DEVELOPING ECONOMIES: INNOVATION, INVESTMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY -- DEVELOPING ECONOMIES: INNOVATION, INVESTMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SERVICE ENTITIES IN OPEN-CLOSED INNOVATION - THE GROWTH OF SERVICE ECONOMY FOR SMALLER FIRMS DRIVEN BY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) AND KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE SERVICES (KIS) -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Service Economy and the Role of Innovation in Services1 -- 1. THE WORLD ECONOMY AND THE GROWTH IN SERVICE SECTORS -- 1.1 Global trends by sector -- THE RELATIONSHIP OF FIRM SIZE AND PRODUCTIVITY -- THE ROLE OF R&D IN SERVICES -- THE FUNCTION OF KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE SERVICES (KIS) -- PRODUCTIVITY AND INNOVATION IN SERVICE SECTORS -- Theories on firm size, R&D, and innovation -- CONSTRUCTION OF MODELS- PANEL DATA ANALYSES -- DYNAMIC MICRO MODELS -- Production functions -- Decomposing productivity -- DYNAMIC MACRO MODELS -- EMPIRICAL ANALYSES -- Methodology and Data -- RESULT OF MICROECONOMIC ANALYSIS -- 3.1.1 Industry: Electronics -- Observation -- Observation -- 3.1.2 Industry: Information and Telecommunication -- Observation -- Observation -- 3.1.3 Industry: Real estate -- Observation -- Observation -- 3.1.4 Industry: Retail -- Observation -- Observation -- 3.1.5. Industry: Service -- Observation -- Observation -- 3.1.6. Industry: Wholesale -- Observation -- Observation -- RESULT OF MACROECONOMIC ANALYSIS37 -- SUMMARY -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- EMBRACING CHANGE? AN UPDATE OF THE IFAC COMPLIANCE PROGRAMME IN A LESS DEVELOPED ECONOMY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- HARMONIZING AUDIT QUALITY: IFAC'S COMPLIANCE PROGRAMME -- THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION IN BANGLADESH -- RESEARCH METHODS -- UPDATE OF IFAC SMOS IN BANGLADESH -- Quality Assurance -- Presence of threats to audit independence -- Education Standards -- Quality of students attracted by the profession.

Quality of accounting and auditing education at the undergraduate level -- Inadequate training programmes offered by the ICAB -- The Code of Professional Ethics -- Adoption of the code of professional ethics -- Investigation and Disciplinary Procedures -- The Disciplinary process -- Lack of proactive initiatives -- Mistrust between ICAB and the SEC -- The Legal environment -- Politics within the ICAB -- THE SOCIO-POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR AUDITING: BANGLADESH CONTEXT -- Social Privileges for the Profession -- The Dynamics of State-Profession Relationship in Bangladesh -- The FRC project -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- HONG KONG'S ECONOMIC INTEGRATION WITH CHINA VIA FDI: SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF THE HK-PRD GLOBALIZED DELTA ECONOMY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. HONG KONG'S ECONOMIC INTEGRATION WITH PRD SINCE 1980 -- 2.1. HK-PRD Economic Integration: Formation of the HK-PRD Metropolis Regional Economy -- 2.1.1. Manufacturing's outward processing in China -- 2.1.2. Industrial and trade structural adjustments -- (1) Industrial Restructuring between Manufacturing and Services -- (2) Cross Border Operations and Trade Evolution -- 2.2. HK-PRD Metropolis Regional Economy as a Core-Periphery System -- 2.3. Hong Kong as a Service-Dominated City-Core in GDE -- 3. ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF THE HONG KONG-METROPOLIS AFTER THE ASIAN CRISIS: FROM PRD TO PAN-PRD -- 4. BEYOND THE ASIAN CRISIS: HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS -- 4.1. Gaining International City Competitiveness: Some Opinion Survey Evidence -- 4.2. Mobilization of International Investments: Evidence from MNCs Survey -- 5. BEYOND THE 2008-GLOBAL CRISIS: HONG KONG-METROPOLIS AS AN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER -- 6. FURTHER CHALLENGES -- REFERENCES.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY OF POVERTY REDUCTION IN A SMALL OPEN DUALISTIC ECONOMY: THE CASE OF WAGE SUBSIDY POLICIES AND INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION UNDER SECTOR-SPECIFIC CAPITAL -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. A DUAL ECONOMY MODEL WITH URBAN POLLUTION -- 3. WAGE SUBSIDY POLICIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- Result 1 (Rural Wage Subsidy) -- Proposition 1 (Urban Wage Subsidy) -- 4. CONSISTENCY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION -- 4.1. Effects of Pollution Tax -- Result 2 (Effects of Pollution Tax) -- 4.2. Relations between Urban Wage Subsidy and Environmental Protection -- Result 3 (Condition for a Reduction of Urban Unemployment) -- Proposition 2 (Relations between Urban Wage Subsidy and Environmental Protection) -- 5. OPTIMAL WAGE SUBSIDIES UNDER POLLUTION TAX -- 6. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- 1. Proof of Result 1 -- 2. Proof of Proposition 1 -- 3. Proof of Result 2 -- 4. Proof of Result 3 -- 5. Derivation of the Manufacturing Production Function -- REFERENCES -- DO POLITICAL FREEDOMS ATTRACT OR DISCOURAGE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT? EVIDENCE FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND FORMER SOVIET UNION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MEASURING POLITICAL FREEDOMS -- SPECIFICATION -- EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- REGULATION AS A PROTECTIONIST STRATEGY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SOME RELATED LITERATURE -- 3. THE MODEL AND THE RESULTS -- 3.1. Market Outcome under Non-Regulation -- 3.2. Market Outcome under Regulation -- 3.3. Decision on Lobbying for Regulation -- 3.4. An Example -- 4. LOBBYING BY THE ENTRANT -- 5. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- BLACK MONEY AND CORRUPTION IN INDIA -NECESSARY EVILS TO SURVIVE?: A COMMENTARY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Extent of Black Money -- Field Survey Results -- Some Recent Cases -- Innovative & Bold Steps Needed -- REFERENCES.

DOES HIGHER ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF TRADE BLOCS LEADS TO FAIR TRADE? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND TRADE BLOCS -- Free and Fair Trade in Goods -- Categorizing Trade Blocs -- The Statistical Portrait -- First Level Analysis -- CONCLUSIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH -- Selected Websites -- INDICATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Endnotes -- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH, INNOVATION, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN EMERGING COUNTRIES -- Abstract -- 1.Introduction -- 2.LiteratureSurvey -- 3.DataandMethodology -- 4.ResultsandDiscussion -- 5.Conclusion -- References -- INDEX.