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  • Disrupted

    Strategy for Exponential Change

    by Larry Quick, David Platt ...
    “People don’t get exponential” - Nicholas NegroponteIn the next 5 years, global Machine-to-Machine connections will grow by 400% from 5 billion to over 20 billion. In the past six years Uber has grown from a mere app to a 50 billion-dollar business. The driverless electric car is a reality, and the noxious methane gas that once escaped the Artic Ocean in meter-wide plumes now bubbles out of the ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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    Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness

    by Alan Garner ...
    Learn the secrets of effective communication from the most popular book in the world for teaching conversation skills – almost one million copies sold!Fully updated for the 2020s, Conversationally Speaking provides proven communication strategies, based on hundreds of research studies, as well as the authors' own experience teaching conversation workshops. Now you can use this expertise to get ... Read more

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  • Development Cooperation

    Challenges of the New Aid Architecture

    by S. Klingebiel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genuine interest in assisting countries in their processes of development. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Methods to Analyse Agricultural Commodity Price Volatility

    Edited by Isabelle Piot-Lepetit, Robert M'Barek ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the issue of price volatility in agricultural commodities markets and how this phenomenon has evolved in recent years. The factors underlying the price spike of 2007-08 appear to be global and macroeconomic in nature, including the rapid growth in demand by developing countries, the international financial crisis, and exchange rate movements. Some of these factors are new, ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Experiences and Challenges in the Development of the Chinese Capital Market

    Edited by Douglas Cumming, Alessandra Guariglia, Wenxuan Hou, Edward Lee ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The focus of the global economy has increasingly shifted toward China and emerging countries. However, despite their high growth prospects, emerging economies often lack the sound capital market and corporate governance systems necessary to promote the efficient allocation of financial resources to maintain the confidence of capital providers. As China becomes more prominent economically, the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Environment Operational Directions 2013-2020

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    In the context of Strategy 2020 and in the follow-up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), ADB prepared the report Environment Operational Directions, 2013–2020. The report aims to provide a coherent overview of its environment operations and to articulate how it will step up efforts to help the region achieve a transition to environmentally sustainable growth or ... Read more

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  • No More Free Lunch

    Reflections on the Cuban Economic Reform Process and Challenges for Transformation

    Edited by Ricardo Torres Pérez, Claes Brundenius ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In September 2010, the Cuban government decided to embark on an economic reform program, unprecedented after the Revolution in 1959. This opened up opportunities for Cuban economists and scholars to participate in the development of the reform program. Thanks to grants from SSRC (Social Sciences Research Council, New York) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several researchers from the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Universities, Inclusive Development and Social Innovation

    An International Perspective

    Edited by Claes Brundenius, Bo Göransson, José Manoel Carvalho de Mello ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book examines the ways in which universities can play a crucial role in inclusive development, social innovation and social entrepreneurship. It aims to prove the importance of inclusive development and inclusive innovation on economic growth and demonstrate the ways in which universities can be pioneers in this area through initiatives in social responsibility and social innovation. For ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Economic Diversification and Growth in Africa

    Critical Policy Making Issues

    by Omotunde E. G. Johnson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a coherent framework for assessing economic policy making in developing countries, with special reference to those in Africa. The chapters focus on policy making issues in three critical areas that are of major importance in the African context: capacity building for domestic resource mobilization; regional integration in Africa and intra-regional trade; and export ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

    Themes and Case Studies

    Edited by Melinda Smale, Marc Cohen ...
    Series series Development in Practice Books
    This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people. In ... Read more

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  • Turning Learning into Action

    A Proven Methodology for Effective Transfer of Learning

    by Emma Weber ...
    Learning transfer is the missing link in training. Using conventional approaches to training, an average of just 10-20% of learning makes it back into the workplace and contributes to better business outcomes. With the current increased emphasis on efficiency and cost-effectiveness, such a dismal record is no longer acceptable. To improve these statistics and to make training truly valuable we ... Read more

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  • The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution

    Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests

    by Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon, Rosamond L. Naylor ...
    Global production of soybeans and palm oil has increased enormously in the tropics over the last two decades. The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution provides a broad synthesis of the major supply and demand drivers in their production; their economic, social, and environmental impacts; and the future outlook to 2050. The planting of these crops is controversial because they are often sown on formerly ... Read more

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