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Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention
ISBN: 9780821380505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 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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222,44 zł |
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Where Is the Value in the Chain?
ISBN: 9781464818813 / Miękka / 2022 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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184,59 zł |
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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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121,70 zł |
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Ict in Agriculture (Updated Edition): Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
ISBN: 9781464810022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 459 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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223,16 zł |
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022
ISBN: 9781464818936 / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,90 zł |
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Cities on the Move: A World Bank Urban Transport Strategy Review
ISBN: 9780821351482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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168,00 zł |
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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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100,49 zł |
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Sunken Billions Revisited: Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries
ISBN: 9781464809194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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195,51 zł |
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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. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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184,59 zł |
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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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327,90 zł |
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International Debt Statistics 2023
ISBN: 9781464819025 / Miękka / 2022 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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209,79 zł |
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The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform
ISBN: 9780821377901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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158,89 zł |
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Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2018: Piecing Together the Poverty Puzzle
ISBN: 9781464813306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This report will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policy makers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with the latest and most accurate estimates on trends in global poverty and shared prosperity.
This report will inform a global audience comprising development practitioners, policy makers, researchers, advocates, and citizens in general with th...
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180,02 zł |
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Anticorruption in Transition: A Contribution to the Policy Debate
ISBN: 9780821348024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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121,70 zł |
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International Debt Statistics 2017
ISBN: 9781464809941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This year's edition of International Debt Statistics, successor to Global Development Finance and World Debt Tables, and the fourth in the series, is designed to respond to user demand for timely, comprehensive data on trends in external debt in low- and middle-income countries. It also provides summary information on the external debt of high-income countries and public (domestic and external) debt for a select group of countries. International Debt Statistics 2017 provides a summary overview and a select set of indicators, while an expanded dataset is available online...
This year's edition of International Debt Statistics, successor to Global Development Finance and World Debt Tables, and the fourth in the series, is ...
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339,36 zł |
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Innovation Policy: A Guide for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780821382691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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212,10 zł |
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Integration of Revenue Administration: A Comparative Study of International Experience
ISBN: 9780821385241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 45 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In order to minimize the need for taxpayers to respond to multiple revenue agencies, some countries have integrated their revenue administrations, either by merging tax and customs administration, or unifying collection of tax and social contributions. This book examines the experience of 11 countries in doing so. Their experiences indicate that integrating collection entails modernizing the revenue administration and reducing contact between the tax office and taxpayers, thanks to the extensive use of ICT.
In order to minimize the need for taxpayers to respond to multiple revenue agencies, some countries have integrated their revenue administrations, eit...
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94,50 zł |
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Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s
ISBN: 9780821318164 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Rapid demographic growth will add 600 million people to cities and towns in developing countries during the 1990s, about two-thirds of the expected total population increase. Of the world's 21 megacities, which will expand to have more than 10 million people, 17 will be in developing countries. With urban economic activities making up an increasing share of GDP in all countries, the productivity of the urban economy will heavily influence economic growth.This paper analyzes the fiscal, financial, and real sector linkages between urban economic activities andmacroeconomic performance. It...
Rapid demographic growth will add 600 million people to cities and towns in developing countries during the 1990s, about two-thirds of the expected to...
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120,96 zł |
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International Trade and Climate Change: Economic, Legal, and Institutional Perspectives
ISBN: 9780821372258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Climate change remains a global challenge requiring international collaborative action. Another area where countries have successfully committed to a long-term multilateral resolution is the liberalization of international trade. Integration into the world economy has proven a powerful means for countries to promote economic growth, development, and poverty reduction. The broad objectives of the betterment of current and future human welfare are shared by both global trade and climate regimes. Yet both climate and trade agendas have evolved largely independently through the years, despite...
Climate change remains a global challenge requiring international collaborative action. Another area where countries have successfully committed to a ...
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123,90 zł |
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Peru: Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-09
ISBN: 9780821385722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009 is part of IEG's country program evaluation series. To date, IEG's in-depth country evaluations have comprised IEG-WB Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs) and IEG-IFC Country Impact Reviews (CIRs). Both the CAEs and CIRs have involved comprehensive evaluations of the respective institutions' activities in a country. In a pilot approach, this evaluation was prepared by a single IEG team that looked at development interventions across the three WBG institutions. The evaluation draws on WBG documents, external literature,...
This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group, 2003-2009 is part of IEG's country program evaluation series. To date, IEG's in-depth c...
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116,39 zł |
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