Development Finance Innovations for Sustainable Growth
This book presents a broad range of empirical research papers covering key issues in development finance. Despite having gained significant momentum in Africa and other emerging economies, textbooks and research publications on development finance are sti
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Nicholas Biekpe • Danny Cassimon • Andrew William Mullineux Editors
Development Finance Innovations for Sustainable Growth
Editors Nicholas Biekpe Development Finance Centre UCT Graduate School of Business Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Danny Cassimon Institute of Development Policy and Management Universiteit Antwerpen Antwerp, Belgium
Andrew William Mullineux Department of Finance Birmingham Business School University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-54165-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-54166-2
ISBN 978-3-319-54166-2 (eBook)
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Preface
Overview This textbook brings to focus core areas of development finance with special relevance to the strengthening of development finance research and training in an emerging market context. Unlike professional disciplines (e.g. engineering, accounting and economics), development finance (which is simply finance applied in a developmental context) is a relatively new entrant into the wider fields of research and training. Much work still needs to be done to develop and strengthen development finance capacity building and this book is a first crucial step aimed at establishing and strengthening academic and practitioner engagements in development finance research and training.
Binding Themes and Tone of Book The chapters of the book were carefully selected to generate and stimulate discussions and debates around key knowledge attributes which define development finance research. Even though developmen
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