ilość książek w kategorii: 16904
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Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics
ISBN: 9780230019027 / Angielski / Twarda / 803 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development econ...
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603,81 |
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Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics
ISBN: 9780230019041 / Angielski / Miękka / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development economics in retrospect, the volume explores the current debates and challenges and looks forward at the problems that affect the global capacity to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
This book reflects on current thinking in development economics and on what may happen over the next two decades. As well as studying development econ...
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603,81 |
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The Theory and Practice of Local Governance and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780230500600 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comparative study of the use of partnerships and new forms of governance to achieve policy goals that promote economic and social development. In addition to a consideration of the theoretical challenges posed by these institutional developments, the book reviews recent experiences in Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
This book provides a comparative study of the use of partnerships and new forms of governance to achieve policy goals that promote economic and social...
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402,53 |
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Social Policies and Private Sector Participation in Water Supply: Beyond Regulation
ISBN: 9780230520820 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates that, when reforming the water sector, policymakers should arrange social policies that mitigate the negative impact of reforms. It presents a detailed analysis of the current issues, and uses country studies to show how social policies are vital in ensuring affordable access to water supply.
This book demonstrates that, when reforming the water sector, policymakers should arrange social policies that mitigate the negative impact of reforms...
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402,53 |
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In Defence of Labour Market Institutions: Cultivating Justice in the Developing World
ISBN: 9780230538054 / Angielski / Twarda / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though labour market regulations have been blamed for the poor economic performance of many developing countries, the evidence on which this argument rests is weak. Through a survey of different labour market institutions in developing countries, this book reaffirms the importance of labour market institutions in this era of globalization.
Though labour market regulations have been blamed for the poor economic performance of many developing countries, the evidence on which this argument ...
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402,53 |
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Climate Change and Economic Development: Sea Regional Modelling and Analysis
ISBN: 9780230542792 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on S.E. Asia, the economics of climate change and the relationship between climate change and economic development, this book examines the region's vulnerability to the impact of climate change, forecasts environmental and economic outcomes and opportunities these factors provide for policy actions towards alleviating this vulnerability.
Focusing on S.E. Asia, the economics of climate change and the relationship between climate change and economic development, this book examines the re...
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201,24 |
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Transition and Beyond
ISBN: 9780230546974 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk management, the optimal transition path, and globalization.
This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization an...
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402,53 |
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High Technology, Productivity and Networks: A Systemic Approach to SME Development
ISBN: 9780230553538 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competitors to existing SMEs. This book analyzes strategic aspects of SME development that may help to promote growth: high-tech development, productivity increase, and strengthening of linkages.
Progress in telecommunications and infrastructure, coupled with liberalization in international organizations, has introduced a number of new competit...
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402,53 |
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Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
ISBN: 9780230553576 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the world by 2015. Hunger though is not a straightforward problem of producing enough to feed the world's population; it has many cross-cutting dimensions. This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.
World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this with the resolution o...
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402,53 |
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The Flowchart Approach to Industrial Cluster Policy
ISBN: 9780230553613 / Angielski / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a theoretical framework to explain the formation and growth of economic agglomerations and industrial clusters from the viewpoint of spatial economics, and goes on to present current examples of clustering and policy in different economies.
This book provides a theoretical framework to explain the formation and growth of economic agglomerations and industrial clusters from the viewpoint o...
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402,53 |
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Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development Experience
ISBN: 9780230602205 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. This path breaking collection brings together top analysts to examine the goals and challenges facing efforts to reconstruct states that have collapsed into anarchy or have been defeated in war. Drawing on lessons from 50 years of past experience with post-conflict reconstruction and development around the world, the authors provide historical context, identify difficulties that can impede progress and recognize the realistic...
The interaction of failed states, terrorism and the need for 'nation building' is at the top of the international agenda, with particular focus on Afg...
