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Natural Resources: Neither Curse Nor Destiny
ISBN: 9780804757089 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For almost as long as economics has been a profession, the role of natural resources in the promotion of economic growth has been among the core issues of development theory. Some newer theories suggest that natural riches produce institutional weaknesses as various social groups attempt to capture the economic rents derived from the exploitation of natural resources. Since the 1960s, some analysts have argued that resource-rich developing countries have grown more slowly than other developing countries. Nevertheless, we find ourselves in a time when conventional wisdom again postulates that...
For almost as long as economics has been a profession, the role of natural resources in the promotion of economic growth has been among the core issue...
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Natural Resources: Neither Curse Nor Destiny
ISBN: 9780804757096 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For almost as long as economics has been a profession, the role of natural resources in the promotion of economic growth has been among the core issues of development theory. Some newer theories suggest that natural riches produce institutional weaknesses as various social groups attempt to capture the economic rents derived from the exploitation of natural resources. Since the 1960s, some analysts have argued that resource-rich developing countries have grown more slowly than other developing countries. Nevertheless, we find ourselves in a time when conventional wisdom again postulates that...
For almost as long as economics has been a profession, the role of natural resources in the promotion of economic growth has been among the core issue...
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214,83 |
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Under the Blade: The Conversion of Agricultural Landscapes
ISBN: 9780813335971 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1998, the last farm in Des Plaines, Illinois was subdivided. Seven acres along the Niobrara River in north-central Nebraska sold for 5700 per acre, twenty times the price for agricultural use. Waukesha County, Wisconsin, although still largely in agriculture, has been almost entirely zoned for small lot subdivisions. Nationwide, the cumulative effect of thousands of individual land use decisions is an orgiastic devouring of the countryside that consumes at least 1.4 million acres of rural land each year, and fragments a much larger area. The effects on landscape functions include loss of...
In 1998, the last farm in Des Plaines, Illinois was subdivided. Seven acres along the Niobrara River in north-central Nebraska sold for 5700 per acre,...
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291,86 |
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Environmental Movements in Majority and Minority Worlds: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9780813534954 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is a marvelous book. Timothy Doyle provides exactly the right balance of evidence and critical judgment to show how environmental movements differ across the globe. More importantly, he shows why this matters and does so in an accessible and informative way."-Brian Doherty, author of Ideas and Actions in the Green Movement Environmental movements are among the most vibrant, diverse, and powerful social movements occurring across all corners of the globe. They range dramatically from government lobbyists raising campaign funds to save the North American spotted owl; to "Green Warriors"...
"This is a marvelous book. Timothy Doyle provides exactly the right balance of evidence and critical judgment to show how environmental movements diff...
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158,32 |
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The Question of the Commons: The Culture & Ecology of Communal Resources
ISBN: 9780816512058 / Angielski / Miękka / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist Garret Hardin's assertion in "The Tragedy of the Commons" that common property is doomed to overexploitation in any society. This book represents the first cross-cultural test of Hardin's argument and argues that, while tragedies of the commons do occur under some circumstances, local institutions have proven resilient and responsive to the problems of communal resource use.
This collection of eighteen original essays evaluates the use and misuse of common-property resources, taking as its starting point ecologist G...
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138,48 |
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Developing Value: The Business Case for Sustainability in Emerging Markets
ISBN: 9780821351819 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing Value is a groundbreaking report which challenges the conventional thinking of the role that business plays in emerging markets. This report examines the assertion that sustainability pertains exclusively to rich companies in developed nations and is not applicable to private sector companies in emerging markets. It is based on more than 240 real-life examples in over 60 countries.
Developing Value is a groundbreaking report which challenges the conventional thinking of the role that business plays in emerging markets. This repor...
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79,11 |
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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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59,33 |
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Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
ISBN: 9780821356913 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. The report suggests that, in contrast to the 1970s and 1980s, when occupation of Brazilian Amazonia was largely induced by government policies and subsidies, recent deforestation in significant parts of the region is basically caused by medium- and large-scale cattle ranching. Among the causes of the transformation are technological and managerial changes and the adaptation of cattle ranching to the geo-ecological conditions of eastern Amazonia, which allowed for productivity gains and cost...
'Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. The report suggests that, in contrast to the 1970s a...
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89,01 |
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Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group's Experience
ISBN: 9780821357101 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How effectively has the World Bank Group assisted its clients in enhancing the contribution of the extractive industries to sustainable development? This evaluation finds that with its global mandate and experience, comprehensive country development focus, and overarching mission to fight poverty, the World Bank Group is well positioned to help countries overcome the policy, institutional, and technical challenges that prevent them from transforming resource endowments into sustainable benefits. Furthermore, the World Bank Group's achievements are many. On the whole, its extractive industries...
How effectively has the World Bank Group assisted its clients in enhancing the contribution of the extractive industries to sustainable development? T...
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89,01 |
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Urban Environment and Infrastructure: Toward Livable Cities
ISBN: 9780821357965 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'brown agenda, ' or urban environmental issues, became an important part of the international policy agenda following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Urban environmental issues continue to remain a major challenge in the cities of developing countries. The World Bank strengthened its focus on urban environmental management with the adoption of this brown agenda as part of the Bank's urban livability program. 'Urban Environment and Infrastructure' reviews the World Bank's activities to improve urban environmental quality. It sets out the...
The 'brown agenda, ' or urban environmental issues, became an important part of the international policy agenda following the 1992 United Nations Conf...
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98,90 |
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Water Resource Development in Northern Afghanistan and Its Implications for Amu Darya Basin
ISBN: 9780821358900 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Water Resource Development in Northern Afghanistan and its Implications for Amu Darya Basin' examines increased water use by Afghanistan and its implications for other water users in the basin, including the Aral Sea, both in the short and long run through an overview of: (a) the amount of Amu Darya flows generated in northern Afghanistan; (b) the amount of water presently used in northern Afghanistan, prospective use in the near future, and possible impact of the increased use on the riparian states and the Aral Sea; (c) existing agreements between Afghanistan and the neighboring Central...
'Water Resource Development in Northern Afghanistan and its Implications for Amu Darya Basin' examines increased water use by Afghanistan and its impl...
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Local Approaches to Environmental Compliance: Japanese Case Studies and Lessons for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780821361016 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite recognition of the ill effects of pollution and the enactment of environmental regulations, pollution monitoring and compliance in developing countries continue to lag. 'Local Approaches to Environmental Compliance' demonstrates how community and local government initiatives played a key role in arresting pollution during Japan's industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s. The approaches described are relevant to current pollution problems and are reviewed from the perspective of developing countries.
Despite recognition of the ill effects of pollution and the enactment of environmental regulations, pollution monitoring and compliance in developing ...
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79,11 |
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approaches to private participation in water services: a toolkit
ISBN: 9780821361115 / Angielski / Twarda / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services' is an informative toolkit that provides options for the design of policies to facilitate the delivery of good quality water and sanitation services to the poor. It highlights the need for tariffs, investment, stakeholder consultation, and regulatory policies to address the affordability and sustainability of those services. Targeted to an audience that includes government advisors as well as consultants, lawyers, and donors, the toolkit builds on previous global experience in private participation in water and sanitation supply....
'Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services' is an informative toolkit that provides options for the design of policies to facilitate the d...
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197,90 |
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Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa: A World Bank Group Strategy for Information and Communication Technology Sector Development
ISBN: 9780821361504 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa' outlines a strategy for information and communication technologies (ICT) development in Sub-Saharan Africa that will further the reform agenda to facilitate deployment of ICT infrastructure, and encourage the development community to support African governments in this regard. The strategy builds on the earlier reform agenda in the sector by leveraging the achievements to date of Sub-Saharan African countries to advance the essential goal of increasing the continent's connectivity. It provides strategies for developing and enhancing the capacity of Africa's ICT...
