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Private Utilities and Poverty Alleviation
Edited by Patricia Márquez, Carlos Rufín
Drawing on cases from electricity distribution and other infrastructure industries, and from experiences spanning Asia, Africa and Latin America, this book examines new business models to bring basic utility services to the four billion ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Leadership and Institutions in Regional Endogenous Development
Robert Stimson, Roger R. Stough, Maria Salazar
The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstr...eBook:Find out more$35.96
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Smart Leadership for Higher Education in Difficult Times
Edited by David W. Breneman, Paul J. Yakoboski
As the US economy emerges from the severest recession in a generation, large questions regarding its long-term ramifications for higher education remain unanswered. In fact, the harshest effects of the economic downturn are likely ahead ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age
Edited by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
This compilation of original essays by an international cast of economists, regulators and industry practitioners analyzes some of the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout the world as competition from informat...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound]()
The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound
Edited by Emily Chamlee-Wright, Virgil Henry Storr
In 2005 Hurricane Katrina posed an unprecedented set of challenges to formal and informal systems of disaster response and recovery. Informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this study critically examine ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector
Robert L. Clark, Melinda Sandler Morrill
While retiree health plans are a dying benefit in the private sector, all US states and many local governments extend health insurance coverage to their retired employees. This book is the first to thoroughly examine public sector health...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Fiscal Reforms in the Middle East
Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad, Abdulrazak Al Faris
Although oil windfalls have opened a window of opportunity for the Gulf States, at the same time they have created numerous problems. In particular, the uncertainty associated with periods of boom and bust in the oil market has made the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Towards Effective Place Brand Management
Edited by Gregory Ashworth, Mihalis Kavaratzis
Many facets of place branding, such as identities, image, promotion or sense of place, have been around for a long time. However, the need to analyse their nature in the context of branding and to examine their relationships in detail ha...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![The Elgar Companion to Social Economics]()
The Elgar Companion to Social Economics
Edited by John B. Davis, Wilfred Dolfsma
As this comprehensive Companion demonstrates, social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being e...eBook:Find out more$84.76
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The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2010
Pengfei Ni, Peter Karl Kresl
The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2010 is an empirical study of the competitiveness of 500 cities around the world. This one-of-a-kind annual resource draws on a wealth of data sources, all of which are described and assessed. Us...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Migration and the Globalisation of Health Care
John Connell
The international migration of health workers has been described by Nelson Mandela as the ‘poaching’ of desperately needed skills from under-privileged regions. This book examines the controversial recent history of skilled migration, an...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Higher Education in a Global Society
Edited by D. Bruce Johnstone, Madeleine B. d’Ambrosio, Paul J. Yakoboski
Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines eme...eBook:Find out more$40.00
