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Explaining Growth: A Global Research Project
ISBN: 9781403917461 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explaining Growth attempts to compile the most comprehensive assessment of growth in developing and transition countries. The first phase has sought to review and discover broad similarities and comparable experiences in six regions spanning the developing world. In each region, studies were undertaken on sources of growth, markets and growth, microeconomic determinants of growth, and the political economy of growth. These reviews provide the framework for the in-depth country case studies in Phase II. This volume summarizes the main results of the regional analyses and sets the stage for the...
Explaining Growth attempts to compile the most comprehensive assessment of growth in developing and transition countries. The first phase has sought t...
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161,36 zł |
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Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya
ISBN: 9781405157056 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology))
Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.
Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty gr...
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307,44 zł |
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Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya
ISBN: 9781405157063 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology))
Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.
Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty gr...
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102,43 zł |
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Strategic Management for Africa: A Business Approach
ISBN: 9781425949884 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, we hope to share some of the insights into how African businesses and economies need to be 'faster' and 'smarter' than they presently are, in order to gain and sustain their general and specific competitiveness, supported by appropriate leadership, creativity and innovativeness. We also emphasise the need for appropriate modifications to their socio-cultural value orientation and concerns, so that they are aligned for economic growth and wealth enhancement, in a constantly changing global and operating environment, with constantly changing business rules and boundaries. No...
In this book, we hope to share some of the insights into how African businesses and economies need to be 'faster' and 'smarter' than they presently ar...
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98,28 zł |
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Experiments in Achieving Water and Food Self-Sufficiency in the Middle East: The Consequences of Contrasting Endowments, Ideologies, and Investment Po
ISBN: 9781581122985 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book aims to quantify and analyze how two water scarce but ideologically different Middle Eastern political economies, Saudi Arabia and Syria, addressed water sector investment between 1980 and 2000. The study examines how narrow-coalitions of decision-makers obsessed by impossible-to-achieve food self-sufficiency goals, lacking environmental consideration and safe political processes contributed to massively waste scarce resources and unsustainable water policies.
The book shows that of Saudi Arabias US$1,034 billion in oil revenues (1974-2001), 48% was spent on security, plus 10% on the... The book aims to quantify and analyze how two water scarce but ideologically different Middle Eastern political economies, Saudi Arabia and Syria, add...
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132,64 zł |
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Electronic Business in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Challenges
ISBN: 9781591403548 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of the literature covering electronic business focuses on the developed world. Electronic Business in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Challenges provides a chance to get to know more electronic business applications, successes, failures, challenges and opportunities in the developing world. These studies are gaining importance for future development of globalization, global trade and cultural dissemination. Electronic Business in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Challenges tackles these issues with a vision to the future on how to bridge these gaps and the barriers between...
Most of the literature covering electronic business focuses on the developed world. Electronic Business in Developing Countries: Opportunities and Cha...
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434,20 zł |
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The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global South
ISBN: 9781842778685 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This indispensable book offers a panorama of social resistances to neoliberal globalization in the South. Writers and activists from forty different countries or regions offer snapshots of the latest mobilizations, from the anti-privatization groups in South Africa and the anti-WTO campaign of peasants in India, to the indigenous movement behind Evo Morales in Bolivia. The book focuses on a range of diverse popular struggles that impact on democratic and development process, yet receive little public attention or are caricatured by mainstream media. It reveals collective tensions throughout...
This indispensable book offers a panorama of social resistances to neoliberal globalization in the South. Writers and activists from forty different c...
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179,29 zł |
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Energy for Development
ISBN: 9781843312239 / Angielski / Twarda / 509 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive text offers a rare and insightful investigation into the energy sector of the developing world. 'Energy for Development' provides comparative case studies of countries going through the reform process, evaluates reform experience, discusses the lessons that can be learned and identifies challenges faced by these countries at the national and global level. A topical and timely book which seeks to explore the anxieties and insecurities of the global energy sector since 2001. This comprehensive text offers a rare and insightful investigation into the energy sector of the developing world. 'Energy for Development' provide... |
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384,30 zł |
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Science and Technology Policy for Development: Dialogues at the Interface
ISBN: 9781843312277 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about changing social relationships. The authors focus on the question of what social relations make for successful science and technology policies. In particular, the various chapters illustrate what happens at different social interfaces, such as between policy makers and researchers, and between the users and producers of knowledge. In other words, they are interested in the knowledge networks that are emerging between the many different actors involved in the development of science and technology.' Science and Technology Policy for Development' is the outcome of a workshop... This book is about changing social relationships. The authors focus on the question of what social relations make for successful science and techno... |
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358,68 zł |
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Globalization and Challenges to Building Peace
ISBN: 9781843312871 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world has gone through a major transformation in the last two decades. The end of the Cold War in Europe has led to a massive increase in private capital flow and has also brought an information and telecommunication revolution. In this new interdependent and interconnected world, international trade and investment has overtaken the importance of national economies. Globalization has created new opportunities as well as many risks and challenges. While globalization creates new wealth and encourages technological innovations, it has also failed to support and promote sustainable human...
The world has gone through a major transformation in the last two decades. The end of the Cold War in Europe has led to a massive increase in private ...
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358,68 zł |
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Stabilization Programs Implemented Under the Supervision of IMF: An Analysis of the Turkish Case
ISBN: 9781844014538 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this economic study, Professor Sadi Uzunoglu has given us a complete perspective on the IMF-supported program introduced in Turkey in 2000 to help alleviate the country's economic problems. Within the global political and economic context, he assesses whether or not the current program will prove successful. This is a valuable and comprehensive source of information for those who have a special interest in the economic future of Turkey, the land-bridge between Asia and Europe.
In this economic study, Professor Sadi Uzunoglu has given us a complete perspective on the IMF-supported program introduced in Turkey in 2000 to help ...
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68,83 zł |
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Eighty-eight Assignments for Development in Place
ISBN: 9781882197200 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop. Often people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences. But what if such a transfer is not possible? This report contains eighty-eight assignments that offer individual development opportunities on a current job.
The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop. Oft...
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64,56 zł |
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Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Africa
ISBN: 9782869781153 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second in this series of studies on the state and status of ICTs in a development context in Africa examines the setting, operations and impacts of community telecentres. It describes the telecentres of a variety of local, and often rural communities, exploring the management structures and mechanisms that have been established to support them. The book profiles telecentre usage and discusses the potential and challenges of developing and maintaining community telecentres given poor information structures and limited human capacity. It further considers questions of universal and public...
The second in this series of studies on the state and status of ICTs in a development context in Africa examines the setting, operations and impacts o...
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174,02 zł |
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Guideline for the Development of Chinese Suppliers
ISBN: 9783836407328 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For engineering goods the bought-in part costs represent a big share of the
overall production costs. Facing increasing global competition, many German engineering companies identify low-cost sourcing from China as one of the remaining levers to reduce costs. But shifting purchasing volume to China requires in general the development and improvement of new suppliers. In order to do so, what methods do exist? How do they match the specialties in German buyer Chinese supplier relationships? And, what can be done to boost the results? Based on the state of the art in literature and in... For engineering goods the bought-in part costs represent a big share of the
overall production costs. Facing increasing global competition, many G... |
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195,24 zł |
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Supply Chain and Liberalisation of the Milk Industry in Uganda
ISBN: 9789970024940 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study looks at the impact of liberalisation on the development and direction of the milk industry in Uganda. In the beginning, the changes brought benefits for those involved in the industry, including higher prices and increased employment opportunities, coupled with technology-related advances such as the introduction of modern processing and ultra-heat-treated (UHT) milk processing plants. In the long run however, liberalisation led to prices plummeting which resulted in milk being neither processed nor purchased; and some of the plants eventually closed. More widely, the study...
This study looks at the impact of liberalisation on the development and direction of the milk industry in Uganda. In the beginning, the changes brough...
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104,42 zł |
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Living with Uncertainty: New Directions in Pastoral Development in Africa
ISBN: 9781853392351 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines the management of policy implications of this new ecological thinking for pastoral development in dryland areas. With examples drawn from all over Africa, the contributors examine the consequences of living with uncertainty for pastoral development planning, range and fodder management, drought responses, livestock marketing, resource tenure, institutional development and pastoral administration.
The last few years have seen a major rethinking of some of the hallowed assumptions of range ecology and range management practice. This book examines...
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138,16 zł |
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The Unspoken Truth about Privatization: Nine Essays
ISBN: 9780595477531 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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38,24 zł |
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Poverty and Water: Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship
ISBN: 9781842779620 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water. In this book, co-editors David Hemson, Kassin Kulindwa, Haakon Lein, and Adolfo Mascarenhas use a global spread of case studies to illustrate that water is not simply an issue of physical scarcity, but rather a complex and politically-driven issue with profound future implications, both in the developing world and outside it. The book argues that for the international community to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, governments must step in to protect the rights of the poor....
Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water. In this book, co-editors David Hemson, K...
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179,29 zł |
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Social Security Reform in Transition Economies: Lessons from Kazakhstan
ISBN: 9780230607361 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines social security reform in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, with a focus on lessons for late reformers such as China and Russia.
This book examines social security reform in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, with a focus on lessons for late reformers such as China and Ru...
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383,74 zł |
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Population Growth : The Vital Revolution
ISBN: 9780202361963 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The population of the modern world continues to grow at a rate unprecedented in human history. How are we to explain this massive increase in the number of living people? What is its consequence, now and for the future? How have populations changed in size and structure since the advent of industrial technology? Can we predict the population trends in developing countries? These and many other significant questions are dealt with in a persuasive yet accessible manner in Ronald Freedman's pivotal "Population Growth."Modern population trends are unique in historical perspective; describing them...
The population of the modern world continues to grow at a rate unprecedented in human history. How are we to explain this massive increase in the numb...
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223,87 zł |
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