'Connecting Sub-Saharan Africa' outlines a strategy for information and communication technologies (ICT) development in Sub-Saharan Africa that will f...
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Aid That Works: Successful Development in Fragile States
ISBN: 9780821362013 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research in recent years on aid effectiveness shows that significant obstacles in fragile states--insecurity, poor governance and weak implementation capacity--usually prevent aid from achieving the desired results in these environments. This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness of donor-supported programmes and projects that worked well under difficult conditions in fragile states. Presented in this study are nine development initiatives in six less developed countries--Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and Uganda. The cases show that development...
Research in recent years on aid effectiveness shows that significant obstacles in fragile states--insecurity, poor governance and weak implementation ...
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The Market for Aid
ISBN: 9780821362280 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an accessible style Michael Klein and Tim Harford analyze some of the hot topics in the aid industry today. They argue that the aid industry is changing, old models of aid are under pressure, and both donors and recipients will ask more and more of aid agencies in the future. The chaos of competition and the search for new ideas are frightening to some and risk harming the people whom the industry is supposed to benefit. Yet at the same time there is a tremendous opportunity for harnessing competition to improve performance and find better ways of helping the poor. Klein and Harford argue...
In an accessible style Michael Klein and Tim Harford analyze some of the hot topics in the aid industry today. They argue that the aid industry is cha...
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69,22 |
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Where Is the Wealth of Nations?: Measuring Capital for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780821363546 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book presents estimates of total wealth for nearly 120 countries, using economic theory to decompose the wealth of a nation into its component pieces: produced capital, natural resources and human resources. The wealth estimates provide a unique opportunity to look at economic management from a broader and comprehensive perspective. The book's basic tenet is that economic development can be conceived as a process of portfolio management, so that sustainability becomes an integral part of economic policy making. The rigorous analysis, presented in accessible format, tackles issues such as...
The book presents estimates of total wealth for nearly 120 countries, using economic theory to decompose the wealth of a nation into its component pie...
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Microfinance in Russia: Broadening Access to Finance for Micro and Small Entrepreneurs
ISBN: 9780821363867 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Russia, small-scale entrepreneurship has emerged in response to the collapse of state-ownership and unemployment in the early 1990s. Small businesses typically lack adequate collateral and credit history, making them 'unbankable' by the mainstream financial sector. To fund their businesses, micro-entrepreneurs are forced to rely on funds from family and friends, or money lenders. Microfinance institutions of four types have emerged to meet the unfulfilled financing needs of micro-entrepreneurs: commercial banks, specialized NGO-type microfinance institutions, membership-based institutions...
In Russia, small-scale entrepreneurship has emerged in response to the collapse of state-ownership and unemployment in the early 1990s. Small business...
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Consensus, Confusion, and Controversy: Selected Land Reform Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9780821364406 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Land reform can be divided broadly into land tenure reform (the establishment of secure and formalized property rights in land) and land redistribution (the transfer of land from large to small farmers). This paper therefore is in two parts. The first part focuses on property rights, giving a short narrative of some of the key land tenure and land policy issues. Though these issues remain politically sensitive, a solid consensus is emerging on how to deal with them--but only once the confusion is cleared up surrounding private common property and formal and informal rights. The second part...
Land reform can be divided broadly into land tenure reform (the establishment of secure and formalized property rights in land) and land redistributio...
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Budget Support as More Effective Aid : Recent Experiences and Emerging Lessons
ISBN: 9780821364635 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Budget support has become an increasingly important instrument in the context of a partnership-based approach to development assistance. Compared to traditional modes of aid delivery, it promises greater country ownership, reduced transaction costs, better donor coordination, scaling up of poverty reduction and potentially greater development effectiveness. This book presents a timely and valuable review of key concepts, issues, experiences and emerging lessons relevant to budget support. It provides an overview of principal characteristics, expectations and concerns related to budget...
Budget support has become an increasingly important instrument in the context of a partnership-based approach to development assistance. Compared to t...
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