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The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2013
Edited by Pengfei Ni, Peter Karl Kresl, Wei Liu
The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2013 is an empirical study and evaluation of the sustainable competitiveness of 500 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives. This one-of-a-kind resource draws on a ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Benefit–Cost Analyses for Security Policies
Edited by Carol Mansfield, V. K. Smith
Benefit–Cost Analyses for Security Policies describes how to undertake the evaluation of security policies within the framework of benefit–cost analysis and offers a unique contribution to analysis of homeland security regulations in the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Accessibility and Spatial Interaction
Edited by Ana Condeço-Melhorado, Aura Reggiani, Javier Gutiérrez
The concept of accessibility is linked to the level of opportunities available for spatial interaction (flows of people, goods or information) between a set of locations, through a physical and/or digital transport infrastructure network...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Taxation and Development: The Weakest Link?
Edited by Richard M. Bird, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Taxation and Development highlights the importance of better understanding the ways in which taxes and expenditure are linked. Focusing on developing countries, the book argues for a broader approach to the topic, with a secondary focus ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Strategic Public Private Partnerships
David J. Maurrasse
This timely book addresses contemporary and future dynamics of collaboration, combining public, private, and nongovernmental resources at a time when global concerns – ranging from economic insecurity to environmental threats to chronic ...eBook:Find out more$35.20
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Urban Competitiveness and Innovation
Edited by Pengfei Ni, Zheng Qiongjie
Against the backdrop of today’s climate of economic globalization and the rapid development of information, this timely book explores the complex concept of competitiveness between cities. The expert contributors illustrate that innova...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Role of the Postal and Delivery Sector in a Digital Age
Edited by Michael A. Crew, Timothy J. J. Brennan
This volume, the result of the 21st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (Ireland, 2013), describes the continuing problem of the decline of the postal sector in the face of electronic competition and offers strategies for the sur...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Smart Transport Networks
Edited by Thomas Vanoutrive, Ann Verhetsel
Transport is debated by many, and liberalization processes, transport policy, transport and climate change and increased competition between transport modes are the subject of heated discussion. Smart Transport Networks illustrates that ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Work Sharing during the Great Recession
Edited by Jon C. Messenger, Naj Ghosheh
‘Work sharing’ is a labour market instrument devised to distribute a reduced volume of work to the same (or similar) number of workers over a diminished period of working time in order to avoid redundancies. This fascinating and timely s...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Challenge of Local Government Size
Edited by Santiago Lago-Peñas, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Expert contributors in economics and political science offer a comprehensive breakdown of the issue of local jurisdiction fragmentation and provide recommendations for successful policy reform. Topics discussed include economies of scale...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Local Government Finance
UNIDO
This book, compiled from the 2nd Global Report of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) on Decentralization and Local Democracy, analyzes the architecture of fiscal decentralization in one hundred and ten countries as well as in maj... -
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Principles and Standards for Benefit–Cost Analysis
Edited by Scott O. Farrow, Richard Zerbe, Jr.
Benefit–cost analysis informs which policies or programs most benefit society when implemented by governments and institutions around the world. This volume brings together leading researchers and practitioners to recommend strategies an...eBook:Find out more$40.00