ilość książek w kategorii: 8740
Evaluacion de la Ayuda al Desarrollo: Analisis de los Exitos y Fracasos
ISBN: 9780821345986 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In different times and places, foreign aid has been highly effective, totally ineffective, and everything in between. It assisted growth in the Republic of Korea and Botswana in the 1960s, Bolivia and Ghana in the late 1980s, and Uganda and Vietnam in the 1990s. It still plays a critical role in supporting institutional and policy reform in developing countries, which is crucial for alleviating poverty. However, foreign aid has also failed spectacularly. Incompetence, corruption, and misguided policies persisted for many years in the former Zaire, for example, where there was a steady flow of...
In different times and places, foreign aid has been highly effective, totally ineffective, and everything in between. It assisted growth in the Republ...
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137,88 zł |
The Megarhetorics of Global Development
ISBN: 9780822961727 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After World War II, an unprecedented age of global development began. The formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund allowed war torn and poverty stricken nations to become willing debtors in their desire to entice Western investment and trade. New capital, it was foretold, would pave the way to political and economic stability, and the benefits would trickle down to even the poorest citizens. The hyperbole of this neocolonialism, however, has left many of these countries with nothing but compounded debt and unfulfilled promises. After World War II, an unprecedented age of global development began. The formation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund allowed w... |
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135,48 zł |
The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do about It
ISBN: 9780821388945 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subterfuge in corruption cases, behind which hides the benefi cial owner--the puppet master and benefi ciary of it all. Linking the benefi cial owner to the proceeds of corruption is notoriously hard. With sizable wealth and resources on their side, they exploit transnational constructions that are hard to penetrate and stay aggressively ahead of the game. Nearly all cases of grand corruption have one thing in common. They rely on corporate vehicles...
Billions in corrupt assets, complex money trails, strings of shell companies and other spurious legal structures. These form the complex web of subter...
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155,87 zł |
A Plea for Peasant Proprietors
ISBN: 9780944997109 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Great Famine in Ireland (1846-1852), William T. Thornton (1813-1880), an English economist, proposed that unused land be purchased by the government and sold on credit to families that would put it into production. In this way funds spent on famine relief would be turned from an expenditure into an investment, jobs would be created, and the benefits of widespread capital ownership would accrue to individuals, families and the nation. Although never adopted, later thinkers, offering a principled, growth-oriented approach for the 21st Century, refined Thornton's vision. As the global...
During the Great Famine in Ireland (1846-1852), William T. Thornton (1813-1880), an English economist, proposed that unused land be purchased by the g...
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119,66 zł |
Eating Bitterness: New Perspectives on China's Great Leap Forward and Famine
ISBN: 9780774817271 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the Great Leap Forward. Eating Bitterness reveals how men and women in rural and urban settings experienced the changes brought on by the party leaders' attempts to modernize China. This landmark volume lifts the curtain of party propaganda to expose the suffering of citizens and the deeply-contested nature of state-society relations in Maoist China. When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that "not even one person shall die of hunger." Yet some 30 million pea... |
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171,61 zł |
Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West
ISBN: 9780199837083 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer of Beijing. Not so, writes Edward Steinfeld. In this fascinating book, Steinfeld asserts that China's growth actually enhances Western commercial supremacy. By seeking to realize its dream of modernization by integrating itself into the Western economic order, China is playing by our rules, reinforcing the dominance of our companies and regulatory institutions. Indeed, China has in many ways handed over--outsourced--the remaking of its domestic economy and domestic...
Conventional wisdom holds that China's burgeoning economic power has reduced the United States to little more than a customer of Beijing. Not so, writ...
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137,75 zł |
Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments: Policy-Making and Multi-Level Interactions
ISBN: 9780230360525 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.
This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governmen...
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194,08 zł |
The Making of Informal States: Statebuilding in Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria
ISBN: 9780230360594 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the cases of Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria, the author examines state-building as practiced by informal states. Exploring symbolic and economic dimensions of state-building projects and using insights from political sociology, she investigates how they function under circumstances of non-recognition.
Using the cases of Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria, the author examines state-building as practiced by informal states. Exploring symbolic and econ...
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194,08 zł |
Going South: Why Britain Will Have a Third World Economy by 2014
ISBN: 9780230392540 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibit the features of a 'developing country'; chronic debt, volatile growth and vulnerability to external events. Going South explains how this has happened, arguing that the time for quick fixes is over.
With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. This book examines how the leader of the industrial revolution came to exhibit t...
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108,66 zł |
Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States: Essays
ISBN: 9781610391528 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection of recent writings on the global financial situation, Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, presents his views and analysis of key economic policy choices leading up to, during, and following the financial crisis of 2008-2009.
In this collection of recent writings on the global financial situation, Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management, presents his views and analysis of ...
