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CSIS Reports eBook Series

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  • Barriers to Bankable Infrastructure

    Incentivizing Private Investment to Fill the Global Infrastructure Gap

    by Helen Moser ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This report discusses the estimated $1 trillion annual global infrastructure gap and provides recommendations on how U.S. agencies and multilateral development banks can better incentivize private-sector investment in global infrastructure. While many private companies are looking to support infrastructure projects with readily available capital, they have not found a viable project pipeline. The ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Transformative Innovation for International Development

    Operationalizing Innovation Ecosystems and Smart Cities for Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction

    by Helen Moser ...
    Series series CSIS Reports
    This study—the result of a collaboration between CSIS and the JICA Research Institute in Japan—reviews U.S. and Japanese public and private approaches to innovation, including building innovation ecosystems and promoting smart cities technology. It also presents two case studies that explore a specific innovative technology and its development impact. First is innovation-enabling platforms, ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

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  • The Immigrant Exodus

    Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent

    by Vivek Wadhwa ...
    A 2012 ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARMany of the United States' most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, and Charles Pfizer to Sergey Brin, Vinod Khosla, and Elon Musk. Nearly half of Fortune 500 companies and one-quarter of all new small businesses were founded by immigrants, generating trillions of dollars annually, employing millions of ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • The Race To The Bottom

    Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards

    by Alan Tonelson ...
    With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Logistics in Lagging Regions: Overcoming Local Barriers to Global Connectivity

    by Kunaka Charles ...
    Small scale producers in developing countries lack easy access to efficient logistics services. They are faced with long distances from both domestic and international markets. Unless they consolidate their trade volumes they face high costs which diminish their ability to trade. However the process of consolidation is not without cost nor does it occur on its own accord. As a result the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Vanishing American Corporation

    Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy

    by Gerald F. Davis ...
    It may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline. The number of American companies listed on the stock market dropped by half between 1996 and 2012. In recent years we've seen some of the most storied corporations go bankrupt (General Motors, Chrysler, Eastman Kodak) or disappear entirely (Bethlehem Steel, Lehman Brothers, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • DK Essential Managers: Globalization

    Opportunities, Multiculturalism, Communicating, Ethics, Strategies

    by Pervez Ghauri, Sarah Powell ...
    Series series DK Essential Managers
    This practical guide gives an overview on the subject and an arsenal of tools on how to do business in a global economy. The world's economic system is being reshaped by a process of change that offers enormous opportunities, but also presents substantial threats to many businesses. Understanding globalization, its drivers, and its many implications is key to recognizing and responding to today's ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Supply-Chain Survival in the Age of Globalization

    by James A. Pope ...
    The purpose of this book is to trace the history of globalization and its impact on supply chain management and to look at the problems and some of the solutions facing global supply chains in the current era. The current challenge is surviving the challenge of global competition. Good supply chain management can be a valuable tool in winning this competition. ... Read more

    $8.39 CAD

  • Fundamentals of Intellectual Property Rights

    For Students, Industrialist and Patent Lawyers

    by Ramakrishna B, Anil Kumar H.S ...
    Be the rightful owner of your creativity before some else commercially owns it. The knowledge of IPR is the key to professional success in the world that competes with commercial creativity. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Customs Modernization Handbook

    by De Wulf Luc ; Sokol Jose B. ...
    Trade integration contributes substantially to economic development and poverty alleviation. In recent years much progress was made to liberalize the trade regime, but customs procedures are often still complex, costly and non-transparent. This situation leads to misallocation of resources. Customs Modernization Handbook provides an overview of the key elements of a successful customs ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Changing Customs: Challenges and Strategies for the Reform of Customs Administration

    by Michael Mr. Keen ...
    This paper, based on the considerable practical experience of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, sets out a successful strategy for modernizing customs administration. The essence is to establish transparent and simple rules and procedures, and to foster voluntary compliance by building a system of self-assessment supported by well-designed audit policies. Having set out this strategy--and its ... Read more

    $13.79 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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