"This book highlights different aspects of economic infrastructure and their associated impact upon economic growth across countries and regions. It also delves into the issues related to foreign direct investment, financial infrastructure and their associated links to growth of the countries...

Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2: Are microfinance institutions unscathed from the recession? – An empirical reconsideration -- Chapter 3: Microfinance as a Strategy to Curb the Global Recession -- Chapter 4: Developing...

Most countries in the world today have entered an advanced phase of globalization with the objective of increasing growth of output and employment. With the evidence suggesting that this has been the case at a general level incorporated with a good sign of reducing income gap at the global level...