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The Economics of Public-Private Partnerships

A Basic Guide

by Eduardo Engel, Ronald D. Fischer, Alexander Galetovic ...

Governments typically build and maintain public infrastructure, which they fund through taxes. But in the past twenty-five years, many developing and advanced economies have introduced public-private partnerships (PPPs), which bundle finance, construction, and operation into a long-term contract with a private firm. In this book, the authors provide a summary of what they believe are the main ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Governments typically build and maintain public infrastructure, which they fund through taxes. But in the past twenty-five years, many developing and advanced economies have introduced public-private partnerships (PPPs), which bundle finance, construction, and operation into a long-term contract with a private firm. In this book, the authors provide a summary of what they believe are the main
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Financializations of Development

Global Games and Local Experiments

Edited by Ève Chiapello, Anita Engels, Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse ...

Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies.In recent years, the development landscape has seen a radical transformation in the partaking actors, which have moved beyond just ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies.In recent years, the development landscape has seen a radical transformation in the partaking actors, which have moved beyond just
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Achieving durable disease resistance in cereals

by Dr Cheng Jiang, Dr Peigao Luo, Dr Claire Kanja, Dr Ana K. Machado Wood, Dr Laura Baggaley, Dr Catherine Walker, Prof Kim Hammond-Kosack, Prof Guihua Bai, Dr Stephen B. Goodwin, Dr Serge Savary, Dr Y. Petit-Houdenot, Dr Marc-Henri Lebrun, Dr G. Scalliet, Prof Harsh Raman, Dr Gayan K. Kariyawasam, Dr Timothy L. Friesen, Dr Min Lin, Dr Morten Lillemo, Prof Ramesh Chand, Dr Sudhir Navathe, Dr Laetitia Willocquet, Dr Sandeep Sharma, Dr Anke Martin, Dr Barsha Poudel, Dr Buddhika Amarasinghe Dahanayaka, Dr Mark S. McLean, Dr Lisle Snyman, Dr Francisco J. Lopez-Ruiz, Dr Karl M. Effertz, Dr Shaun J. Clare, Dr Sarah M. Harkins, Dr Vanessa Bueno-Sancho, Dr Robert Brueggeman, Dr Jerome D. Franckowiak, Dr Gregory J. Platz, Dr Reem Aboukhaddour, Dr Mohamed Hafez, Dr Stephen E. Strelkov, Dr Myriam R. Fernandez, Dr José Mauricio Fernandes, Dr E. M. Del Ponte, Dr J. P. Ascari, Dr Clare M. Lewis, Dr T. J. Krupnik, Dr W. Pavan, Dr F. Vargas, Dr T. Berton, Dr Vincent M. Were, Prof Nicholas J. Talbot, Dr Neil Havis, Dr Douglas Lau, Dr Talita Bernardon Mar, Dr Carlos Diego Ribeiro dos Santos, Dr Diane G. O. Saunders, Dr Eduardo Engel, Dr Paulo Roberto do Valle da Silva Pereira, Dr Torsten Will, Prof Frank Ordon, Dr Dragan Perovic, Dr Christina Cowger, Prof James K. M. Brown, Dr Sarrah Ben M'Barek, Dr Seyed Mahmoud Tabib Ghaffary, Dr Tianheng Ren, Dr Zhi Li, Dr Feiquan Tan, Professor Stephen Wegulo ...

Series Book 106 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Provides an authoritative review of the key developments in achieving durable disease resistance in cereal cropsComprehensive coverage of the major diseases that affect cereal crops (Fusarium head blight, Septoria tritici blotch, tan spot)Assesses the key challenges in breeding durable disease-resistant cereals faced globally, with dedicated chapters to the regional strategies established by North ... Read more

$211.99 USD

Provides an authoritative review of the key developments in achieving durable disease resistance in cereal cropsComprehensive coverage of the major diseases that affect cereal crops (Fusarium head blight, Septoria tritici blotch, tan spot)Assesses the key challenges in breeding durable disease-resistant cereals faced globally, with dedicated chapters to the regional strategies established by North
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Treating Health Care

How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

by Raisa Deber ...

Series series UTP Insights
Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions
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Exploitation of Fungi

Edited by G. D. Robson, Pieter van West, Geoffrey Gadd ...

Series Book 26 - British Mycological Society Symposia
The fungi are a highly diverse kingdom of eukaryotic microbes. Recent advances in molecular genetics, together with the release of whole genome sequences of an increasing number of fungi, are facilitating their exploitation and commercialisation. Fungi have the ability to secrete large quantities of proteins of commercial value, and their complex secondary metabolic pathways produce a diverse ... Read more

$106.99 USD

The fungi are a highly diverse kingdom of eukaryotic microbes. Recent advances in molecular genetics, together with the release of whole genome sequences of an increasing number of fungi, are facilitating their exploitation and commercialisation. Fungi have the ability to secrete large quantities of proteins of commercial value, and their complex secondary metabolic pathways produce a diverse
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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

$150.99 USD

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
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Plant Defense

Warding off attack by pathogens, herbivores and parasitic plants

by Dale Walters ...

Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to ... Read more

$81.00 USD

Plant Defense provides an overview of all major aspects of plant defence, including defence against pathogens, parasites, and invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. The book looks at defense mechanisms including structural and chemical defences, and constitutive and inducible defences. Including details of how plants 'sense' attack and how this is communicated within the plant and also to
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of wheat Volume 1

Breeding, quality traits, pests and diseases

by Dr Jacques Le Gouis, Prof Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Prof. Martin A. J. Parry, João Paulo Pennacchi, Luis Robledo-Arratia, Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Xinguo Mao, Delong Yang, Prof Ruilian Jing, Dr D. Z. Skinner, Dr Paula Bramel, Prof. A. S. Ross, Dr Ian Batey, Victoria Ndolo, Prof Trust Beta, Albrecht Serfling, Doris Kopahnke, Antje Habekuss, Fluturë Novakazi, Prof Frank Ordon, Prof. Z. A. Pretorius, Dr Kellye Eversole, M. Ayliffe, R. L. Bowden, L. A. Boyd, R. M. DePauw, Y. Jin, R. E. Knox, R. A. McIntosh, R. F. Park, R. Prins, E. S. Lagudah, Jane Rogers, Volker Mohler, Mohan Kohli, Prof. James Anderson, Dr Indu Sharma, Pramod Prasad, Subhash C. Bhardwaj, Dr Marion O. Harris, J. Jacob, Prof Beat Keller, Dr P. R. Brown, Guiping Yan, Kirk Anderson, M El-Bouhssini, Frank Peairs, Steven Xu, Prof. Sanford D. Eigenbrode, Sarina Macfadyen, Dr Abie Horrocks, Rudi Appels, Melanie Davidson, Paul Horne, Jessica Page, Dr Neil Harker, John O'Donovan, Breanne Tidemann, Catherine Feuillet, Dr Alison R. Bentley, Ian Mackay, Professor Gary L. Hein, Professor Hermann Buerstmayr, Professor Stephen Wegulo ...

Series Book 5 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases together with ways of controlling them such as disease-resistant varieties, integrated pest and ... Read more

$220.99 USD

Discusses ways of ensuring genetic diversity, advances in wheat breeding and their use to improve properties such as drought resistance and cold tolerance;Summarises research on factors affecting nutritional and other aspects of wheat quality;Reviews advances in understanding wheat pests and diseases together with ways of controlling them such as disease-resistant varieties, integrated pest and
... Read more
Comparative Corporate Governance

Legal Perspectives

by Veronique Magnier ...

Comparative Corporate Governance considers the impact of globalization on corporate governance issues and highlights how, despite the effect it has clearly had, predictions of legal convergence have not come true. By adopting a comparative legal approach, this book explores the tensions that exist between convergence attempts and the persistence of local models of governance in the US, Europe and ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Comparative Corporate Governance considers the impact of globalization on corporate governance issues and highlights how, despite the effect it has clearly had, predictions of legal convergence have not come true. By adopting a comparative legal approach, this book explores the tensions that exist between convergence attempts and the persistence of local models of governance in the US, Europe and
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The Welfare State Revisited

Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...

Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Read more

$57.99 USD

The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the
... Read more
Rice Improvement

Physiological, Molecular Breeding and Genetic Perspectives

Edited by Jauhar Ali, Shabir Hussain Wani ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other environmental constraints. Rice remains the staple food source for a majority of the global populations, but especially in Asia where ninety percent of rice is grown and consumed ... Read more

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other environmental constraints. Rice remains the staple food source for a majority of the global populations, but especially in Asia where ninety percent of rice is grown and consumed
... Read more
Getting Health Reform Right

A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity

by Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, Michael Reich ...

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to ... Read more

$49.99 USD

This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analyzing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience. It offers practical guidance - useful to policymakers, consultants, academics, and students alike - and stresses the need to take account of each country's economic, administrative, and political circumstances. The authors explain how to
... Read more

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