This edited volume focuses specifically on the theme of financial innovation and how financial resiliency was achieved in Naples. To highlight both the achievements of the public banks of Naples and their lessons for financial resiliency, the book focuses on financial crises and how they were...

Muslim minorities in China and India form only a small fraction of their respective populations, yet as they principally live in troubled border states, they are of key strategic importance in the war on terror. In this global context, this book explores whether economics is more important than...

This book presents a curated collection of research on ethnic entrepreneurship, focusing on the informal sector. The common theme of the expert contributions is that entrepreneurial motivation to start informal business is paramount to ethnic groups. In particular, the book explores the factors...

This book analyses how Calon Gypsies in Brazil have responded to global financial transformations and shifted their economic practices from itinerant trade to moneylending. It also explores their role as ethnic credit providers, offering rare insight into the financial lives of poor and...

This book focuses on International migration among the Chinese long before European colonists set foot on the Asian continent. It reveals why the Chinese moved across sea and land, seasonally or permanently, to other parts of Asia and the rest of the world to pursue economic opportunities and...

This book, a second edition, includes new data from the 2011 Census of India, the 2010 Census of India and NSS reports on consumer expenditure (2011-12), health and education (2014) to examine the latest understanding of poverty in China and India, and how that connects with minorities. Poverty...

This book, comprised of entirely original research, collects data on the socioeconomic situation of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Although the majority of China’s population is of the Han nationality (which accounts for more than 90% of China’s population), the non-Han ethnic groups have a...

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 1987 Minority Marketing Congress held in Greensboro, North Carolina under the theme Minority Marketing: Issues and Prospects. It provides a variety of quality research in the field of minority marketing in order to assimilate and enhance...

Foreword -- Preface -- Marketing Strategies for Reaching Minority Markets -- Redefining Ethnic Market Segmentation -- An Assessment of the Impact of Racially Homogeneous Reference Groups on Strength of Ethnic Affiliation for Black Customers -- Initial Impressions in the Retail Buyer-Seller Dyad...

Preface -- Notes on the text -- Maps -- A list of China’s ethnic groups (with English and Chinese names) -- Multicultural China: A Brief View -- Macroeconomic Conditions -- Population and Labor Force -- Employment and Wages -- People’s Livelihood -- Social Production and Rural Economy --...