Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals. Further, energy is one of the critical raw materials in companies’ production processes. Therefore, ensuring a steady energy supply is essential to increasing production; otherwise, countries...

Introduction -- PART I: DRIVERS OF STATE FRAGILITY -- Chapter 1: State fragility (SF) and human development -- Chapter 2: National constitutions as a source of state fragility -- Chapter 3: Institutions and state fragility -- PART 2: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND BREAKING OUT OF FRAGILITY -- Chapter 4:...

Over the past decade, the global adoption of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening mechanisms (ISMs) has surged, reflecting developed countries' policies aiming at restricting FDI on the grounds of broadly defined 'security' or 'national' interests. Recent geopolitical and economic crises...

How to conceive industrial policies as development instruments distinct from trade or fiscal-deduction interventions? How can we model and study the role of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as agents of industrial policy? How can we model their main attributes and architectures? Drawing on the...