"The purpose of this book is to explore, in a broad perspective, how corruption affects economic growth and environmental protection. Other aspects of development, such as education and inequality in entitlements to natural resources, will also be considered within the context of the main...

Economic and financial crises have brought the rise of unemployment, reduction of economic growth and emergence of global imbalances and tensions as countries and regions have suffered the effects of a variety of internal and external shocks. In this context of constant disruption, the...

Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The...