This book presents effective strategies for developing countries to leverage their public sector demand for manufactured imports to promote industrialization, trade, and technology transfer. Technology transfer and its absorption is considered one of the most crucial and complicated challenges...

An ICT-Enabled Innovation and Enterprise Transformation -- Implications of the ICT Revolution for Business -- Strategic Options for Private Sector Development -- Transforming Enterprises: Innovation, Networking and Diffusion -- Transforming Business Environment -- ICT Services Industry for an...

Mainstreaming Environmental Finance into Financial Markets - Relevance, Potential and Obstacles -- Mainstreaming Framework Conditions for Environmental Finance - The Role of the Public Sector -- Mainstreaming Environmental Finance Markets (I) - Small-Scale Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy...

Die kommunale Verschuldung und die daraus resultierende Zinsbelastung nehmen stetig zu, so dass es einer Vorgehensweise bedarf, welche entweder die Zinslast senkt oder sie zumindest mit ihren Risiken transparent macht, wenn die Gemeinden langfristig handlungsfähig bleiben wollen. Johannes...

Core assumptions underlying the micro portfolio approach to public debt management -- A public finance framework for long-term sovereign funding decisions -- Recommendations for broader debt management objectives -- A new approach to model the shape and dynamics of the term structure of interest...

This book analyzes the relative balance of bargaining power between governments and the banks in charge of underwriting their debt during the first financial globalization. Brazil and Mexico, both indebted countries that underwent major changes in reputation and negotiating power as they faced...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Public Debt Management: Reflections on Strategy & Structure -- Chapter 3. Cash Management System -- Chapter 4. Debt Management by Central Government -- Chapter 5. Financial Regulation and Public Debt Management -- Chapter 6. Cash and Debt Management in --...

Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis. Chorafas' latest book focuses on sovereign debt, sovereign risk and the developing economic and financial business climate and explains why the year of the...

The International Handbook of Public Financial Management is a virtual encyclopedia of public financial management, written by topmost experts, many with a background in the IMF and World Bank. It provides the first comprehensive guide to the subject that has been published in more than ten...

The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is now developing in America, where the same fundamental causes have been at work. The Public Debt Problem analyzes the situation of public debts in...