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  • 1
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Den Haag : Junk ; 5.1957 -
    ISSN: 0077-0639
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 5.1957 -
    Additional Information: 18=1; 19=2 von Biogeography and ecology in South America The Hague, 1968
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Monographiae biologicae
    Former Title: Vorg. Physiologia comparata et oecologia
    DDC: 570
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Physiologie ; Medizin
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  • 2
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
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    ISSN: 0304-4092
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg Dialectical anthropology
    DDC: 100
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  • 3
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer Acad. Publ. ; Nachgewiesen: 3.2005 -
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: Nachgewiesen: 3.2005 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Education in the Asia-Pacific region
    DDC: 370
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 4
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    Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Kluwer | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1974 -
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    ISSN: 0304-2421 , 1573-7853 , 1573-7853
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1974 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Theory and society
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    Keywords: Zeitschrift
    Note: Index 1/10.1974/81 in: 10.1981,6; 11/19.1982/90 in: 19.1990,6
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  • 5
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , 1573-0786 , 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Dialectical anthropology
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Zeitschrift
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  • 6
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Dialectical anthropology
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie
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  • 7
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Handbooks of sociology and social research
    DDC: 302.1
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    Keywords: Gefühl ; Soziologie
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  • 8
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Handbooks of sociology and social research
    DDC: 302.1
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    Keywords: Gefühl ; Soziologie
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  • 9
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Dialectical anthropology
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie
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  • 10
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.2001 -
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    ISSN: 1389-9600 , 1573-7292 , 1573-7292
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2001 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Familial cancer
    DDC: 610
    Keywords: Zeitschrift
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  • 11
    ISSN: 1389-9333 , 1573-6814 , 1573-6814
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2000 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Cell and tissue banking
    DDC: 610
    Keywords: Zeitschrift
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  • 12
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Dialectical anthropology
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie
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  • 13
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    Leiden : Brill | 's-Gravenhage : Mouton | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht : Kluwer | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1957 -
    ISSN: 0019-7246 , 1572-8536
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1957 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Indo-Iranian journal
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    Keywords: Indoiranisch ; Zeitschrift ; Zeitschrift ; Indoiranisch ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Index 1/20.1957/78=26.1983,1/3
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  • 14
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2009 -
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2009 -
    DDC: 370
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 15
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.1971 -
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    ISSN: 0167-7276
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1971 -
    Additional Information: 3=2; 5=3 von International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society Papers and debate of the ... international conference held by the International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel, 1974
    Additional Information: 7=5 von International Phenomenology Conference (ZDB) Selected papers from the ... International Phenomenology Conference Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel, 1975
    Additional Information: 6=4; 9=6 von International Phenomenology Conference (ZDB) Papers read at the International Phenomenology Conference Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel, 1977
    Additional Information: 2=[1] von International Phenomenological Conference (ZDB) Papers and debate of the International Phenomenological Conference Dordrecht : Reidel Publishing, 1972
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Analecta Husserliana
    Former Title: Vorg. Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung
    DDC: 100
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    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 ; Phänomenologie
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  • 16
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2009 -
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2009 -
    DDC: 333.7
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 17
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , ISSN 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Dialectical anthropology
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie
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  • 18
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    Cham : Springer | Dordrecht : Kluwer Acad. Publ. | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1992 -
    Language: English
    Pages: 25 cm
    Dates of Publication: 1.1992 -
    DDC: 800
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 19
    ISSN: 1488-3473 , 1874-6365
    Language: English , French
    Dates of Publication: 1.2000 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Journal of international migration and integration
    Former Title: metropolis research and policy review
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Migranten ; Einwanderung ; Soziale Integration ; Kanada ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Beteil. Körp. anfangs: Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration (PCERII)
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  • 20
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Verl. Kluwer ; 1.2001 -
    ISSN: 1570-3010
    Language: German , English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2001 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. The international library of environmental, agricultural and food ethics
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 21
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2010(2009) -
    ISSN: 1879-5196
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2010(2009) -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Children's well-being
    DDC: 360
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 22
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2005 -
    ISSN: 1871-0409 , 1871-0409 , 1871-1456
    Language: English
    Pages: 25 cm
    Dates of Publication: 1.2005 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Studies in global justice
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
    Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig
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  • 23
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2005 -
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2005 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. International studies in population
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 24
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Den Haag : Junk ; 5.1957 -
    ISSN: 0077-0639
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 5.1957 -
    Additional Information: 18=1; 19=2 von Biogeography and ecology in South America The Hague, 1968
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Monographiae biologicae
    Former Title: Vorg. Physiologia comparata et oecologia
    DDC: 570
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Physiologie ; Medizin
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  • 25
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.1974 -
    ISSN: 0921-8599 , 0169-7323
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1974 -
    Additional Information: 11=1 von Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter (ZDB) Papers presented at the ... Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer Acad. Publ., 1978 0333-5135
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Philosophical studies series
    Former Title: Philosophical studies series in philosophy
    Former Title: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 26
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer Acad. Publ. ; 1.1994 -
    ISSN: 1383-5130 , 2215-0110 , 2215-0110
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1994 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Environment & policy
    DDC: 330
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
    Note: Urh. anfangs: Dutch Committee for Long-Term Environmental Policy
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  • 27
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.1996 -
    ISSN: 1385-0180 , 2215-0064 , 2215-0064
    Language: English
    Pages: 24 cm
    Dates of Publication: 1.1996 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Archimedes
    Former Title: new studies in the history and philosophy of science and technology
    DDC: 610
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Technik ; Geschichte ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte
    Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig
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  • 28
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht : Reidel | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1987 -
    ISSN: 0921-3384 , 2352-2119 , 2352-2119
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1987 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Theory and decision library / A
    Former Title: Philosophy and methodology of the social sciences
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
    Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig
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  • 29
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2007-
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2007-
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Ius Gentium
    DDC: 340
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 30
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , ISSN 1573-0786 , ISSN 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dialectical anthropology
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie ; Anthropologie
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  • 31
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , 1573-0786 , 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dialectical anthropology
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie ; Anthropologie
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  • 32
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Den Haag : Junk ; 5.1957 -
    ISSN: 0077-0639
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 5.1957 -
    Additional Information: 18=1; 19=2 von Biogeography and ecology in South America The Hague, 1968
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Monographiae biologicae
    Former Title: Vorg. Physiologia comparata et oecologia
    DDC: 570
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe ; Physiologie ; Medizin
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  • 33
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
    ISSN: 0304-4092 , 1573-0786 , 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dialectical anthropology
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie ; Anthropologie
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  • 34
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Nijhoff | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1975/76(1975) -
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    ISSN: 0304-4092 , 1573-0786 , 1573-0786
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1975/76(1975) -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dialectical anthropology
    DDC: 100
    Keywords: Zeitschrift ; Anthropologie ; Anthropologie
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  • 35
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    Cham, Switzerland : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer Acad. Publ. | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1985 -
    ISSN: 1572-4395
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1985 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Law and philosophy library
    Former Title: L & PL
    Former Title: LAPS
    DDC: 340
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 36
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier | Dordrecht : Kluwer ; 1.1974 -
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    ISSN: 0304-2421 , 1573-7853 , 1573-7853
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1974 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Theory and society
    DDC: 300
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    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaft ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Theorie ; Soziologische Theorie ; Logik der Sozialwissenschaft ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Index 1/10.1974/81 in: 10.1981,6; 11/19.1982/90 in: 19.1990,6
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  • 37
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.1990 -
    ISSN: 0925-6733
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1990 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Issues in business ethics
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
    Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig
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  • 38
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2007 -
    ISSN: 1872-0226 , 1872-0218 , 1872-0218
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.2007 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Contemporary Islam
    DDC: 290
    Keywords: Religion ; Islam ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Einflussgröße ; Islamische Staaten ; Zeitschrift ; Muslim ; Muslimin ; Alltagskultur
    Note: Gesehen am 10.12.13 , Ersch. 3x jährl.
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    Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.2007 -
    ISSN: 1872-0218 , 1872-0226
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    Dates of Publication: 1.2007 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Contemporary Islam
    DDC: 290
    Keywords: Zeitschrift
    Note: Ersch. 3x jährl.
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  • 40
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    Cham, Switzerland : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer Acad. Publ. | Dordrecht : Springer ; 1.1997 -
    ISSN: 1387-6570 , 2215-0099 , 1387-6570
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1997 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Social indicators research series
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
    Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Reidel | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.1984 -
    ISSN: 0924-5499
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.1984 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The GeoJournal library
    DDC: 550
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 42
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    Leiden [u.a.] : Brill | Dordrecht : Springer | Buffalo, NY : HeinOnline ; 1.1994 -
    ISSN: 1568-5195 , 0928-9380 , 0928-9380
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.1994 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Islamic law and society
    DDC: 340
    Keywords: Zeitschrift
    Note: Gesehen am 05.12.2018
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Somerset, NJ : Transaction Publ. ; 1.2000 -
    ISSN: 1874-6365 , 1488-3473 , 1488-3473
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Dates of Publication: 1.2000 -
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Journal of international migration and integration
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Internationale Migration ; Migranten ; Einwanderung ; Soziale Integration ; Kanada ; Zeitschrift
    Note: Gesehen am 19.01.13
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  • 44
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    Dordrecht : Springer | Dordrecht [u.a.] : Kluwer ; 1.2003 -
    ISSN: 1572-7742 , 1875-1210
    Language: English
    Dates of Publication: 1.2003 -
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Landscape series
    DDC: 710
    Keywords: Monografische Reihe
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  • 45
    Book
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    Dordrecht : Springer | New York, NY [u.a.] : Springer
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    Language: English
    Series Statement: Handbooks of sociology and social research
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Soziologie ; Gefühl ; Emotionales Verhalten
    Note: [Vol. 1] ed. by Jan E. Stets
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  • 46
    ISBN: 9781402095023 , 9781402055591 , 9781402055607
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 235 S. , graph. Darst. , 235 mm x 155 mm, 540 gr.
