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This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures. The chapters in this book were originally published in Water International.

This book introduces the reader to a new way of thinking about how value can be created, captured, measured and understood, economically and financially, and within in the context of social contract. We need to revisit such models through technological advancements in order to solve issues like economic inclusion and poverty eradication.

Investigates Islamic finance's stance on the informal economy and discusses it from an OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) perspective. Covers the various definitions, historical development, types and determining factors behind the shadow economy and the reasons for people's preference to join and stay in the informal economy.

Development Finance Institutions are experiencing a renaissance worldwide but there is limited academic research examining their roles, operations, and effectiveness. This book attempts to fill this gap by bringing together world-renowned scholars who discuss in detail the economics and consequences of development banks and public banks.

This book brings together contributions from renowned management scholars who explore how HRM investments affect workers' employability. Drawing on empirical evidence from around the world, it informs researchers, practitioners and students in fields of business and management, especially those interested in HRM and organizational behaviour.

In this book, the resilience of business models and ecosystems is analysed aiming to investigate further the specifics of the relevant processes securing resilience and its outcomes. The resilience of business models and ecosystems is scrutinised as a credible way for enhancing the predispositions of firm's survivability.

This book examines the work of the World Trade Organization, with a focus on the capacity of its judiciary to strike a reasoned balance between free trade in biotechnology and biosafety as to promote the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals.

This book explores the rise of promotional communication with a particular focus on public relations (PR) and its role.

Business Groups and Strategic Coopetition sheds lights on the poorly recognised problem of intra-organisational relationships within business groups by adopting the coopetition lens.

This book pulls together work from experts around the world in a variety of key disciplines such as law, management, and business ethics. It provides an all-inclusive resource, specifying everything key in the development and maintenance of a strong compliance and legal risk management culture.

Megatrends of World Politics identifies globalization, integration, and democratization as three key trends shaping the future of world politics and international relations, and demonstrates their effects in today's global processes.

This book examines the different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India. It situates the 2020-2021 farmer resistance movement within the wider context of India's post-independent development trajectory and provides a thorough analysis of various aspects of the farmers' movement in India.

This book sheds new light on a recently introduced monetary tool - negative interest rates policy (NIRP). It provides in-depth insight into this phenomenon, conducted by the central banks in several economies, for example, the Eurozone, Switzerland and Japan, and its possible impact on systemic risk.

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urban nexus. It will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian History, Economics, Politics, Geography, Sociology and Anthropology, Development Studies and Economic History.

This book analyses the current debate around Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the future of New Global Financial System. It offers deep insight into the global monetary policy in the context of digital and cryptocurrencies and examines both the opportunities and challenges to come.

Presenting the issues of discrimination in employment in a multifaced manner, this book examines the standards on anti-discrimination law for employment at international and EU levels, and those deriving from national jurisdictions.

The book carefully addresses and simplifies the issue of integrity in Halal logistics and supply chain. It gathers findings to shed light of current issues, developments and future trends on the theory and practice of Halal in the logistics sector.

The book provides a comprehensive conceptual understanding covering major challenges and pathways to progressively promote inclusive development in Bangladesh. The book will be of interest to Bangladesh's political, economic and social configurations and development economics, and Economics, Asian Studies and Development Studies.

This book studies the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia and evaluates the impact of the public expenditure policies in reducing the inter-ethnic and rural-urban disparity. It will be of interest to economists and researchers on Southeast Asian Studies.

This book studies the importance of adopting Green Academia as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against any form of impending pandemics in the post-COVID era and beyond.

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the 'Bubble-era' of the 1980s, which explores consumer experiences under the drastic socio-economic upheavals of the time.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to theory and modeling combined with state-of-the-art methodology. Contributions cover a broad range of topics including the links between monetary policy and capital market performance, micro- and macro- market structure and investors and issuers' behavior strategies.

The Routledge Handbook of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges and opportunities for metal and mineral production and use, in the context of climate change and the United Nation Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.

This book identifies crucial supply-side nodes of power and influence where feasible and relatively straight-forward 'functional' reforms - strategy, structure, selection, training - would make genuinely developmental results for recipients more likely and enhance donor interests at the same time.

This book offers new insights into the crucial role of investigative journalism at a pivotal time of technological changes and upheavals. It surveys innovations and unexpected impacts of the field, from past and present challenges, and what may be in store for the future of the industry.

This book reviews a wide-range of genetically modified (GM) crops, to understand how they are produced, the impacts on the agricultural industry, and the potential for improving food security.

Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region.