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The Rise and Development of FinTech : Accounts of Disruption From Sweden and Beyond
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Abstract:This comprehensive guide serves to illuminate the rise and development of FinTech in Sweden, with the Internet as the key underlying driver. The multiple case studies examine topics such as: the adoption of online banking in Sweden; the identification ...
Public Private Partnerships in International Construction : Learning From Case Studies
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Abstract:Over the last ten years public private partnerships have become ever more popular worldwide, expanding the body of experience among construction professionals, government agencies, and industry. In these economically challenging times, PPP has emerged ...
The Front-end of Large Public Projects : Paradoxes and Ways Ahead
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Abstract:Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Con...
Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe : Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space
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Abstract:This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innov...
The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy
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Abstract:The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understo...
Digital Transformation and Public Services : Societal Impacts in Sweden and Beyond
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Abstract:Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process affects various welfare services provided by the public sector, and the ensuing implications thereof. Ultimatel...
Bitcoin and Beyond : Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance
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Abstract:Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 several hundred different ‘cryptocurrencies'have been developed and become accepted for a wide variety of transactions in leading online commercial marketplaces and the ‘sharing economy', as well as by more tradition...
Argentina's Economic Reforms of the 1990s in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
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Abstract:Why has Argentina suffered so much political and economic instability? How could Argentina, once one of the wealthiest countries in the world, failed to meet its potential over decades? What lessons can we take from Argentina's successes and failures? ...
Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry : Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population
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Abstract:WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/ipeg-book-prize-2015-winner-announced/ Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion', lending to the poor –in both the global North and global South –has become a highly lucrative and rapidly...
The Economics of Gender in China
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Abstract:China’s rapid socio-economic development has achieved remarkable equalizing conditions between men and women in the aspects of health, education and labor force participation, but the glass ceiling phenomenon has become more prominent. The book develop...