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics 18
    Series Statement: Higher education dynamics
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Herbst, Marcel Financing Public Universities
    DDC: 378.44
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    Keywords: Hochschulfinanzierung ; Nonprofit-Management ; Hochschulreform ; Hochschulpolitik ; Public universities and colleges Finance ; Public universities and colleges Finance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulfinanzierung ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Note: Literaturverz. S. 207 - 223
    URL: Cover
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    Online Resource
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781402085185
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas 199
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    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Renaissance scepticisms
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; History ; Philosophy ; Skepticism History ; 16th century ; Philosophy, Renaissance ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Skeptizismus ; Renaissance ; Skeptizismus ; Geschichte 1420-1600 ; Skeptizismus ; Renaissance ; Skeptizismus ; Geschichte 1420-1600
    Abstract: Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book, and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements, personalities, tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of "scepticisms" in the plural, and believe that the different contexts (philosophical, religious, cultural) in which these forms grew up must also be taken into account. Furthermore, given the transversal nature and provocative character of the sceptical challenge, this book contains essays also on philosophers who, without being sceptics and sometimes engaged in fighting scepticism, nevertheless took up its challenge. The main authors considered in this book are: Vives, Castellio, Agrippa, Pedro de Valencia, Pico, Sanchez, Montaigne, Charron, Bruno, Bacon, and Campanella. The various essays in the book show the relevance of the philosophical thought of authors little known by the general public and put in new perspective important aspects of the thought of some of the great thinkers of the Renaissance.
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  • 48
    ISBN: 9789048123582
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (digital)
    Series Statement: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education 3
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Education ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lehrer ; Berufslaufbahn ; Lehrerfortbildung
    Abstract: Collects various scholarly contributions and perspectives on teachers' career trajectories and work lives. This work describes a variety of national contexts, illustrating how problems and challenges relating to the teaching profession manifest themselves and are tackled in different countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Teachers' Career Trajectories; Teachers' Career Trajectories: An Examination of Research; Career Stories as Gateway to Understanding Teacher Development; Committed for Life? Variations in Teachers' Work, Lives and Effectiveness; On the Unacknowledged Significance of Teachers' Habitus and Dispositions; Teachers' Professional Learning and the Workplace Curriculum; Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform; Postscript to 'Careers Under Stress: Teacher Adaptations at a Time of Intensive Reform'
    Description / Table of Contents: The Careers of Urban Teachers: A Synthesis of Findings from UCLA's Longitudinal Study of Urban EducatorsTeacher Gender and Career Patterns; Regenerating Teachers; Listening to Professional Life Stories: Some Cross-Professional Perspectives; Epilogue: Teaching Professions in Restructuring Contexts;
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    ISBN: 9789048126149
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 220p. 65 illus, digital)
    Series Statement: Argumentation Library 16
    Series Statement: SpringerLink
    Series Statement: Bücher
    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T.
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Humanities ; Philosophy ; Applied linguistics ; Humanities ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Logic ; Philosophy (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Argumentation ; Sprachphilosophie
    Abstract: In Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness, Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels report on their systematic empirical research of the conventional validity of the pragma-dialectical discussion rules. The experimental studies they carried out during more than ten years start from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation developed at the University of Amsterdam, their home university. In these studies they test methodically the intersubjective acceptability of the rules for critical discussion proposed in this theory by confronting ordinary arguers who have not received any special education in argumentation and fallacies with discussion fragments containing both fallacious and non-fallacious argumentative moves. The research covers a wide range of informal fallacies. In this way, the authors create a basis for comparing the theoretical reasonableness conception of pragma-dialectics with the norms for judging argumentative moves prevailing in argumentative practice. Fallacies and Judgments of Reasonableness provides a unique insight into the relationship between theoretical and practical conceptions of reasonableness, supported by extensive empirical material gained by means of sophisticated experimental research.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; 1 Theoretical Background and Organization of the Study; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A Historical Overview of the Study of Fallacies; 1.3 Modern Theoretical Approaches to the Fallacies; 1.4 The Pragma-Dialectical Approach; 1.5 Plan of the Empirical Study; 1.6 Structure of this Volume; 2 Considerations Regarding the Design of the Study; 2.1 An Outline of Methodological Backgrounds; 2.2 Bowker and Trapp's Research of Ordinary Arguers' Assessment of Argumentation; 2.3 Implications of the Discussion of Bowker and Trapp's Research
