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  • Debt Maturity and the Use of Short-Term Debt

    Evidence form Sovereigns and Firms

    The maturity structure of debt can have financial and real consequences. Short-term debt exposes borrowers to rollover risk (where the terms of financing are renegotiated to the detriment of the borrower) and is associated with financial crises. Moreover, debt maturity can have an impact on the ability of firms to undertake long-term productive investments and, as a result, affect economic ... Read more

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  • Studies of IMF Governance: A Compendium

    Series Book Independent Evaluation Office Reports - Independent Evaluation Office Reports
    The papers in this volume draw on background work done in preparation for the study Governance of the IMF: An Evaluation, Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund, May 28, 2008 (available at http://www.ieo-imf.org). This compilation presents in one collection the most recent work to date on the subject of governance of the IMF and contributes to the ongoing dialogue on how best ... Read more

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  • Networks of Influence?

    Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order

    Networks are thriving in global politics. Some bring policy-makers from different countries together to share problems and to forge possible solutions, free from rules of representation, decision-making, and transparency which constrain more formal international organizations. This book asks whether developing countries can benefit from such networks? Or are they safer to conduct their ... Read more

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  • Building a Resilient Tomorrow

    How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption

    Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, further significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we cannot tell with certainty how much average global temperatures will rise, we do know that the warming we have experienced to ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    Building a Resilient Tomorrow

    How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    Climate change impacts—more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms—have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the world could cut its carbon emissions to zero tomorrow, further significant global climate change is now inevitable. Although we cannot tell with certainty how much average global temperatures will rise, we do know that the warming we have experienced to ... Read more

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  • Smart Organizations and Smart Artifacts

    Fostering Interaction Between People, Technologies and Processes

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book offers a multidisciplinary strategy for finding new and more effective human-computer interaction approaches, in particular from a socio-technical perspective, that facilitate the exploration and exploitation of benefits that information technologies (IT) offer organizations. Though the relationship between IT and organizations is certainly very strong, it is also one of the greatest ... Read more

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  • AWS Certified Database Study Guide

    Specialty (DBS-C01) Exam

    Validate your AWS Cloud database skills!AWS Certified Database Study Guide: Specialty (DBS-C01) Exam focuses on helping you to understand the basic job role of a database administrator / architect and to prepare for taking the certification exam. This is your opportunity to take the next step in your career by expanding and validating your skills on the AWS Cloud, and performing a database-focused ... Read more

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  • The Canadian Federal Election of 2011

    The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft), the Liberals (Brooke Jeffrey), the New Democrats (David McGrane), the Bloc Qubcois (Eric Belanger and ... Read more

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    SOA Implementation Recipes, Tips, and Techniques

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