This book considers how emerging economies around the world face the challenge of building good institutions and effective governance, since so much of economic development depends on having these in place. The promotion of shared prosperity and the battle against poverty require interventions...

This book argues that the implementation of compulsory, highly regulated, privately administered, defined contribution pensions facilitates rent-seeking behaviour on the part of the pension fund administrators and undermines the retirees’ income and well-being. While the book focuses primarily...

This volume identifies rent-seeking behavior as a primary cause of poor economic performance in many places, particulary Africa. The book presents a detailed empirical study of rent-seeking within the civil service, parastatal sector, and business community in Tanzania. It quantifies and...

1.Introduction -- 2. Concept of Income Distribution and Indexes and Methods for Measuring Income Inequality -- 3.Income Inequality of China’s Urban Resident and the Factors Which Impact It -- 4.Income Inequality of Chinese Rural Resident and the Factors Which Impact It -- 5.Income Inequality...

Clemens Mast analysiert den Zusammenhang zwischen der Größe von Unternehmen und dem Erfolg einer Geschäftsmodellinnovation, dem neuen Innovationstypus, der eigenständig und komplementär zu Produkt-, Prozess- und Dienstleistungsinnovation wirkt. Basierend auf empirischen Studien verdeutlicht...

Theorie und Praxis der Abschlussprüfung -- Genese von Skalierungskriterien -- Verhältnismäßiges Prüfungsvorgehen auf Basis des risikoorientierten Ansatzes -- Anforderungen an die skalierte Prüfung.

Einleitung -- Thematische Grundlagen -- CSR als Investition im Kontext von Familienunternehmen -- Mitarbeiter oder Kunden? Adressierung der CSR-Investition in Abhängigkeit vom Umsatz -- Empirische Untersuchung -- Quantitative Hauptstudie -- Abschließende Betrachtungen.

The crisis of the so-called Golden Age regime has been paralleled since the late 1960s by an increasing importance of market exchanges as opposed to vertically integrated manufacturing activity, leading to major changes in the size structure of firms. These changes have generally taken the form...

Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders in the region