    Description / Table of Contents: 2.4 Schreier, Groeben and Christmann's Studies on "ArgumentationalIntegrity"2.5 Alternative Methods; 3 Ad Hominem Fallacies: An Exemplary Study; 3.1 Variants of the Argumentum Ad Hominem; 3.2 Ad hominem Attacks: Fallacies or Not?; 3.3 Organization of the Study; 3.4 Results; 3.5 Discussion; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 The Confrontation Stage: The Freedom Rule; 4.1 The Freedom Rule; 4.2 The Argumentum Ad Baculum, the ArgumentumAd Misericordiam, Declaring a Standpoint Tabooor Sacrosanct
    Description / Table of Contents: 4.3 Judging About the Reasonableness or Unreasonablenessof Discussion Moves with and Without Violation of the FreedomRule4.4 Results; 4.5 Politeness as an Alternative Explanation; 4.6 The Loadedness of the Standpoint; 4.7 Cultural Differences and the Freedom Rule; 4.8 Conclusions; 5 The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend Rule (I); 5.1 The Obligation-to-Defend Rule in Non-mixed Disputes; 5.2 The Burden of Proof: Onus Probandi; 5.3 Shifting the Burden of Proof; 5.4 Evading the Burden of Proof: Presenting the Standpointas Self-Evident
    Description / Table of Contents: 5.5 Evading the Burden of Proof: Personally Guaranteeingthe correctness of the Standpoint5.6 Evading the Burden of Proof: Immunizing a Standpoint AgainstCriticism; 5.7 Conclusions; 6 The Opening Stage: The Obligation-to-Defend (II); 6.1 The Burden of Proof in Mixed Differences of Opinion; 6.2 The Sequential Problem in Mixed Differences of Opinion; 6.3 The Presumption Principle and the Sequential Problem in MixedDifferences of Opinion; 6.4 The Role of Presumptions in Shifting and Evading the Burden ofProof
    Description / Table of Contents: 6.5 Explicit Verbal Indicators as to the Presumption Principle and Evading the Burden of Proof6.6 The Sequential Order Rule Versus the Obligation-to-Defend Rule; 6.7 Conclusions; 7 The Argumentation Stage: The Argument Scheme Rule; 7.1 Overview of Rules for the Argumentation Stage; 7.2 Argument Schemes, Critical Questions and Types of Fallacies; 7.3 The Argumentum Ad Consequentiam; 7.4 The Argumentum Ad Populum; 7.5 The Fallacy of the Slippery Slope; 7.6 The Fallacy of False Analogy; 7.7 Conclusions; 8 The Concluding Stage: The Concluding Rule; 8.1 The Concluding Rule
    Description / Table of Contents: 8.2 Violations of the Concluding Rule
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 50
    ISBN: 9789048128242
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 253 S. , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Edition: [1. Aufl.]
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Women, Migration, and Conflict
    DDC: 362.87
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    Keywords: Comparative law ; Developmental psychology ; Maternal and infant welfare ; Migration ; Frau ; Einwanderin ; Ausbeutung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Frau ; Flüchtling ; Psychisches Trauma ; Kind
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  • 51
    ISBN: 0387893482 , 9780387893488
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 292 p.) , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Peace psychology book series
    DDC: 303.66
    RVK:
    Keywords: Peace ; Peace Psychological aspects ; Nonviolence ; Pacifism ; Electronic books ; Pazifismus ; Psychologie ; Konfliktregelung ; Gewaltlosigkeit ; Psychologie
    Abstract: Recent trends and events worldwide have increased public interest in nonviolence, pacifism, and peace psychology as well as professional interest across the social sciences. Nonviolence and Peace Psychology assembles multiple perspectives to create a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the concepts and phenomena of nonviolence than is usually seen on the subject. Through this diverse literature—spanning psychology, political science, religious studies, anthropology, and sociology—peace psychologist Dan Mayton gives readers the opportunity to view nonviolence as a body of principles, a system of pragmatics, and a strategy for social change. This important volume:Draws critical distinctions between nonviolence, pacifism, and related concepts.Classifies nonviolence in terms of its scope (intrapersonal, interpersonal, societal, global) and pacifism according to political and situational dimensions.Applies standard psychological concepts such as beliefs, motives, dispositions, and values to define nonviolent actions and behaviors.Brings sociohistorical and cross-cultural context to peace psychology.Analyzes a century’s worth of nonviolent social action, from the pathbreaking work of Gandhi and King to the Courage to Refuse movement within the Israeli armed forces.Reviews methodological and measurement issues in nonviolence research, and suggests areas for future study.Although more attention is traditionally devoted to violence and aggression within the social sciences, Nonviolence and Peace Psychology reveals a robust knowledge base and a framework for peacebuilding work, granting peace psychologists, activists, and mediators new possibilities for the transformative power of nonviolence.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2009 , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 52
    ISBN: 9781402046988 , 9781402037535
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 236 S. , graph. Darst , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Sociology of the sciences 24
