Economy & Finance

This book serves as a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the study of AI applications in society. The book may be used for researchers and communities to identify the different challenges associated with key technologies for building new applications in improving quality of lives in smart cities.

This book serves as a valuable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the study of AI applications in society. The book may be used for researchers and communities to identify the different challenges associated with key technologies for building new applications in improving quality of lives in smart cities.

Events of all shapes and sizes play an important part in all of our lives. They are fun, frivolous, and often allow us to escape from our everyday lives. Events and Economic Development, therefore, explores the economic impact and developmental implications of designing, planning, and delivering events.

Events of all shapes and sizes play an important part in all of our lives. They are fun, frivolous, and often allow us to escape from our everyday lives. Events and Economic Development, therefore, explores the economic impact and developmental implications of designing, planning, and delivering events.

The book investigates the intermingling of land and water in the Sahel, analysing landscapes defined by the ebb and flow of rainfall, flooding, population movements, environmental, political and social crises. An important read for policy makers, practitioners, and scholars of geography, political science, development and African studies.

Dangerous Vagabonds examines the problem of illicit slavery in Senegal following the 1848 emancipation law.

The capitalist system has often been described by its critics as a heartless economic structure corroding social bonds and symbolic values. Its defenders and analysts likewise use narratives that position emotions as central to the economy. This book enquires into the history of these framings.

This book gives an in-depth and up-to-date insight into China's economy from a domestic as well an international perspective. The book covers the reform trajectory and performance of China's economy since Deng Xiaoping kicked-off the reform and opening-up policy in 1978 until the current challenges and economic policies under Xi Jinping including the integration in the world economy.The analysis is based on empirical evidence and respective data. This enables the reader to take an unprejudiced look on China's political economy. The book applies fundamental economic concepts in a non-technical way to the case of China and processes the main relevant scientific and applied research to the topic. Readers gain an in-depth understanding of the second largest global economy that will shape the twenty-first century-its past, present, and future.The book is structured into three concise chapters: the reform trajectory of China's economy since 1978, the domestic and international fundamentals of China's economy today, and the long-term challenges and respective economic policies for the future. One of the key insights of the book is that China's economy and its economic model are at a critical tipping point, after a long period of successful development from a low to a middle-income country. This includes the need for a new growth model and a renewed integration into the world economy. Both challenges pose systemic risks that could seriously impede the future development of China and its economy if not carefully managed.

This book contains Open Access chapters. Reflection around accounting and race is long overdue. Capturing insights from academics and researchers in the accounting field and connecting them to wider conversations currently taking place, this volume provides an opportunity to open an international dialogue.

All Hands on Deck explains how to build world-class capital markets that help nations, companies, and individuals create lasting wealth.

Covers tools, techniques, and trends in hybrid optical wireless networks and sensor technologies. Addresses recent trends and opportunities in wireless networks. Topics include deep learning in mobile device sensors, optimized wireless propagation models, underwater communication via hybrid optical wireless networks, and more.

Now available in paperback! Build financial literacy, improve your money management skills, and make the dinero work for you! In many immigrant households, money isn't often a topic of discussion, so financial education can be minimal-especially when a family is just trying to survive the day-to-day. Despite being the largest minority group in the United States, the Latino community still faces cultural and systemic barriers that prevent them from building wealth. As a first-generation Latina, Jannese Torres, award-winning money expert, educator, and podcaster, knows these unique challenges well. She set out to pursue the traditional American Dream, becoming the first woman in her family to graduate from college, climb the corporate ladder, and secure the six-figure paycheck, only to find herself miserable and unfulfilled. She soon realized that everything she'd been taught about money and success wasn't as it seemed. After discovering the true meaning of wealth, Torres resolved to pave her own path, leaving the life she was told she should want for one of entrepreneurship, autonomy, and financial freedom.In Financially Lit! Torres offers you culturally relevant and relatable personal finance advice that will allow you to finally feel seen, heard, and understood. Whether it's the guilt you feel from being the first person to "make it" while members of your family are still struggling, or the way financial trauma manifests itself in negative and limiting beliefs around money, Torres is here to guide you through it all.With the warmth and no-nonsense wisdom of someone who's been there before, Torres will teach you how to:- set boundaries with your dinero- protect yourself from financial abuse- navigate the complicated relationship between amor and money- invest like a white dude-or better!With Financially Lit! at your side, you'll harness the powerful ways money can be used to create the life of your dreams, and be empowered to step into financial freedom.

Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists 13th edition provides an excellent foundation for your future career in business, as it covers techniques widely used in financial accounting, management accounting, and financial management. Easy-to-read and use, the book is also filled with up-to-date examples of real-life financial issues.

This conference was intended for works pertaining to mathematical modeling and management of natural resources. It provided a forum for the research community to exchange ideas related to sustainable development.

This conference was intended for works pertaining to mathematical modeling and management of natural resources. It provided a forum for the research community to exchange ideas related to sustainable development.

The book explores recent drivers and factors of socio-economic development, in particular Global Value Chains and digital technologies, with analysis of 39 regional economies in Asia plus Australia and New Zealand. The editors use a database covering a wide range of Asian economies from 1990-2020 across four key areas.

The observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present.

Qin explores the ten-year-development of relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe through the China-CEEC (China-Central and Eastern European Countries) cooperation (16/17+1). A valuable resource for scholars and practitioners in international relations and China studies.

Cities: Inclusive, Liveable, and Sustainable scrutinizes the paradigms of Urban Planning that keep at the forefront both the citizen and the environment, as essential assets of the urban community.

This book presents the concept of "Hybrid Urbanisms" aiming to deconstruct the still existing and often critiqued dualism of formalised and informalised practices in urban planning and infrastructure delivery.