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201,24 |
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Weak in the World of the Strong: The Developing Countries in the International System
ISBN: 9780231043380 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Crossing the Industrial Divide: State, Society, and the Politics of Economic Tranformation in Malaysia
ISBN: 9780231072120 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contrasting industrial development in late-industrializing third world countries with industrial change in advanced industrial societies, Bowie (politics, Catholic U.) shows how the structural characteristics of third world societies affect state policy choices in the industrial realm, and explores
Contrasting industrial development in late-industrializing third world countries with industrial change in advanced industrial societies, Bowie (polit...
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458,62 |
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Hemmed in: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline
ISBN: 9780231082297 / Angielski / Miękka / 573 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a critical examination of African and international responses to Africa's economic decline of the last two decades, especially the links between economics and politics.
Provides a critical examination of African and international responses to Africa's economic decline of the last two decades, especially the links betw...
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245,76 |
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Post-Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era
ISBN: 9780231106078 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but--for reasons both complex and obvious--were destined to fail. From the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir Putin, this is an intricately fascinating saga of good intentions, philosophical...
Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have ...
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203,20 |
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Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
ISBN: 9780231116176 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specific attention to the manner in which women, as the primary agents of consumption, have been affected by this transformation. Past scholarship on the culture of nationalism has largely focused on the ways in which institutions utilize memory and "history" to construct national identity. In a provocative departure, Laura C. Nelson challenges these assumptions with regard to South Korea, arguing that its identity has been as much tied to notions of...
This insightful analysis of the ways in which South Korean economic development strategies have reshaped the country's national identity gives specifi...
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176,59 |
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Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State
ISBN: 9780231118040 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this age when many trumpet the shrill fanfares of market triumphalism, few stop to ask how global political and economic restructuring is affecting impoverished states and transforming the daily lives of ordinary people. Teetering on the Rim asks just that question as it offers a critique "from below" of what has been called neoliberalism--the latest set of capitalist-inspired policies that posit "the market" as the remedy for all social and economic problems. Focusing on an impoverished city on the periphery of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, Lesley Gill examines the ways in...
In this age when many trumpet the shrill fanfares of market triumphalism, few stop to ask how global political and economic restructuring is affecting...
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512,40 |
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Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State
ISBN: 9780231118057 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this age when many trumpet the shrill fanfares of market triumphalism, few stop to ask how global political and economic restructuring is affecting impoverished states and transforming the daily lives of ordinary people. Teetering on the Rim asks just that question as it offers a critique "from below" of what has been called neoliberalism--the latest set of capitalist-inspired policies that posit "the market" as the remedy for all social and economic problems. Focusing on an impoverished city on the periphery of La Paz, the Bolivian capital, Lesley Gill examines the ways in...
In this age when many trumpet the shrill fanfares of market triumphalism, few stop to ask how global political and economic restructuring is affecting...
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203,20 |
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Undermining Development: The Absence of Power Among Local NGO's in Africa
ISBN: 9780253217721 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why haven t development programs sponsored by local NGOs been more effective in Africa? In this careful study of NGOs in three African countries Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Senegal Sarah Michael exposes reasons why successful, well-run, and powerful development programs are infrequent in Africa. Michael s argument focuses on issues of power. NGOs in Africa do not command the financial resources, employ the professional staff, or have the same access to donors that NGOs in other parts of the world enjoy. Main topics covered in this probing book include: What does a powerful NGO look like? How... Why haven t development programs sponsored by local NGOs been more effective in Africa? In this careful study of NGOs in three African countries Zi... |
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Markets or Governments: Choosing between Imperfect Alternatives
ISBN: 9780262731041 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A theory of market failures is well established in economics, but the same has not been true for the study of nonmarket failures. Markets or Governments remedies this situation by providing a formal theory of nonmarket failure, analyzing such problems as redundant costs, monopoly, frequency of unanticipated externalities, and bureaucracy in such nonmarket institutions as foundations, universities, and government. This new edition updates the data and results contained in the first edition and includes references and applications of the theory to the ongoing process of system transformation... A theory of market failures is well established in economics, but the same has not been true for the study of nonmarket failures. Markets or Govern... |
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