    Series Statement: Sociology of the sciences yearbook
    DDC: 306.45
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    Keywords: Science Congresses Political aspects ; Science Congresses Social aspects ; Science and state ; Specialists Public opinion ; Science Public opinion ; Science Congresses ; Decision Making Congresses ; Democracy Congresses ; Politics Congresses ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2003 ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Demokratisierung ; Politik ; Wissenschaft ; Politikberatung ; Politische Entscheidung ; Wissenschaftliche Beratung
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    ISBN: 9781402093128 , 9781402093135
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 235 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Series Statement: NATO science for peace and security series
    Series Statement: C, Environmental security
    DDC: 333.7
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    Keywords: Environmental management Congresses ; Environmental policy Congresses ; Human ecology Congresses Study and teaching (Higher) ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Umwelterziehung ; Curriculumforschung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: In cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division
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  • 54
    ISBN: 9789048123544
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (283 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series, 39 v.v. 39
    Series Statement: EBL-Schweitzer
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Diener, Ed, 1946 - The collected works of Ed Diener ; 3: Assessing well-being
    DDC: 158
    Keywords: Well-being ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Introduction - Measuring Well-Being: Collected Theory and Review Works; Temporal Stability and Cross-Situational Consistency of Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive Responses; Assessing Subjective Well-Being: Progress and Opportunities; The Evolving Concept of Subjective Well-Being: The Multifaceted Nature of Happiness; Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale; Subjective Well-Being: The Convergence and Stability of Self-Report and Non-Self-Report Measures; Measuring Positive Emotions; Experience Sampling: Promises and Pitfalls, Strength and Weaknesses
    Abstract: Life-Satisfaction Is a Momentary Judgment and a Stable Personality Characteristic: The Use of Chronically Accessible and Stable SourcesHappiness is the Frequency, Not the Intensity, of Positive Versus Negative Affect; Income's Differential Influence on Judgments of Life Versus AffectiveWell-Being; New Measures of Well-Being; Conclusion: Future Directions in Measuring Well-Being
    Abstract: Presents the major works of the author, a leading research scientist studying happiness and well-being, who has studied subjective well-being, people's life satisfaction and positive emotions, for over a quarter of a century, and has published 200 works on the topic
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    ISBN: 9789048133154
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (250 p)
    Series Statement: International perspectives on early childhood education and development v.2
    Parallel Title: Print version Child Perspectives and Children's Perspectives in Theory and Practice, 2
    DDC: 305.231
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book answers the fundamental question of what it is that constitutes a 'child perspective', and how this might differ from the perspectives of children themselves. The answers to such questions have important implications for building progressive and developmental adult-child relationships. However, theoretical and empirical treatments of child perspectives and children's perspectives are very diverse and idiosyncratic, and the standard reference work has yet to be written.Thus, this work is an attempt to fill the gap in the literature by searching for and defining key formulations of pot
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword; Child or Childrens Perspective?; The Scandinavian Model of Democracy and Welfare; A New Research Paradigm; Learning Based on Noticing Differences; Developmental Pedagogy; Preface; Contents; Introduction: Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives The Scandinavian Context; Introduction; Changes in the Developmental Ecology of Infants and Young Children; Scandinavian Mothers in Employment; School-for-All: A Growing Global PhenomenonDaycare-for-All: A Scandinavian Welfare Right; Conclusion: Changes in Developmental Ecology
    Description / Table of Contents: The Welfare Model and Values Facilitating a Child PerspectiveThe Scandinavian Welfare ModelA Brief Introduction; Children's Health and Well-Being in the Scandinavian Welfare States; The Ethos of Humanization; Children as Citizens and Child-Centredness as a Vital Societal Value; Child Perspectives Without Ideology?; Curricula of Early Childhood Education and Child Perspectives; Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives: Distinctions and Definitions; Part I In Search of Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in Childhood Sociology and Developmental Psychology; Introduction
    Description / Table of Contents: In Search of Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in Childhood SociologyChildhood as a Social Structure; Childrens Interpretive Reproduction; The Study of Real Children and the Experience of Being a Child; The Ethnographic, Interpretive Approach of Childhood Sociology as Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives?; Conclusion: Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in Childhood Sociologies?; In Search of Child Perspectives and Childrens Perspectives in ContextualRelational Developmental Psychology; A Child Perspective in Developmental Psychology?
