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Guidance Note eBook Series

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  • Guidance Note

    Electricity Sector Risk Assessment

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Guidance Note
    The electricity sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness. Risks can spring from the magnitude of the sector's capital investments, opportunities for discretionary decision making and rent seeking by stakeholders, weak policy and regulatory frameworks, capacity weaknesses of sector entities, and inefficient systems. Governance risk vulnerabilities ... Read more

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  • Guidance Note

    Education Sector Risk Assessment

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Guidance Note
    The education sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness. Risks can spring from several factors: substantial share of education in total government expenditure, opportunities for discretionary decision making, political interference and patronage networks, weak sector institutions, and nontransparent and inefficient systems. Vulnerabilities may exist ... Read more

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    by Raphael J. Heffron ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The aim of this short text is simply to introduce a reader to this topic. It is intended for a global audience and rather than being restricted to potential energy law students of a particular country. It is also written for students of other disciplines such as geographers, social scientists and engineers. It should also be engaging to those in a variety of professional practices who want an ... Read more

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  • Power Switch

    Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century

    by G.Bruce Doern, Monica Gattinger ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the energy sector of Canadian economic and political life, power has a double meaning. It is quintessentially about the generation of power and physical energy. However, it is also about political power, the energy of the economy, and thus the overall governance of Canada. Power Switch offers a critical examination of the changing nature of energy regulatory governance, with a particular focus ... Read more

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  • Public Sector Enterprises in India

    The Impact of Disinvestment and Self Obligation on Financial Performance

    by P.K. Jain, Seema Gupta, Surendra S. Yadav ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The book examines the various aspects of non-financial central public sector enterprises (PSEs) in India, for a period from 1986-87 to 2010-11. The analysis is based on all the key financial ratios; namely, profitability, efficiency, liquidity, leverage and productivity.Liberalization and globalization have caused competition in India and have lowered the profit margins. At the same time, Indian ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Military Missions in Democratic Latin America

    by David Pion-Berlin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book demonstrates through country case studies that, contrary to received wisdom, Latin American militaries can contribute productively, but under select conditions, to non-traditional missions of internal security, disaster relief, and social programs. Latin American soldiers are rarely at war, but have been called upon to perform these missions in both lethal and non-lethal ways. Is this ... Read more

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  • The European Union as Crisis Manager

    Patterns and Prospects

    by Arjen Boin, Magnus Ekengren, Mark Rhinard ...
    The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international conflicts, many crises today generate pressures to collaborate across geographical and functional boundaries. What capacities does the EU have to manage such crises? Why and how have these capacities evolved? How do they ... Read more

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  • Regulation of Infrastructure and Utilities

    Public Policy and Management Issues

    by Alberto Asquer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the public policy and management issues that are encountered in the regulation of infrastructure and utilities. Drawing from theoretical arguments and several case studies, the book is divided into three parts, namely devising regulation, installing regulation, and making regulation work. The first part covers theories of regulation, regulatory ... Read more

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  • Technologies for Sustainable Development

    A Way to Reduce Poverty?

    Edited by Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries. Technologies for Sustainable Development brings together the best 20 papers from the 2012 Conference of the EPFL-UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development with the aim to explore and discuss ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa

    Edited by S.N. Nyeck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in ... Read more

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  • Innovating Government

    Normative, Policy and Technological Dimensions of Modern Government

    Edited by Simone van der Hof, Marga M. Groothuis ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Governments radically change under the influence of technology. As a result, our lives in interaction with public sector bodies are easier. But the creation of an electronic government also makes us more vulnerable and dependent. Dependent not just on technology itself, but also on the organizations within government that apply technology, collect and use citizen-related information and often ... Read more

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  • Monetary Policy and the Oil Market

    Edited by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices, including oil prices. However, this book presents a framework for modeling oil prices while incorporating ... Read more

    $49.49 USD