Presented at a workshop at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, this document explores the logistical solutions deployed within contemporary Hawala-style value transmission systems. It suggests that those frustrated by the lack of an effective global payments system for retial...

The performance of banks is important because it is a reflection of the ability of banks to manage aspects of its capital and assets in the profits and the extent to which the ability of capital a bank is able to absorb the credit risk of failure that may occur, as well as the implications of...

The Hungarian sheep sector has become a one-market sector, almost the wholeamount of slaughter lamb went to Italy. It would worth to exploit possibilities in other Europeanmarkets. Such markets can be the Spanish and Greek for ”light” and the French, German andEnglish markets for ”heavy”...

The oil industry is the richest and most influential industry in the world. The industry has moved the fates of nations. Oil is required to fight wars and exert power, and the restriction of this energy source is paramount to the restriction of movement, control, and in the end, power....

The purpose of this study was to investigate the additional needs andassociated financial costs of disability from the perspective of disabledpeople themselves. The research took place at a time when it isrecognised that disabled people have a range of additional needs andcosts (Large, 1991) and...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are widely recognized as an importantpart of the worldwide economy, acting both as the backbone of local economiesand as consumers of natural resources. In light of this, since the 1990’s,research to investigate how to make them more sustainable through the...

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...