    Description / Table of Contents: The Child Paradigm in ContextualRelational Developmental PsychologyThe Phenomenology of Contextualism; A Psychological Child Perspective Criteria and Challenges; The Pre-verbal Childs Intersubjective World An Empirical Example; Conclusion and Closing Reflections; Childhood Sociology and ContextualRelational Psychology Common Platforms for a Child Perspective?; Challenges Raised by Childhood Sociology for Developmental Psychology and Vice Versa; First Period: Parallel Processes of Redefining Childhood, Children, and Child
    Description / Table of Contents: Second Period: Integrative Redefinition of Childhood, Children, and ChildChildren as Intentional, Meaning-Making Actors; The Inner Psychological Space of the Self; Perspectives and Future Integrative Potential; Part II A Child Perspective to the Care for Children in Practice: A Humanistic and Interpretative Approach; Introduction; Fundamental Features Embedded in a Humanistic Dialogical Approach to Children; Care as a Sensitive Communicative Process: The Primary Circle of Care; Attunement to the Attunement of the Other; The Component of Dialogic Caring Behaviour
    Description / Table of Contents: Box 1 Examples of child perspective directed caring actions
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    Online Resource
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781441910776
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (242 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Mexican Solidarity
    DDC: 306.0972
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This book offers a new look at Mexican civil society, through a rigorous quantitative and qualitative analysis of volunteering in Mexico. The findings of this study, with new methodologies specifically tailored to the unique nature of Mexican volunteerism contradict previous studies that considered Mexico's Third Sector one of the smallest and least developed worldwide. American or European models of studying the Third Sector do not accurately translate to the study of Mexico, and the author of this key volume has developed a new and important model of study. The results of this study will pro
    Description / Table of Contents: 0001091246_O.pdf; Mexican Solidarity; 0001091240_O.pdf; Chapter 1; 0001091241_O.pdf; Chapter 2; 0001091242_O.pdf; Chapter 3; 0001091243_O.pdf; Chapter 4; 0001091244_O.pdf; Chapter 5; 0001091245_O.pdf; Chapter 6; 0001091247_O.pdf; Anchor 1; Anchor 2; Anchor 3; Anchor 4; Anchor 5; Anchor 6; Anchor 7; Anchor 82; Anchor 83; Butcher_Index_O.pdf
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9789048133888
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (265 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
    DDC: 200.959
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Religious diversity is now a social fact in most countries of the world. While reports of the impact of religious diversity on Europe and North America are reasonably well-known, the ways in which Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific are religiously diverse and the ways this diversity has been managed are not. This book addresses this lack of information about one of the largest and most diverse regions of the world. It describes the religious diversity of 27 nations, as large and complex as Indonesia and as small as Tuvalu, outlining the current issues and the basic policy approaches to religious
    Description / Table of Contents: 0001095936_O.pdf; 0001095932_O.pdf; 0001095901_O.pdf; 0001095902_O.pdf; 0001095903_O.pdf; 0001095933_O.pdf; 0001095904_O.pdf; 0001095905_O.pdf; 0001095906_O.pdf; 0001095907_O.pdf; 0001095908_O.pdf; 0001095909_O.pdf; 0001095910_O.pdf; 0001095911_O.pdf; 0001095912_O.pdf; 0001095934_O.pdf; 0001095913_O.pdf; 0001095914_O.pdf; 0001095915_O.pdf; 0001095916_O.pdf; 0001095917_O.pdf; 0001095918_O.pdf; 0001095919_O.pdf; 0001095920_O.pdf; 0001095921_O.pdf; 0001095922_O.pdf; 0001095923_O.pdf; 0001095924_O.pdf; 0001095925_O.pdf; 0001095926_O.pdf; 0001095927_O.pdf; 0001095935_O.pdf; 0001095928_O.pdf
    Description / Table of Contents: 0001095929_O.pdf0001095930_O.pdf; 0001095931_O.pdf; Bouma_Index_O.pdf
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    ISBN: 9789048131976
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIV, 195 S. , Kt. , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction
    DDC: 304.609587
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    Keywords: Fertility, Human ; Iran ; Fertilität ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Iran Social policy ; Iran ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Geburtenregelung
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  • 59
    ISBN: 9781402093135 , 9781402093128
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 235 S. , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. , 235 mm x 155 mm
    Series Statement: NATO science for peace and security series
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    Keywords: Curriculumforschung ; Umwelterziehung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Umwelterziehung ; Curriculumforschung
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 1441903631
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 171 S. , 24cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. The Group Effect
    DDC: 306.461
    Keywords: Social networks Health aspects ; Social medicine ; Social groups Health aspects
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781441910714
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Trade and Exchange
    DDC: 303.48209
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic documentary sources reveal non-local materials in historic and prehistoric assemblages. Trade and exchange represent more than mere production and consumption. Exchange of goods also led to an exchange of cultural and social experiences. Discoveries of the sources of alien objects surpass archaeological expectations of exchange an
    Description / Table of Contents: Dillian_Frontmatter_O.pdf; Anchor 1; Dillian_Ch01_O.pdf; Chapter 1; Dillian_Ch02_O.pdf; Chapter 2; Dillian_Ch03_O.pdf; Chapter 3; Dillian_Ch04_O.pdf; Chapter 4; Dillian_Ch05_O.pdf; Chapter 5; Dillian_Ch06_O.pdf; Chapter 6; Dillian_Ch07_O.pdf; Chapter 7; Dillian_Ch08_O.pdf; Chapter 8; Dillian_Ch09_O.pdf; Chapter 9; Dillian_Ch10_O.pdf; Chapter 10; Dillian_Ch11_O.pdf; Chapter 11; Part4_O.pdf; Dillian_Ch12_O.pdf; Chapter 12; Dillian_Ch13_O.pdf; Chapter 13; Dillian_Backmatter_O.pdf
