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  • Sin Tax Reform in the Philippines

    Transforming Public Finance, Health, and Governance for More Inclusive Development

    by Kai Kaiser, Caryn Bredenkamp, Roberto Iglesias ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Countries and Regions
    Excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol products can be an effective instrument for promoting public health through the curbing of smoking and excessive drinking, while raising significant financing for development priorities. Designed and implement well, excise taxes represent a win-win for public health and finances. While the public policy rationale for excise reforms is strong in both developed ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Power of Public Investment Management

    Transforming Resources Into Assets for Growth

    by Anand Rajaram, Kai Kaiser, Tuan Minh Le, Jay-Hyung Kim, Jonas Frank ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Public Sector Governance
    Unlock the Power of Public Investment for Economic Growth. This book provides a clear, nontechnical discussion on approaches to improving public investment management, ensuring resources are transformed into valuable assets. It identifies eight key institutional features that countries need to adopt to ensure that public investments support sustainable growth and development.Explore strategies for ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rents to Riches?: The Political Economy of Natural Resource-Led Development

    by Naazneen Barma, Kai Kaiser, Tuan Minh Le, Lorena Viñuela ...
    This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management. From the perspective of public interest or good governance, many resource-dependent developing countries pursue apparently short-sighted and sub-optimal policies in relation to the extraction and capture of resource rents, and to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World

    by Aaron Hurst ...
    A series of shifts are happening in our economy: Millennials are trading in conventional career paths to launch tech start-ups, start small businesses that are rooted in local communities, or freelance their expertise. We are sharing everything, from bikes and cars, to extra rooms in our homes. We now create, buy and sell handcrafted products in our local communities with ease. Globally ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Looting Machine

    Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

    by Tom Burgis ...
    An “impressive” (Wall Street Journal) exposé of twenty-first century individuals and companies who have become obscenely rich from the resource trade in AfricaAfrica is the world’s poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. In The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis takes readers on a gripping journey into the world of the magnates and militiamen, the despots and jet-setting executives who gorge on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Digital Transformation Playbook

    Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age

    by David Rogers ...
    Rethink your business for the digital age.Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy?Globally recognized digital expert David L. Rogers argues that digital transformation is not about updating your technology but about upgrading your strategic thinking. Based on Rogers's decade of research and teaching at Columbia ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Ecosystem Services and River Basin Ecohydrology

    Edited by Luis Chicharo, Felix Müller, Nicola Fohrer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an integrated analysis of the methodologies and main processes occurring at the entire river basin, from upstream until the coast, by merging the biological and hydrological processes with the social and economic components, thus providing an integrated framework for river basin management, integrating the ecohydrology approach with the ecosystem services concept. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Art of Change

    by John Reid, Maureen Gallagher ...
    Think about what your organization could do if the process of planning met the inevitability of change head onand it resulted in significant success. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Climate - Vegetation:

    Afro-Asian Mediterranean and Red Sea Coastal Lands

    by M.A. Zahran ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.Yet while there are many books on the flora of the countries fringing the important desert countries of the Mediterranean and Red ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-food Sector

    Case Studies, Methodological Issues and Best Practices

    Edited by Pietro A. Renzulli, Bruno Notarnicola, Luigia Petti, Roberta Salomone, Alessandro K. Cerutti, Rocco Roma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book presents an overview of the International practices and state-of-the-art of LCA studies in the agri-food sector, both in terms of adopted methodologies and application to particular products; the final purpose is to characterise and put order within the methodological issues connected to some important agri-food products (wine, olive oil, cereals and derived products, meat and fruit) and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainable Future for Human Security

    Environment and Resources

    Edited by Benjamin McLellan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on the environmental components of sustainability, including aspects of resourcing and the environmental impacts of human societies. Marine and tropical forest ecosystems, food security and other natural resources, as well as technologies for the environmental control of societal impacts are examined. This volume is multi-disciplinary, but with a consistent focus on the natural ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Food Waste and Sustainable Food Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region

    by Walter Leal Filho, Marina Kovaleva ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work presents the findings of an extensive study on the state-of-the-art regarding the problem of food waste in Belarus, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden. The results show that the problem of food waste can be found at different levels in each country and that our knowledge of it is limited by the current lack of studies in the area. The problem is primarily due to food ... Read more

    $89.99 USD