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Introduction -- Terminology of development -- Characteristics of developing countries -- Management issues and examples -- Explanations of economic development -- Planning and strategic management in developing countries -- Organizing and operating an international company -- Human resource management -- Managing an international workforce -- Motivation in developing countries -- Leadership in developing countries -- Special issues for managers in developing countries

Vulnerability has become the defining challenge of our times. More than one billion people worldwide live in extreme poverty. Facing risks exacerbated by natural hazards, ill-health and macroeconomic volatility, many are mired in inescapable poverty while millions others are on the brink of poverty.The need to better understand vulnerability is pressing, particularly in the case of developing countries where bulwarks against risks can be in short supply. This volume brings together essays from leading scholars to study the critical dimensions of vulnerability in developing countries, including the relationship between poverty and vulnerability as well as vulnerability arising from ill-health and external shocks.Reflecting the multi-dimensionality of vulnerability, the volume showcases a variety of methodologies that offer new perspectives on the use and relevance of vulnerability in economic development. Case studies focus on major developing countries like China and India, countries in transition, small island states and failing states. The volume concludes by offering a prescription on the necessary requirements to tackle vulnerability in developing countries, including strengthening household resilience, building appropriate safeguards against risk, and creating and maintaining quality institutions.

This study offers that it is consistent with and even complementary to the older and more traditional development strategies. We survey the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries which, admittedly, is wide and covers a range of issues from culture and values; institutional barriers such as financial sector development, governance and property rights; to the adequacy of education and technical skills. A broad literature has also developed on foreign direct investment and its positive and negative effects on technology transfer and entrepreneurship. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a number of studies examined the development of small and medium sized enterprises in transition economies. As these economies moved from centralized economies to market economies, enterprise and entrepreneurship became important. Yet, other studies examine the effects infrastructural development and the macroeconomy on entrepreneurship. With such a wide scope of issues, a framework for synthesizing the literature is needed. This study offers that the identification of the externalities which affect entrepreneurship provides a useful framework to examine the literature on entrepreneurship in developing countries

" ... highlights recent advances in statistical theory and methods that benefit econometric practice. It deals with exploratory data analysis, a prerequisite to statistical modelling and part of data mining. It provides recently developed computational tools useful for data mining, analysing the reasons to do data mining and the best techniques to use in a given situation. Provides a detailed description of computer algorithms. Provides recently developed computational tools useful for data mining -- Highlights recent advances in statistical theory and methods that benefit econometric practice. Features examples with real life data."--Provided by publisher

Front Cover; Developing Country Debt; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I: An Aggregate Analysis of Developing Country Debt; Chapter 1. Historical Perspectives on Developing Nations' Debt; THE EXPERIENCE OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND IN THE ERA BEFORE WORLD WAR I; INTERNATIONAL INDEBTEDNESS IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA; NOTES; Chapter 2: A Quantitative Perspective on the Debt of Developing Countries; THE ENLARGEMENT OF CURRENT SURPLUSES AND DEFICITS SINCE 1973; GROWTH AND MANAGEABILITY OF DEBT.

Establishing policing systems in young democracies is profoundly difficult. It is further complicated by the emergence of the new security agenda, the issues of transnational organised crime and international terrorism, and problems with the rule of law and the role of security services and the military in young democracies. Bringing together scholars from political science, international relations and criminology this book provides an up-to-date focus on the issues raised by policing within developing democracies