Development Finance as Institution Building, Krahnen, Jan Pieter
Автор: Anna Sewell Название: Black Beauty ISBN: 1474940617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474940610 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 1848.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Follow the moving story of Black Beauty, a sleek, well-bred horse, who leaves a pleasant meadow in the countryside for the dark streets of Victorian London. Complete and unabridged, this hardback gift edition of Anna Sewell`s classic novel features beautiful illustrations by Fiona Hsieh throughout.
Описание: A blueprint for community-based solutions to economic inequality in America.Contrary to popular belief—and despite widespread pessimism that the American Dream is a dying concept—solutions that can remake the United States into the land of economic opportunity for all already exist. Over the past ten years, Ben Hecht has watched leaders in local communities, fed up with the political paralysis in Washington, D.C., and unable to ignore growing disparities in their own backyards, experiment with new ways of solving old problems. The twelve strategies highlighted in this book emerged from that experimentation. Taken together, they outline a blueprint for a new way of working that will rekindle the promise of America everywhere: better education, increased income and wealth, expanded access to opportunity, and more.These strategies are not academic theories or one-offs only possible in wealthy, coastal cities. Each strategy has been proven to get results time and time again—many of them, in fact, in hundreds of urban and rural communities. Each chapter highlights the stories of the real people who are making change happen. In rural Southwest Texas, Luis Silos recently graduated from high school having earned both a high school diploma and an associate’s degree, at no cost. He joins tens of thousands of students across twenty-eight states who have benefited from similar efforts. In St. Paul, Minneapolis, a down-payment assistance and flexible mortgage program enabled Jon Li to not only achieve his dream of homeownership but to generate enough income and wealth to launch his own business that supports sixty workers. More than 50,000 Americans in forty-eight states have had similar success, building more than $20,000 in equity, on average, in the process. Every one of these proposed solutions can be implemented without any changes in laws or regulations. The barriers to implementation are simply resistance on the part of individuals to change their own behaviors. Each of us—whether as an elected leader, engaged resident, corporate CEO, philanthropist, or investor—can act right now to take the future into our own hands and help to level the playing field for struggling Americans, everywhere.Above all, this book provides optimism at a time when so many Americans fear for the economic future of their families and the nation.
Описание: America is becoming a class-based society.It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of the top 1 percent—especially the top 0.01 percent—and how the ultra-rich are concentrating income and prosperity while incomes for most other Americans are stagnant. But the most important, consequential, and widening gap in American society is between the upper middle class and everyone else.Reeves defines the upper middle class as those whose incomes are in the top 20 percent of American society. Income is not the only way to measure a society, but in a market economy it is crucial because access to money generally determines who gets the best quality education, housing, health care, and other necessary goods and services.As Reeves shows, the growing separation between the upper middle class and everyone else can be seen in family structure, neighborhoods, attitudes, and lifestyle. Those at the top of the income ladder are becoming more effective at passing on their status to their children, reducing overall social mobility. The result is not just an economic divide but a fracturing of American society along class lines. Upper-middle-class children become upper-middle-class adults.These trends matter because the separation and perpetuation of the upper middle class corrode prospects for more progressive approaches to policy. Various forms of “opportunity hoarding” among the upper middle class make it harder for others to rise up to the top rung. Examples include zoning laws and schooling, occupational licensing, college application procedures, and the allocation of internships. Upper-middle-class opportunity hoarding, Reeves argues, results in a less competitive economy as well as a less open society.Inequality is inevitable and can even be good, within limits. But Reeves argues that society can take effective action to reduce opportunity hoarding and thus promote broader opportunity. This fascinating book shows how American society has become the very class-defined society that earlier Americans rebelled against—and what can be done to restore a more equitable society.
