Enhancing Development Assistance to Africa: Lessons from Scaling-Up Scenarios, Andrew Berg, Pedro Conceicao, Jose Saul Lizondo, Matthew Gaertner, Jan Gottschalk, Brett E. House
Автор: Seung Ho Park; Gerardo R. Ungson; Andrew Cosgrove Название: Scaling the Tail: Managing Profitable Growth in Emerging Markets ISBN: 1137543531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137543530 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 55890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book presents a framework for a different type of profitable growth for multinational companies in emerging markets: "scaling the tail." This model focuses on specialized market niches, flanking particular segments and product-categories, developing deeply nuanced localization strategies, and installing supportive management systems.
Автор: Niko A. Hobdari, Vina Nguyen, Salvatore Dell`Erba, Edgardo Ruggiero Название: Lessons for Effective Fiscal Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa ISBN: 1484358260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781484358269 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Fiscal decentralization is becoming a pressing issue in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, reflecting demands for a greater local voice in spending decisions and efforts to strengthen social cohesion. Against this backdrop, this paper seeks to distill the lessons for an effective fiscal decentralization reform, focusing on the macroeconomic aspects.
Globalization and telecoupling are enhancing the complexity of the coupled socio-ecological system constituted by the interaction between the global ecosphere and the anthroposphere. As a result, the demand for tools to identify transformative innovations, assess future risks, and support precautionary decisions for sustainability is growing by the day in business and politics. Scenarios are a means of simplification, reducing the real-world complexity to a limited number of essential factors to analyze their interactions and support policy formulation, with indicators as communication and monitoring tools.
In particular, in a time of "fake news" and "alternative truths" a critical reflection amongst producers and users of scenarios and indicators is overdue--the capability for critical self-reflection is what distinguishes science from pseudo-science, and is a condition of trust.
The authors of this book test established measurement and modeling approaches against new challenges, assess the weaknesses of prevailing innovation theories and the political-ideological embedment of archetypical scenarios, highlight deficits in taking the physical basics into account, and the need to understand global interaction and the stepwise process of energy transitions, point out technical as well as conceptual weaknesses in data collection, harmonization and indicator generation, always with a view to solving problems.
Автор: Zhu Da, Patella Dominic Pasquale, Steinmetz Roland Название: Bhutan Electric Vehicle Initiative: Scenarios, Implications, and Economic Impact ISBN: 1464807418 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464807411 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: As the country that inspires the world with 'gross national happiness' development philosophy, Bhutan is striving to pursue its economic growth while committing to its core values of inclusive and green development. Even with robust economic growth rates, Bhutan's dependence on imports and hydropower revenues drives the country to search for self-reliant option to fuel the economy while further decarbonizing the economy. Electric vehicle is being explored as one of the key policies to introduce green mobility, reduce fossil fuel imports and put the country firmly on a green growth path. Globally, electric vehicles market and technology are still in the nascent stage but are developing rapidly. The automotive industry has adopted electrification as a pillar of future drive train technology. EV uptake is expected to increase significantly with ongoing improvements in technology and resulting cost decreases in the global market. This report aims to help Bhutan think through various technical and policy issues of introducing electric vehicles in its own context. It analyses a variety of factors that will impact adoption of electric vehicles from technical, market and financial feasibility to consumer awareness and stakeholders' capacity. It also addresses several policy questions which are at the heart of public debate such as affordability of the government to undertake the program, economic costs and benefits, distributional impact, fiscal, and macroeconomic implications. Drawing from vast international experiences, the report examines in great technical details how global cutting-edge technology like electric vehicles could be pursued in the context of developing economies with different socio-economic characteristics and constraints compared to advanced economies. It will help readers better grasp the technical, financial, economic and social challenges as well as opportunities in initiating electric vehicles program and provide practical recommendations that will be useful for policy makers in designing their own EV initiative.
Название: How Strategic Environmental Assessment Can Influence Power Development Plans: Comparing Alternative Energy Scenarios for Power Planning in the Greater Mekong Subregion ISBN: 9292546732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292546731 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 17550.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The demand for power in the Greater Mekong Subregion is expected to triple by 2025. This could be reduced by about 15% if energy efficiency measures are incorporated, according to projections put forward in this publication. Other projections involving energy are also included in the publication, which assesses the impacts of alternative directions for the development of the power sector in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Recommendations are also offered to minimize and mitigate harmful impacts in the power sector.