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9783642027246
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (502 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Mind the Gap
    DDC: 303.4
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The contributors to this book pursue both approaches, in an effort to understand how evolution has shaped modern human behavior and societies
    Description / Table of Contents: fm; p1; Part I: Introduction; 161261_1_En_1_Chapter_OnLine; p2; Part IV: Intergroup Relationships; 161261_1_En_2_Chapter_OnLine; Chapter 2: The Deep Structure of Human Society: Primate Origins and Evolution; Introduction; What is Reciprocal Exogamy?; Phylogenetic Evidence as a Test of the Exogamy Model; Origins of the Multifamily Communitymultifamily community; Kinship in Early Hominid Society; Kin Recognitionkin recognition in NonHuman Primates; Kin Recognitionkin recognition in Early Hominids; The Evolution of Stable Breeding Bonds; Monogamymonogamy as Maximally Constrained Polygyny
    Description / Table of Contents: Fatherhood and the Expansion of KinshipThe Origins of Exogamy and Postmarital Residence; The ``Atom of Between-Group Alliances´´; The Nascent Tribetribe; The Evolution of Residential Diversity; The Origins of Exogamy Rules; Conclusion; References; 161261_1_En_3_Chapter_OnLine; 161261_1_En_4_Chapter_OnLine; Chapter 4: The Unusual Women of Mpimbwe: Why Sex Differences in Humans are not Universal; Introduction; Parental Investmentparental investment Theory and Beyond; The Unusual Women of Mpimbwe; Pair Bondpair bonds in Humans; Mind the Crack: Concluding Observations; p3
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: Family & Social Organization161261_1_En_5_Chapter_OnLine; Chapter 5: Dominancedominance, Power, and Politics in Nonhuman and Human Primates; Introduction; What is Dominancedominance?; Functions of Dominance; Sources of Variation in Female Dominance Style: Ecology, Phylogeny, and Self-Structuring; Variation in Male Dominance Style; Power and Politics; Headings; Headings; Politics and Cognitioncognition; Politics in Human versus Non-Human Primates; 161261_1_En_6_Chapter_OnLine; Chapter 6: Human Power and Prestige Systems; Introduction; The Basis of Social Power in Primates
    Description / Table of Contents: Prestigeprestige: A Unique Source of Social PowerThe Evolutionary Origins of Prestigeprestige; Competition for Prestige; Prestige Goods as Costly Signals of Skill and Expertise; Selection for Signaling in Prestige Competition; Prestigeprestige, Signaling and the Origins of Inequality; Prestige Competitionprestige competition and Selection for Leadership Roles; Prestige Competition and Status Striving; Signaling and Group Competition; Conclusions; 161261_1_En_7_Chapter_OnLine; Chapter 7: The End of the Republic; Introduction; Senators, Soldiers, Slaves and a Sterile Caste; Senators; Soldiers
    Description / Table of Contents: SlavesA Sterile Caste; Emperors; Free Women; Slave Women; Genius; Reproductive Skewreproductive skew; p4; Part III: Politics & Power; 161261_1_En_8_Chapter_OnLine; 161261_1_En_9_Chapter_OnLine; Chapter 9: Why War? Motivations for Fighting in the Human State of Nature; Introduction; Subsistence Resources; Reproduction; Dominance: Rank, Power, Status, Prestige; Revenge: Retaliation to Eliminate and Deter; Power and the Security Dilemma; World-View and the Supernatural; Playfulness, Adventurism, Ecstasy; Cooperation in Fighting; Conclusion: Fighting in the Evolutionary State of Nature; p5
    Description / Table of Contents: Part V: Foundations of Cooperation
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9781441903112
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (373 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Visual Information Communication
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Visual Information Communication is based on VINCI'09, The Visual Information Communications International Conference, September 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Topics covered include The Arts of Visual Layout, Presentation & Exploration, The Design of Visual Attributes, Symbols & Languages, Methods for Visual Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, Systems, Interfaces and Applications of Visualization, Methods for Multimedia Data Recognition & Processing. This cutting-edge book addresses the issues of knowledge discovery, end-user programming, modeling, rapid systems prototyping, education, and design
    Description / Table of Contents: chapter09.pdf; 3.2 The Results
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    Online Resource
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    Dordrecht : Springer
    ISBN: 9780387094649
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (223 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Aftermath : Readings in Contemporary Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology
    DDC: 303.66
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    Abstract: Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state of the world: how humanity has prepared for, reacted to, and dealt with the consequences of conflict at a national and international level. This title offers an important overview to research in this field
    Description / Table of Contents: Aftermath; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Values; Settings; Speed; Techniques, technology and accuracy; Scale; Alliances; Reporting and Representation; Emergence; Scope and Direction; Chapter 1: Conserving Recent Military Remains: Choices and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century; Hallowed Ground: Principles of Conservation; 'Clear-Cut, Successful in All Respects': Presenting Conflict as Heritage; Conservation Practice in England; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 2: Jessie's Cats and Other Stories: Presentingand Interpreting Recent Troubles'You Are Now in Fairyland': InterpretingRecent Events in District Six; A Brief History; The District Six Museum; The Future; 'Don't Forget Us': Other Troubled Pasts; Wartime Monuments in England; Blitz Experiences; Wartime Atrocities; Robben Island; Tourjeman Post Museum, Jerusalem; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Monuments and the Memories of War; Motivations; Two Examples; Bomb Sites; Control Towers; Conclusions; Chapter 4: Views of the Berlin Wall: Allied Perspectives; Perspectives; After the Wall
