Justin Yifu Lin 
Economic Development and Transition [PDF ebook] 
Thought, Strategy, and Viability

Most people accept the importance of project management as a means of realizing value, enabling change and distinguishing your organization from its competitors. But recognizing and doing are two ent …

Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional barriers to market-based trade such as commodity cartels and …

In 1791, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton wrote that ‘not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers. …

Without Lean leaders, there can be no Lean. If an organization wants to be Lean, its leaders must lead using Lean principles. Put another way, until the top of your organization fully embraces Lean, …

First Published in 1977. This issue of the Journal is devoted to papers dealing with various features of the financial process in developing countries progress. While the majority of papers included …

Entrepreneurial finance is a discipline that studies financial resource mobilization, resource allocation, risk moderation, optimization in financial contracting, value creation, and value monetizati …

Birds of a feather flock together. We”re all in the same boat. Great minds think alike. While just figures of speech to some, they reflect a simple truth–it”s the company we keep that often determ …

Kaushik Basu (Cornell University) explores the relation between agrarian institutions and economic development. …

Making Big Decisions Better is leading a global movement to equip present and next generation leaders with proven strategy tools that enable agile thinking that ignites stronger, more predictable, di …

Leadership and organisational structures which are not adjusted to the cultural background of the employees concerned are most likely to produce sub-optimal results (House, 2004). Therefore it is nec …