ilość książek w kategorii: 16890
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Community Benefits: Developers, Negotiations, and Accountability
ISBN: 9781512824131 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-scale development projects for agreements that promise dedicated local benefits, such as parks and jobs. In general, such development projects have not produced impactful benefits for local residents, and often have contributed to significant community harm, including gentrification and displacement. In response, community activists have launched a fight to control development, using benefits-sharing agreements to ensure that projects produced...
In Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-sc...
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262,32 |
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Brazil - Emerging Forever?: A Case Study of the Mid-Level Development Trap
ISBN: 9783030502102 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest “emerging countries”. It examines the prospects of Brazilian development from an interdisciplinary perspective, and studies both socio-economic and political variables.The book embraces the large period of Brazil's development in the 20th and the first decades of the 21st Century. The peculiar attention is drawn to the short period of prosperity under the left-centrist governments as a continuation of the previous conservative modernisation model, which produced an increased dependency on...
This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest “emerging countries”. It examines the prospec...
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402,53 |
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Global Changes and Sustainable Development in Asian Emerging Market Economies Vol. 1: Proceedings of EDESUS 2019
ISBN: 9783030814373 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. The collection addresses global changes and sustainable development in Vietnam and other emerging market economies in Asia, and covers wider topics such as economics and business (e.g. economic theory, national and international income distribution, macroeconomic policies, sectors of economy, productivity developments, financial market, business governance,...
This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), o...
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805,10 |
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African Farmers, Value Chains and Agricultural Development: An Economic and Institutional Perspective
ISBN: 9783030886950 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a thorough introduction to and examination of agricultural value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, the authors introduce the economic theory of agri-food value chains and value chain governance, focusing on domestic and regional trade in (and consumption of) food crops in a low-income country context. In addition to mainstream and heterodox thinking about value chain development, the book pays attention to political economy considerations. The book also reviews the empirical evidence on value chain development and performance in Africa. It adopts multiple lenses to...
This book provides a thorough introduction to and examination of agricultural value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, the authors introduce the eco...
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523,30 |
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Democratic Decentralization, Local Governance and Sustainable Development: Ghana's Experiences for Policy and Practice in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9783031123771 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana, this book examines whether and how democratic decentralization and local governance reforms in developing countries have produced the anticipated development outcomes.In seventeen related contributions, the authors present four relevant focal themes, including conceptual and historical trajectories of decentralization and local governance; institutional choice, democratic representation, and poverty reduction; local governance, resource...
Drawing on field-based data and experiences from the practice of democratic decentralization and local governance over the last three decades in Ghana...
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563,56 |
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Migrant Traders in South Africa
ISBN: 9783031211508 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book examines the social realities of migrant traders in the informal economy in South Africa. It draws on original research conducted with migrant traders in order to understand their lived experiences in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. With chapters on the diverse types of informal trading, urban versus rural settings, migrant women, xenophobia, crime, poverty, well-being and policy responses, the book will be a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, policymakers and development practitioners whose work relates to SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth).
This edited book examines the social realities of migrant traders in the informal economy in South Africa. It draws on original research conducted wit...
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563,56 |
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Tourism and Hospitality in Asia: Crisis, Resilience and Recovery
ISBN: 9789811957628 / Angielski / Twarda / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyses the ways in which crises, including COVID-19, can be managed within the tourism and hospitality industries in Asia, in ways that support the future of these industries and help to make them more resilient. This book supports efforts to develop a new direction for the tourism and hospitality industry by considering their development holistically in the context of sustainable development. Going further, this book highlights actions to make the tourism system more resilient to external shocks and crises.Readers of this book will get insights into the economic, social,...
This book analyses the ways in which crises, including COVID-19, can be managed within the tourism and hospitality industries in Asia, in ways that su...
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885,61 |
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Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9789811980459 / Angielski / Twarda / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team’s inquiries into determinants and consequences of new technology adoption in rice farming in seven countries in this region. Rigorous statistical analyses are carried out by using valuable household data of rice farmers. The book is actually sequel to the two earlier books on the same subject published by Springer and edited by K. Otsuka and D.F. Larson, An African Green Revolution published in 2013 and In Pursuit of an African Green...
This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team...
