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Corporate Governance Failures in Emerging Economies - Evidence from Pakistan provides detailed insights regarding corporate governance practices, legal and regulatory frameworks, drivers of corporate governance codes, levels of compliance and various corporate governance mechanisms in an emerging market context. The material outlines and discusses potential challenges to corporate governance development in these settings, emphasizing the wide array of formal and informal institutional factors that have both permitted and fostered corporate governance failures and scandals in Pakistan. This book will be of interest to anyone who is concerned with exploring issues relating to corporate governance outcomes in emerging market contexts and the relevance of institutional theory in offering explanations for the observed behaviour.

This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.

Somehow, somewhere along the line, most of us seem to have fallen victim to the notion that science and technology have all-but figured everything out. What with the advent of the smart phone, the smart watch, smart dog bowl, and now the smart refrigerator, what else is there? Compared to a refrigerator that texts me in the middle of my meetings with the Queen to announce to the world we are almost out of bratwurst, walking on the moon seems almost trite. In the midst of this panacea of smartness however, "Some Things They Forgot to Mention" offers a cold hard dose of reality, demonstrating for us the fact that not all smart things are as they seem. As it turns out, much of what we think we know about "science" and the world around us is, at the very least, incomplete. Examples underscoring this fact include many of the key details about how the universe operates, not the least of which are some of the most fundamental forces that govern nature and thereby directly affect life itself. Using a range of select curiosities in math, science, biochemistry, and current events, "Some Things They Forgot to Mention" takes us on a journey of discovery, even as it addresses some of these assumptions head-on. As this discussion works its way across our "spectrum of acquired knowledge", we eventually land hard at the "darker" end of this spectrum where we find the less logical and baser aspects of human nature festering in the realm of "Political Science". In this sea of gross dysfunction and corruption we see the seeds of our undoing -- an end largely fueled by our own hubris and ignorance. This, even as the animal side of our nature now threatens to undo much of what our ancestors struggled to achieve over the past 1000 years -- many paying the ultimate price for those gains with the blood of their own sons and daughters. Drawing from both ancient history and current events, "Some Things They Forgot to Mention" offers us some serious food for thought about what all of this is telling us. Foremost of these things, is the glint of an understanding that causality implies there are certain consequences for the choices we make. As we begin our downward slope of the whole "Rise and Fall" pattern in history, we are now beginning to see the effects of these consequences, and the hint of the certain immutable long-term repercussions they bring that could easily cripple civilization for the next 1000 years -- if not destroy it altogether.

the transforming society needs an inclusive ideology that can bring combined solutions for our combined problems. It is, thus, a dialectical comboism that can develop combination of ideas to solve combined problems facing human beings. Hence, the author believes that balanced state of living together could not be reached simply by using one sided ideology but is possible with more inclusive ideology, i.e. dialectical comboism. The great aim of dialectical ideology is bringing new possibility to work together to reach synergy for the purpose of synergistic transformation. It is all about build better together in its character. The other great aim of dialectical comboism is to transform domination into cooperation. The reason for this is the idea that peace can¿t be possible without cooperation. In order peace deal to succeed, the need for cooperation, which must be cultivated, is required.

¿Savoir-faire¿ is defined as ¿multitalented Know-how,¿ which is principled working traditions of new policy: from each according to the ability to know intellectually what the dimensions of a problem are to each according to the ability or skill to perform the actions needed to solve the problem or from each according to the ability to know intellectually what the dimensions of a problem are to each according to the savvy principle needed to solve the problem, i.e. savoir-faire is ability/savvy principle of new policy paradigm while Omnicrats deal with the government of all by all for all.

"The 72 columns selected here by editor Dan Barry, more than half of which have not been reprinted since initial publication, reveal Breslin at his best, addressing stories of national and global importance but more often uncovering tales of ordinary New Yorkers, by turns tragic or absurd but always gripping to read. Gathered here are the highlights of his consummate deadline artistry: his celebrated interview with the man who dug the grave for John F. Kennedy, his coverage of the assassination of Malcolm X, his dispatches from the South at the height of the Civil Rights movement and from Vietnam, accounts of his involvement with the "Son of Sam" case as the serial killer who terrorized New York City in 1977, his story about John Lennon's murder in 1980, his award-winning series about the AIDS crisis in 1986, and his disgusted glimpse of Donald Trump conning the press corps during a book promotion in 1990. These masterful columns are joined by two of Breslin's books: How the Good Guys Finally Won (1976), one of the best accounts of the Watergate scandal, centered on House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and his allies, whose success in forcing Richard Nixon for office scored an unlikely victory for U.S. democracy; and The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutiâerrez (2002), the story of an immigrant laborer killed at a construction site in Brooklyn and of the malfeasance among developers, city officials, and others that enabled the accident to happen. As quintessentially a New York figure as the memorable urban characters he portrayed, Breslin nonetheless transcended the confines of his local audience and became a national celebrity, writing with a novelist's awareness of the telling detail that reveals the depth of a person's, and a people's, character."--Provided by publisher.