Автор: Roberta Capello; Roberto P. Camagni; Barbara Chizz Название: Modelling Regional Scenarios for the Enlarged Europe ISBN: 3642094201 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642094200 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 163040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Tackling the question of what the European territory will look like over the next fifteen years, this volume provides quali-quantitative territorial scenarios for the enlarged Europe, under different assumptions on future globalisation strategies of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and East and West European countries.
Автор: Karim Barhoumi, Larry Cui, Christine Dieterich, Nicolas End, Matteo Ghilardi, Alexander Raabe, Sergio Sola Название: Make Investment Scaling-Up Work in Benin: A Macro-Fiscal Analysis ISBN: 1513571478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781513571478 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4620.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Conducts a systematic growth and fiscal analysis to determine the growth potential of Benin`s ambitious scaling-up of investment, and how the government can generate the necessary fiscal space needed to increase investment without jeopardizing Benin`s solid macroeconomic performance.
Автор: Malangu Kabedi-Mbuyi, Mame Astou Diouf, Constant Lonkeng Ngouana Название: Walking a Fine Line: Public Investment Scaling-Up and Debt Sustainability in Burkina Faso ISBN: 1498358535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498358538 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This paper analyses the macroeconomics of scaling up public investment in Burkina Faso under alternative financing options, including through foreign aid and a combination of tax adjustment and borrowing. Our findings are twofold: (1) raising official development assistance in line with the Gleneagles agreement provides scope for financing public investment at low cost and would have positive, but somewhat moderate, effects on aggregate output—the growth dividends in the nontradables sector would be partially offset by the Dutch disease in the tradables sector; and (2) the massive investment scaling-up contemplated under Burkina Faso’s “accelerated growth” strategy, while boosting medium- and long-term growth, would lead to unsustainable debt dynamics under a plausible tax adjustment and realistic concessional financing. A more gradual approach to closing Burkina Faso’s infrastructure gap is therefore desirable because it would take into account the needed time for the country to address its capacity constraints and to further improve investment efficiency.
Автор: Kulichenko Natalia, Wirth Jens Название: Concentrating Solar Power in Developing Countries: Regulatory and Financial Incentives for Scaling Up ISBN: 0821396072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821396070 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 23100.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: At present, different concentrating solar thermal technologies (CST) have reached varying degrees of commercial availability. This emerging nature of CST means that there are market and technical impediments to accelerating its acceptance, including cost competitiveness, an understanding of technology capability and limitations, intermittency, and benefits of electricity storage. Many developed and some developing countries are currently working to address these barriers in order to scale up CST-based power generation. Given the considerable growth of CST development in several World Bank Group partner countries, there is a need to assess the recent experience of developed countries in designing and implementing regulatory frameworks and draw lesson that could facilitate the deployment of CST technologies in developing countries. Merely replicating developed countries’ schemes in the context of a developing country may not generate the desired outcomes. Against this background, this report (a) analyzes and draws lessons from the efforts of some developed countries and adapts them to the characteristics of developing economies; (b) assesses the cost reduction potential and economic and financial affordability of various CST technologies in emerging markets; (c) evaluates the potential for cost reduction and associated economic benefits derived from local manufacturing; and (d) suggests ways to tailor bidding models and practices, bid selection criteria, and structures for power purchase agreements (PPAs) for CST projects in developing market conditions.|Security sector reform (SSR) is widely recognized as key to conflict prevention, peace-building, sustainable development, and democratization. SSR has gained most practical relevance in the context of post-conflict reconstruction of so-called ""failed states'"" and states emerging from violent internal or inter-state conflict. As this volume shows, almost all states need to reform their security sectors to a greater or lesser extent, according to the specific security, political and socio-economic contexts, as well as in response to the new security challenges resulting from globalization and post-9/11 developments. <br><br> <i>Alan Bryden</i> is a researcher at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. <i>Heiner Hnggi</i> is assistant director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
Автор: P. Bloom; E. Skloot Название: Scaling Social Impact ISBN: 1349288926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349288922 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 46570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems on a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way. In Scaling Social Impact , the editors address this issue with a comprehensive collection of original papers.
Автор: K. Ishikawa Название: National Building and Development Assistance in Africa ISBN: 0333720806 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333720806 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 139750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: But Kaoru Ishikawa`s analysis of Africa`s history and its political and economic development suggests that a brighter future is in prospect for the nations of Africa.
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