This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Development of MSMEs and Their Main Constraints -- Chapter 3: Internationalization -- Chapter 4: Women Entrepreneurs -- Chapter 5: MSMEs in Times of Economic Crisis Chapter 6: Development of Financial Technology with Reference to Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending...

Economic grievances, particularly those caused by landholding inequality, play a central role in theories of political instability and civil conflict. However, cross-national empirical studies have failed to confirm the link between unequal distributions of land and civil war. This is due to...