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  • The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability

    by Omar Arias, David K. Evans, Indhira Santos ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Despite strong recent economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa has levels of economic transformation, poverty reduction, and skill development far below those of other regions. Smart investments in developing skills—aligned with the policy goals of productivity growth, inclusion, and adaptability—can help to accelerate the region's economic transformation in the 21st century. Sub-Saharan Africa's ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability

    by Omar Arias, David K. Evans, Indhira Santos ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Despite strong recent economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa has levels of economic transformation, poverty reduction, and skill development far below those of other regions. Smart investments in developing skills—aligned with the policy goals of productivity growth, inclusion, and adaptability—can help to accelerate the region’s economic transformation in the 21st century. Sub-Saharan Africa’s ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Dark Pirate

    by David K. Evans ...
    The Dark Pirate quickly captures its readers, wrapping them in the ago-old dramas of intense greed, cruelty, rape, murder, and bitter-sweet romance. David K. Evans crafts a tight plot with vivid glimpses of the turbulent 1700s; a time when the Caribbean island of Roatn was the rendezvous for Brethren of the Coast - lusty, hard-living pirates of the Western Caribbean.Seen through the eyes of Peter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    How to Legislate for the Long Term

    by Nicholas Chesterley ...
    In the decades preceding COVID-19 there were nine pandemics or near-pandemics, from SARS to Ebola. Despite this turbulent recent history, many governments were unprepared for the recent pandemic and remain ill-equipped for the next.Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face will increasingly play out over the long term. Climate change is accelerating, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cay

    by Theodore Taylor ...
    For fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor’s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay.Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.When Phillip comes to, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Good Enough for Government Work

    The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

    by Amy E. Lerman ...
    American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens—Republicans and Democrats alike—hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job managing public programs and providing public services. When social problems arise, Americans are therefore skeptical that the government has the ability ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • World Development Report 2014

    Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had been stagnant for decades are growing, people who had suffered deprivation for generations are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • World Development Report 2013

    Jobs

    by World Bank World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs bring ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fair Blows the Wind (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

    A Novel

    by Louis L'Amour ...
    Series series Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures
    As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man. He invests in trading ventures, but on a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Older Persons' Right to Work and Productive Resources

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    The right to work is a fundamental human right that is universally recognized as an inherent part of human dignity for persons of all ages and essential for the realization of other human rights. It is clear under various human rights standards that steps need to be taken by States and businesses to promote and protect core labor rights such as the right to work, the right to choose employment, ... Read more

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  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom

    by A.C. Crispin ...
    Twenty-five-year-old Jack Sparrow is a clean-cut merchant seaman pursuing a legitimate career as a first mate for the East India Trading Company. He sometimes thinks back to his boyhood pirating days, but he doesn't miss Teague's scrutiny or the constant threat of the noose. Besides, he doesn't have much choice—he broke the Code when he freed a friend who had been accused of rogue piracy, and he ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD