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  • Insuring Against Climate Change

    The Emergence of Regional Catastrophe Risk Pools

    by Nikolas Scherer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    This book provides one of the first systematic in-depth studies on regional catastrophe risk pools. It explores the various goals of these new financial instruments, illustrating how they function on a conceptual, technical and practical level, and reconstructs their political genesis.With climate-related disasters increasing in frequency and severity, Insuring Against Climate Change explores how ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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  • Policy Analysis

    Concepts and Practice

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through ... Read more

    $206.99 CAD

  • Public Financial Management and Its Emerging Architecture

    by M. Mr. Cangiano, Teresa Ms. Curristine, Michel Mr. Lazare ...
    The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed an influx of innovations and reforms in public financial management. The current wave of reforms is markedly different from those in the past, owing to the sheer number of innovations, their widespread adoption, and the sense that they add up to a fundamental change in the way governments manage public money. This book takes stock of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Outsourcing Economics

    Global Value Chains in Capitalist Development

    by William Milberg, Deborah Winkler ...
    Outsourcing Economics has a double meaning. First, it is a book about the economics of outsourcing. Second, it examines the way that economists have understood globalization as a pure market phenomenon, and as a result have 'outsourced' the explanation of world economic forces to other disciplines. Markets are embedded in a set of institutions - labor, government, corporate, civil society, and ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • Myanmar

    Unlocking the Potential

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Country Diagnostic Studies
    After 3 years of historic reforms, Myanmar has entered a pivotal stage in its socioeconomic development. Natural, cultural, and demographic advantages are positioning the country for long-term success, but many challenges and potential pitfalls lie ahead. This publication examines how to leverage the opportunities and offers solutions to the challenges. For Myanmar to achieve its economic ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The International Handbook of Public Financial Management

    Edited by Richard Allen, Richard Hemming, B. Potter ...
    The Handbook is a virtual encyclopedia of public financial management, written by topmost experts, many with a background in the IMF and World Bank. It provides the first comprehensive guide to the subject that has been published in more than ten years. The book is aimed at a broad audience of academics/students, government officials, development agencies and practitioners. It covers both bread ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Government Budgeting and Expenditure Controls: Theory and Practice

    by A. Premchand ...
    This book, written by A. Premchand, offers a comprehensive review of fiscal policies and their implications for budgeting and expenditure controls. It provides an in-depth discussion of techniques, procedures, and processes of budgeting with illustrative material drawn from the experiences of industrial and developing countries. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Safeguarding Land Tenure Rights in the Context of Agricultural Investment

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This guide has been developed in response to concerns regarding large-scale land acquisitions and the need to increase investment in agriculture. The guide supports application of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure for Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security at the national level by providing technical guidance on how to safeguard tenure ... Read more

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  • Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management

    Principles and International Practice

    by Salvatore Schiavo-Campo ...
    The government budget should be the financial mirror of society's choices. Yet most people view budgeting as the epitome of eye-glazing subjects, rarely explained in a way that is understandable to the non-specialist and too often presented without adequate consideration of a country’s governance and institutional capacity. Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management fills a gap in the ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Doing Business in ASEAN Markets

    Leadership Challenges and Governance Solutions across Asian Borders

    Edited by Peter Verhezen, Ian Williamson, Mark Crosby, Natalia Soebagjo ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The authors of this important book analyse the pitfalls and risks of doing business in ASEAN countries that are mostly absent in Western markets, covering various strategic, external, operational, and legal-cultural challenges for international companies. Doing Business in ASEAN Emerging Markets crucially addresses how to resolve those barriers. Encompassing issues of governance and leadership ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy

    Edited by Henry Peter, Giedre Lideikyte Huber ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy ventures into a territory that is still widely unexplored. It contains 30 academic contributions that aim to provide a better understanding of whether, why, and how philanthropic initiatives, understood as voluntary contributions for the common good, can and should be fostered by states through tax incentives. The topic has been addressed from a ... Read more

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  • Democratizing Finance

    Edited by Fred Block, Robert Hockett ...
    What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few?Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue that an entirely different financial system is both desirable and possible. They outline concrete steps that could get us there. Financial systems move the worlds savings from investment to investment, chasing the highest rates of return. They run on ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD