"This book analyses community owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts. Through eleven chapters, authors from various countries use case studies and analyse...

This Special Issue of the <italic>Journal</italic> is designed to help community development practitioners and scholars in the important roles they play -- both directly and indirectly -- to foster community betterment. The body of work articulated in this volume builds on a long history of important community...

Competitive theory implies that compensating wage differentials will be paid to workers in hazardous employment, but only to the extent that employees are liable for risk. This prediction suggests that previous estimates of wage-risk premiums may be biased as a result of the failure to control...