Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected through mobile devices.

Properly harnessed and planned for, these are positive forces for change. Without economic growth and jobs, they could prove a political and social catastrophe. Old systems of patronage and muddling through will no longer work.

Making Africa Work is a practical account of how to ensure growth beyond commodities, and to create jobs. It’s a handbook for dynamic leadership inside and outside the continent.

This book provides the quintessential information needed to understand the financial side of the retirement planning coin. You'll begin by learning about the various plan types employers may offer their employees. Topics related to compliance testing will be thoroughly discussed as well as strategies used to legally shift benefits in favor of highly compensated employees (HCEs). However, some employers do not sponsor a plan; and when this happens, retirement savers will need to understand the options available within the world of individual retirement accounts (IRAs). This book is not intended to provide investment advice, but rather to explore how different retirement savings vehicles function and how they can be effectively deployed. This book also discusses non-investment-related topics such as housing options, Social Security planning, Medicare planning, and a few other basic insurance-based issues faced by all retirees.

When you are reading International Taxation in America, you'll learn to redefine your meaning of the word "Taxation" ...that elusive 'something' that is an inherent problem in so many of your businesses...and you'll gain the insight of how to move beyond the myths and the barriers that can cause your "bottom line" to be the adversely affected. Easy to read and understand with a blueprint to solving the multinational tax challenges that your business faces. You'll experience chapter after chapter of time-tested practical tips, the techniques and the innovative strategies that have helped so many businesses to overcome the international tax challenges... that hold back their growth and income potential. The book includes 300 pages with an additional 300 pages from the books private web site. The private web pages include videos, tax planning articles and IRS tax documents that few tax services include. Attorneys and CPAs will discover this book is the ideal resource for their cross border and international clients. Purchase any version and receive the PDF tax research version for free.

"This is a must-read for the entire CXO community if businesses are to survive in cyberspace. Attack methodologies and the cyber threat poised against our business systems are advancing rapidly. Business leaders are soon to face downstream liability issues for the damage their unprotected and exploited systems cause not only to themselves but to all of those with whom they do business in cyberspace. American businesses are now the target of choice by our nation's enemies. We may secure the airways, ports, and borders, but only the boardrooms of America can ensure the survival of our economy." John R. Thomas, Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired Former Commander of the DoD, Global Operations and Security Center Today's e-business depends on the security of its networks and information technology infrastructure to safeguard its customers and its profits. But with rapid innovation and the emergence of new threats and new countermeasures, keeping up with security is becoming more complex than ever. Securing E-Business Systems offers a new model for developing a proactive program of security administration that works as a continuous process of identifying weaknesses and implementing solutions. This book offers a real, working design for managing an IT security program with the attention it truly warrants, treating security as a constant function that adapts tomeet a company's changing security needs. Topics include: Security weaknesses Safeguarding technologies Countermeasure best practices Establishing an adaptable e-business security management program Essential elements of a corporate security management program Functions, structure, staffing, and contracting considerations in security management Implementing intrusion detection technology Designing tomorrow's e-business application for secured operations Contemporary rationales for justifying increased spending on security programs Emerging liability issues for e-businesses

Complex-Valued Modeling in Economics and Finance outlines the theory, methodology, and techniques behind modeling economic processes using complex variables theory. The theory of complex variables functions is widely used in many scientific fields, since work with complex variables can appropriately describe different complex real-life processes. Many economic indicators and factors reflecting the properties of the same object can be represented in the form of complex variables. By describing the relationship between various indicators using the functions of these variables, new economic and financial models can be created which are often more accurate than the models of real variables. This book pays critical attention to complex variables production in stock market modeling, modeling illegal economy, time series forecasting, complex auto-aggressive models, and economic dynamics modeling. Very little has been published on this topic and its applications within the fields of economics and finance, and this volume appeals to graduate-level students studying economics, academic researchers in economics and finance, and economists.

Asset managers provide investment management services and ancillary services to clients as fiduciary agents. The diversity of clients' needs results in a wide variety of firm structures and business models, ranging from investment boutiques that focus on a single product or clientele to large, complex financial institutions that offer multiple services. This book provides a brief overview of the asset management industry and an analysis of how asset management firms and the activities in which they engage can introduce vulnerabilities that could pose, amplify, or transmit threats to financial stability. It also describes the mission, membership, and scope of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), which was created as part of a comprehensive reform of banking and securities market regulators. It provides an analysis of several major policy issues related to the FSOC that may come before the 113th Congress.

Development study, about the developing world, has been invariably taken as appendage of theories forwarded to understand the stages of capitalist society. If a lesson is to be derived from the history of the industrial society that is useful to the developing world, the industrial society must be scrutinized from its unique features that make it different from hitherto societies, and that allowed it to dramatically change the productive forces outside "the discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins .. "(Marx, Karl, 1974:703-4); the protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism (Weber); the accumulation of capital and prerequisites for take offs (Rostow and Gerschenkron); and most of all the idea that capital needed for further development is generated by extraction of surplus from labor power. This paper, by basing the productivity and sustainable growth of industrial society in a unique type of management and trade union relationship at the enterprise level, and the two traditions of liberalism and socialism, at the larger society level, forwards a development theory. In industrial society although not in developing societies as interest representation in the enterprise is based on the twin grounds of productivity (interest of the management) and social justice (that of trade unions); we have now a socio-economic system, for the first time in history, whereby the political structure and economic growth of the industrial society are its concomitant basic identifying features. This paper by taking the assumption that technological innovation and surplus for further capital formation come from the competitive nature of enterprises within the setting of the above relations in the competing enterprises raises trade union management relationship into a theorizing point for development studies.

Lex Fullarton's book "Heat, Dust and Taxes: A story of tax schemes in Australia's outback" set in the picturesque but treacherous landscape in the Outback of North-western Australia, tells the story of one of the greatest series of tax avoidance schemes in history. This book is not only an interesting read, it makes a significant contribution to our understanding of taxpayer compliance behaviour development in the highly problematic area of mass marketed tax schemes. Dr Paul Kenny, Associate Professor in Taxation Law, Flinders University, Flinders Business School