Innovations in the finance industry are an important tool to enhance profitability and to increase a nation's wealth. It, therefore, is not astonishing that there is much empirical work on innovations in finance. Most of the work however is concerned with the design of innovative products. The...

Purpose – In the world's quest to eradicate poverty, the means to get there are not fully understood, nor are they universally agreed upon. However, most would accept that the link between trade and development in general and exports and poverty reduction in particular needs to be strengthened...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look to new opportunities that may be available to the nations comprising Central Asia. The region has recovered only slowly since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Design/methodology/approach – Based on secondary data from reports by the UN, ADB...

Purpose – South‐South trade is the fastest growing segment of world trade in the last two decades. This paper aims at demonstrating that it is a unique opportunity and a sound development tool for developing countries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the statistical and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess whether any meaningful lessons can be learned from South Africa's early twentieth century experience of White poverty and to what extent such lessons can be applied in order to combat Black poverty today. Design/methodology/approach – This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two‐fold. First, a case study is presented that examines a model of agricultural development created by Healing Hands International (HHI) as one answer to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization call to reduce world hunger in half by 2015....