ilość książek w kategorii: 16887
Economic Growth with Equity: Challenges for Latin America
ISBN: 9780230018938 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak. This volume focuses on growth-with-equity, and is written by an outstanding group of Latin American and international researchers and policy-makers.
This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a pe...
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385,52 zł |
Cultural Influences on Economic Analysis Cultural Influences on Economic Analysis: Theory and Empirical Evidence Theory and Empirical Evidence
ISBN: 9780230018990 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the influences of various cultural factors on economic analyses that could be misrepresented by existing economic theories. Most significantly, the book measures the cultural diversity and bilateral similarity indexes of the existing 200 or more countries and regions, and quantifies their impacts on economic activities.
This book examines the influences of various cultural factors on economic analyses that could be misrepresented by existing economic theories. Most si...
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385,52 zł |
Development, Civil Society and Faith-Based Organizations: Bridging the Sacred and the Secular
ISBN: 9780230020016 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting democracy. It argues that greater engagement with faith communities and organizations is needed, and questions traditional secularism that has underpinned development policy and practice in the North.
This book examines the role of faith-based organizations in managing international aid, providing services, defending human rights and protecting demo...
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385,52 zł |
India, China and Globalization: The Emerging Superpowers and the Future of Economic Development
ISBN: 9780230500518 / Angielski / Twarda / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The momentum of economic progress in India and China will bring about the next major shift in geopolitics. This book analyzes the economic experience of both countries in the context of development and globalization, and offers insights that could be crucial for development thinking.
The momentum of economic progress in India and China will bring about the next major shift in geopolitics. This book analyzes the economic experience ...
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385,52 zł |
Effective Environmental Management in Developing Countries: Assessing Social Capacity Development
ISBN: 9780230542761 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates how environmental qualities can be managed through social capacity development in developing countries. To this end, the book proposes a concept of social capacity assessment (SCA) and presents empirical tools for the SCA which can be used for the analysis in developing countries. This book also presents applications of the SCA for other problems under scrutiny in developing countries, including poverty reduction, infrastructure management and protection of endangered species.
This book investigates how environmental qualities can be managed through social capacity development in developing countries. To this end, the book p...
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192,74 zł |
Democracy and Social Policy
ISBN: 9780230546950 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic development is a necessary but not sufficient condition for welfare development. This book examines complex relations between democracy and social policy and the conditions under which democratic regimes can deliver adequate social protection to citizens as well as how social policy aids democratic consolidation.
Economic development is a necessary but not sufficient condition for welfare development. This book examines complex relations between democracy and s...
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385,52 zł |
Global Sustainability: Social and Environmental Conditions
ISBN: 9780230546967 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how consistent the post-war process of globalization has been with the basic requisites of sustainable development. It argues that the polarization of public opinion into support of either globalization or sustainable development has not helped an understanding of the issues, and that the confrontation should be abandoned.
This book examines how consistent the post-war process of globalization has been with the basic requisites of sustainable development. It argues that ...
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385,52 zł |
Medical Tourism in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780230600065 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market.
Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills a...
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192,74 zł |
Pricing the Planet
ISBN: 9780231101745 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scientists, economists, planners, energy specialists, and other professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and information. Bringing together the views discussed at the corresponding International Symposium and Exhibit of Environmental Technologies (ECOTECH)--an official event sponsored by the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Industry, Commerce, and Science Technology of Brazil--Pricing the Planet addresses our ecological future...
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scie...
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690,73 zł |
Pricing the Planet: Economic Analysis for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780231101752 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scientists, economists, planners, energy specialists, and other professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and information. Bringing together the views discussed at the corresponding International Symposium and Exhibit of Environmental Technologies (ECOTECH)--an official event sponsored by the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Industry, Commerce, and Science Technology of Brazil--Pricing the Planet addresses our ecological future...
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scie...
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161,91 zł |
Valuing the Future: Economic Theory and Sustainability
ISBN: 9780231113076 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With issues like global warming and the loss of biodiversity becoming increasingly important to policymakers and scientists worldwide, the issue of sustainability cannot be ignored as we move toward the twenty-first century. Not surprisingly, the sustainable management of the biosphere has in recent years been the subject of much attention among ecologists, environmental engineers, and other members of the scientific community. Yet although these issues are clearly rooted in economic behavior and organization, the question of sustainability is not one that has been addressed directly by...
