Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Together they seek to clarify some of the ambiguity around this term, describe a range of social entrepreneurship projects, and establish a clear set of frameworks with which to understand it

In this book the author lays down the essential skills you need to survive and succeed in today's job market, based on his extensive interviews with employers, recruiters, human resource specialists, and successful college grads

Sonic Boom is the definitive story of how technologies have brought out the best and worst in artists and consumers alike. It reveals how even as the star-marker machinery of record companies remains in the hands of the old guard, innovators are finding ways to route around it. Sonic Boom exposes the recording industry's plight as a fascinating microcosm of the vast cultural, ethical, and legal issues that all industries face in the information age

An Owner's Manual provides fast, practical and direct advice and that's what you get with this book! The Small Business Owner's Manual is useful for newly minted entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners and can be read from cover-to-cover or to quickly lookup information in the midst of a crisis

The second volume of the report Global Development Finance (GDF) in 2008, contains a summary, country, statistical tables on the external debt of 134 countries that report public and publicly guaranteed debt under the Reporting System (DRS)

This book underlines the importance of policy performance for attracting and benefiting from capital flows, both private and official; concludes that improved policies in both recipient and donor countries are helping to strengthen the effectiveness of aid flows

This book helps brokers train their agents, as well as helping agents who want to increase their income with listings that showed professionalism and values that made sense. And also it makes the reader aware of the numerous pitfalls one runs into in the buying and selling a business

Although the importance of infrastructure sectors in achieving economic growth and poverty reduction is well established, raising debt and equity capital for infrastructure development and service provision has been a challenge for developing countries. Risk mitigation instruments facilitate the mobilization of commercial debt and equity capital by transferring risks that private financiers would not be willing to take to third-party official and private institutions that are capable of taking such risks

This book is designed as a guide to help business people sent overseas on assignment work understand business etiquette in another part of the world. The book is divided into nine chapters, cpvering all aspects of the topic, from travel tips to language and business cards, socializing, nonverbal communicators, dress and appearance, cultural attitudes

This book provides you with the strategies you need to boost profits and productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the key components of the strategies and at least one representative case study