More African women than men become entrepreneurs, with women often balancing time caring for their households with small enterprises such as setting up shops in front of their homes, renting market stalls, or setting up hairstyling businesses.
The book aims at outlining key political, functional, administrative and financial features of Germany's local government system and at placing them in a (European) comparative perspective.
The book aims at outlining key political, functional, administrative and financial features of Germany's local government system and at placing them in a (European) comparative perspective.
This book illuminates fundamental knowledge and provides a comprehensive guide for those seeking to understand the intricacies of sustainable development and construction in Asia.
This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification.
This book sheds light on the role and impact of sustainability mediation, an effective tool for political authorities and business enterprises to persuade consumers of the integrity of their actions, products, and services.
This book investigates how western anthropological trends, development discourse and transnational activism came to create and define the global indigenous movement.
Social Entrepreneurship for Development, Second Edition, presents a fresh approach to poverty alleviation by bridging the fields of international development and social entrepreneurship.
Bringing concepts from critical transitional justice and peacebuilding into dialogue with education, this book examines the challenges youth and their teachers face in the post-conflict settings of Bougainville and Solomon Islands.
Advancing and Negotiating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) presents a negotiation framework based on the principles of network/collaborative governance in implementing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Originally published in 1992, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction and new preface, Forms of Dominance: On the Architecture and Urbanism of the Colonial Enterprise examines the complex experience of colonial domination, social reaction, and physical adaptation within the built environment of regions such as Morocco, Eastern Europe, India, Guatemala and East Africa, and provides a multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective on the colonial experience.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are revolutionizing the field of sustainable development.
In five decades, Taiwan has shifted from an authoritarian regime to a multi-party democracy, has moved steadily toward modernization, and has become an economically affluent, socially pluralistic society.
This book explores the significant impact of FinTech on the financial industry and how it could be used to promote legitimate development in the global economy.
This volume collects and combines research on regional integration projects beyond Europe and in the Global South across a wide range of policy issues.
Delve into the complex landscape of the informal economy with the Routledge Handbook of the Informal Economy, a groundbreaking volume that transcends conventional economic analysis by contextualizing it within a broader regulatory and social framework.
Artificial Intelligence and Responsible Management EducationArtificial Intelligence (AI) offers considerable opportunities, as well as challenges, to management education and research.
This completely revised and rewritten handbook gives an overview of international organization (IO) as a dynamic field of research that adds to our understanding of global and regional relations and related domestic politics.
In recent years, factors such as sustainability, digitalization, climate change, energy transformation, social inclusion, gender parity, and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk have been playing an increasingly important role in the process of financial transformation.
This novel book demonstrates the polarised logics that exist between exploring cultural, structural, political, and historical contexts as a primary focus for pedagogical research versus an interventionist agenda that isolates pedagogy and its components from their environments.
La Méditerranée et le Moyen-Orient constituent un arc de crises multiples, irrésolues et prolongées qui ressurgissent souvent avec une intensité dramatique.
This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.
The Cores of Strategic Management provides students with a concise introduction to the fundamentals of strategic management, including business-level and corporate-level strategy, leadership, decision-making, and strategy implementation.
This publication looks at five projects in the People's Republic of China (PRC) to illustrate how effective solutions to environmental and social problems can be replicated.
Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.
Analyse des fondements des programmes proposes par le Fonds monetaire international a Madagascar pour une remise en question des modeles de developpement.
This ambitious and insightful book provides a unique regional perspective on health policy across South Asia, focusing on how the decentralization of policy and governance leads to differing health outcomes across different countries in the region.
While global challenges continue to reshape the here and now, public and corporate finance management needs to adapt quickly to increase the efficiency of institutions, enterprises and policies to face our new reality.
This book addresses the overarching theme of promoting inclusive and sustainable development through twelve contributions that discuss perspectives from emerging economies and policies for a better world.
