the reduction of poverty in developing economies'. - Professor Yujiro Hayami This volume brings together leading scholars from all around the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053881
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European Socio-Economic Integration : Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
Carayannis, Elias G. (ed.); Korres, George M. (ed.) - 2013
Inflation Convergence in Europe -- Economic Integration and Convergence in the European Union -- The Mathematical … -- A Benchmarking Study for Human Capital in Europe -- Social Policy and Socio-Economic Integration in Europe … the world. Against the backdrop of the financial crisis in Europe and prospects of increasing integration in Asia, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016387
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Land and Credit : Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside
Briggs, Chris (ed.); Zuijderduijn, Jaco (ed.) - 2018
1. Introduction: mortgages and annuities in historical perspective -- 2. Mortgages and the English peasantry c.1250-c.1350 -- 3. Mortgages raised by rural English copyhold tenants 1605-1735 -- 4. Mortgages and the Kentish yeoman in the seventeenth century -- 5. Why the equity of redemption? 6....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284763