Shadow banking refers to bank-like financial activities that are conducted outside the traditional commercial banking system, many of which are unr...

Technological advancement and the proliferation of the smartphone have reshaped the commercial landscape, providing consumers new ways to access th...

This book discusses the ecology, diversity and environmental impact of Siberia. Chapter One discusses cultural interaction and mutual influence of ...

Regional integration has been the goal of Pacific Islands Forum, an intergovernmental organisation, ever since its inception in 1971. The Forum com...

In this compilation, the authors evaluate the political situation in Slovakia, a young democracy with a population of over five million and with hi...

This book analyzes the characteristics and outcomes of the transition process in Slovenia, a relatively young and independent country, from differe...

Following the housing crash and financial crisis that began to unfold in 2007, the United States experienced the longest and deepest recession sinc...

The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers programs to support small businesses, including several loan guaranty programs designed to enco...

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has provided "technical and managerial aides to small-business concerns, by advising and counselling on mat...

This series examines issues and economic matters particular to small businesses. The term Small Enterprise (or Small Organization) is sometimes use...

This series examines issues and economic matters particular to small businesses. The term Small Enterprise (or Small Organisation) is sometimes use...

This series examines issues and economic matters particular to small businesses. The term Small Enterprise (or Small Organisation) is sometimes use...

This series examines issues and economic matters particular to small businesses. The term Small Enterprise (or Small Organisation) is sometimes use...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports pertaining to small businesses. Some of the topics discussed herein include current mentor-protégé progra...

According to Census data, approximately 1% of small businesses in the United States currently export. With roughly three-quarters of world purchasi...

In the current global scenario, business dynamics suffered deep transformations as a result of new patterns in wealth accumulation around the world...

This book examines the Small Business Lending Fund, with a focus on the supply and demand for small business loans. Congressional interest in small...

A challenge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) faces is balancing efforts to minimise taxpayer burden with efforts to ensure compliance with the ta...

Bahrain is a longtime ally that is pivotal to maintaining Persian Gulf security. Kuwait remains pivotal to U.S. efforts to secure the Persian Gulf ...

Small nations are facing increasing challenges and some new opportunities in a globalising world. Although the problems facing small nations vary w...

Small farms account for 91 percent of all farms and 23 percent of agricultural production. There are large differences among small farms, however, ...

In an era of globalisation, no country can be an island disconnected from the rest of the world and small states are now integrated in the global e...

In an era of globalisation, no country can be an island disconnected from the rest of the world and small states are now integrated in the global e...

Urban geographic inquiry has for decades been biased towards a focus on larger cities and metropolitan areas, both in the developed and developing ...

The Arab Gulf states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE) have over the past decades moved from near obscurity to prominence among ...

Social capital has been previously introduced using a mandala to provocatively evoke thoughts of a web of interconnections forming a pattern of rel...

This book provides a novel account of the public goods dilemma. The author shows how the social contract, in its quest for fairness, actually helps...

Volume 8 in "The Selected Works of Gordon Tullock" draws from two highly acclaimed and path-breaking books by Gordon Tullock, The Social Dilemma (1...

Anthony de Jasay is arguably one of the most independent thinkers and influential libertarian political philosophers of our time. Through his writi...

With $812 billion in benefit outlays in 2013, Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly cash benefits to re...

The goal of disability insurance is to replace a portion of a worker's income should illness or disability prevent him or her from working. Individ...

Now is an opportune time to be writing about socialism. 2017 and 2018 are landmark years for socialism. 2018, of course, is the 200 year anniversar...

For over 2 decades, Somalia has been the prime example of a collapsed state. For almost a generation, Somalia has been a byword for state failure, ...

This book takes an intermediate place between monographs and textbooks: on the one hand, it contains known, yet unusually portrayed facts, and on t...

This volume provides insight into whether or how sport hunting might play a strategic role in the conservation and management of polar bear in Cana...

This book presents and discusses information on contemporary politics and economics of South and Central America. Topics discussed herein focus on ...

South Africa is a multi-racial, majority black southern African country of nearly 52 million. It held its first universal suffrage elections in 199...

In 1994, South Africa's image in the world changed instantaneously from the polecat to that of being a model. The intensity of the societal conflic...

Since late 2008, relations between the United States and South Korea have been arguably at their best state in decades. By the middle of 2010, in t...

In this book, the authors have gathered and present topical research in the study of the economic, political and social issues facing South Korea t...

In January 2011, South Sudan held a referendum to decide between unity or independence from the central government of Sudan as called for by the Co...

Both the United States and China seek to deepen their economic engagement with the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) members: Brune...