With issues like global warming and the loss of biodiversity becoming increasingly important to policymakers and scientists worldwide, the issue of su...
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188,90 zł |
The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment
ISBN: 9780231127981 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book, Robert Nadeau demonstrates that the claim that neoclassical economics is a science comparable to the physical sciences is totally bogus and that our failure to recognize and deal with this fact constitutes the greatest single barrier to the timely resolution of the crisis in the global...
Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both busine...
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296,84 zł |
China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads
ISBN: 9780231141925 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's increasing role in global economic affairs has placed the country at a crossroads: how many and what types of international capital-market transactions will China permit? How will China's financial system change internally? What kind of relationships will the Chinese government develop with foreign financial institutions, especially with those based in the United States? Can China broker a sustainable partnership with America that will avoid sending economic shock waves throughout the world? Drawing on the contemporary research of prominent international scholars, the experts in...
China's increasing role in global economic affairs has placed the country at a crossroads: how many and what types of international capital-market tra...
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334,61 zł |
UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice
ISBN: 9780253216847 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last half century. The authors, all prominent in the field of development studies, argue that the UN's founding document, the UN Charter, is infused with the human values and human concerns that are at the center of the UN's thinking on economic and human development today. In the intervening period,... UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classi... |
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184,58 zł |
Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador
ISBN: 9780271025452 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its "free market" strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country's poor, including women's groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women's participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on... Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its "free market" strategies exacerbated the debt cri... |
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182,83 zł |
Revitalizing the U.S. Economy
ISBN: 9780275921019 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the fundamental sources of U.S. economic performance, and the public policies that sustain or weaken that performance. Revitalizing the U.S. Economy explores such issues as stimulating and channelling private investment, modifying rules of competition, and reconceptualizing the economy and economic policy. This book surveys industrial policy from a national perspective, examines development policies at the subnational level, analyzes issues in human resources policy, and critiques the policy making process.
This collection of essays explores the fundamental sources of U.S. economic performance, and the public policies that sustain or weaken that perfor... |
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377,79 zł |
Economic Development in the Caribbean.
ISBN: 9780275921811 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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377,79 zł |
The Nigerian Economy: A Macroeconometric and Input-Output Model
ISBN: 9780275934170 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book combines descriptive, technical, empirical, policy evaluation, and forecasting methodologies to provide a systematic analysis of the the Nigerian economy--the largest and most dominant economy in sub-Saharan Africa. The author develops and tests an integrated macroeconomic input-output model of the economy's workings, using it to explain Nigeria's recent economic growth and development and to forecast the country's future growth prospects. The model also enables Oshikoya to provide a source of information on estimates of the structural parameters of the Nigerian economy; to... This book combines descriptive, technical, empirical, policy evaluation, and forecasting methodologies to provide a systematic analysis of the the ... |
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377,79 zł |
African Emigres in the United States: A Missing Link in Africa's Social and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780275937997 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The people of Africa emerged from colonial rule with optimism and determination to transform their society and bring prosperity to the continent, but today there is neither economic nor political freedom. In order to seize control of its destiny, Kofi Apraku contends, Africa must mobilize all of its resources, and recognize the contributions that emigrants in the United States can make toward its development. In this work, Apraku offers a comprehensive look at these emigrants, demonstrating that Africa has well-trained, experienced, and productive personnel in the United States, and that... The people of Africa emerged from colonial rule with optimism and determination to transform their society and bring prosperity to the continent, b... |
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377,79 zł |
Public Finance in Small Open Economies: The Caribbean Experience
ISBN: 9780275942052 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an analysis of Caribbean fiscal problems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between high levels of public expenditure and balance of payments problems. The study examines deficit financing, public expenditure growth, and IMF stabilization policies. Other issues raised relate to income distribution and problems of taxation and tax reform. The work focuses on Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago. The economies of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States are also considered. This work will interest scholars in economics and economic... This book presents an analysis of Caribbean fiscal problems, with particular emphasis on the relationship between high levels of public expenditure... |
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377,79 zł |