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The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies
SAGE Publications 2012; US$ 150.00An exhaustive, international overview of this broad field with a unique approach that bridges disciplines and moves beyond theoretical discussion to demonstrate how the central concepts can be applied. more...
The Risk of Risk Management Systems
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 69.95Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while believing they are safe and unique. This book presents a risk management framework to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large organizations. It suggests that some groups understand the dynamics of this conformity to their advantage.... more...
Modelling the Survival of Financial and Industrial Enterprises
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 148.00This book analyses the use of modelling in charting the survival of financial and industrial enterprises. The author shows how to use models effectively, and goes on to consider the pitfalls that can occur. The book contains plenty of practical examples, making this a useful 'how to' guide. more...
CFO Insights
Wiley 2006; US$ 65.00"The benefits Carrefour achieved have been substantially in excess of predictions. The Shared Service accounting centers enabled streamlined processes, lowered costs, and introduced standard processes, a standard system, and standard data for a global company. The new infrastructure can support rapid expansion and can add new stores with the flip of... more...
In Pursuit of the Common Good
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00Shameless exploitation has never been more fun nor done more good for more people than when done by Newman?s Own?the first green food company to use all-natural ingredients, and still the most successful. It was 1982 when Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made their foray into local gourmet shops with bottles of their homemade salad dressing. The... more...
Reducing Administrative Barriers to Investment
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 9.99This book describes the recent activities of the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (a joint facility of the IFC and the World Bank) to help governments in developing and transition economies to identify and remove administrative barriers to investment. Lessons learned include the critical need for political will to implement reforms, leadership from... more...
The Role of Communication in Large Infrastructure
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 9.99Infrastructure development in the past was often implemented without adequately taking into consideration the possible negative environmental and social impacts. Drawing from the experience of the Bumbuna Hydropower project in Sierra Leone, this paper proposes to complement safeguard policies by establishing, at the beginning of the project identification... more...
Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation
World Bank Publications 2005; US$ 9.99Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation draws on results of a survey questionnaire conducted among 45 infrastructure regulators in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. It finds that EAP regulators have successfully begun to involve consumers in the regulatory process: consumer representation is a well-established practice in the region;... more...
The Niger River Basin
World Bank Publications 2005; US$ 9.99The Niger River Basin, home to 100 million people, is a vital yet complex asset for West and Central Africa. It is the continents third largest river basin, traversing nine countries -Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte dIvoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. The River embodies both these nations livelihoods and their... more...
Infrastructure at the Crossroads
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 9.99Infrastructure at the Crossroads brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the evolution of the external environment and the Bank's own strategic priorities, and presents lessons about project design and appraisal, poverty... more...









