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The dragon's gift : the real story of china in africa
Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest? Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim? In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in some of the po…
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- 978-0-19-960629-0
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- xv, 397 hlm. : ilus. ; 24 cm
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- 337.5106 BRA T
Making sense of chaos : a better economics for a better world
‘Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on the question of how we can make sense of the data of today to see where the world is going tomorrow. This wonderful book applies these insights to economics, addressing the big global issues of environmental sustainability, and the well-being and prosperity of people around the world’ Max Ros…
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- 978-0-141-98120-8
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- xvix, 362 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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- EKO FAR M
Why a students work for c students : and b students work for the government
In this follow-up to his Rich Dad Poor Dad series, Robert Kiyosaki takes aim at the traditional education system, arguing that it is fundamentally designed to produce employees ("A" students) rather than innovators and entrepreneurs ("C" students). The book serves as a financial handbook for parents, urging them not to rely solely on school reports as an indicator of a child's future success…
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- 978-1-61268-076-7
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- 453 hlm. : ilus. ; 23 cm
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- 370.11 KIY W
Chip war : the fight for the world's most critical technology
Power in the modern world - military, economic, geopolitical - is built on a foundation of computer chips. America has maintained its lead as a superpower because it has dominated advances in computer chips and all the technology that chips have enabled. (Virtually everything runs on chips: cars, phones, the stock market, even the electric grid.) Now that edge is in danger of slipping, undermin…
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- 978-1-3985-0412-7
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- xxvii, 431 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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- POL MIL C
Trade wars are class wars : how rising inequality distorts the global economy…
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today’s trade wars to decisions made by politicians a…
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- 978-0-300-26144-8
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- xix, 269 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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- EKO KLE T
Price wars : how the commodities markets made our chaotic world
A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all over the world, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and war. For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cag…
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- 9781474613996
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- 340 hlm. : ilus. ; 20 cm
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- POL RUS P
Nudge : the final edition
Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 400 “nudge units” in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful “choice ar…
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- 9780143137009
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- xvi, 366 hlm. : ilus. ; 22 cm
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- SOS THA N
Renewable energy finance : theory and practice
Renewable Energy Finance: Theory and Practice, Second Edition integrates the special characteristics of renewable energy with key elements of project finance. Through a mixture of fundamental analysis and real-life examples, readers learn how renewable energy project finance deals mix finance, public policy, legal, engineering and environmental issues. This book investigates the economics of la…
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- 978-0-443-15955-8
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- ix, 357 hlm. : ilus. ; 23 cm
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- 333.794 RAI R
Principles of project finance
The Second Edition of this best-selling introduction for practitioners uses new material and updates to describe the changing environment for project finance. Integrating recent developments in credit markets with revised insights into making project finance deals, the second edition offers a balanced view of project financing by combining legal, contractual, scheduling, and other subjects. It…
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- 978-0-12-391058-5
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- xii, 560 hlm. : ilus. ; 24 cm
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- 332.6 YES P
Green and social economy finance : a review
Green and Social Economy Finance is a compilation of chapters by experts, linking research and practice. This anthology provides a new thinking on social economy green finance, showing emerging themes and trends. It spans from stock markets, green finance, innovations, digitalization to social finance, governance and theories of change. It concentrates on impact, opportunity recognition and dev…
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- 978-0-367-55519-1
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- vi, 330 hlm. : ilus. ; 24 cm
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- 332.6 WEN G
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