"In the wake of January 6 and aided by his absence from Twitter, Donald Trump seemed to have faded from daily news coverage. After an unsuccessful reelection campaign, the losses continue to rack up: record fines for obstruction of justice, fights over real estate, and federal records rule violations. But on his own platforms, in front of his own massive crowds, and upon announcing his new campaign, Trump is increasingly active testing the loyalty of his acolytes and punishing those who stand in his way."--Provided by publisher.

Originally appearing between April 2020 and October 2021, these articles are a record of how, with the collaboration of a terrorised and virtuous public, a threat to public health that never existed was turned into a 'crisis', and on the justification of combatting it the 'vaccination' programme was implemented, laying the foundations for the UK biosecurity state of today. Collected in two volumes, Virtue and Terror and The New Normal, their publication marks the third anniversary since the 'pandemic' was officially declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020. But they also serve a more immediate purpose. As evidence of the immense damage of both lockdown and the 'vaccines' to the UK population has become too overwhelming for all but the COVID-faithful to ignore, those who called loudest for their enforcement - politicians, journalists and doctors - have claimed not only that they did not know what the consequences would be but that nobody else knew either, and have made plaintive appeals for an 'amnesty' between the ruined, traumatised, injured and bereaved and those responsible for their suffering and loss. The data and analysis contained in these articles is a reminder that those who took the time to look knew almost from the start that the coronavirus 'crisis' was manufactured, that closing down the economy for two years would impoverish millions, that printing hundreds of billions of pounds to save it would lead to rampant inflation, that withdrawing medical diagnosis, care and treatment for two years would cause the deaths of tens of thousands of UK citizens, and that injecting experimental gene therapies into a terrorised public would kill thousands, injure millions, and have still unknown consequences for the health and lives of the British people. If the guilty are now protesting their ignorance, they are doing so to absolve themselves of responsibility for what they collaborated in doing, to deny culpability for the damage and deaths, and to avoid retribution from a public coming to the realisation that we have been the object of a campaign of impoverishment and genocide being waged against us by the UK state and its global partners. These volumes hold them to account.

Niemand von uns wurde geboren, um sein Schicksal in die Hände von Psychopathen und Machtmenschen zu legen, die aus uns willenlose Elemente ihres Herrschaftswahns machen wollen. Wir alle haben die Bestimmung und das angeborene Recht, unser Schicksal selbst zu wählen. Diese Freiheit wollen wir uns nicht nehmen lassen. Leider gibt es aktuell Pläne, weltweit die Freiheit aller Menschen abzuschaffen. Verantwortlich ist dafür eine kleine Gruppe von Oligarchen, Multimilliardären, Adligen und ihren gekauften Unterstützern aus Politik, Wissenschaft und Medien. Diese Bedrohung müssen und können wir stoppen. Die Welt braucht einen spirituellen Wandel. Es wird Zeit, dass die Menschen erkennen, wer wir wirklich sind und über welche großartigen Fähigkeiten jeder Einzelne von uns verfügt. Wir entstammen alle derselben Quelle. Es gibt keine wertlosen oder minderwertigen Personen oder Rassen, wie es die Vordenker des WEF bei ihren Jahrestreffen propagieren. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den spirituellen Grundlagen unserer Existenz und den Fähigkeiten des menschlichen Geistes, die jeder nutzen kann, um sich aus eigener innerer Kraft ein besseren Leben in Frieden, Freiheit und Selbstbestimmung zu erschaffen.

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, but also the emotional tragedies that political extremism inflicted on those working within. Drawing on Jie's own vivid biography of his youth, Xinran pieces together his trajectory as he joins the great hope of the Chinese young - the Communist Party - and becomes a loyal cadre until the late 1970s when, as a chief in the security forces, he makes a decision that will poison his family against him. This is a totally unique behind-the-scenes account of a family torn apart by the Tiananmen Square massacre and the attempts of Jie to finally open up the Chinese system to the people, pieced together from an extraordinary archive of personal diaries and letters.

The book is the result of the experience of 47 years of service of the author in the Austrian Armed Forces. In the course of his service, he received a comprehensive insight into the functioning of the Ministry of Defense and of the armed forces. During this time, he went through his basic training, his officer training, was a commander of a headquarters company, a training and teaching officer at the Theresan military academy, chief logistics officer and training officer of the medical school of armed forces and during his last 20 years of his work head of an auditing department of the ministry of defence. Because this department was part of the cabinet of the Federal Minister, he received a comprehensive insight into the working process in the ministry. In addition to his military training, he studied economics at the University of Vienna and habilitated at the former military university in Hungary in the field of military science/defense economics. Furthermore, the book is also the result of the evaluation of his participatory observation of what is going on in the ministry and the armed forces from the point of view of an academic educated economist.

Winner of the Prix littéraire France-Liban'A stunningly stylish, breathtakingly evocative tribute in words and art to the cosmopolitan Levant that exists in defiance of war and empire. I treasure my copy' -- Molly Crabapple, artist and co-author of Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian WarMy Great Arab Melancholy is a beautiful, elegiac and award-winning book from Lebanese writer and illustrator Lamia Ziadé. Blending the author's years of research, personal memoir, and more than 300 illustrations, this compelling history of the modern Arab world explores the major thinkers, struggles, and turning points that have shaped the Middle East as we know it today.Ziadé begins in South Lebanon, "land of martyrs, ruins, and passion", before taking the reader on a journey through Beirut, Jerusalem, Cairo, and Baghdad. The book moves from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, tracing the Arab world's tragedies and the derailing of dreams and possibilities caused in large part by Western imperialism and the conquest of Palestine.Within these pages there are the blasts of explosions, blood, and tears; cemeteries, wreaths, and ribbons; martyrs and paradise. Ziadé unearths the buried memory of resistance fighters and their lost ideals. In haunting prose and unforgettable images she celebrates the progressive, bold, revolutionary moments and figures of the Arab world's recent past.Lamia Ziadé is a Lebanese author, illustrator and visual artist. Born in Beirut in 1968 and raised during the Lebanese Civil War, she moved to Paris at 18 to study graphic arts. She then worked as a designer for Jean Paul Gaultier, exhibited her art in numerous galleries internationally, and went on to publish several illustrated books, including My Port of Beirut, Ô nuit, ô mes yeux and Bye Bye Babylon: Beirut 1975-1979.

"Introduction by Amal Clooney From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account. Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN, she transformed news coverage in her region, which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler. Harnessing the emerging power of social media, Rappler crowdsourced breaking news, found pivotal sources and tips, harnessed collective action for climate change, and helped increase voter knowledge and participation in elections. But by their fifth year of existence, Rappler had gone from being lauded for its ideas to being targeted by the new Philippine government, and made Ressa an enemy of her country's most powerful man: President Duterte. Still, she did not let up, tracking government seeded disinformation networks which spread lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate. Hounded by the state and its allies using the legal system to silence her, accused of numerous crimes, and charged with cyberlibel for which she was found guilty, Ressa faces years in prison and thousands in fines. There is another adversary Ressa is battling. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is also the story of how the creep towards authoritarianism, in the Phillipines and around the world, has been aided and abetted by the social media companies. Ressa exposes how they have allowed their platforms to spread a virus of lies that infect each of us, pitting us against one another, igniting, even creating, our fears, anger, and hate, and how this has accelerated the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world. She maps a network of disinformation-a heinous web of cause and effect-that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars to America's Capitol Hill; Britain's Brexit to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare; Facebook and Silicon Valley to our own clicks and votes. Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted, written by someone who never would. And in telling her dramatic and turbulent and courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves the same question she and her colleagues ask every day: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?"--

Finally clarity! This explosive book puts all the secret facts on the table for the first time worldwide!Andrew Tate was in a Romanian prison from 29/12/2022 to 31/03/2023. Without reasons. Without evidence. Without charge. He was innocent! And the media hides this. But now the truth is finally coming to light, because an insider unpacks!The investigative journalist Andreas Walter has been on the trail of the Romanian authorities and now presents the answers to all questions: Why is there no evidence in the case? Why was Andrew definitely innocent? Are the authorities themselves criminals? Was it an act of revenge by global elites? What does Greta Thunberg have to do with all of this? What happens next? Walter also impressively shows why Andrew Tate will always win in the end!This book opens your eyes and shows the true entanglements! An absolute MUST for his fans!From the content:The extraordinary CV of a successful person / The preliminary investigation and the mysterious arrest / A planned revenge action by global elites? / Twitter dispute with Greta Thunberg, then came the order for the police to access / Does the Romanian public prosecutor work on orders from high-ranking clients? - The Inside Report / Why the Matrix must be behind all this / The ban attack in summer 2022 - Who is behind it? / What tactical mistakes did Tate make and how could he have avoided them? / Luxury cars confiscated: are the Romanians the executors of climate Greta? / Detention as an arbitrary tool / Tate is a serious professional and NOT a criminal / Why the authorities can never break Andrew

