Contrasting the performance of the Brazilian economy during the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis and during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this chapter discusses the role of capital flows management measures (CFMs) to (i) manage the global financial cycle in developing and emerging economies...

Carbon emission is one of the most important problems of today. In this framework, it is important for countries to take the necessary actions to solve this problem. Energy use is one of the most important causes of carbon emissions. Choosing fossil fuels in this process increases the carbon...

Entrepreneurial intention – the decision to, and subsequent practice of, launching a business – is often referred to as a planned, considered act. Factors influencing the decision to embark on entrepreneurial ventures have been identified and used to create models of entrepreneurial...

Smart cities are concepts much loved by politicians and technologists but are very difficult to bring about in practice. There are many isolated applications in cities such as operating streetlamps, but very few, if any, examples of integrated applications sharing data and managing the city as a...

This article explores the use of informal socio-cultural practices to mitigate formal institutional voids in a qualitative study of informal self-employment in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Informal socio-cultural values and practices such as ubuntu and indaba were observed to be making meaningful...

Since 2011, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) have provided a conceptual framework and common language for business and human rights. The UNGPs set an expectation that business enterprises will respect human rights, states will protect against human...

Theory of Change is a methodology developed in the field of programme evaluation to overcome difficulties in evaluating complex social or community change programmes. It entails that principles and activities that should lead to change are defined along with the evaluation strategy necessary to...

This chapter examines the nexus between the between tourism growth and income inequality in the top 10 tourist destinations in the world by using the advanced econometric technique namely quantile-on-quantile (QnQ). This approach combines the two approaches, that is, the nonparametric estimation...