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Optimal Allocation and Use of Water Resources in the Mekong River Basin: Multi-Country and Intersectoral Analyses
ISBN: 9783631374344 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Efficient, equitable and sustainable water management at the river basin level plays a crucial role in solving growing water shortages. However, water allocation decisions are highly complex due to the temporal and spatial variation in supply and demand. The increasing competition for water among different uses and across countries further complicates basin management. An aggregate, integrated economic-hydrologic river basin model is developed to analyze these issues for the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia. Model results indicate competition for Mekong waters and significant tradeoffs...
Efficient, equitable and sustainable water management at the river basin level plays a crucial role in solving growing water shortages. However, water...
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304,09 |
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Agglomeration and Regional Unemployment Disparities: A Theoretical Analysis with Reference to the European Union
ISBN: 9783631517451 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the European Union, unemployment rates differ markedly across regions, both within and across nations. This study presents a coherent theoretical approach to explain the emergence and persistence of such regional unemployment disparities. The analysis builds on the wage curve literature, and on regional agglomeration theories like the new economic geography. These theoretical strings are combined and extended, in order to provide a unified framework.
In the European Union, unemployment rates differ markedly across regions, both within and across nations. This study presents a coherent theoretical a...
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299,02 |
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The Economics of Land Degradation: Toward an Integrated Global Assessment
ISBN: 9783631630822 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Land degradation is increasingly considered as a global problem. The extent of degraded and degrading areas adversely impacts on large numbers of people and leads to significant social and economic costs, thus raising the questions: In which way is it worth taking action against land degradation? Where and when should action take place, and what are costs related to certain actions? For policy makers it is important to know the social and economic costs linked to the current and future status of land degradation. A conceptual framework that allows comparing the costs of action against land...
Land degradation is increasingly considered as a global problem. The extent of degraded and degrading areas adversely impacts on large numbers of peop...
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392,61 |
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Empirical Analysis of Participation Patterns in Microfinancial Markets: The Cases of Ghana and Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9783631632383 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contributes to the empirical literature on households participation in microfinancial services in developing countries. First, it estimates simultaneously the participation in microinsurance schemes and other financial services on household survey data from Ghana. Second, it analyzes the household s cumulative participation in microfinancial services using household survey data from Sri Lanka. Next, the study focuses on the question whether household s participation in micro life insurance in Sri Lanka is motivated by the desire to leave bequests. At last, it investigates different...
This book contributes to the empirical literature on households participation in microfinancial services in developing countries. First, it estimates ...
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314,23 |
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Development Problems in the Niger Delta Region: A Study in Christian Development Ethics
ISBN: 9783631633649 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The acute poverty, underdevelopment and environmental damages that exist in the Niger Delta region despite abundance of natural resources present a paradox to anyone who cares. It is a fact, that corruption, misappropriation of fund and lack of accountability on the part of most major stakeholders are partly responsible for such paradox. There is no shortage of development theories to tackle the development problems in the region. Lacking is the political will to operate just and effective socio-economic and political structures in the country that could increase chances of development for...
The acute poverty, underdevelopment and environmental damages that exist in the Niger Delta region despite abundance of natural resources present a pa...
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378,40 |
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Time Sensitivity of Passengers and Market Structure in the Airline Industry: A Model of International Air Transport
ISBN: 9783906757780 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international airline industry is characterized by radical changes in regulation and firm behavior. Open-sky agreements abolish market entry restrictions, and global strategic alliances replace the government controlled national carriers. With deregulation and the restructuring of firms still in progress, the future design of market structures cannot easily be predicted. Will airlines behave competitively or is there danger of collusion? Do large networks lead to monopoly supply? And what are the effects of open skies on consumer welfare? Roland Fischer answers these questions by...
The international airline industry is characterized by radical changes in regulation and firm behavior. Open-sky agreements abolish market entry restr...
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364,96 |
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Human Capital and Development: The Indian Experience
ISBN: 9788132208563 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers included in this volume cover several aspects of human capital. It starts with the role of human capital in influencing productivity, employment and growth of employment. The chapters show that Indian States that have been neglecting schooling and health facilities have become victims in terms of low productivity and lower rates of employment. Consequently, employment cannot be increased without spending on education and health. Furthermore, the unorganised sector in India cannot provide gainful employment as productivity in this sector is low and is also declining. Skill intensity...
The papers included in this volume cover several aspects of human capital. It starts with the role of human capital in influencing productivity, emplo...
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402,53 |
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Great Dragon Fantasy, The: A Lacanian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9789814417914 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-a-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus...
China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth a...
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636,71 |
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Globalization, Trade and Poverty in Ghana
ISBN: 9789988647360 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The persistence of poverty in many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the face of increased globalisation and rapid trade liberalisation during the past two decades has inspired considerable debate on the impact of globalisation, in general, and trade liberalisation, in particular, on poverty. In Ghana, as in many other African countries, poverty remains the fundamental problem confronting policy makers in the new millennium as highlighted in the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy. Yet, between 1991 and 2006, the headcount index of poverty fell by 23.2 percentage points...
The persistence of poverty in many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the face of increased globalisation and rapid trade libe...
