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A New Scramble for Africa?: The Rush for Energy Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 9781472430762 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global energy consumption will increase rapidly in the next decades. The discrepancy between demand and supply is worrisome within the old and new cores of the world-economy. Sub-Saharan Africa meanwhile possesses vast potential for energy resources to be further exploited. Whilst the Global North is a traditional player in the sub-Saharan energy sector, new actors from emerging economies - especially Chinaa s state-owned enterprises but also Brazilian, Indian and South African giants - have entered what appears to be a scramble for the largely untapped energy resources of the region. This...
Global energy consumption will increase rapidly in the next decades. The discrepancy between demand and supply is worrisome within the old and new cor...
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710,17 |
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Technologies for Development: What Is Essential?
ISBN: 9783319162461 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America addressing global development issues in the fields of health, energy, ICT and urbanism in an interdisciplinary way. The book illustrates key issues at the interface of technology, human, social, and economic development. Bringing together the best papers of the 2014 EPFL-UNESCO Conference on Technologies for Development, this book explores innovative technologies in the global South. It will be a valuable reference for researchers from engineering, natural sciences, information management, quantitative social sciences, and...
The book presents case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America addressing global development issues in the fields of health, energy, ICT and urban...
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603,81 |
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Africa in the Age of Globalisation: Perceptions, Misperceptions and Realities
ISBN: 9781472436696 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspectives. It provides educators, policy makers, social workers, non-governmental agencies, and development agencies with an interdisciplinary conceptual base that can effectively guide them in planning and implementing programs for socio-economic development in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa (politics,...
This is a collection of bold and visionary scholarship that reveals an insightful exposition of re-visioning African development from African perspect...
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710,17 |
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Protecting the Health of the Poor: Social Movements in the South
ISBN: 9781783605521 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in a world where despite the colossal amount spent globally on healthcare programs, massive inequalities in health both within and between countries still exist. In this path-breaking new collection, Geeta Sodhi and Abraar Karan have gathered essays that draw on in-depth empirical research spanning across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, bringing together first-hand experience from a range of international health experts.
Protecting the Health of the Poor provides an outstanding overview of the legal, political, and social factors obstructing the inherent human right for... We live in a world where despite the colossal amount spent globally on healthcare programs, massive inequalities in health both within and between cou...
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137,09 |
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Protecting the Health of the Poor: Social Movements in the South
ISBN: 9781783605538 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in a world where despite the colossal amount spent globally on healthcare programs, massive inequalities in health both within and between countries still exist. In this path-breaking new collection, Geeta Sodhi and Abraar Karan have gathered essays that draw on in-depth empirical research spanning across Asia, Latin America, and Africa, bringing together first-hand experience from a range of international health experts.
Protecting the Health of the Poor provides an outstanding overview of the legal, political, and social factors obstructing the inherent human right for... We live in a world where despite the colossal amount spent globally on healthcare programs, massive inequalities in health both within and between cou...
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438,22 |
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Nature, Economy and Society: Understanding the Linkages
ISBN: 9788132224037 / Angielski / Twarda / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an enquiry into the interface between nature, economy and society, which is still in its early stages, notwithstanding the commendable progress and advances made in the field of environmental and natural resource economics within the ever-expanding boundaries of economics as a discipline. It further delineates the evolution of an inter-disciplinary framework for analyzing the status, the future goals, mechanisms and policy instruments that can help move towards a more ecologically sustainable, economically beneficial and socially just future. A pre-requisite for... This book presents an enquiry into the interface between nature, economy and society, which is still in its early stages, notwithstanding the comme... |
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402,53 |
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Coaching to Win: A Proven System for Developing People and Driving Performance
ISBN: 9781491762776 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "
Sam, a parts manager for a major auto brand, has finished a tough week: his team missed its targets for a third straight quarter, and a star performer walked into his office and quit. This isn't how he envisioned his life would be after working twenty-five years to become the manager of the company's largest parts warehouse in the country. But he's not alone. Managers everywhere are finding that old-school coaching practices don't work anymore. But not all of them are as lucky as Sam, who starts using the tools he acquires through "the Coaching to Win" program. Sam discovers... "
Sam, a parts manager for a major auto brand, has finished a tough week: his team missed its targets for a third straight quarter, and a star perfo... |
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57,61 |
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Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict
ISBN: 9781138847637 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide. The book explores how the ongoing constitutional, legal and political integration of indigenous peoples into contemporary society has impacted on indigenous institutions and structures for managing land and property. This book details some of the common problems experienced by indigenous peoples throughout the world, providing lessons and insights from conflict resolution that may find application in other conflicts including inter-state and civil and... Land, Indigenous Peoples and Conflict presents an original comparative study of indigenous land and property rights worldwide. The book ex... |
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824,88 |
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Process-Based Facilitation: Facilitation for Meeting Leaders, Consultants and Group Facilitators
ISBN: 9781491763131 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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250,29 |
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Sustainable Access to Energy in the Global South: Essential Technologies and Implementation Approaches
ISBN: 9783319202082 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting the best papers of the 3rd EPFL-UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development, this publication offers a valuable collection of innovative case studies exploring access to energy and renewable energy technologies in the Global South. It investigates the key determinants for successfully providing energy to resource-poor communities and examines a wide range of technologies for energy production, distribution, storage and efficient use. Taken together, these case studies deal with the entire life cycle of products and solutions, as well as the complete value... Presenting the best papers of the 3rd EPFL-UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development, this publication offers a valuable c... |
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603,81 |
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African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World: Challenges, Agency and Resistance
ISBN: 9781472429759 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructuring on the lives and futures of young people. Bringing together a wide body of research to reflect on youth responses to social change in Africa, this volume shows that while young people in the region face extraordinary social challenges in their everyday lives, they also continue to devise unique ways to reinvent their difficult circumstances and prosper in the midst of seismic global and local social changes. Contributors from Africa and...
All over the world, there is growing concern about the ramifications of globalization, late-modernity and general global social and economic restructu...
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734,66 |
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Macroeconomics and Development: Roberto Frenkel and the Economics of Latin America
ISBN: 9780231175081 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin American neo-structuralism is a cutting-edge, regionally focused economic theory with broad implications for macroeconomics and development economics. Roberto Frenkel has spent five decades developing the theory's core arguments and expanding their application throughout the discipline, revolutionizing our understanding of high inflation and hyperinflation, disinflation programs, and the behavior of foreign exchange markets as well as financial and currency crises in emerging economies. The essays in this collection assess Latin American neo-structuralism's theoretical contributions...
Latin American neo-structuralism is a cutting-edge, regionally focused economic theory with broad implications for macroeconomics and development econ...
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319,64 |
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Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals: A Critical Look Forward
ISBN: 9781783606191 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Millennium Development Goals have recently passed their review deadline and the international community is consequently beginning to debate the future of the United Nations development policy. As a result, a new academic critique of the subject is essential. Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals fulfills that role, bringing together leading economists to provide a timely evaluation of the UN s prevailing development agenda.
Examining current development efforts, goals, and policies, these essays expose how structural flaws and misleading measurements of economic... The Millennium Development Goals have recently passed their review deadline and the international community is consequently beginning to debate the fu...
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416,30 |
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Disrupted: Strategy for Exponential Change
ISBN: 9780994376909 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "People don't get exponential" - Nicholas Negroponte In the next 5 years, global Machine-to-Machine connections will grow by 400% from 5 billion to over 20 billion. In the past six years Uber has grown from a mere app to a 50 billion-dollar business. The driverless electric car is a reality, and the noxious methane gas that once escaped the Artic Ocean in meter-wide plumes now bubbles out of the water in kilometer-wide columns. This is exponential change... and it's happening now We are in an environment where the exponential... "People don't get exponential" - Nicholas Negroponte In the next 5 years, global Machine-to-Machine connections wil... |
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76,88 |
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The European Union and Humanitarian Crises: Patterns of Intervention
ISBN: 9781472451781 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last few decades international organisations, national governments, and governmental and private actors have all multiplied their efforts to limit the extent to which natural catastrophes, man-made atrocities and political and economic breakdowns affect civil populations. The European Union and Humanitarian Crises: Patterns of Intervention addresses the allocation of foreign aid within the framework of the European Union's Humanitarian Aid policy and analyses different Member States' intervention strategies designed to cope with these emergencies. Joining the debate about bilateral...
Over the last few decades international organisations, national governments, and governmental and private actors have all multiplied their efforts to ...
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710,17 |
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The European Union and Developing Countries: The Challenges of Globalization
ISBN: 9781349403950 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the ways in which EU policies towards developing countries are changing in response to the new challenges of globalization and the end of the Cold War. It analyses the patchwork of relationships between the fifteen Member States and more than 140 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean.
This book examines the ways in which EU policies towards developing countries are changing in response to the new challenges of globalization and the ...
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402,53 |
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Economic Development and Prospects in the ASEAN: Foreign Investment and Growth in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
ISBN: 9781349259236 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines the economic performance and commercial prospects in the ASEAN economies. It provides a soundly researched and concisely presented analysis of (a) current economic growth, development and performance in the major economies (the economic tigers and dragons) in the ASEAN in the recent years, and (b) the prospects of these on investment, trade, and business between these economies and other countries in a global context via both bilateral and multilateral international economic relations.
The book examines the economic performance and commercial prospects in the ASEAN economies. It provides a soundly researched and concisely presented a...
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603,81 |
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Economic Development and Prospects in the ASEAN: Foreign Investment and Growth in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
ISBN: 9780333670248 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines the economic performance and commercial prospects in the ASEAN economies. It provides a soundly researched and concisely presented analysis of (a) current economic growth, development and performance in the major economies (the economic tigers and dragons) in the ASEAN in the recent years, and (b) the prospects of these on investment, trade, and business between these economies and other countries in a global context via both bilateral and multilateral international economic relations.
The book examines the economic performance and commercial prospects in the ASEAN economies. It provides a soundly researched and concisely presented a...
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603,81 |
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The International Monetary System and the Less Developed Countries
ISBN: 9780333330043 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book the author investigates the relationship between the international monetary system and the less developed countries of the world. In the period since 1945 growing concern has been shown over the international monetary problems which LDCs face, and since 1971 LDCs have been significant participants in the reform of the international monetary system. After tracing the evolution of the relationship between LDCs and the International Monetary Fund, the book goes on to examine, with full reference to the available empirical evidence, the major causes and consequences of LDCs'...
In this book the author investigates the relationship between the international monetary system and the less developed countries of the world. In the ...
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603,81 |
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Rebooting India : Realizing a Billion Aspirations
ISBN: 9780241003923 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A timely call to reshape government through technology, from Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, two leading experts in the field. For many aspects of how our countries are run - from social security and fair elections to communication, infrastructure and the rule of law - technology can play an increasingly positive, revolutionary role. In India, for example, where many underprivileged citizens are invisible to the state, a unique national identity system is being implemented for the first time, which will help strengthen social security. And throughout the world, technology is essential in the...
A timely call to reshape government through technology, from Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, two leading experts in the field. For many aspects of how...
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103,11 |
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