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145,30 zł |
Designing Public Procurement Policy in Developing Countries: How to Foster Technology Transfer and Industrialization in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9781461414414 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents effective strategies for developing countries to leverage their public sector demand for manufactured imports to promote industrialization, trade, and technology transfer. Technology transfer and its absorption is considered one of the most crucial and complicated challenges for developing countries, which are characterized by insufficient infrastructure, low technological intensity of the domestic capital stock, and high levels of manufactured imports. Which strategies and policy tools can governments employ to link demand with technology transfer, thereby enhancing... This book presents effective strategies for developing countries to leverage their public sector demand for manufactured imports to promote industr... |
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388,20 zł |
Public Service Efficiency: Reframing the Debate
ISBN: 9780415501347 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focused on the costs of service delivery, governments across the world have introduced a series of business like practices - from performance management to public-private partnership - in the belief that these will increase the efficiency of their public services. However, both the debate about public service efficiency and the policies and practices introduced to advance it, have developed without a coherent account of what efficiency means in this... The current economic and political climate places ever greater pressure on public organizations to deliver services in a cost-efficient way. Focuse... |
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706,63 zł |
Sustainability Assessment : Pluralism, practice and progress
ISBN: 9780415598484 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some countries, strongly recommended in others, a comprehensive analysis of why Sustainability Assessment is needed and clarification of the value-laden and political nature of assessments is long overdue. Currently the writing on the subject is limited and comprises, for the most part, guidance documents and completed assessments. This book overcomes these shortcomings by simultaneously providing the knowledge, inspiration and range of assessment...
Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some...
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858,05 zł |
New Security Frontiers: Critical Energy and the Resource Challenge
ISBN: 9781409419792 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The globalizing world is increasingly confronting a new category of security issues related to resource availability. The resource environment contains both traditional categories, such as energy, foodstuffs, and water, as well as new technologically related resources, such as rare earth minerals. The essays in this volume emphasize both the uniqueness and the magnitude of these new challenges, while simultaneously acknowledging that cooperation and competition in response to these security concerns occur within the context of both the historical and contemporary international power...
The globalizing world is increasingly confronting a new category of security issues related to resource availability. The resource environment contain...
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706,63 zł |
Hong Kong & South China: The Economic Synergy
ISBN: 9789629370152 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asks questions like: what is the nature and trend of trade and investment within the CEA and within Greater Hong Kong; what are the barriers to the economic integration of the CEA; and, what policies should be pursued to enhance economic integration.
This book asks questions like: what is the nature and trend of trade and investment within the CEA and within Greater Hong Kong; what are the barriers...
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95,37 zł |
Crafting an African Security Architecture: Addressing Regional Peace and Conflict in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781409403258 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The humanitarian crises caused by civil conflicts and wars in Africa are too great in scope for an adequate and effective continental response. The founding of the African Union and the drafting of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine, the basis for collective action against genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity makes this a critical time to reflect on how best to address regional conflicts. This book responds to new regional conflicts over health, water, land and food security in the world's poorest, most socially fragmented continent. The work assesses African regional...
The humanitarian crises caused by civil conflicts and wars in Africa are too great in scope for an adequate and effective continental response. The fo...
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656,16 zł |
Informations-Management Für Technische Dienstleistungen: Möglichkeiten Und Grenzen Eines Indikatorgestützten Planungsinformatiossystems
ISBN: 9783824467563 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Autor zeigt Moglichkeiten und Grenzen des Informationsmanagements bei technischen Dienstleistungen auf. Basierend auf einer Diagnose der vorhandenen Informationsgrundlage entwickelt der Autor Indikatoren fur die Analyse und Prognose der Markte fur technische Dienstleistungen."
Der Autor zeigt Moglichkeiten und Grenzen des Informationsmanagements bei technischen Dienstleistungen auf. Basierend auf einer Diagnose der vorhanden...
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181,39 zł |
Canada: What It Is, What It Can Be
ISBN: 9781442644656 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canadians have achieved an enviable balance of economic prosperity and civic harmony, but as emerging countries like China, India, and Brazil take their place alongside developed economies, we cannot be complacent. Our high paying jobs, world-class learning and research institutes, excellent health care, and social safety nets exist only to the extent that we are innovative and competitive globally. Canada: What It Is, What It Can Be provides an incisive examination of this country's increasing prosperity gap - the difference in value between what we do create and what we... Canadians have achieved an enviable balance of economic prosperity and civic harmony, but as emerging countries like China, India, and Brazil take ... |
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176,66 zł |
The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa
ISBN: 9780198705437 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us about the diversity and the commonalities?
The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa is a definitive and comprehensive account of the key issues and topics affecting Africa's ability to grow and develop. It includes 53 thematic and 48 country perspectives by a veritable who's who of more than 100 leading economic analysts of Africa. The contributors include: bright new African researchers based in Africa; renowned academics from the... Africa is a diverse continent. But is there a pattern to the diversity? Are there commonalities across the countries? And what does economics tell us ...
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274,07 zł |
The Sustainable Economics of Elinor Ostrom: Commons, Contestation and Craft
ISBN: 9780415641746 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the 21st century - from tackling climate change, to maintaining cyberspace. In this book, Derek Wall critically examines Ostrom's work, while also exploring the following questions: is it possible to combine insights rooted in methodological individualism with a theory that stresses collectivist solutions? Is Ostrom's emphasis on largely local solutions to climate change relevant to a crisis propelled by global factors? This volume situates her ideas...
Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning work on common pool property rights has implications for some of the most pressing sustainability issues of the 21...
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731,87 zł |