ilość książek w kategorii: 15538
Explaining South Asia's Development Success : The Role of Good Policies
ISBN: 9780821365991 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Asia has performed well over the past 25 years in reducing poverty, improving human development and increasing growth, but faster progress with poverty reduction will require a higher rate of growth. This book shows that the development performance is not a puzzle but largely explained by good policies. Countries in the region have maintained good macroeconomic environments, opened up their economies to greater domestic and international competition, and reduced the role of corrupt and inefficient public enterprises.
South Asia has performed well over the past 25 years in reducing poverty, improving human development and increasing growth, but faster progress with ...
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47,18 zł |
Private Voluntary Health Insurance in Development: Friend or Foe?
ISBN: 9780821366196 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the context under which private insurance could contribute to an improvement in the financial sustainability of the health sector, financial protection against the costs of illness, household income smoothing, access to care, and market productivity. This volume is the third in a series of in-depth reviews of the role of health care financing in providing access for low-income populations to needed health care, protecting them from the impoverishing...
Private voluntary health insurance already plays an important role in the health sector of many low and middle income countries. The book reviews the ...
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136,78 zł |
Managing the Implementation of Development Projects: A Resource Kit on CD-ROM for Instructors and Practitioners - Course Syllabus and CD-ROM
ISBN: 9780821366431 / Angielski / CD-ROM / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 12-module CD-ROM library of print-based learning materials is designed for classroom training of developing country project managers responsible for overseeing the implementation of development and other projects. Each module includes performance-based instructional objectives; module and session outlines with a timetable of activities; scripted lectures with corresponding visuals; case studies, exercises, and solution sets with teaching notes; self-assessment questions and answers; and selected readings. The resource kit provides enough information and practice to instill a solid...
This 12-module CD-ROM library of print-based learning materials is designed for classroom training of developing country project managers responsible ...
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287,79 zł |
Challenges of African Growth: Opportunities, Constraints, and Strategic Directions
ISBN: 9780821368824 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of the world's population but a staggering 30 percent of the world's poor, the challenges it faces are enormous but NOT insurmountable. The message of this book is clear--poverty-eradicating development in Africa is possible. In fact, there are indications that Africa is at a turning point, and there is growing momentum among front-runner economies in the region toward higher and sustained growth. This study challenges African countries and their development partners to consolidate and continue this...
Poverty in Africa is largely the outcome of slow growth. With the region hosting 10 percent of the world's population but a staggering 30 percent of t...
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180,20 zł |
Understanding Growth and Poverty: Theory, Policy, and Empirics
ISBN: 9780821369531 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The literature on growth and poverty is voluminous and still evolving. This title distills the most important lessons from developing countries' experience with growth and poverty. It provides a broad understanding of the impact of economic policies on growth and poverty reduction in developing countries. After describing basic economic relationships that summarize the workings and the measurement of the macroeconomy--and after confirming that growth is the most critical factor in alleviating poverty--the book turns to individual policy areas. These include the various roles of government,...
The literature on growth and poverty is voluminous and still evolving. This title distills the most important lessons from developing countries' exper...
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151,46 zł |
Unleashing India's Innovation: Toward Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
ISBN: 9780821371978 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India's recent growth rate has been impressive, with real GDP rising by over 8 percent a yearsince 2004. The country is also becoming a top global innovator for high-tech products andservices. Still, India is underperforming relative to its innovation potential. Even a dynamicyoung population--more than half of whom are under 25 years of age--is constrained when skillstraining and higher education are insufficient. To sustain competitiveness, economic growth, andrising living standards over the long term, India needs to aggressively harness its innovation potential. The term innovation is...
India's recent growth rate has been impressive, with real GDP rising by over 8 percent a yearsince 2004. The country is also becoming a top global inn...
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115,70 zł |
Moving Out of Poverty (Volume 3): The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India
ISBN: 9780821372173 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'To take birth as a poor man itself is a big punishment. We are facing many difficulties and there is none to support us. We cannot die also. ... Our condition is like applying perfumed oil to mustache when there is no food to eat.' - Male focus group discussion, Appipuram, Andhra Pradesh India has experienced accelerating growth in the last 10 years, yet millions of Indians remain mired in poverty. Why? Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. 'Moving Out of Poverty: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India'...
'To take birth as a poor man itself is a big punishment. We are facing many difficulties and there is none to support us. We cannot die also. ... Our ...
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238,56 zł |
Property Rights & Political Development in Ethiopia & Eritrea
ISBN: 9780821413630 / Angielski / Twarda / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the microfoundations of poverty in the developing world and in particular those present in property rights. The local institutions that govern land access are fundamental in affecting the distribution of wealth in a society. Property rights matter because they affect political development and economic growth. Development economists and policy makers often work on the assumption that property rights evolve from collective to more specified systems. The author has set out to test this theory by using the evidence available in the special cases of Ethiopia and Eritrea....
This book looks at the microfoundations of poverty in the developing world and in particular those present in property rights. The local institutions ...
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360,54 zł |
Property Rights & Political Development in Ethiopia & Eritrea
ISBN: 9780821413647 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the microfoundations of poverty in the developing world and in particular those present in property rights. The local institutions that govern land access are fundamental in affecting the distribution of wealth in a society. Property rights matter because they affect political development and economic growth. Development economists and policy makers often work on the assumption that property rights evolve from collective to more specified systems. The author has set out to test this theory by using the evidence available in the special cases of Ethiopia and Eritrea....
