One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth. In addition to public and state financial resources, policymakers leverage private companies to promote sustainable growth through green investments and innovations, encouraging private initiatives and financial activities. In this context, SMEs play a crucial role not only at the European level but also as economic actors implementing and pursuing policy goals. This book focuses on the capital and financial aspects of SME activities for sustainable and inclusive growth, aiming to provide a...

This book examines the new impacts and opportunities for asset managers based on the EU Action Plan for Sustainable Growth, which creates new standards, frameworks, and definitions for redirecting capital for sustainable growth. This approach disrupts the existing sustainability practices in asset management and requires asset managers to combine understanding of new portfolio engineering approaches with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) logistics and the EU taxonomy. The implications of this transformation affect theoretical models and current forms of asset management....

This book analyses the role of development finance in international development cooperation. The author explains the current transformations in the global development finance architecture and discusses new concepts for development finance proposed by multilateral and bilateral donors.

The book is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the theoretical foundations of development finance and its impact on socio-economic development and aid effectiveness in partner countries. The second...