1. Introduction -- 2. Economic Development, Sustainable Development and Agriculture -- 3. Sustainability of Agricultural Systems -- 4. Challenges of Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Countries -- 5. Challenges of Sustainable Agricultural Development in High-Income Countries -- 6. Pathways to...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Data: Productivity and Capital Differences across Countries and over Time -- 3 Two Complementary Frameworks to Study Convergence Clubs -- 4 Convergence Clubs in Labor Productivity -- 5 Convergence Clubs in Physical and Human Capital -- 6 Convergence Clubs in Total Factor...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter-2. Sustainable Growth, Financial Stability and the Failure/Un-Constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank Act (USA) (and Similar Statutes in Other Countries) -- Chapter-3. Economic Psychology, Geopolitical Risk and the Un-Constitutionality of Credit Rating Agencies,...

Chapter 1: Review of the Neoclassical Theory of Capital Flows and Related Empirical -- Chapter 2: The Lucas Paradox: Alternative Estimates of Marginal Product of Capital -- Chapter 3: Estimating the Determinants of Capital Inflows Using Cross-Sectional Data -- Chapter 4: Panel and Non-Linear...

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of...

Energy policies play a pivotal part in helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals. Further, energy is one of the critical raw materials in companies’ production processes. Therefore, ensuring a steady energy supply is essential to increasing production; otherwise, countries...

This book is an outcome of the 36th International Conference EnviroInfo 2022, held at the University of Hamburg, Germany, organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society. It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific...

Opportunities and Pitfalls of Corporate Social Responsibility: An Introduction -- CSR implementation challenges: Analyzing the Role and Behavior Stakeholders -- Exploring the Theoretical Basis for Stakeholder Protection in Corporate Governance -- The Socio-economic Impact of Corporate Social...

Subsistence Entrepreneurship: The Role of Collaborative Innovation, Sustainability and Social Goals -- Firm Founder's Passivity as a Source of Serendipitous Opportunity Discovery -- Commonomics: Rhetoric and Reality of the African Growth Tragedy -- Entrepreneurship in the Solidarity Economy: A...

‘It is of great value to complement the limitations of contemporary mainstream economic growth discourse by exploiting the complex relations between technology, development, and inequality, while concurrently providing a better academic orientation in the era of the upcoming Industrial...