wyszukanych pozycji: 433
Ict in Agriculture (Updated Edition): Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
ISBN: 9781464810022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity, to enhance food and nutrition security, to access markets, and to find employment opportunities in a revitalized sector. ICT has unleashed incredible potential to improve agriculture, and it has found a foothold even in poor smallholder farms. ICT in Agriculture, Updated Edition is the revised... Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught... |
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231,53 zł |
Global Development Finance: External Debt of Developing Countries - audiobook
ISBN: 9780821382318 / Angielski / CD-ROM / 2010 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'Global Development Finance 2010 (Single User CD-ROM)' provides you with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2008, and country group estimates for 2009. Data is available for over 130 countries that report under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System, as well as summary data for regions and income groups. It contains data on total external debt stocks and flows, aggregates, and key debt ratios, and provides a detailed, country-by-country picture of debt. The CD-ROM system requires Windows 98 or NT 4.0 or later, 20 MB of available hard disk space, 32 MB of RAM, and 2 MB of video...
'Global Development Finance 2010 (Single User CD-ROM)' provides you with more than 200 historical time series from 1970 to 2008, and country group est...
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337,65 zł |
International Debt Statistics 2023
ISBN: 9781464819025 / Miękka / 2022 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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217,65 zł |
The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform
ISBN: 9780821377901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform' shows the difference between the potential and actual net economic benefits from marine fisheries is about $50 billion per year, or some $2 trillion over the last three decades. If fish stocks were rebuilt, the current marine catch could be achieved with approximately half the current global fishing effort. This illustrates the massive overcapacity of the global fleet. The excess competition for the limited fish resources results in declining productivity, economic inefficiency, and depressed fisher incomes. The focus on...
'The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform' shows the difference between the potential and actual net economic benefits fro...
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164,61 zł |
Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention
ISBN: 9780821380505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but each exposes actions by individuals and governments at different levels that, had they been different, would have resulted in fewer deaths and less damage. Prevention is possible, and this book examines what it takes to do this cost-effectively. It looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens. Economists emphasize self-interest to explain how people choose the amount of prevention,...
Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omiss...
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234,51 zł |
Cities on the Move: A World Bank Urban Transport Strategy Review
ISBN: 9780821351482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The urban population in many developing countries continues to grow at more than six percent per year. The number of cities with a population of over 10 million inhabitants is expected to double within a generation. More importantly, within a generation, more than half of the developing world's population and between a third and one-half of its poor, will then reside in cities. Not only will the number of inhabitants in cities continue to increase but the problems associated with an increasing urban population will be exacerbated.
The urban population in many developing countries continues to grow at more than six percent per year. The number of cities with a population of over ...
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174,07 zł |
Where Is the Value in the Chain?
ISBN: 9781464818813 / Miękka / 2022 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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191,51 zł |
Reforming Public Institutions and Strengthening Governance: A World Bank Strategy
ISBN: 9780821348758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Poorly functioning public sector institutions and weak governance are major impediments to growth and equitable development in many developing countries. The topic is important because of its centrality to development. This strategy paper reviews the World Bank's recent work on governance, public sector institutional reform, and capacity building, particularly in core public institutions. The agenda for the next three years is to continue to foster changes through the advancement of analytic tools, new approaches to the design of lending operations, expanded emphasis on partnership with...
Poorly functioning public sector institutions and weak governance are major impediments to growth and equitable development in many developing countri...
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125,31 zł |
Sunken Billions Revisited: Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries
ISBN: 9781464809194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This report updates previous studies that measured in economic terms the extent of biological losses attributable to overfishing globally. The new estimates assess these 'sunken billions' at $83 billion annually. The report further shows that a clear path can lead to the recovery of these considerable losses, including through significant reduction in global fishing overcapacity. A breakdown between regions is also included, showing that the effort needed to achieve this reform will not be felt equally throughout the world. While the cost of such reform will likely be high, the expected...
This report updates previous studies that measured in economic terms the extent of biological losses attributable to overfishing globally. The new est...
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202,84 zł |
Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022
ISBN: 9781464818936 / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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215,70 zł |
Urban Water Supply and Sanitation
ISBN: 9780821344620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. India's economic policies are aimed at increasing economic growth, improving market efficiency and competitiveness, and integrating the Indian economy with global markets. Much of the population and industrial growth is expected to occur in urban centers. Consequently, the demands on the urban water supply and sanitation sector (UWSS), will be great. 'Urban Water Supply and Sanitation' states the UWSS sector needs urgent attention both to meet these new demands and to ensure that all city-dwellers have access to basic services at reasonable costs.This book outlines the way forward which...
India's economic policies are aimed at increasing economic growth, improving market efficiency and competitiveness, and integrating the Indian economy...
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103,47 zł |
Reimagining Education in East Asia and Pacific in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
ISBN: 9781464819049 / Miękka / 2023 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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191,51 zł |
Violence without Borders: The Internationalization of Crime and Conflict
ISBN: 9781464814525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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231,53 zł |
Global Economic Prospects, January 2022
ISBN: 9781464817588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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211,34 zł |
Changing Wealth of Nations 2020: From Accounting to Managing Wealth
ISBN: 9781464815904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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263,63 zł |
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017: From World Development Indicators
ISBN: 9781464810800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 uses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people's lives Given the breadth and scope of the SDGs, the editors have been selective, emphasizing issues considered important by experts in the World Bank's Global Practices and Cross Cutting Solution Areas.... The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 uses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to ... |
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173,58 zł |
Poor Places, Thriving People: How the Middle East and North Africa Can Rise Above Spatial Disparities
ISBN: 9780821383216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Geographical differences in living standards are a pressing concern for policymakers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Economies of agglomeration mean that production is most efficient when concentrated in leading areas. So how can the region reduce spatial disparities in well-being without compromising growth? The solution to spatial disparities lies in matching the policy package to a lagging area's specific characteristics. Key questions include: is the lagging area problem really as serious as one thinks; is it a problem of low economic opportunity or of poor human development;...
Geographical differences in living standards are a pressing concern for policymakers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Economies of agglomer...
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219,82 zł |
Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care After Covid-19
ISBN: 9781464817687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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191,51 zł |
Managing Public Debt: From Diagnostics to Reform Implementation
ISBN: 9780821368725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 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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122,21 zł |