With more than 25 years since the collapse of communism, the end of the wars and billions of dollars in aid, the Balkans are still characterized by corruption, state capture, and decidedly unmodern states that are often either weak or authoritarian. Taking the contemporary Balkans as a starting...

"To the outside world, Quebec is Canada's most distinctive province. To many Canadians, it has sometimes seemed the most troublesome. But, over the last quarter century, quietly but steadily, it has wrestled successfully with two of the West's most daunting challenges: protecting national values...

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking Innovation -- 1 Poverty, Invisibility, and Innovation -- 2 Behaviourally Informed Innovation -- 3 Appropriate Technologies for the Global South -- 4 Globalization of Biopharmaceutical Innovation: Implications for Poor-Market Diseases --...

Despite the vast wealth generated in the last half century, in today’s world inequality is worsening and poverty is becoming increasingly chronic. Hundreds of millions of people continue to live on less than