Описание: The history of internationalism and international institutions such as the League of Nations and the United Nations is a rapidly evolving field, as a new generation of historians advances through the breaches in older historiographies lately fashioned by Susan Pedersen, Mark Mazower, Patricia Clavin, Erez Manela and other proponents of the `new
Автор: Vanessa Joy Название: Building and Marketing Your Wedding Business ISBN: 1667837176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667837178 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 7076.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Building and Marketing Your Wedding Business" is for anyone in the wedding industry looking for an exceptional collection of ideas and methods for bettering their business. From social media strategies thatll put you in front of couples in the planning stages to internal operations thatll ready your business for growth, this book is sure to leave you with a ton of tangible concepts and to-do items to start improving your wedding business right away. Take hold of your business and build a versatile marketing game-plan thats sure to revitalize and strengthen your brand. This book includes free digital downloads to support written material. Table of Contents PART - 1 | BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS How to Make Your Side Hustle Your Full-Time Work and Quit Your Day Job! The Time to Change Things Up Organizing for Efficiency Perfecting Your Workflow Outsourcing Wowing Your Clients Boosting Your Income Running Your Studio Cultivating Your Support Network Long-Term Plans PART - 2 | BRANDING YOUR BUSINESS Getting Back on Track Social vs. Market Norms: How Treating Your Clients and Employees Defines Your Business 3 Must-have Social Media Tips 4 Steps to Updating Your Social Media Strategy Secret Methods to Brand Your Business Branding for High-End Weddings The Evolution of a Brand How to Clean Up Your Brand in 4 Easy Steps PART - 3 | MARKETING YOUR BUSINESS Compounding Your Efforts for Success, Part 1 Compounding Your Efforts for Success, Part 2 Instagram Growth: 5 Tips on Getting Your Engagement and Numbers Up Marketing to Millennials 5 Social Media Marketing Myths Shake It Up - How to Keep from Marketing Stagnation The 6 Steps to Social Media Marketing Your Weddings
Автор: Tomatsu, Shomei Название: Shomei Tomatsu ISBN: 159711250X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781597112505 Издательство: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES UK Рейтинг: Цена: 10560.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Describes, explains, and explores the Index Theorem of Atiyah and Singer, one of the truly great accomplishments of twentieth-century mathematics whose influence continues to grow, fifty years after its discovery. David Bleecker and Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbek give two proofs of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem in impressive detail: one based on K-theory and the other on the heat kernel approach.
Автор: Li Cheng Название: China`s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation ISBN: 0815704054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815704058 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 4639.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The rapid emergence and explosive growth of China's middle class have enormous consequences for that nation's domestic future, for the global economy, and for the whole world. In China's Emerging Middle Class, noted scholar Cheng Li and a team of experts focus on the sociopolitical ramifications of the birth and growth of the Chinese middle class over the past two decades.
The contributors, from diverse disciplines and different regions, examine the development and evolution of China's middle class from a variety of analytical perspectives. What is its educational and occupational makeup? Are its members united by a common identity--by a shared political vision and worldview? How does the Chinese middle class compare with its counterparts in other countries? The contributors shed light on these and many other issues pertaining to the rapid rise of the middle class in the Middle Kingdom.
Contributors: Jie Chen (Old Dominion University), Deborah Davis (Yale University), Bruce J. Dickson (George Washington University), Geoffrey Gertz (Brookings), Han Sang-Jin (Seoul National University), Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao (National Taiwan University), Homi Kharas (Brookings), Li Chunling (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Jing Lin (University of Maryland-College Park), Sida Liu (University of Wisconsin- Madison), Lu Hanlong (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences), Joyce Yanyun Man (Peking University-Lincoln Center), Ethan Michelson (Indiana University-Bloomington), Qin Chen (Hohai University), Xiaoyan Sun (Beijing Foreign Studies University), Luigi Tomba (Australian National University), Jianying Wang (Yale University), and Zhou Xiaohong (Nanjing University).
Описание: In this memoir, the author recounts his experiences as an ordnance man, from the ocean voyage to the Pacific Theater to years fighting heat and disease as his unit provided critical maintenance for assaults on Guadalcanal, the Soloman Islands, and other targets. His recollections offer a vivid portrait of life behind the lines and reveals the enormous value of support positions to the war effort.
Автор: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Название: Oceanic Observations of the Pacific 1954: The Norpac Atlas ISBN: 0520339746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520339743 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6494.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This new biography of the controversial, influential, and prize-winning American novelist Philip Roth, a writer with an international reputation for inventive, original novels from Portnoy`s Complaint to American Pastoral and The Plot Against America, is based on new access to archival documents and new interviews with Roth`s friends and associates.
Описание: At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types.
The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states- a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America's political institutions and cultural conflicts.
America's radical federalism and local democracy, as well as its legacy of violence and racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West. Whereas the elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide abolition from above despite public objections, American elites are unable- and unwilling- to end a punishment that has the support of local majorities and a storied place in popular culture. In the course of hundreds of decisions, federal courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that too often resembled a lynching, producing layers of legal process but also delays and reversals. Yet the Supreme Court insists that the issue is to be decided by local political actors and public opinion. So the death penalty continues to respond to popular will, enhancing the power of criminal justice professionals, providing drama for the media, and bringing pleasure to a public audience who consumes its chilling tales. Garland brings a new clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution- and a new challenge to supporters and opponents alike.
Автор: Klaus Mladek Название: Police Forces: A Cultural History of an Institution ISBN: 1349538469 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349538461 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Police Forces considers the question of law and order from below: alleyways, borders, police stations, law offices, bureaucracies, and the minds of administrators, in which the quotidian workings of the law unfold.
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