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239,27 |
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China's Regional Development: Review and Prospect
ISBN: 9780415524704 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China is a large developing economy and it has been deeply involved in globalization since its economic reform and opening-up. Simultaneously, China has seen a significant change in the spatial distribution of economic resources, especially capital and labor. In the recent 10 years, economists have made significant progress in both theoretical and empirical studies on related topics. The book provides an overview on the existing literature and current policy debates on what we have known and what we have misunderstood. This book includes an analytical framework of the New Economic... China is a large developing economy and it has been deeply involved in globalization since its economic reform and opening-up. Simultaneously, Chin... |
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783,64 |
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Global Development Finance 2012: External Debt of Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780821394649 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Development Finance 2012: External Debt of Developing Countries is a continuation of the World Bank s publications Global Development Finance, Volume II (1997 through 2009) and the earlier World Debt Tables (1973 through 1996). As in previous years, GDF 2012 provides statistical tables showing the external debt of 129 developing countries that report public and publicly guaranteed external debt to the World Bank s Debtor Reporting System (DRS). It also includes tables of key debt ratios for individual reporting countries and the composition of external debt stocks and flows for...
Global Development Finance 2012: External Debt of Developing Countries is a continuation of the World Bank s publications Global Development Finance, ...
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391,82 |
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Water Scarcity and Food Security Along the Nile: Politics, Population Increase and Climate Change
ISBN: 9789171067227 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,43 |
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Globalizing Regional Development in East Asia: Production Networks, Clusters, and Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9780415639637 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Significant historical and geographical differences account for the many processes and trajectories of regional development in East Asia. These historical and geographical specificities in East Asia have prompted serious re-examination of existing theories in regional development, and in particular the "new regionalism" approach associated with such ideas as the learning region, institutional thickness, relational assets, and regional innovation system. This book brings together a group of leading researchers specializing in local and regional development in East Asian economies. Through... Significant historical and geographical differences account for the many processes and trajectories of regional development in East Asia. These his... |
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146,88 |
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Takaful and Mutual Insurance
ISBN: 9780821397244 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insurance plays a positive role in economic develoment, but some of its traditional products are inhibiting in some cultural settings. This book explains the development of a hybrid model. Takaful (which means 'cooperative') is intended to deal with three prohibited or haram practices under Islam: the payment of interest (riba), the existence of uncertainty in a transaction (gharar), and gambling (maysir). The primary intent of this relatively recent entry to world insurance markets is to provide a core service to Muslims and others who have religious or ethical objections to conventional...
Insurance plays a positive role in economic develoment, but some of its traditional products are inhibiting in some cultural settings. This book expla...
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102,81 |
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Globalization and Regional Dynamics: East Asia and the European Union from the Japanese and the German Perspective
ISBN: 9783642639647 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The wntmgs by Japanese and Gennan economists presented here originated against the backdrop of ongoing globalization processes and notable fluctuations in regional economic dynamics observable at the same time, primarily in the East and South East Asian area. They provided the occasion for these writers to come to tenns with globalization processes, and in particular with the stabilizing and destabilizing elements at work in them. This is the basis for their investigation of the options provided by economics and economic policy for stabilizing an ever more tightly interwoven world economy....
The wntmgs by Japanese and Gennan economists presented here originated against the backdrop of ongoing globalization processes and notable fluctuation...
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402,53 |
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Eu Eastern Enlargement and the Russian Transformation Crisis
ISBN: 9783642642999 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two rounds of EU eastern enlargement will pose difficult economic and political adjustment problems. Based on recent analysis one also finds many opportunities for both the EU-15 and the accession countries which, however, face the negative spillovers from the Russian transition crisis. The transformation crisis in Russia is analyzed in its own right and explained via the interplay of domestic reform failure and inadequate external transformation support - including an ill-guided transition approach of the IMF. Based on a broad analysis the ingredients of a successful transformation strategy...
Two rounds of EU eastern enlargement will pose difficult economic and political adjustment problems. Based on recent analysis one also finds many oppo...
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201,24 |
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Australasia and Pacific Ombudsman Institutions: Mandates, Competences and Good Practice
ISBN: 9783642338953 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides an analytical comparison of the public sector Ombudsman Institutions in Australia, the Cook Islands, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Taiwan, Tonga and Vanuatu. This book is based on information provided by the Institutions themselves in questionnaires sent out at the outset of the study.
Provides an analytical comparison of the public sector Ombudsman Institutions in Australia, the Cook Islands, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea...
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201,24 |
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Rethinking Law and Development: The Chinese Experience
ISBN: 9780415640367 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and carefully examines the relationship between law and China's economic development. Serious inquiries and candid opinions of the contributors have made for stimulating discussion and debate in many controversial areas. This book is likely to result in further research into factors affecting China's economic development, political change, and China's interaction with the international community. The book explores the development of the Chinese legal...
This book is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and car...
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734,66 |
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Development Dilemmas
ISBN: 9780415647199 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new economy is characterized in the developing world by open capital markets and coordinated international regulation - neither of which existed in the colonial period. The situation is here assessed by, amongst others, Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Daniel Hausman.
The new economy is characterized in the developing world by open capital markets and coordinated international regulation - neither of which existed i...
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254,64 |
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The Economics of Palestine : Economic Policy and Institutional Reform for a Viable Palestine State
ISBN: 9780415649148 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An international group of academics has come together to analyze and attempt to answer the question of how Palestine would organize itself as a state economically.
An international group of academics has come together to analyze and attempt to answer the question of how Palestine would organize itself as a state ...
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254,64 |
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