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A Postcapitalist Politics
ISBN: 9780816648047 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued follow-up to their book The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), J. K. Gibson-Graham offer already existing alternatives to a global capitalist order and outline strategies for building alternative economies. A Postcapitalist Politics reveals a prolific landscape of economic diversity--one that is not exclusively or predominantly capitalist--and examines the challenges and successes of alternative economic interventions. Gibson-Graham bring together political economy, feminist poststructuralism, and economic activism...
Is there life after capitalism? In this creatively argued follow-up to their book The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), J. K. Gibson-Graham o...
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114,06 zł |
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Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s
ISBN: 9780821318164 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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122,97 zł |
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The World Bank Glossary/Glosario del Banco Mundial: English-Spanish, Spanish-English/Ingles-Espanol, Espanol-Ingles
ISBN: 9780821335956 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This glossary is intended to assist the World Bank's translators and interpreters and others in the Bank and the development community who use Spanish in their work. It contains financial and economic terminology and terms relating to the Bank's procedures and practices. The glossary includes translations for terms that frequently occur in Bank documents and others for which the Bank has a preferred equivalent. The first section provides translations from English to Spanish, and the second from Spanish to English.
This glossary is intended to assist the World Bank's translators and interpreters and others in the Bank and the development community who use Spanish...
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335,36 zł |
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Trade Policy Reform: Lessons and Implications
ISBN: 9780821339831 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains a series of papers presented at the final conference sponsored by the Trade Expansion Program (TEP). The first chapter provides an overview of some of the lessons learned from the TEP's experience, among others, that trade policy reform is facilitated by the macroeconomic stability, even, though the last one, not necessarily needs a full attainment; that trade policy reform will only prove worthy when foreign exchange mechanisms are properly allocated; that trade reforms induce a self-sustaining behavior due to the credibility of such reforms; that the fiscal impact...
This book contains a series of papers presented at the final conference sponsored by the Trade Expansion Program (TEP). The first chapter provides an ...
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170,84 zł |
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The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor
ISBN: 9780821345245 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around the world, a revolution is occurring in finance for low-income people. The microfinance revolution is delivering financial services to the economically active poor on a large scale through competing, financially self-sufficient institutions. In a few countries this has already happened; in others it is under way. The emerging microfinance industry has profound implications for social and economic development. For the first time in history, capital is well on its way to being democratized. 'The Microfinance Revolution', in three volumes, is aimed at a diverse readership - economists,...
Around the world, a revolution is occurring in finance for low-income people. The microfinance revolution is delivering financial services to the econ...
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194,76 zł |
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Principles of Health Economics for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780821345719 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health indicators in developing countries have shown significant improvement in the last 50 years. People are living longer, fewer children and their mothers die in childbirth, and many diseases have been controlled and some eliminated. However, the health status of individuals in these countries remains below its potential level, and many people lack access to suitable health care and health-promoting services. There is still much to be achieved in the promotion of health care and well-being of individuals in the developing world. In recent years, the efficient and equitable provision of...
Health indicators in developing countries have shown significant improvement in the last 50 years. People are living longer, fewer children and their ...
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197,76 zł |
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment Into Infrastructure: Why is It So Difficult?
ISBN: 9780821346020 / Angielski / Miękka / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the early 1990s, the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), a joint facility of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), found that governments and foreign investors alike were concerned and frustrated about difficulties in successfully implementing private infrastructure projects. Governments were trying to attract these new types of investment without having established an appropriate policy framework. Therefore, there were no institutional structures to resolve impediments effectively and provide clear guidelines for the award of such large-scale...
During the early 1990s, the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), a joint facility of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (...
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122,97 zł |
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The Right to Tell: The Role of Mass Media in Economic Development
ISBN: 9780821352038 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An independent press is essential to sound and equitable economic development. The media helps to give a voice to the poor and the disenfranchised. An independent press also provides a solid foundation for a free and transparent society. 'The Right to Tell' contains an outstanding list of contributors from Nobel Prize winner and former World Bank chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz to Robert J. Shiller author of 'Irrational Exuberance', and Nobel Prize winner and novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Contributors to this volume explore the role of the media as a watchdog of government and the...
An independent press is essential to sound and equitable economic development. The media helps to give a voice to the poor and the disenfranchised. An...
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194,76 zł |
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Taxation of Financial Intermediation: Theory and Practice for Emerging Economies
ISBN: 9780821354346 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the possibilities and pitfalls to successful financial sector tax reform from theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives. It explores the possibilities and limitations of 'big ideas' such as removal of all capital income taxation, the application of VAT to financial services or heavy reliance on financial transactions taxes. The risks of attempting to use financial sector taxes as corrective instruments are stressed. Two defensive criteria are advanced as key: making the financial tax system as arbitrage- and inflation-proof as is practicable. Each commissioned...
This volume examines the possibilities and pitfalls to successful financial sector tax reform from theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives. ...
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212,67 zł |
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Tax Expenditures--Shedding Light on Government Spending Through the Tax System: Lessons from Developed and Transition Economies
ISBN: 9780821356012 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Properly used tax expenditures can play an important role in implementing countries' economic and social policies. But they often go unnoticed because they take many forms of revenue forgone, from tax exemptions to tax credits. Without subjecting tax expenditures to the same scrutiny most countries apply to the spending sides of their budgets it is impossible to know the cost and efficiency of tax expenditures or whether they might be better allocated. 'Tax Expenditure Shedding Light on Government Spending Through the Tax System' discusses conceptual and methodological issues relating to tax...
Properly used tax expenditures can play an important role in implementing countries' economic and social policies. But they often go unnoticed because...
