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            <title><![CDATA[Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal with regulations governing savings, capital and finance, and the organization of labor markets and social insurance systems. Framework strategies related to the regulations governing goods and service markets, bankruptcy and insolvency are also put forward. A core understanding and future path is also provided towards R&D, commercialization and knowledge spillovers; human capital investments; and informal institutions. ]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2017-05-10T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Public spending on infrastructure plays an important role in promoting economic growth and poverty alleviation. Empirical studies unequivocally show that under-investment in infrastructure limit economic growth. At the same time, numerous other studies have shown that investment in infrastructure can be a highly effective tool in fighting poverty reduction1. In that context, the financing of infrastructure has been a critical element of most economic growth and poverty reduction strategies in developing countries, since the start of this millennium. This book provides a comparative analysis of the aggregate and sectoral implications of higher spending on infrastructure in three very different Asian countries: China, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Particular attention is paid to the role of alternative financing mechanisms for increasing public infrastructure investment, namely distortionary and non-distortionary means of financing. The book will be of interest to scholars and policy-makers concerned with economic growth in developing countries.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2013-12-04T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit]]></title>
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            <link>https://www.novareader.co/book/isbn/9783658213442</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Diese Open Access Buch geht den Fragen nach, wie inklusives Wachstum und wirtschaftliche Sicherheit entstehen, welche Rahmenbedingungen der Staat setzen und welche Reformen er auf den Weg bringen muss und wie sich wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen auswirken. Die besten Studierenden der Universität St. Gallen fassen prägnant und verständlich wichtige Ergebnisse der ökonomischen Spitzenforschung in führenden Fachzeitschriften zusammen. Die wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchstalente bereiten die empirischen Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik für die Entscheidungsträger und die Öffentlichkeit auf und tragen zum Wissenstransfer in die wirtschaftspolitische Praxis bei.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2018-04-23T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Great Mindshift]]></title>
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            <link>https://www.novareader.co/book/isbn/9783319437668</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This book describes the path ahead. It combines system transformation research with political economy and change leadership insights when discussing the need for a great mindshift in how human wellbeing, economic prosperity and healthy ecosystems are understood if the Great Transformations ahead are to lead to more sustainability. It shows that history is made by purposefully acting humans and introduces transformative literacy as a key skill in leading the  radical incremental change.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2016-09-11T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy]]></title>
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            <link>https://www.novareader.co/book/isbn/9783319282015</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2016-04-11T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finance for Food]]></title>
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            <link>https://www.novareader.co/book/isbn/9783642540349</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This book reflects the current state of discussion about agricultural and rural finance in developing and transition countries. It provides insight into specific themes, such as commodity value chains, farm banking and risk management in agricultural banking, structured finance, crop insurance, mobile banking and how to increase effectiveness in rural finance. Case studies illustrate various aspects of agricultural and rural finance in developing economies. The book is based on one of the yearly financial Sector Development Symposia held by the KfW Development Bank.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2014-02-18T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Enabling Asia to Stabilise the Climate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This book presents good practices in Asia and ASEAN countries for effectively promoting advances in response to climate change, which can help to achieve sustainable development in Asia and around the world. As a proposal, the aim is to influence the discussions at COP 21 by providing a positive agenda with concrete actions from an Asian perspective. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 describes the greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction scenario from an Asian perspective and in line with global 2 ° targets. Based on modeling analysis, the studies demonstrate the theoretical potentials and send the policymakers at COP 21 the positive message that “Asia can reach the target.” As Asian countries vary in terms of their economic strength, country-specific scenario studies for the two giants China and India as well as for Japan and Vietnam are introduced to show the different approaches for each country. Part 2 shows successful examples of how modeling analysis are reflected in actual policy development, which provides practical guidelines to help policymakers develop their own roadmaps with stakeholder dialogue, not only in Asia but also in other regions of the world. The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) roadmap development in Thailand as well as the Iskandar Malaysia project show at the country and city level how researchers and policymakers are working closely to succeed. Part 3 focuses on a number of sector-specific activities including transportation, forestry, capacity development, and inventory work in Asia. Rather than discussing the Low Carbon Society (LCS) concept in detail, the respective chapters highlight unique, concrete, and practically applicable examples from Asia, showing how Asian countries are addressing climate change mitigation issues in a collaborative manner, an approach that can be replicated in other regions. While the ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate international climate regime making, local government and international organizations (United Nations, World Bank, and others) officers, researchers, international NGO/NPOs, consultants, students (particularly those studying international relationships or environmental studies), as well as reporters will find this book useful in broadening their understanding of low-carbon development in Asia.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2016-11-25T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm.
 
The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law,
improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure.   
The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related effortsto address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2015-11-10T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Development Policies and Policy Processes in Africa]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The book examines the methodological challenges in analyzing the effectiveness of development policies. It presents a selection of tools and methodologies that can help tackle the complexities of which policies work best and why, and how they can be implemented effectively given the political and economic framework conditions of a country. The contributions in this book offer a continuation of the ongoing evidence-based debate on the role of agriculture and participatory policy processes in reducing poverty. They develop and apply quantitative political economy approaches by integrating quantitative models of political decision-making into existing economic modeling tools, allowing a more comprehensive growth-poverty analysis. The book addresses not only scholars who use quantitative policy modeling and evaluation techniques in their empirical or theoretical research, but also technical experts, including policy makers and analysts from stakeholder organizations, involved in formulating and implementing policies to reduce poverty and to increase economic and social well-being in African  countries.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2018-08-13T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities]]></title>
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            <link>https://www.novareader.co/book/isbn/9783319281124</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land, water and energy use challenges.  In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long-term planning needs and transdisciplinary approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and (iv) Strategies to adapt the cities and land, water and energy uses for viable and liveable cities.

There are growing concerns about water, food security and sustainability with increased urbanisation worldwide. For cities to be liveable and sustainable into the future there is a need to maintain the natural resource base and the ecosystem services in the peri-urban areas surrounding cities. This need is increasing under the looming spectre of global warming and climate change.

This book will be of interest to policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning,  environmental and water resources management, and managers in municipal councils.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2016-08-28T18:30]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City]]></title>
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            <link>https://www.novareader.co/book/isbn/9783319456201</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred to making visible the invisible from an air quality and human exposure perspective. Phase 2 studies air quality related to health and Phase 3 looks at air quality, health and lifestyle from the perspective of persuasion to innovative change.

The three books together describe the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary co-creation of healthy cities using the core human value of human health and air quality as guiding principle for profound regional innovation.]]></description>
            <pubDate><![CDATA[2016-10-21T18:30]]></pubDate>
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