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Liberalizing Financial Services and Foreign Direct Investment : Developing a Framework for Commercial Banking FDI

Páez, Laura - 2011

This book focuses on the relationship between FDI and financial service liberalization in the context of the WTO. By conducting an economic assessment on the extent of GATS liberalization in commercial banking it seeks to empirically clarify if the multilateral liberalization efforts under the...

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Energy and the financial system : what every economist, financial analyst, and investor needs to know

Boyd, Roger - 2013

"The modern financial system was developed to support the rapid economic growth that took off about 200 years ago with the phenomenal amounts of cheap energy made available through the exploitation of fossil fuels. As a result, its viability is completely dependent upon the continuation of that...

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Islamic capital markets : volatility, performance and stability

Nafis Alam (ed.); Rizvi, Syed Aun Raza (ed.) - 2016

Chapter 1: Islamic Capital Market Research: Past Trends and Future Considerations; Syed Aun R. Rizvi and Nafis Alam -- Chapter 2: The Determinants of Islamic Equity Fund Performance: A Global Evidence; Wajahat Azmi and Mohsin Ali -- Chapter 3: On Sukuk Insolvencies: A Case Study of East Cameron...

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Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy : Volume I: Concepts and Analysis

Basu, Kaushik (ed.); Stiglitz, Joseph E. (ed.) - 2016

development. The political instability and conflict that we see around the world, arguably, has connection to economic deprivation …

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Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation : A Method for Contextual Analysis

Gautschi, Heidi - 2016

This book encourages thoughtful technological innovation while remaining conscious of its positive and negative consequences for society, presenting a method to help innovators anticipate consequences, minimize resistance, and enhance acceptance

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Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy : Opportunities and Challenges

Hujo, Katja (ed.) - 2012

An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development. The book includes theoretical and policy analyses as well as micro level country case studies, including Norway, Chile, Indonesia, Nigeria and Botswana.

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The Global Economic Crisis and Consequences for Development Strategy in Dubai

Al Sadik, Ali Tawfik (ed.); Elbadawi, Ibrahim (ed.) - 2012

This book identifies and addresses the impacts of the global financial crisis on Dubai and the region. The issues are highlighted and analyzed by a group of distinguished scholars. Specifically, discussions are focused on the following four interrelated issues: Why and how the financial crisis...

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Emerging Markets and Financial Resilience : Decoupling Growth from Turbulence

Chee-Wooi Hooy (ed.); Ali, Ruhani (ed.); Rhee, S. Ghon (ed.) - 2013

Emerging Markets and Financial Resilience presents a picture of finance research. The issue of financial resilience in emerging markets is apt and timely as emerging countries are faced with the challenge of finding ways of sustaining their current trajectory in shaping the global financial...

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The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

This book analyzes the effects of power generated by renewable energy sources, renewable energy production technologies, energy efficiency, and market regulation of carbon emissions. It elaborates on how these parameters have direct and indirect effects on carbon emission reduction, such as the...

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Economic Planning and Industrial Policy in the Globalizing Economy : Concepts, Experience and Prospects

Yülek, Murat Â. (ed.) - 2015

based economies ranging from Western Europe to Asia, planning has been practiced since the end of the Second World War as a … significant changes in the dynamics of the world economy, economic planning and industrial policy have been less and less … and industrial policy being conceptualized and implemented in today’s world? Are there still reasonable roles for economic …

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