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163,53 zł |
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Toward Country-Led Development: A Multi-Partner Evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework
ISBN: 9780821356432 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) launched by World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn in early 1999 has become an important influence on the global development agenda. The CDF consists of four principles a Long-Term, Holistic Development Framework; Results Orientation; Country Ownership; and Country Led-Partnership. These core principles are not new individually, but bringing them together as a unified concept and championing the package within the global development community has been an important innovation. This evaluation, conducted by multi-disciplinary teams with members...
The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) launched by World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn in early 1999 has become an important influence on ...
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70,71 zł |
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Measuring Social Capital: An Integrated Questionnaire
ISBN: 9780821356616 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea of social capital has enjoyed a remarkable rise to prominence in both the theoretical and applied social science literature over the last decade. While lively debate has accompanied that journey, thereby helping to advance our thinking and clarifying areas of agreement and disagreement, much still remains to be done. One approach that could help bring further advances for both scholars and practitioners is providing a set of empirical tools for measuring social capital. The purpose of this paper is to introduce such a tool with a focus on applications in developing countries. The...
The idea of social capital has enjoyed a remarkable rise to prominence in both the theoretical and applied social science literature over the last dec...
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119,97 zł |
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WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS 04 CDROM SINGLE USER
ISBN: 9780821357309 / Angielski / CD-ROM Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World Development Indicators 2004 allows you to consult over 800 indicators for 152 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. The book provides a current overview of the most recent data available as well as important regional data and income group analysis in six thematic chapters: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The CD-ROM editions contain 42 years of time series data for more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 to 2002, and offers mapping, charting and data export formats.
World Development Indicators 2004 allows you to consult over 800 indicators for 152 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. The book p...
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1624,90 zł |
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A Sourcebook of Hiv/AIDS Prevention Programs
ISBN: 9780821357576 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 1. This Sourcebook aims to support efforts by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was developed in response to numerous requests for a simple forum to help countries share their practical experiences of designing and implementing programs that are targeted at school-age children. The Sourcebook seeks to fulfill this role by providing concise summaries of programs, using a standard format that highlights the main elements of the programs and makes it easier to compare the programs with each other. A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention...
Volume 1. This Sourcebook aims to support efforts by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was de...
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215,41 zł |
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Fiscal Incentives for Investment and Innovation
ISBN: 9780821359020 / Angielski / Miękka / 742 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing countries continue to make widespread use of tax policy instruments to promote industrial and technological development. The actual effect of these instruments on business activity and government revenues, however, remains an open question. This volume takes an important first step in quantifying the investment incentives on business decisions related to production and investment. In addition, the book suggests the consequences of such incentives for government revenues. It will be of interest to students and scholars of public finance, industrial organization, and developmental...
Developing countries continue to make widespread use of tax policy instruments to promote industrial and technological development. The actual effect ...
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190,83 zł |
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Gender, Conflict, and Development
ISBN: 9780821359686 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Gender, Conflict, and Development' was written as an effort to fill a gap between the Bank's work on gender mainstreaming and its agenda in conflict and development. The authors identify a link between gender and conflict issues and provide the most comprehensive review of external and internal sources on gender and conflict, with a particular focus on policy relevance for an institution such as the Bank. The book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organized around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal...
'Gender, Conflict, and Development' was written as an effort to fill a gap between the Bank's work on gender mainstreaming and its agenda in conflict ...
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122,97 zł |
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Conditionality Revisited: Concepts, Experiences, and Lessons
ISBN: 9780821360132 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why revisit conditionality? The tension between country ownership and conditionality emerged as a central issue in the debates about policy-based lending. Over the past quarter century, the development community has learned from the experience with policy-based lending around the world. Among the most important lessons are that conditionality cannot substitute ownership. The approach to conditionality has shifted away from the old model of the 1980s, but has not yet settled on a new one. While there is now generally more recognition of the importance of ownership, a stronger focus on...
Why revisit conditionality? The tension between country ownership and conditionality emerged as a central issue in the debates about policy-based lend...
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141,69 zł |
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World Development Indicators Single-user CD-ROM
ISBN: 9780821360729 / Angielski / CD-ROM Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A current overview of data as well as regional data and income group analysis in six chapters: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The CD-ROM editions contain 43 years of time series data for countries and country groups, covering 1960 to 2003, and offers mapping, charting and data export formats001
A current overview of data as well as regional data and income group analysis in six chapters: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Ma...
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1624,90 zł |
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Self-Assessment in Managing for Results: Conducting Self-Assessment for Development Practitioners
ISBN: 9780821361481 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The global development community is increasingly recognizing the need to better manage for results, to implement development assistance to achieve results on the ground. This in turn has highlighted the strategic value of performance information at the operational level. The challenges are to provide quality and timely information for decision-making at critical points, and to help development practitioners incorporate the use of outcome information into their business practices. Evaluative exercises help meet these challenges by providing information on outcomes achieved, examining the...
The global development community is increasingly recognizing the need to better manage for results, to implement development assistance to achieve res...
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48,87 zł |
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Miniatlas of Millennium Development Goals: Building a Better World
ISBN: 9780821361757 / Angielski / Twarda / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The greatest challenge of the 21st century is to provide every human being on the planet with a long, healthy, and fulfilling life, free of poverty and full of opportunities to participate in the life of their community. The Millennium Development Goals - signed by 189 countries in 2000 - set clear targets for reducing poverty and other sources of human deprivation and for promoting sustainable development. But how far are we towards meeting these goals? And what resources are needed to help those countries that are not on track? The third volume in the miniatlas series is an at-a-glance...
The greatest challenge of the 21st century is to provide every human being on the planet with a long, healthy, and fulfilling life, free of poverty an...
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48,87 zł |