Citizenship by investment and residence by investment are forms of acquiring citizenship and residence due to an injection of money into a country. Born in the Caribbean, the practice of selling citizenship arrived in Europe and has sparked particular attention in the case of Malta. However, more than 20 Member States have residence by investment schemes in their legislation. In recent years, European institutions have argued against citizenship by investment, that these programs lack a ge...

China is currently the front-runner on the global crowdfunding market, even though this form of financing originated in the USA. Crowdfunding in China, however, differs significantly from its counterpart in the West. This book reveals that Chinese crowdfunding is a product of the country’s dynamic internet sector, which is based on mobile internet, e-commerce, and online/mobile payments, together with significant government support. The author presents a comprehensive theoretical, empirica...

New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman declared the modern age in which we live as the ’age of distraction’ in 2006. The basis of his argument was that technology has changed the ways in which our minds function and our capacity to dedicate ourselves to any particular task. Others assert that our attention spans and ability to learn have been changed and that the use of media devices has become essential to many people’s daily lives and indeed the impulse to use technology is h...