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Climate Change Adaptation, Governance and New Issues of Value Measuring the Impact of ESG Scores on CoE and Firm Performance
This book investigates sustainability, CSR, climate change adaptation, the relevance of ESG scores and their impact on firm value and growth. The...
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Financing Nature-Based Solutions Exploring Public, Private, and Blended Finance Models and Case Studies
This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various...
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Information as a Driver of Sustainable Finance The European Regulatory Framework
The Sustainable Development Goals introduced by the United Nations in 2016 call for the significant mobilisation of finance. However, although... -
Financial Vulnerability in Canada The Embedded Experience of Households
This book examines financial vulnerability: a state in which a person or household cannot absorb any substantial spending or negative income shock...
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Fiscal Decentralization in India An Outcome Map** of State Finance Commissions
This book presents an in-depth analysis of key recommendations of the consecutive state finance commissions (SFCs) across states of India in the...
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The Evolution of Sustainable Investments and Finance Theoretical Perspectives and New Challenges
Over the last decade, socially responsible investments (SRIs) have become paramount to both professionals and academics. In the aftermath of the... -
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living...
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The Japanese Banking Crisis
This open access book provides a readable narrative of the bubbles and the banking crisis Japan experienced during the two decades between the late...
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Energy Efficiency Financing and Market-Based Instruments
This book is devoted to investigating the policy design and effectiveness of financial and market-based instruments to promote energy efficiency...
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The Economics of Fintech
This book is a collection of academic lectures given on fintech, a topic that has been written about extensively but only from a business or...
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Chain Reaction How Blockchain Will Transform the Develo** World
Amidst the constant stream of overly technical and excitable books heralding a blockchain revolution that’s destined to be more disruptive than the... -
Whither has the Money Gone Fund Flow and Mechanism Under a Grand Asset Management Framework
This book presents China’s wealth management market to the public, institutions and research groups. As the money base of Renminbi (RMB or Chinese...
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Enhancing Financial Inclusion through Islamic Finance, Volume II
This book is the second of two volumes which highlight the concept of financial inclusion from the Islamic perspective. An important element of the...
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Financial Sector Development in African Countries Major Policy Making Issues
This Palgrave Pivot begins with a broad focus on financial sector development as a whole, highlighting areas such as the money market, payment...
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Sustainability and Financial Risks The Impact of Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Social Inequality on Financial Markets
Despite growing discussions on the relationship between sustainability and finance, so far little attention has been given to the relation linking...
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Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance Creating an Efficient Market through Innovative Policies and Instruments
Sustainable investments, although not yet working under a comprehensive regulatory framework, represent a growing, worldwide phenomenon. Such growth...
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Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change The Impact of Social Finance on the World’s Poor
The role of big finance and technology in social change is rapidly evolving. This book examines why large financial players are entering the social...
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The Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization for Social Development
At a time when the development community is grappling with the challenge of raising the required investment—estimated in the trillions of dollars—for...
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Modern China Financial Cooperation for Solving Sustainability Challenges
Calling for more cooperation between China and the west, this new book by noted author and educator Cary Krosinsky provides readers with an...
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FDI, Technology and Innovation
This book concentrates on major changes that are now taking place in the fields of technology, foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and development...