This book looks at the microfoundations of poverty in the developing world and in particular those present in property rights. The local institutions ...
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115,12 zł |
Empire State-Building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-1952
ISBN: 9780821413982 / Angielski / Twarda / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change.
It asks four questions: - Why was Kenya's welfare operation so idiosyncratic and spartan compared with that of other British colonies? - Why did a transformation from social welfare to community development produce further neglect of the very poor? - Why was there no equivalent to the French tradition of community medicine? - If there was a transformatory element of colonial rule that sought to address poverty, where and why did it... This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change.
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360,54 zł |
Empire State-Building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-1952
ISBN: 9780821413999 / Angielski / Miękka / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change. It asks four questions: - Why was Kenya's welfare operation so idiosyncratic and spartan compared with that of other British colonies? - Why did a transformation from social welfare to community development produce further neglect of the very poor? - Why was there no equivalent to the French tradition of community medicine? - If there was a transformatory element of colonial rule that sought to address poverty, where and why did it fall down? The...
This history of administrative thought and practice in colonial Kenya looks at the ways in which white people tried to engineer social change. It asks...
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150,17 zł |
Democratic Reform in Africa: The Impact on Governance & Poverty Alleviation
ISBN: 9780821417225 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democratic reform in Africa has been slow, difficult, and at times painful. Nevertheless, sufficient time has passed for those interested in political and economic development to assess what progress, if any, Africa has made in addressing the need for the consolidation of democratic reform and the resolution of considerable developmental challenges. Economic aid and other forms of financial assistance are progressively conditioned on good governance. Accordingly, African states in the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) have devised standards for economic and political governance....
Democratic reform in Africa has been slow, difficult, and at times painful. Nevertheless, sufficient time has passed for those interested in political...
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140,15 zł |
Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India
ISBN: 9780822325741 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change. The contributors claim that attempts to explain environmental conflicts in terms of the local versus the global, indigenous versus outsiders, women versus men, or the community versus the market or state obscure vital dynamics of mobilization and organization that critically influence thought and policy.
Editors Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan claim... Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way ...
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131,72 zł |
Employment in an Underdeveloped Area: A Sample Survey of Kingston, Jamaica
ISBN: 9780837172965 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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383,72 zł |
Value and Plan: Economic Calculation and Organization in Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780837188041 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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557,92 zł |
Smallholder Cash Crop Production Under Market Liberation: A New Institutional Economics Perspective
ISBN: 9780851992778 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Pro poor- economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world's poor living in rural areas, agricultural intensification, with higher land and labor productivity from increased integration in input and output markets, is one way to expand income and livelihood opportunities for rural people. This book uses a new institutional economics perspective to review the effects of market liberalization on service provision to smallholder farmers. In many parts of the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the...
-Pro poor- economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world's p...
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497,06 zł |
Tourism and the Less Developed World: Issues and Case Studies
ISBN: 9780851998305 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many less developed countries are expanding their tourism industries and these are seen to be crucial to their economic development. Yet such activities can also create social, cultural and environmental problems. This book provides a review of many of the key issues involved in tourism in developing countries and presents a range of case studies. These are interpreted from a perspective of the sociology and anthropology of development. Case study chapters are presented from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania. The book provides essential reading for advanced students and...
Many less developed countries are expanding their tourism industries and these are seen to be crucial to their economic development. Yet such activiti...
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220,33 zł |
Managing Water Supply and Sanitation in Emergencies
ISBN: 9780855983789 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this practical guide is to provide relief workers with a range of strategies for dealing with the environmental health problems they are likely to encounter in emergency situations. It sets out guidelines for good practice and promotes an approach to public-health engineering which aims to involve and strengthen the people affected by the emergency.
The aim of this practical guide is to provide relief workers with a range of strategies for dealing with the environmental health problems they are li...
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107,63 zł |
Building Sustainable Peace: Conflict, Conciliation and Civil Society in Northern Ghana
ISBN: 9780855984236 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intense fighting in the Northern Region of Ghana in 1994 and 1995 led to the loss of 15,000 lives and the displacement of 200,000 people. A formal peace treaty, negotiated by the government, ended the fighting but did not address the underlying causes of the conflict, which was a complex mix of economic, political, and ethnic factors.
An informal consortium of NGOs, initially involved in delivering humanitarian aid, set up a parallel peace process, seeking to build up trust through a series of peace-education workshops and the creation of a multi-ethnic Youth and Development... Intense fighting in the Northern Region of Ghana in 1994 and 1995 led to the loss of 15,000 lives and the displacement of 200,000 people. A formal pea...
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124,22 zł |
Gender and Lifecycles
ISBN: 9780855984502 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Young girls are kept at home to care for dependants and miss out on education, while others face sexual exploitation. Elderly women's health needs are ignored when their reproductive years end, and many face the economic and social marginalization which accompanies widowhood.
This collection from development practitioners and feminist activists considers how age interacts with gender identity to create particular forms of economic and social marginalization, as well as different kinds of opportunity, for women and men in different contexts throughout the world. Contributors include... Young girls are kept at home to care for dependants and miss out on education, while others face sexual exploitation. Elderly women's health needs are...
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82,74 zł |