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201,24 |
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Industrial Policy
ISBN: 9781788213387 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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127,79 |
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Policy and Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Social Inclusion and Sustainable Development in Latin América
ISBN: 9783030808341 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to innovation policy and governance systems, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities. Divided into two sections, it addresses the role of governments in promoting innovation in Latin-American contexts as well as barriers and opportunities for STI governance in the region. The chapters tackle the role of institutions, innovation funding, technological trajectories, regional innovation policies, innovation ecosystems, universities, knowledge appropriation, and markets....
This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to innovation policy and governance system...
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644,07 |
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Science, Technology, and Higher Education: Governance Approaches on Social Inclusion and Sustainability in Latin America
ISBN: 9783030807221 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to social inclusion and sustainability, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities. Divided into two sections, it addresses the goals and institutional arrangements around sustainable development in the context of Latin American countries as well as the challenges of developing absorptive STI capacities for inclusion in the higher education institutions and systems. The chapters tackle the important role of citizen science, science diplomacy, peace building,... This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to social inclusion and sustainability,... |
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603,81 |
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Financializations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments
ISBN: 9780367483937 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies.
This book brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and inter...
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189,41 |
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Financializations of Development: Global Games and Local Experiments
ISBN: 9780367483944 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies.
This book brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and inter...
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655,81 |
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Refugee Resilience and Adaptation in the Middle East: Reclaiming Agency in the Informal Economies of Lebanon and Jordan
ISBN: 9781032253121 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and professionals from across Middle East studies, refugee studies, informal labor economics, and development studies.
This edited volume investigates how refugee communities in the Middle East have adapted to secure their livelihoods within the informal economy. It wi...
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655,81 |
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The Contemporary Russian Economy: A Comprehensive Analysis
ISBN: 9783031173813 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Russian economy (as it functions in the early 2020s) concentrated on the economy, economic policy, and economic governance. Chapters cover recent Russian economic history, the economic geography of Russia, natural resources, population, major sectors and industries, living standards and social policy, institutions, governance, economic policy, and Russia's role in the global economy. The book will provide a comparative cross-country context, analysing how the Russian economy and its institutions perform compared...
This textbook offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Russian economy (as it functions in the early 2020s) concentrated on t...
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261,63 |
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Studies on Interdisciplinary Economics and Business - Volume V
ISBN: 9783631872048 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public Finance, Business, Economics, Panel Data Analysis, Tax, Inflation, Economic growth, Public Expenditure, Public Revenue, Business Management, Money Supply, Political Globalization, Leadership
Public Finance, Business, Economics, Panel Data Analysis, Tax, Inflation, Economic growth, Public Expenditure, Public Revenue, Business Management, Mo...
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242,90 |
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Applied Macroeconomics: A Practical Introduction
ISBN: 9783658393144 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic relationships and explains the most important macroeconomic variables in an easy-to-understand manner. The reader is introduced to important macroeconomic variables such as inflation and aggregate demand in chapters that build on one another. They learn, among other things, how economic crises arise or the role and functioning of money, capital and goods markets.The aim is to provide the reader with economic knowledge that can be applied in business practice. The economics material has been deliberately selected so that business...
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic relationships and explains the most important macroeconomic variables in an easy-to-u...
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301,89 |
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The Women and International Development Annual, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780367274184 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore women's experiences across a wide range of geographical areas, economic sectors, and societal institutions. The articles presented in each volume synthesize a growing body of literature on key issues, suggest priorities for research, and propose changes in development policy and programming. Each volume is divided into three major sections. In the first, contributors distill and interpret research in review articles; in...
This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplina...
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194,26 |
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The Women and International Development Annual, Volume 4
ISBN: 9780367274191 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore women's experiences across a wide range of geographical areas, economic sectors, and societal institutions. The articles presented in each volume synthesize a growing body of literature on key issues, suggest priorities for research, and propose changes in development policy and programming. Each volume is divided into three major sections. In the first, contributors distill and interpret research in review articles; in...
This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplina...
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194,26 |
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Political Economy of Development and Environment in Modern India
ISBN: 9781032376950 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and environmental history of post-independent India. This book is an essential resource for scholars and researchers of history, economic history, environmental studies, and development studies.
This book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and envir...
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655,81 |