Africa's Private Sector
Vijaya Ramachandran
Why is business performance lagging in Africa? To provide answers, this volume focuses on the day-to-day problems that private sector managers and entrepreneurs there encounter. Through enterprise surveys conducted in several African countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, these businesspeople identify poor infrastructureparticularly the lack of a reliable source of poweras a huge constraint on private sector activity.Politics also plays a key role in limiting the success of African businesses. Many countries there have private sectors that are ethnically segmented or dominated by ethnic minorities or both. Segmented networks in already sparse economic environments limit competition, encourage an ambivalent attitude toward facilitating a good business environment, and constrain the growth of firms outside the dominant network. Consequently, Africa has yet to see the emergence of a broad-based business class. Africa's Private Sector identifies several solutions to address both the infrastructure and political economy constraints hampering business growth in Africa.
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781933286280
- Publication Date: Jan 2009
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Performance Incentives for Global Health
Rena Eichler
This volume demonstrates how incentives can improve the delivery and use of health services in low- and middle-income countries. The authors describe the rationale for introducing incentives tied to achievement of specific health-related targets, and they provide clear guidance about designing, implementing, and evaluating programs that provide incentives to health care providers and patients. A set of case studies focuses on recent uses of incentives addressing a range of health conditions in diverse countries. In particular, these studies emphasize how explicit incentives can be used to strengthen weak health systems.The book will be of use to policymakers and program managers in both developing countries and the donor community interested in improving health outcomes through the strategic use of performance-based incentives.
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- ISBN: 9781933286297
- Publication Date: Apr 2009
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Beyond Lending
Guillermo Perry
When he began this book in early 2008, Guillermo Perry argued that developing countries remained highly vulnerable to external risks such as commodity price declines, capital flow reversals, and natural disasters. The economic crisis that has since ensued confirmed Perry's analysis. It has also made his proposal more important than ever: multilateral development banks (MDBs) should move beyond lending to provide innovative risk-management tools for developing countries to manage volatility. The risk that MDBs will fall into complacency as the short-term demand for traditional loans increases during the crisis should not deter innovations to ensure long-term stability.Contents1. Causes and Consequences of High Volatility in Developing Countries2. The Role of Financial Insurance and Hedging3. Dealing with Liquidity Shocks and the Procyclicality of Private Capital Flows4. Dealing with Currency Risks5. Dealing with Commodity Price, Terms of Trade, and Output Risks6. Dealing with Natural Disaster Risks7. Why Multilateral Development Bank Practices Are So Far from Their Potential8. An Agenda Going Forward
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- ISBN: 9781933286327
- Publication Date: May 2009
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Skandalakis' Surgical Anatomy
John E. Skandalakis
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603990741
- Publication Date: Jan 2004
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Poems of the Mind
Constantine P. Karakousis
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789603994206
- Publication Date: Jan 2006
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Regional Oncotherapies
Odysseas Zoras
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603994749
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Advances in Obstructive Jaundice
Michael J. McMahon
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995333
- Publication Date: Mar 2007
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Infections of the Hand & Upper Limb
Konstantinos N. Malizos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603995937
- Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Gray's & Skandalakis' Atlas of Surgical Anatomy and Embryology for General Surgeons
Panagiotis N. Skandalakis
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789603997269
- Publication Date: May 2009
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Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation
Ernesto P. Molmenti
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603997894
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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Advances in Endovascular Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms
Theodossios P. Perkides
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789603997917
- Publication Date: Feb 2009
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MÃ the Modern Greek
M.L. Batrinos
- Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789607395412
- Publication Date: Jan 1996
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Ultrasonography of the Bovine Musculoskeletal System
Johann Kofler
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783899939767
- Publication Date: Jun 2021
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Surgery for Pelvic Malignancies
Evgenia Halkia
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9789963716586
- Publication Date: Apr 2014
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Emergency Cardiology
Loukianos S. Rallidis
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9789963716814
- Publication Date: Jan 2017
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Aquinas on One and Many
David Svoboda
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783868385632
- Publication Date: Apr 2016
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Illusions of Sceptics
Jirà Fuchs
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783868385687
- Publication Date: Oct 2016
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The Vindication of Nothingness
Marco Simionato
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783868385878
- Publication Date: Oct 2017
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The Persistence of Persons
Valerio Buonomo
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783868385892
- Publication Date: Nov 2017
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Clinical Atlas of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases in Small Animals
C. Hedlund
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783877066218
- Publication Date: Jan 2002
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