wyszukanych pozycji: 1629
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Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future
ISBN: 9781464804793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is compatible with countries' broader development goals. Here is what needs to be done: -Act early with an eye on the end-goal. To best achieve a given reduction in emissions in 2030 depends on whether...
The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep clim...
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167,87 |
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Global Financial Development Report 2019/2020: Bank Regulation and Supervision a Decade After the Global Financial Crisis
ISBN: 9781464814471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Climate Change and the World Bank Group: Phase I - An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms
ISBN: 9780821378502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Kenneth Chomitz was the evaluation manager and main author for this study"--P. xiii.
"Kenneth Chomitz was the evaluation manager and main author for this study"--P. xiii.
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Argentine Youth: An Untapped Potential?
ISBN: 9780821379240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Argentina's youth--6.7 million between the ages of 15 and 24--are an important, but to a certain extent untapped, resource for development. Over 2 million (31 percent) have already engaged in risky behaviors, and another 1 million (15 percent) are exposed to risk factors that are correlated with eventual risky behaviors. This totals 46 percent of youth at some form of risk. This book addresses the risks faced by youth in Argentina such as low education attainment, unemployment, teenage pregnancy, use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, becoming victims of crime, and low level of civic...
Argentina's youth--6.7 million between the ages of 15 and 24--are an important, but to a certain extent untapped, resource for development. Over 2 mil...
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Women with Attitude: Lessons for Career Management
ISBN: 9780415287425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book answers all the questions you ve ever wanted to ask top-ranking women directors: How did they make it to the top? What do they think of their success? How does it affect their lives? It brings individual stories of accomplishment together with expert research into the emergence of women entrepreneurs, aspects of leadership, and the politics of breaking into the boardroom. Here, nineteen top-achieving businesswomen tell the stories of their career success. A groundbreaking study of women in management, entrepreneurship and the politics of leadership, it includes... This book answers all the questions you ve ever wanted to ask top-ranking women directors: How did they make it to the top? What do they think of t... |
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Global Development Finance 2012
ISBN: 9780821389973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Global Development Finance 2012: External Debt of Developing Countries is a continuation of the World Bank's publications Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996). As in previous years, GDF 2012 provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 129 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS). It also includes tables of key debt ratios for individual reporting countries and the composition of external debt stocks and flows for...
Global Development Finance 2012: External Debt of Developing Countries is a continuation of the World Bank's publications Global Development Finance, ...
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Opportunities for environmentally healthy, inclusive, and resilient growth in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
ISBN: 9781464813573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula faces growing risks from environmental hazards. Oil spills, hurricanes, coral bleaching, extreme flooding, and erosion have all been experienced over the past decade. This report explores selected topics that aim to inform decision-making in the region.
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula faces growing risks from environmental hazards. Oil spills, hurricanes, coral bleaching, extreme flooding, and erosion have...
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The Economics of Water Scarcity in Middle East and North Africa: Institutional Solutions
ISBN: 9781464817397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria: Social Critique and an Artistic Movement
ISBN: 9780367244781 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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762,24 |
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Textbooks and School Library Provision in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9780821373446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study is based on research on secondary textbook and school library provision in Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Togo, as well as existing recent country reports on textbook provision and an extensive desk research. Considerable variations exist in Sub-Saharan African textbook requirements needed to meet secondary curriculum specifications just as significant differences exist between and within countries in regard to the average price of recommended textbooks. Some countries have no approved textbooks list. This World Bank Working Paper...
This study is based on research on secondary textbook and school library provision in Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda,...
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World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development
ISBN: 9780821388105 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The lives of women around the world have improved dramatically, at a pace and scope diffi cult to imagine even 25 years ago. Women have made unprecedented gains in rights, education, health, and access to jobs and livelihoods. More countries than ever guarantee equal rights in property, marriage, and other domains. Gendergaps in primary schooling have closed in many countries, while in a third of all countries girls now outnumber boys in secondary school. And more young women than men attend universities in 60 countries. Women are using their education to participate more in the labor force:...
