International Interplay
Riddhi Dasgupta dissects core standards in international dispute settlement—from expropriation to fair treatment—to offer vital legal strategies and constructive solutions for a rapidly changing world.
The 2007 financial crisis revealed the fallibility of our global economic system. This book offers a critical view, examining the relations between State sovereignty and markets while investigating gaps in major international organizations like the IMF and WTO.
Problems, Promises, and Paradoxes of Aid
This interdisciplinary collection investigates the role of aid in African development. Scholars examine where aid has failed and offer new perspectives on how it can be made more effective, addressing critical questions of ownership, need, and performance.
This book summarizes state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis, a vital area of finance. Written by leading experts, it provides insights for estimating default probability, evaluating individual loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios of such assets.
The recent financial crisis has challenged accepted economic paradigms. This book offers a broad overview of recent developments in international economics, providing new theories, empirical insights, and practical policy recommendations.
This book explores sustainable livelihood as a key to development beyond mere poverty reduction. It examines strategies for enhancing assets, covering socio-developmental aspects, natural resources, the farm and non-farm sectors, and gender.
This book analyzes Central Asian economies in transition, covering their economic and political challenges, integration into the global world, international trade, and the energy sector. It offers a comprehensive picture for academics, politicians, and business leaders.
A key resource for BI and CRM students and practitioners, this book provides practical guidance on implementing ERP and BI solutions for real-world strategic alignment. It also introduces the innovative “BI Psychology Adoption Model”.
This book provides state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis. Written by experts, it offers insights into estimating the probability of default, evaluating loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios, enhancing your understanding of this vital area of finance.
Market Place
This book explores how ‘food quarters’ have emerged in three transforming London markets. It reveals how the interplay between design and food-focused social practices enriches urban life and sustainability, while paradoxically contributing to gentrification.
This book investigates how Estonia, Poland and Latvia comply with the EU’s free movement of capital. It compares their laws, analyzes the link between national restrictions and cross-border capital flows, and reports the views of affected business executives.
Reflections on the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis
The 2007 financial crisis became a sovereign debt crisis, calling European integration into question. Focusing on Greece, where the crisis began, experts analyze flawed policies, contagion effects, the shadow economy, and the very future of the euro.
Still Waiting for Tomorrow
This book is a critical examination of protracted refugee situations. Leading scholars analyze the root causes of these extended crises, from war to statelessness, addressing the political and legal tensions that undermine potential solutions.
Amid rapid economic and political change, this volume investigates the impact of global reality and EU integration on the Balkan and Black Sea countries, and explores the possibilities and perspectives for their economies.
This monograph explores the impact of managers’ psychological profiles and life experiences on their financial decisions; as it highlights, having insights into managers’ psychology is essential to understanding their choices and predicting decisions made by competing firms.
This book explains the philosophies behind the global trend in riba-free (interest-free) banking. It covers the fundamentals, financial models, risk management, and international institutions related to this system, recognised as “Islamic banking”.
Africa confronts daunting developmental challenges despite abundant resources. Existing analysis is often generic and misinformed. This book uses Nigeria—a resource-rich yet poor nation—to provide informed research with implications for the entire continent.
Analyze credit risk from all angles: the lender-borrower relationship, market pricing, and financial stability. This book offers sophisticated models and expert analysis to navigate the challenges of today’s global financial network.
Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy
This book covers both sides of the debate on climate change, environment and energy. Articles discuss these issues from a multidimensional perspective, elaborating upon their interdependence and the global challenges and opportunities for sustainability.
This text evaluates the effects of the economic reform that began in the 1970s on regional development in Jiangsu province in China, using detailed case studies which clarify several fundamental ideological and institutional concepts that have shaped the nation’s economic reform.