The attraction of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is arguably of particular importance to countries’ foreign policy, where competing factors determine the choice of location of these investors. IFRS adoption, being one of the cardinal frameworks that portray the quality of a countries...

The attraction of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is arguably of particular importance to countries' foreign policy, where competing factors determine the choice of location of these investors. IFRS adoption, being one of the cardinal frameworks that portray the quality of a countries...

The adoption of IFRS is expected to significantly affect the quality of global financial reporting and improve investment decisions. A major question that arises, therefore, is: does this stance hold when the time dimension, post IFRS adoption period (i.e. the number of years a country has...

"This book focuses on the consequences and determinants of the adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), which has remained a topical issue in International Accounting"--Provided by publisher.

This study shows that women’s labour market outcomes in adulthood vary depending on the circumstance that prevails in the early stages of their lives. Exploiting the variation in drought incidences across Nigerian states with a nationally representative household survey for the periods 2008...