"This book integrates the concept of financial intermediaries with Post-Keynesian macroeconomic modeling to discuss the relationship between financial markets and systems and macroeconomic development by discussing key macroeconomic variables such as investment, savings, and productivity...

The objective of this paper is to examine whether foreign direct investments (FDI) in extractive sector enhances growth, using data from seven MENA oil producing countries; namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Iran over the period 1980 to 2004. We employ...

List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsChapter 1: Business-financing options⁰́₉ effects on micro-enterprise performance in the tropics: The case of Kisumu County, KenyaRael A. Onyango, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Enno Masurel and Nelson ObangeChapter 2: Profiling the Tropical...

Purpose This paper explores ways in which Singapore adapts its planning policy and practices to meet the needs of its growing silver population, particularly the relationship between ageing related policies and its urban development strategies. Design/methodology/approach The research assesses...

Around the globe observations demonstrate that the countries with expected near- future- inflation, unsustainable ballooning government spending and expected recession head towards a financial crisis unless significant policy transformations take place convincingly and before late. And whilst...