The lives of women around the world have improved dramatically, at a pace and scope diffi cult to imagine even 25 years ago. Women have made unprecede...
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Rages & Rubies
ISBN: 9798305494150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Strategic Environmental Assessment in Policy and Sector Reform: Conceptual Model and Operational Guidance
ISBN: 9780821385593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents the findings and recommendations of the evaluation of the World Bank's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Pilot Program. It shows that SEA can contribute to improving development policy and sector reform by calling attention to environmental and social priorities, strengthening constituencies, enhancing policy capacities, and improving social accountability. It also provides guidance for undertaking SEA in policy and sector reform. Although it acknowledges the need for tailoring SEA to the context of specific sectors and countries, the book discusses in detail and...
This book presents the findings and recommendations of the evaluation of the World Bank's Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Pilot Program. It s...
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Managing Public Debt: From Diagnostics to Reform Implementation
ISBN: 9780821368725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. High-quality public debt management plays a critical role in reducing the vulnerability of developing countries to financial crises. With sound risk and cash management, effective coordination with fiscal and monetary policy, good governance, and adequate institutional and staff capacity in place, governments can develop and implement effective medium-term debt management strategies. 'Managing Public Debt: From Diagnostics to Reform Implementation' draws insights from a joint pilot program set up by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to design relevant reform and capacity-building...
High-quality public debt management plays a critical role in reducing the vulnerability of developing countries to financial crises. With sound risk a...
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Innovation Policy: A Guide for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780821382691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing social well-being in all economies of the world. In a broad and diversified sense, innovation comprises not only the creation of new technology, but even more important, it includes the diffusion and use of products, processes, and practices that are new in a given country context. Inspired by the experiences of both industrial and developing countries, this book focuses on the needs and issues of the latter. Aiming at creating a climate in which...
Innovation in all its forms, particularly technological innovation, has become a crucial driver of growth, enhancing competitiveness and increasing so...
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International Debt Report 2024
ISBN: 9781464821486 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Anticorruption in Transition: A Contribution to the Policy Debate
ISBN: 9780821348024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The old Russian saying of 'kto kovo' (Who will get whom?) has become 'kem skhvachena eto?' (Who has captured this?) under the new transition economy. Instead of one major figure, such as a Stalin or Lenin, vanquishing lesser personages to advance their political aims, many people are taking over corporations to increase their market domination. Their methods are no less brutal, ruthless, or corrupt. In turn, corporations are 'capturing' the state to influence legislation and regulation to their advantage. The advantages for the corporations create disadvantages for the general public and the...
The old Russian saying of 'kto kovo' (Who will get whom?) has become 'kem skhvachena eto?' (Who has captured this?) under the new transition economy. ...
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Financing Higher Education in Africa
ISBN: 9780821383346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The training and development of human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will help countries in the region diversify their economies, carry out economic transformation, and support sustainable growth. Higher education plays a key role in training qualified individuals who will be able to implement new technologies and use innovative methods to establish cost-efficient and effective enterprises and institutions. However, in order for SSA to reap the benefits of this investment in human capital, higher education institutions must secure financing to provide quality training and sound...
The training and development of human capital in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will help countries in the region diversify their economies, carry out econo...
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Building a Sustainable Future: The Africa Region Environment Strategy
ISBN: 9780821351468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Africa, most especially Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank's mission, to fight poverty, is strongly linked with environmental protection and better management of renewable natural resources. In both rural and urban areas, the poor of Africa are impacted by the loss of natural resources and environmental services. They are also at the highest risk from natural disasters--most particularly floods and drought. This environmental strategy report identifies the current thinking of the Africa region within the World Bank Group. It helps detail the World Bank's commitment to assist African...
In Africa, most especially Sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank's mission, to fight poverty, is strongly linked with environmental protection and better...
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108,80 |