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UK's referendum vote to LEAVE the European Union caught the
Government, many Britons and the EU HQ in Brussels by surprise.
Why? Lack of preparedness for the hugely complex task. Will Brexit
threaten the unity of the United Kingdom? Will Scotland leave the
UK? Will the shock of losing EU's second power shatter the EU? This
book highlights a quite different potential. A Golden Age for
Britain, for Europe and for the Planet! Brexit provides an
extraordinary opportunity to relaunch Europe based on its founding
principles. These brought the squabbling States of Europe their
first real peace in more than 2000 years. A Golden Age for global
trade, democracy and public happiness is possible. Will it happen?
All this depends on starting discussions on the right basis, an
ethical and moral one. This book shows how. Written by the Editor
of the Schuman Project who has researched the origin, purpose and
future of Europe's peace miracle, this book provides answers for
success.
Microfinance is a renowned albeit controversial solution for giving
financial access to the unbanked, even if micro-transactions
increase costs, limiting outreach potential. The economic and
financial sustainability of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) is a
prerequisite for widening a potentially unlimited client base.
Automation decreases costs, expanding the outreach potential, and
improving transparency and efficiency. Technological solutions
range from branchless mobile banking to geo-localization of
customers, digital/social networking for group lending, blockchain
validation, big data, and artificial intelligence, up to
"MicroFinTech" - FinTech applications adapted to microfinance. Of
interest to both scholars, students, and professors of financial
technology and microfinance, this book examines these trendy
solutions comprehensively, going beyond the existing literature and
showing potential applications to the traditional sustainability
versus outreach trade-off.
Real estate has become popular nowadays. More than just finding a
place to call home, many people have looked into it as a vehicle
for investment. It also offers amazing opportunities for huge
investment gains that you can take advantage throughout the course
of your life. In this book, you will be guided through three types
of real estate properties namely: commercial, residential and
recreational lands. Every person has a different need, and this
book will help you identify what is right for you according to
size, price, location and many important factors you need to
consider. You will also learn the pros and cons of each type of
property, and what's more convenient than getting to know two sides
of the coin right? This will allow you to make sound decisions thus
not wasting any money!
Research Without Tears provides a concise and fascinating guide for
those starting their first research project and writing a paper,
report or thesis. John Creedy, a widely published writer himself in
both journals and books, argues that the process of planning and
executing a research project, and producing a research paper which
communicates results in a clear and succinct way, is far from
self-evident even to those with extensive experience of writing
other types of report or essay. This unique and invaluable book
therefore sets down explicitly some of those points that even
experienced researchers often take for granted. The book covers
topics including: planning a first research project; writing a
first research paper; writing a thesis and the relationship with a
supervisor; the differences between journal and book publishing and
what to expect from editors of both publishing formats. It also
offers invaluable advice on structure, writing clearly and pitfalls
to avoid as well as the processes involved in publishing. This
highly interesting and valuable book will be essential reading for
students and academics in economics and other related disciplines.
The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher
Leonard infiltrates one of America’s most mysterious
institutions—the Federal Reserve—to show how its policies
spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have
accelerated income inequality and put our country’s economic
stability at risk. If you asked most people what forces led to
today’s unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no
one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed
has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy
grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy imploded in
2008, the Fed got credit for rescuing us. But here, for the first
time, is the inside story of how the Fed has reshaped the American
economy for the worse. It all started on November 3, 2010, when the
Fed began a radical intervention called quantitative easing. In
just a few short years, the Fed more than quadrupled the money
supply with one goal: to encourage banks and other investors to
extend more risky debt. Leaders at the Fed knew that they were
undertaking a bold experiment that would produce few real jobs,
with long-term risks that were hard to measure. But the Fed
proceeded anyway…and then found itself trapped. Once it printed
all that money, there was no way to withdraw it from circulation.
The Fed tried several times, only to see the market start to crash,
at which point the Fed turned the money spigot back on. That’s
what it did when COVID hit, printing 300 years’ worth of money in
a few short months. Which brings us to now: Ten years on, the gap
between the rich and poor has grown dramatically, inflation is
raging, and the stock market is driven by boom, busts, and
bailouts. Middle-class Americans seem stuck in a stage of permanent
stagnation, with wage gains wiped out by high prices even as they
remain buried under credit card debt, car loan debt, and student
debt. Meanwhile, the “too big to fail” banks remain bigger and
more powerful than ever while the richest Americans enjoy the gains
of a hyper-charged financial system. The Lords of Easy Money
“skillfully” (The Wall Street Journal) tells the
“fascinating” (The New York Times) tale of how quantitative
easing is imperiling the American economy through the story of the
one man who tried to warn us. This is the first inside story of how
we really got here—and why our economy rests on such unstable
ground.
Social entrepreneurship is one of the most controversial
actualities of the modern economy. On the one hand, social
entrepreneurship makes up for "market failures" and prevents the
deficit of socially essential goods and services in the
marketplace, acting as their supplier. On the other hand, the
survival of social entrepreneurship in an aggressive market
environment is a challenging task, the fulfilment of which may
distort the original essence of social entrepreneurship. Comprising
a collection of research presented at the International Scientific
Conference Advanced Issues on Social Entrepreneurship, this
contributed volume offers a global economic analysis of social
entrepreneurship. Whilst social entrepreneurship is indispensable
to the modern economy, the current controversial model of its
organization means it cannot fully accomplish its mission. This
book offers potential solutions to this problem with the global and
national strategies of economic growth and social progress. It
includes a focus on emerging markets, in which the role of social
entrepreneurship is especially high. This book is aimed at scholars
and students who are interested in social entrepreneurship and
corporate economics, and practitioners involved in this field. It
will also be of interest to policy makers in the development and
implementation of a national economic policy for support for social
entrepreneurship in emerging markets.
