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Maximizing Mobile 2012 Information and Communications for Development
Mobile phones, a rarity in many developing countries at the turn of the century, now seem to be everywhere. Between 2000 and 2012, the number of mobile phones in use world- wide grew from fewer than 1 billion to around 6 billion. The mobile revolution is transforming livelihoods, helping to create new businesses, and changing the way we communi- cate. The mobile phone network is already t…
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- 978-0821389911
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- 384
Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean
This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international lin…
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- 978-1-349-58151-1
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- XXV, 346
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Anchored in Place : Rethinking the University and Development in South Africa
Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contribution of the university to place-based development. This volume is the first in South Africa to engag…
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- 9781928331766
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- 375 BAN a
ICT in Agriculture : Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Inst…
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. What is the most effective planting strategy on steep slopes? Where can I buy the improved seed or feed this year? How can I acquire a land title? Who is paying the highest price at the market…
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- 630 ICT
Microfinance, EU Structural Funds and Capacity Building for Managing Authorities
In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option available. This book presents a study of capacity building and structural funds in public managing authorities for the microcredit sector. It present…
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- 978-1-137-51512-4
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- XXX, 286
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- Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
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Universal Jurisdiction: The Sierra Leone Profile
The doctrine of universal jurisdiction has evolved throughout modern times in the context of global criminal justice as a paramount agent of combating impunity emanating from international criminality. Sierra Leone, as a member of the international community and the United Nations, has, in recent times, been a pioneer in the progressive application and development of international criminal law …
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- 978-94-6265-054-1
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- XX, 141
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Revitalizing Endangered Languages: A Practical Guide
Dari sekitar 7,000 bahasa-bahasa di dunia, setidaknya setengahnya mungkin tidak lagi digunakan pada akhir abad kedua puluh satu.Bahasa terancam oleh sejumlah faktor, termasuk globalisasi, kebijakan pendidikan, dan marginalisasi politik, ekonomi, dan budaya kelompok minoritas. Buku panduan ini memberikan ide dan strategi, serta beberapa latar belakang, untuk membantu revitalisasi bahasa yang ter…
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- 9781108641142
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- T 306.44 OLK r
Advances in Advertising Research (Vol. V): Extending the Boundaries of Advert…
Ivana Bušljeta Banks is a senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Communication at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management. Patrick De Pelsmacker is professor of marketing at the University of Antwerp, part-time professor of marketing at Ghent University (both in Belgium), and visiting professor at the Universities of Lugano, Genève (Switzerland), and IBS Moscow (Russia). Shi…
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- 978-3-658-08132-4
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- XI, 330
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- European Advertising Academy
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- 658 ADV a
The EIB Group Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025
The EIB Group Climate Bank Roadmap 2021-2025 outlines our goals for climate finance that supports the European Green Deal and helps make Europe carbon-neutral by 2050. It maps the next stages in the journey to a sustainable planet and provides a framework to counter climate change.
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Why Vienna gets high marks
This essay reviews the political circumstances and strategic orientations of Vienna's comprehensive urban development policy, and how the EIB's investments facilitated key projects and supported Vienna's process of urban modernisation. Urban development in Vienna took place in four cycles, which are characterised by distinctive internal and external conditions and opportunities. Each prompted d…
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- 9789286138706
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