Financing Sustainable Development: Key Challenges and Prospects

This book is among the first to address the issue of assessing the efficiency of sustainable development financing from a theoretical and methodical point of view. The innovative nature of research is expressed through the study of new phenomena in finance including sustainable financial systems, sustainable finance, ESG risk and individual and institutional motivations of financial managers in the sustainability concept. The book aims to draw attention to the significant gap in the existing research.The concept of Sustainable Development, if placed in an economic category, requires a lot of attention, but seeing the cognitive category from the perspective of the discipline of finance, the latter is unsatisfactory, with questions remaining unanswered. At the same time, the rank problem, its strategic dimension and the amount of financial resources allocated and disbursed for the purposes of focusing around sustainable development, identification of financial phenomena accompanyingthis category is seen as a priority.  Most measures financing Sustainable Development and measures of public spending efficiency are measures subject to rigor and rules due to their specificity, which means actions aimed at increasing efficiency are treated as a priority.  This book will be of interest to leading representatives of academia, practitioners, executives, officials, and graduate students in economics, finance, management, statistics, law and political sciences.

Magdalena Ziolo is Associate Professor, PhD at University of Szczecin, Poland. Her research and teaching scope focus on finance, banking and sustainability. She has received scholarships from the Dekaban-Liddle Foundation (University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2013) and Impakt Erasmus + (Ulan Bator, Mongolia, 2017). She is a member of State Quality Council, Kosovo Accreditation Agency. Her achievements encompass more than 120 reviewed papers and academic books.

Bruno S. Sergi is an Instructor at Harvard University, an Associate of the Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He is the series editor of the Cambridge Elements in the Economics of Emerging Markets. Concurrently, he teaches International Economics at the University of Messina, Italy, and is a cofounder and Scientific Director of the International Center for Emerging Markets Research at RUDN University in Moscow. He has published over150 articles in professional journals and several books as author, coauthor, editor and co-editor.