Over recent decades, the notion of leadership has become
increasingly significant in organisational and management
literature. Leadership: A Critical Review and Guide provides both a
map of the leadership territory, and a guide through it. The book
presents an overview of the main strands of the theoretical and
empirical evidence associated with the study of leadership;
highlights the different ways in which leadership is envisaged; and
explores current developments in the thinking and practice of
leadership. In so doing, it discusses and reviews some of the most
important contributions to this field of study. Leadership: A
Critical Review and Guide is designed for students of leadership;
those working in leadership positions; and for human resource
professionals and management academics.
This visionary book takes stock of the urgent challenges facing
food chains globally and provides a critical evaluation of radical
new thinking and perspectives on agricultural and food policy. Wyn
Grant investigates the principal drivers of change in food and
agriculture, including globalization, climate change, the structure
of the industry, changing patterns of consumer demand and new
technologies. Rethinking Agricultural and Food Policy provides a
comprehensive account of the contemporary challenges impacting the
food chain. Chapters explore the various barriers towards positive
progress, exposing the deficiency of institutional architecture at
a domestic and international level and examining how attempts to
reform and revitalize it encounter inertia, embedded production
structures, defenders of the status quo and vested interests.
Proposing that a holistic, interdisciplinary approach is essential
in making progress towards revitalizing policy and encouraging
innovation in international governance, Wyn Grant calls for a new
agenda to deliver real and necessary change and offer hope for the
planet and its people. Using critical insights from natural and
social science to uphold its calls for a holistic, integrated
approach to agricultural and food policy, this timely book will be
an essential read for policy makers, as well as students taking
undergraduate or postgraduate courses in agriculture, food and the
environment.
The book discusses the failure of many African governments in
providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the
citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources.
Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned,
explored and marketed by the machinery of the state. The problem
arises when the masses begin to challenge state access and
ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral
land, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and
resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal
or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty
in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government
officials. Paradoxically, in Niger Delta of Nigeria, as
discussed in the book, the state has unleashed unlimited might upon
all social groups and agitators, thereby leading to the increased
act of taking arms by such groups. When the informal resource
agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand social
and environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict
between them and the government security agencies. Sometimes, the
confrontation could be between them and other rival local resource
actors in the informal sector of their country’s economy bearing
in mind that the resources within their jurisdiction have become
the central determinant of national commonwealth. It
is at that state of desperado to control access, extraction and
sale of natural resources in a State, by different armed groups
that the process of natural resources extraction qualifies as the
most visible cause of conflicts and crises around the African
continent that is the centrepiece of the book. This is quite
understandable given that mineral resource is a gift of nature; and
nature is that phenomenon that every human, group and nation claim
to represent, or, believe to represent them.
Do You Want To Dominate Real Estate Investing? Are you interested
in flipping houses? Are you in the process of buying your first
home? Do you want to make passive income? Publisher's Note: This
expanded 4th edition of Real Estate has FRESH NEW CONTENT to make
real estate investing even easier than before! With these expert
tips learn how to dominate at real estate. You'll be well on your
way to passive income and becoming financially free with this easy
guide. Within this book's pages, you'll find the answers to these
questions and more. Just some of the questions and topics include.
The 5 Main Strategies to Get You Started The 5 Deal Makers
Ownership and Acquisition Rights The Do's and Don'ts of Real Estate
Knowing When To Buy and Hold This book breaks down into
easy-to-understand modules. It starts from the very beginning of
real estate investing, so you can get great results - even as a
beginner!
The UK model of incentive regulation of power grids was at one time
the most advanced, and elements of it were adopted throughout the
EU. This model worked well, particularly in the context of limited
investment and innovation, a single and strong regulatory
authority, and limited coordination between foreign grid operators.
This enlightening book demonstrates how the landscape has changed
markedly since 2010 and that regulation has had to work hard to
catch up and evolve. As the EU enters a wave of investment and an
era of new services and innovation, this has created growing
tensions between national regulatory authorities in terms of
coordinating technical standards and distribution systems. This is
being played out against an increasingly disruptive backdrop of
digitization, new market platforms and novel business models.
Electricity Network Regulation in the EU adopts a truly European
approach to the complex issues surrounding the topic, focusing on
the grey areas and critical questions that have traditionally been
difficult to answer. Incentive regulation and grids are addressed
simultaneously at the theoretical and practical level, providing
the reader with fundamental concepts and concrete examples. This
timely book is an invaluable read for energy practitioners working
in utility companies, regulators and other public bodies. It will
also appeal to academics involved in the world of electricity
regulation. The book utilizes language that would make it suitable
for interdisciplinary students, including engineering and law
scholars. Contributors include: P. Bhagwat, J.-M. Glachant, S.Y.
Hadush, L. Meeus, V. Rious, N. Rossetto, T. Schittekatte
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