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Industrial Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Rethinking the Role of the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Most governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region use trade policy to protect certain industries, provide tax incentives to promote a particular type of investment, and make subsidized credit available to firms of a certain size. Such government intervention, known as industrial policy,...
by Mister Average
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
I am an erotica author.Every month when I am paid for my global sales by US companies I have withholding tax taken out by US tax authorities.But much of the tax they are taking from me is really for sales that I, a non US citizen, have made to readers in Australia, or Sweden or one of another hundred...
by World Bank Publications
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
This Toolkit provides an overall framework with practical tools and information to help policymakers design and implement corporate governance reforms for state-owned enterprises. It covers the key elements of corporate governance, including legal and regulatory framework, state ownership arrangements,...
California Dreaming
Lessons on How to Resolve America's Public Pension Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
California’s unfunded public pension liability, when measured correctly, is two to four times larger than official government estimates. In total, California’s 86 defined-benefit public pension plans are underfunded by roughly $430 billion, representing California’s greatest financial challenge...
Real-World Electronic Voting
Design, Analysis and Deployment
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Real-World Electronic Voting: Design, Analysis and Deployment captures all major developments in electronic voting since 2003 in a real-world setting. It covers three broad categories: e-voting protocols, attacks reported on e-voting and new developments on the use of e-voting. This book explores recent...
by Susan Custard
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Managing the Maze--Your Guide to Position Management is the third book in the series by author Susan Custard. Bringing more than 30 years of Federal human resources experience to her work, Custard helps managers and Human Resource Directors to execute highly successful programs within the Federal...
Using Evidence to Inform Policy
Report of Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok. Over 200 scholars, practitioners and policy makers...
Philippines
Country Procurement Assessment Report 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Proper public procurement practices directly reflect good governance. Transparent and effective procurement practices minimize expenditure and create opportunity. Procurement is an enormous component in the process by which governments build infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals. It involves...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Under the joint initiative of the Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), "Mainstreaming PPPs in India," ADB supports state public–private partnership (PPP) cells in several challenging sectors in state-specific activities to arrive at possible PPP structures. In Maharashtra,...
Corporate Sustainability
The Next Steps Towards a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book focuses on corporate sustainability and how it evolves through innovation and new business models. Despite what has been accomplished to date, there is an urgent need for further steps to be taken and this book presents a nuanced but compelling plea for collaboration between businesses,...
by Bob Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Classic COR/COTR Reference Updated!
Incorporating the most important changes to regulations affecting federal acquisition, this third edition of The COR/COTR Answer Book remains the “go to” reference for CORs, COs, and other acquisition professionals.
Included in this third edition are:
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Maturity Models - Transition Economics
Sustainable Societies Series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Proven, mature government policies sustain good lives and societies at the same time that they bolster economic growth in 95% of countries that adopt them; 80% of countries that do not are in a collapse-trending today as well. Transition Economics Maturity Models describe what are the important measurable...
Transition Economics - The Science of Sustainability
Sustainable Societies Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Where contemporary economics teaches theories about what an economy might do, Transition Economics (TE) teaches what an economy actually does. TE is the transparent and understandable science approach to building sustainable economies and an American Dream. Americans had the dream and 1960 and 5%...
Democracy on the Edge
A Discussion of Political Issues in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
9/11 changed my life. I remember I was at work preparing for a meeting when I heard the news. At first I thought it was an accident until the second plane hit the tower. What on earth had happened! I was totally distraught; how could anyone hate Americans so much that they would kill 3,000 people? Over the...