This chapter assesses levels and trends in multidimensional poverty for two different years in Algeria (2012/13 and 2018/19), Iraq (2011 and 2018) and Tunisia (2012 and 2018) using the M-gamma multidimensional poverty measures suggested by Alkire and Foster (2019). The decomposition properties...

Africa is a land of contrasts where poverty and plenty co-exist. The continent is endowed with untapped natural resources, a conducive climate, and a burgeoning youth population. However, it remains home to a very large poor population. This chapter reviews the situation and drivers of poverty...

The bi-factor CQ model reconciles the longstanding debate in the CQ literature over whether CQ is better conceptualized as a correlated four-factor model or a 2nd-order single-factor model. This chapter highlights key conceptual differences between these two CQ models and the recently introduced...

Professional business support experts have long known that peer group support is one of the most effective tools to help businesses consolidate their foundation and to enhance and develop growth (Kutzhanova et al., 2009 among others). Student entrepreneurship support at UK universities has long...

Through this chapter, readers are ferried through the Presidency of Festus Gontebanye Mogae, the President of Botswana from 1998- 2008. His Presidency occurred during the debilitating period of the HIV/AIDS scourge, the African blood diamonds brandishing label by the developed world and the...

This chapter is a theoretical attempt to merge life cycle theory in family firms with three entrepreneurial approaches, specifically causation, effectuation and bricolage. Propositions are introduced based on the characteristics that family firms display in certain stages and the conceptual...

This case relates a lifetime of history, exposure, and experience in the arts from early childhood to the present: dancing, vocal and acting lessons, performing, teaching, directing and choreography for musical theatre and opera. These activities take the artist into an unexpected career in...

The chapter explores the possibilities related to using ChapGPT in tax education. Specifically, we address how tax has historically been taught in higher education and how the use of new and developing artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT can enhance this process going forward. The...

Traditionally, selfhood has been understood with reference to individual characteristics, such as personality traits or intellectual capacity. More recently, psychologists have recognized that the self is also structured by a person’s social context - in particular, by their membership of...