This hard-hitting exposé by leading national muckraker Martha Rosenberg blows the lid off of everything you thought you knew about Big Pharma and Big Food. What goes on behind the scenes in these industries is more suspicious, more devious, more disreputable than you could have ever imagined.Rosenberg's message is clear: the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries are tainting public health through marketing disguised as medical education and research, aggressive lobbying, and high-level conflicts of interest.If you're concerned about the safety of the drugs you take and the food you eat, you owe it to yourself to read this important book.Having gained the trust of more than twenty doctors, researchers, and experts who were willing to come forward and finally tell all, reporter and editorial cartoonist Martha Rosenberg presents us with her shocking findings. Explosive material from whistle-blowers, scientists, unsealed lawsuits, and Big Pharma's and Big Food's own marketers exposes how these industries put profits before public safety and how the government puts the interests of business before the welfare of consumers, creating a double whammy that "pimps" the public health. What Rosenberg reveals about government complicity, regulatory food- and drug-safety lapses, and legislative injustices will both shock and appall.Why have federal meat inspectors become pathetic figureheads in the nation's slaughterhouses, laughed at by plant managers? Why are medical articles that have been exposed in lawsuits as fraudulent still standing and not retracted? Why was meat possibly containing the United States' first mad cow sold to five California restaurants when the government said it wasn't? And why are parents giving their one-year-olds acid reflux medications and their three-year-olds bipolar disorder medications? You'll find the answers to these and many more disturbing questions in this revealing book.

Kristin Surak offers the first on-the-ground investigation of the global market in citizenship for the rich. She tracks the countries that sell citizenship, the elites who buy it, and the intermediaries who make the market, revealing how citizenship by investment became a popular option that now accounts for over 50,000 naturalizations annually.

The main objective of this book - New Political Parties in the Party System of Poland is to analyse and investigate new political parties that were successful in the parliamentary elections of 2011, 2015 and 2019 in Poland, as well as to analyse the Polish and Czech party systems in a comparative manner. The entry of new groups into Parliament has led to significant changes in the Polish party system, sparking discussions about business parties, populism and the role of social media in election campaigns. The book includes the following political parties: Palikot Movement, Modern, Kukiz¿15, Robert Biedrö¿s Spring and Confederation.

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the conditions under which the EU influences the legislation of German student migration policy. It examines how the EU has influenced Germany¿s student migration policy and the extent to which it has impacted local institutions, policies, and political processes. The paper also looks at the literature on the EU's impact on Member States and the limited literature on Germany's response to the EU's growing influence. The dissertation provides ideas on how to assess the relationship between the EU and Germany and examines the potential for 'venue-shopping' as a possible approach. It also discusses the disparity between Europeanization and venue shopping, and why Europeanization was chosen as a theoretical approach.

Når man er Jack Reacher, er sandheden altid værd at rejse langt for.Gerrardsville, Colorado. Én tragisk hændelse. To øjenvidner. To modstridende beskrivelser. Det ene vidne ser en kvinde kaste sig ud foran en bus – det er tydeligvis selvmord. Det andet vidne er Jack Reacher. Og han ser, hvad der i virkeligheden sker – en mand i grå hættetrøje og jeans, hurtig og tyst som en skygge, skubber offeret i døden for derefter at tage hendes taske og komme væk.Reacher følger efter morderen uden at vide, at der ikke er tale om en tilfældig voldshandling. Det er en del af noget meget større … En lyssky, hemmelig sammensværgelse med korrupte magthavere, der er viklet ind i en plan så kompliceret, at der ikke er plads til at begå fejl. Hvis der bliver begået blot et eneste fejltrin, skal truslen fjernes hurtigt og én gang for alle.For når truslen er Reacher,er der ingen plan B . . .Lee Child er en af verdens førende thrillerforfattere. Han er født i Coventry, vokset op i Birmingham og bor nu i New York. Det hævdes, at der hvert niende sekund bliver solgt en af hans romaner om Jack Reacher et sted i verden. Hans bøger ligger jævnligt på toppen af alverdens bestsellerlister og er solgt i over hundrede millioner eksemplarer. Der er foreløbig blevet produceret to store Hollywood-film om Jack Reacher.Child har modtaget mange hædersbevisninger, senest som Author of the Year ved British Book Awards 2019. Ligeledes i 2019 udnævnte dronning Elizabeth II ham til Commander of the British Empire.„Verdens foretrukne helt slår hårdere end nogensinde“– Peter James„Ingen plan B er en af de bedste bøger om Reacher i årevis.“– TheRealBookSpy„Ingen plan B er endnu et pletskud fra Lee og Andrew Child“– Richard Osman„Ingen plan B bør man ikke gå glip af. En perfekt gennemarbejdet, hæsblæsende thriller med større overraskelser end nogensinde før.“– Karin Slaughter