Abstract Intergovernmental Economic Organizations usually leverage the scientific capacity of their member countries to ensure economic prosperity through consensual science policies. The D-8 Organization for Cooperation is an intergovernmental forum constituting eight developing Muslim-majority with a host recent initiatives toward encouraging interstate and technological collaborations. This ...

Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF) is a multilateral financial institution which supports the sustainable development and integration efforts of its shareholder countries of the Latin American region. Its shareholder countries include Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, and Trinidad and Tobago. Shares of CAF are also held by 22 private banks in the reg...

The Islamic finance industry has only been dominated with banking, Takaful, capital, and the money market, although, cooperative (I-Coop), which is a non-financial institution in most cases yet to be fully adopted contemporary Muslim societies. can development reform tool or social economic growth method, it used offer interest-free loans cover specific demands rural urban settings. main purpos...

Eco-industrial development projects are increasingly popular because of their ability to transform the traditional model of industrial parks into more sustainable forms of economic development. Still, few industrial parks worldwide have achieved the high degree of eco-transformation that characterizes eco-industrial parks (EIPs). Assessing the potential for eco-industrial development at the par...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) places the issue of taxation of cross-border e-commerce transaction as one of its top four projects for investigation. In January 2001, some member countries agreed to a series of guidelines on how to apply existing tax treaties to Web transactions. After discussing potential threats and challenges facing etax administrators and p...

Much has been written on the macroeconomic aspects of the economic reform process in Latin America, but much less has been published on its microeconomic results, especially at the company level. This paper explores how Embraer, a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, transformed itself after privatization to become a world market leader in a high-tech industry traditionally dominated by companies b...