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  • High-Growth Firms

    Facts, Fiction, and Policy Options for Emerging Economies

    by Arti Grover Goswami, Denis Medvedev, Ellen Olafsen ...
    Remarkably, a small fraction of firms account for most of the job and output creation in high-income and developing countries alike. Does this imply that the path to enabling more economic dynamism lies in selectively targeting high-potential firms? Or would pursuing broad-based reforms that minimize distortions be more effective? Inspired by these questions, this book presents new evidence on the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • High-Growth Firms

    Facts, Fiction, and Policy Options for Emerging Economies

    by Arti Grover Goswami, Denis Medvedev, Ellen Olafsen ...
    Remarkably, a small fraction of firms account for most of the job and output creation in high-income and developing countries alike. Does this imply that the path to enabling more economic dynamism lies in selectively targeting high-potential firms? Or would pursuing broad-based reforms that minimize distortions be more effective? Inspired by these questions, this book presents new evidence on the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    A Primer on Corporate Governance: Mexico describes the macro context in which Mexico is embedded, focusing on its corporate governance system: laws, regulatory bodies, code of good governance, stock market, and the peculiarities of local business groups.Mexico is a land inhabited by several indigenous civilizations and was conquered by Spain in 1521. The country is mostly a racial mix between the ... Read more

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  • Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Engine of Economic Development

    Edited by Inter-American Development Bank, Matteo Grazzi, Carlo Pietrobelli ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international ... Read more

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  • Mission-Oriented Finance for Innovation

    New Ideas for Investment-Led Growth

    Edited by Mariana Mazzucato, Caetano C.R. Penna ...
    The role of the state in modern capitalism has gone beyond fixing market failures. Those regions and countries that have succeeded in achieving “smart” innovation-led growth have benefited from long-term visionary “mission-oriented” policies—from putting a man on the moon to tackling societal challenges such as climate change and the wellbeing of an ageing population. This book collects the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Future of Global Business

    A Reader

    Edited by Michael Czinkota, Ilkka Ronkainen ...
    In the fast-paced world of global business, success is marked by the ability to stay on top of currents events, to recognize new trends, and to react quickly to change. This book offers contributions by global marketing authorities to help you understand this rapidly changing international environment and respond to opportunities and perils.Editors Michael R. Czinkota and Ilkka A. Ronkainen use ... Read more

    $225.99 CAD

  • World Development Report 2014

    Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had been stagnant for decades are growing, people who had suffered deprivation for generations are ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy

    Edited by Jan Adriaanse, Jean-Pierre van der Rest ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    Written by leading experts in the field of business, finance, law and economics, this edited volume brings together the latest thoughts and developments on turnaround management and business rescue from an academic, judiciary and turnaround/insolvency practitioner perspective.Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy presents different viewpoints on turnarounds and business rescue in Europe. Presenting ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Systematic Thinking for Social Action

    by Alice M. Rivlin ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As it was, the resulting book, Systematic Thinking for Social Action, spent years on the Brookings Press ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Global Financial Development Report 2014

    Financial Inclusion

    by World Bank Group ...
    Series series Global Financial Development Report
    Financial inclusion has become a major subject of interest among policymakers, researchers, and other financial sector stakeholders. Many countries, for example, have recently adopted explicit financial inclusion strategies with targets for financial inclusion. The interest reflects an increased recognition that financial inclusion can be a driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation, and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Right Privatization

    Why Private Firms in Public Initiatives Need Capable Governments

    by Sergio G. Lazzarini ...
    The public debate is rife with polarized views of how to deliver essential services such as education, health, and security. While some tout privatization as a way to supplant bad governments, others warn that private firms maximize profits at the expense of socially oriented service attributes. In reality, all forms of service delivery—public, private and hybrid public private-collaborations—have ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • White-Collar Crime and the Public Sector

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Public Procurement Fraud

    by Christy D. Smith ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Procurement is a critical government activity, yet very little scholarly attention is devoted to procurement fraud in public policy, public management, or public financial management research. While many publications focus on the stages of the procurement process and appropriate protocols to follow for successful procurements, the opportunities for exploitation of the process have not been as ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD