ilość książek w kategorii: 8740
Economic Opening Up and Growth in Russia: Finance, Trade, Market Institutions, and Energy
ISBN: 9783642058035 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a decade of sharp economic decline, Russia switched to an impressive period of economic growth. Yet the economic record is still mixed, and many key problems remain unresolved, both in the economic sphere and the political system. The focus is on economic dynamics in Russia, reasons for its hesitant opening up process as well as the special role of the natural resources sector which is expected to continue to grow. This analysis highlights the existing deficiencies of the Russian economic system and raises doubts about the sustainability of growth. Twin focus is on required reforms... After a decade of sharp economic decline, Russia switched to an impressive period of economic growth. Yet the economic record is still mixed, and m... |
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389,09 zł |
Venture Capital: A Euro-System Approach
ISBN: 9783642073007 / Angielski / Miękka / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Harvard Business School and National Bureau of Economic Research During much of the 1970s and 1980s, venture capital and private equity remained largely a United States phenomena. Over the past decade, how ever, private equity has spread around the globe, taking particularly firm root in Western Europe-indeed, growing 4,700% since 1984 through 200 I. Today, Europe is the dominant private equity market outside the United States. Despite this tremendous growth and the current recessionary cli mate, there is ample room for attractive...
Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Harvard Business School and National Bureau of Economic Research During much of the 1970s ...
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389,09 zł |
Method and Morals in Constitutional Economics: Essays in Honor of James M. Buchanan
ISBN: 9783642075513 / Angielski / Miękka / 571 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Festschrift was "presented" in electronic form to Buchanan on the occasion of his eightieth birthday on October 3, 1999, after dinner in Fairfax, Virginia. As one might have expected, the response to our call for papers was vo- luminous. In looking over the many contributions, we felt that a "published" Festschrift was also possible and fitting for the eightieth birthday of so prodi- gious and influential a scholar as Professor Buchanan. To that end we have assembled the following volume. In selecting the papers to be included here we have basically tried to choose those papers which in...
This Festschrift was "presented" in electronic form to Buchanan on the occasion of his eightieth birthday on October 3, 1999, after dinner in Fairfax,...
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583,65 zł |
Impact Assessment and Evaluation in Transportation Planning
ISBN: 9789048143535 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Impact Assessment and Evaluation in Transportation Planning contains a refreshing approach to transportation planning by integrating impact analysis and evaluation methodology. It is original in that impact assessment and evaluation are brought together in a coherent framework. It is novel in the history of transportation science and particularly suitable as a pedagogical text, since methodologies are illustrated with various case studies and examples. It is particularly suitable for practitioners and students who want to become acquainted with conflict analysis and plan/project...
Impact Assessment and Evaluation in Transportation Planning contains a refreshing approach to transportation planning by integrating impact a...
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389,09 zł |
The Geography of Innovation
ISBN: 9789048143634 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a geographic dimension to the study of innovation and product commercialization. Building on the literature in economics and geography, this book demonstrates that product innovation clusters spatially in regions which provide concentrations of the knowledge needed for the commercialization process. The book develops a conceptual model which links the location of new product innovations to the sources of these knowledge inputs. The geographic concentration of this knowledge fonns a technological infrastructure which promotes infonnation transfers, and lowers the risks and the...
This book offers a geographic dimension to the study of innovation and product commercialization. Building on the literature in economics and geograph...
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583,65 zł |
Technological Infrastructure Policy: An International Perspective
ISBN: 9789048146499 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Policy (TIP) which are emerging fields of interest both for academic economists and for policy makers in both advanced and developing economies. The specific topics covered include: the role of TI in economic growth and development; the nature and definition of TI; TI-components; the relationships between TI and markets; salient features of TIP.
Technological Infrastructure Policy reflects the distinction made between basic and... Technological Infrastructure Policy provides a systematic treatment of technological infrastructure (TI) and Technological Infrastructure Pol...
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583,65 zł |
Technology Transfer: From Invention to Innovation
ISBN: 9789048151820 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology transfer has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. It has been estimated that some 50% of new products and processes will originate outside the primary developer; academic and other research institutions are obvious sources of much of this new technology.
In the NATO Co-operating countries, however, technology transfer is in its infancy; it is crucial for wealth creation and improvement in the quality of life that this mechanism is developed. The papers selected for inclusion in this book discuss issues related to the... Technology transfer has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years in Western Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. It has been estimated that some ...
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778,22 zł |
Environmental Policy Analysis for Decision Making
ISBN: 9789048155323 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book outlines the roles of environmental policy analysis in design and evaluation of a wide range of environmental policies. The book emphasizes methods and tools for performing policy analysis such as benefit-cost analysis as well as supporting tools such as non-market valuation (travel cost method, contingent valuation and hedonic pricing), input-output models, linear regression techniques, and linear programming/optimization models. Numerous real world examples illustrate how the techniques have been applied in actual policy analyses.
This book outlines the roles of environmental policy analysis in design and evaluation of a wide range of environmental policies. The book emphasizes ...
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583,65 zł |
Higher Education and Economic Growth
ISBN: 9789048157921 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After decades of effortless growth and prosperity, America's postsecondary institutions of education have come under increasing financial stress and waning public support. In part, this stress reflects a slowdown in the real rate of national economic growth and the loss of federal and state revenues for education generally. It also reflects a trend of state legislatures simply giving higher education an ever lower ranking on the list of funding priorities. Postsecondary educational institutions in the United States will continue to face increasing financial stress and waning public support as...
After decades of effortless growth and prosperity, America's postsecondary institutions of education have come under increasing financial stress and w...
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389,09 zł |
Influencing Change: Building Evaluation Capacity to Strengthen Governance
ISBN: 9780821384039 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first section of this book, four chapters explore how evaluation can influence and interact with the change process in policy and institutional development. Wijayatilake recalls a convincing and riveting story about how evaluation was introduced in Sri-Lanka and what kind of striking results could be achieved in a few years through a progressive pragmatic approach and strong leadership. Wiesner reviews the role of evaluation in the formation of macroeconomic policy in Latin America and outlines the role of demand for improved results and performance and of the accountability from the...
In the first section of this book, four chapters explore how evaluation can influence and interact with the change process in policy and institutional...
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187,11 zł |
Impact Evaluation in Practice
ISBN: 9780821385418 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. While the book is geared principally towards development practitioners and policymakers designing prospective impact evaluations, we trust that it will be a valuable resource for students and others interested in using impact evaluation. Prospective impact evaluations should be used selectively to assess whether or not a program has achieved its intended results, or to test alternatives for achieving those results. We consider that more and better impact evaluation will help...
This book offers an accessible introduction to the topic of impact evaluation and its practice in development. While the book is geared principally to...
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217,25 zł |
Results and Performance of the World Bank Group, Volume 1: IEG Annual Report 2010
ISBN: 9780821385777 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This review provides an independent assessment of the World Bank Group's performance in achieving key development objectives, with a special focus on support for environmentally sustainable development consistent with economic growth and poverty reduction.
This review provides an independent assessment of the World Bank Group's performance in achieving key development objectives, with a special focus on ...
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116,39 zł |
Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa
ISBN: 9780739143827 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colonies of West Africa. It takes as its starting point the international community's reporting on human and social development and gender in the developing areas which began systematically in 1990 and which has provided a framework for policy-making in this field. International reports suggest that the francophone African countries have been experiencing low levels of social development throughout the past two decades. These levels fall dramatically...
Globalizing the Postcolony: Contesting Discourses of Gender and Development in Francophone Africa is a study of development in the former French colon...
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577,97 zł |
Science & Resources: Prospects and Implications of Technological Advance
ISBN: 9781617260667 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is part of the collection which brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as the pre-eminent research institution devoted exclusively to environmental issues.
This volume is part of the collection which brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as ...
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298,06 zł |
Curbing the Global Economic Downturn: Southeast Asian Macroeconomic Policy
ISBN: 9789814279673 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Southeast Asia witnessed a wide array of policy actions at the regional and international levels to unravel the ripple effects of the global economic downturn and to set the stage for a long-term recovery. Yet the quest for regional and global solutions has been hampered critically by the complication of individual economies and the diverse levels of economic development. The objective of this book is to examine in-depth region-specific research on how macroeconomic tools are at work in the Southeast Asian economies.
Southeast Asia witnessed a wide array of policy actions at the regional and international levels to unravel the ripple effects of the global economic ...
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141,63 zł |
Debt, Deficits, and the Demise of the American Economy
ISBN: 9781118021514 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What investors can do to protect their investments in the next phase of the ongoing global economic collapse
The United States is heading toward an unavoidable financial catastrophe that will paralyze the markets and the overall economy in ways never before seen. Some call this impending economic catastrophe a double-dip recession, others a financial Armageddon. Regardless of what it's called, it is too late to stop it. Debts, Deficits, and the Demise of the American Economy is a look at how we got here, how the crisis is unfolding, and how it will end with a stock... What investors can do to protect their investments in the next phase of the ongoing global economic collapse
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116,60 zł |
Verkehrsmittelwahl im Güterverkehr: Eine Analyse ordnungs- und preispolitischer Maßnahmen
ISBN: 9783790817539 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Buch erklart auf der Grundlage einer Breitenbefragung das Entscheidungsverhalten bezuglich der Verkehrsmittelwahl im Guterverkehr. Da aufgrund einer stark steigenden Transportnachfrage im Guterverkehr externe Kosten in erheblichem Umfang verursacht werden, muss die Verkehrspolitik gezielt Massnahmen ergreifen, um diese Mehrnachfrage moglichst umweltvertraglich zu gestalten. Deshalb streben die EU und die Bundesregierung das Ziel der Verkehrsverlagerung von der Strasse auf alternative Verkehrstrager an. Diese Arbeit analysiert, von welchen Determinanten die Verkehrsmittelwahl... Das Buch erklart auf der Grundlage einer Breitenbefragung das Entscheidungsverhalten bezuglich der Verkehrsmittelwahl im Guterverkehr. Da a... |
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254,53 zł |
Wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen Des Demografischen Wandels
ISBN: 9783531173764 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dr. Alexander Gro Ministerialdirektor im Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Technologie Der fur Deutschland prognostizierte Bevolkerungsruckgang und die zu erwartenden Veranderungen der Altersstruktur werden Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik zukunftig stark pragen. Die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen des de- grafischen Wandels werfen fur die Wirtschaftspolitik eine Vielzahl von Fragen auf: Wie wird sich das Erwerbspersonenpotenzial, insbesondere das Fachkrafteangebot langfristig entwickeln? Wie konnen die sozialen Sicherungssysteme, vor allem im Bereich der Alterssicherung und...
Dr. Alexander Gro Ministerialdirektor im Bundesministerium fur Wirtschaft und Technologie Der fur Deutschland prognostizierte Bevolkerungsruckgang und...
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199,97 zł |
Zwischen Regulierung Und Wettbewerb: Netzsektoren in Deutschland
ISBN: 9783790815351 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Offnung der Netzsektoren Telekommunikation, Elektrizitat, Luftverkehr, Eisenbahn und Nahverkehr fur den Wettbewerb erfordert die Neubestimmung von Art und Umfang staatlicher Eingriffe in das Marktgeschehen. Aufbauend auf der theoretischen Analyse zentraler Fragen der Regulierungspraxis bietet das Buch mit der konsequenten Anwendung des disaggregierten Regulierungsansatzes auf die jeweils sektorspezifischen Problemstellungen eine Darlegung des jeweiligen Regulierungsbedarfs und eine fundierte Erorterung aktueller Probleme. Der einheitliche Analyserahmen verdeutlicht dem Leser Parallelen...
Die Offnung der Netzsektoren Telekommunikation, Elektrizitat, Luftverkehr, Eisenbahn und Nahverkehr fur den Wettbewerb erfordert die Neubestimmung von...
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309,09 zł |
Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty
ISBN: 9780230249707 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new discipline of Development Studies, Frances Stewart. Combing ideas and evidence on technological change, human development and conflict prevention to address the issue of the persistence of inequality
International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new disc...
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194,52 zł |