This paper investigates the impact of interest rate liberalization on corporate green investment by taking the cancellation of the lower limit of the loan interest rate of financial institutions by the People's Bank of China in July 2013 as an exogenous quasi-natural experiment. We find that the...

The socially conscious citizen worries that globalization seems to grind social standards ever lower. Workers earn less, the environment suffers, health care declines. Investing for Change shows that socially conscious citizens can change the globalized world in the direction of many common...

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER I-BONDS AND THE DOLLAR -- THE DOLLAR -- OTHER MEASURES ARE FIXED -- IMPORTANT TO INVESTORS -- BANKS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES -- CHAPTER II-BONDS AND COMMON STOCKS -- NATURE OF SECURITY -- SAFE BONDS IMPLY SAFE STOCKS -- WHERE DOES...

Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Financial and Physical Investment in Africa -- The Performance of African Stock Markets Before and After the Global Financial Crisis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Performance of National Stock Market Indices Before and During the Global Crisis -- 2.1 The Nature and...

This imaginative and ambitious book rethinks the nature of capitalism. It critically examines the three main capitalist prototypes, then goes on to analyze the common weaknesses of each strand. A provocative and stimulating read

In the early 1990s, Singapore, the Malaysian state of Johor, and the Riau Islands in Indonesia sought to leverage their proximity, differing factor endowments, and good logistics connections to market themselves as an integrated unit. Beyond national-level support in all three countries, the...

This book explores the mechanisms and significance of China's private economy participating in poverty alleviation. It uses a systematic set of statistical analysis tools and descriptive statistics to provide a multidimensional and highly visual format.

What needs to be done to enable the domestic private sector to expand its role in the provision of safe water and improved sanitation to the poor in developing countries? Is an expanded role constrained because there is limited market potential, or is the problem the fact that business models...