Developing and transition economies will be increasingly concerned with environmental and natural resources management issues; they will have to solve a three-fold challenge: a better environment, good economic performances and poverty reduction as targeted by the Millennium Development Goals....

Topics: - Value-creation in corporate takeovers - Strategic bidding and target defensive tactics - Restructuring techniques and their valuation effects - Highly leveraged transactions. LBOs and breakups - Financing takeovers - Takeover initiations and managerial incentives - Mergers, industrial...