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 5: Peace Camp, NevadaContext; Archaeology; Features and Artefacts; The Site; Discussion; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Twyford Down; Issues; Archaeological Context; Experiencing Twyford Down; Bronze Age to the 1940s; Late Twentieth Century; Political Context and Continuity of Use; The Chalk Monolith: To Those that 'Ravaged the Land'; Views; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Greenham Common Airbase; Cold War Archaeology and Greenham Common Airbase; Queer as in Peculiar: Life Beyond the Fence; Interpretation and Future Management; Conclusion; Postscript; Chapter 8: Strait Street
    Description / Table of Contents: Progress in Strait StreetResults; Representations; Chapter 9: The Home Front, 1914-18; Remembering; Cultural Resources; Defences; The Production of War Matériel; Training; Aviation; Summary; Not Forgetting; Chapter 10: The Battle of Britain; The Landscape of War; Material Remains and Their Protection; Postscript; Chapter 11: D-Day Preparatory Sites in England; Preparations for Embarkation; Mulberry Harbour Construction Sites; Maintenance and Repair Areas; Embarkation Sites; The Future; Chapter 12: Le Carre' Landscapes: The Cold War; Background; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Conclusion
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 13: New Urban Frontiers and the Will to BelongConstructing Urban Space; Character, Sense of Place and Cultural Diversity; Examples; Tower Hamlets, London, England: Gay Space; Tower Hamlets, London, England: Bengalee Space; Northwest London, England: Jewish Space and the Case of the Eruv; Interpretations; Meaning; Note; Chapter 14: Constructing Place: When Artists and Archaeologists Meet; Overturning Convenrtion; Art as Archaeological Record; Archaeology as Performance; Art as Interpretation; Conclusion; Afterword; References
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  • 65
    ISBN: 9781402046988 , 9781402037535 , 9781402037542
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 236 S.
    Series Statement: Sociology of the sciences
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Naturwissenschaft ; Science and state ; Science Public opinion ; Science Social aspects ; Specialists Public opinion ; Politikberatung ; Politik ; Politische Entscheidung ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Wissenschaft ; Konferenzschrift 2003 ; Konferenzschrift 2003 ; Politik ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Wissenschaft ; Politikberatung ; Politische Entscheidung
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  • 66
    ISBN: 9789048123490
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 271 S. , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: Social indicators research series 37
    Series Statement: Social indicators research series
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Diener, Ed, 1946 - The Science of Well-Being
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. The collected works of Ed Diener ; 1: The Science of Well-Being
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Diener, Ed, 1946 - The collected works of Ed Diener ; 1: The Science of Well-Being
    Angaben zur Quelle: 1
    Keywords: Glück ; Wohlbefinden ; Zufriedenheit ; Psychologie
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  • 67
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 29 p) , 26 cm
    Edition: Online edition s.l.
    Series Statement: World Bank working paper no. 158
    Series Statement: World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 302.2309172/4
    Keywords: Business incubators / Developing countries ; Mass media / Economic aspects / Developing countries ; Mass media / Social aspects / Developing countries
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionThe media's role in development -- Trends in expanding the media's role in development -- In the developing world.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29)
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  • 68
    ISBN: 9789048125371 , 9789048125388
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 347 S. , 24cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Bilimoria, Purushottama Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bilimoria, Purushottama Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion
    DDC: 200
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    Keywords: Religion Philosophy ; History ; East and West Philosophy ; Great Britain Colonies ; Religious life and customs ; Konferenzschrift 1996 ; Konferenzschrift 1996 ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus ; Indien ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus ; Amerika ; Religionsphilosophie ; Postkolonialismus
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  • 69
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    ISBN: 9780821378489
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (234 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: Now in its eigth edition, this pocket-sized reference on key development data for over 200 countries provides profiles of each country with 54 development indicators about people, environment, economy, technology and infrastructure, trade, and finance
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  • 70
    Online Resource
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    ISBN: 9780821378533
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (146 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: The Little Data Book on External Debt provides a quick reference for users interested in external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, and the currency composition of long-term debt for all countries reporting through the Debtor Reporting system. A pocket edition of the Global Development Finance 2009, Volume II: Summary and Country Tables, it contains statistical tables for 135 countries as well as summary tables for regional and income groups
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  • 71
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    ISBN: 9780821378519
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (232 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: This pocket-sized reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries includes key indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. The volume helps establish a sound base of information to help set priorities and measure progress toward environmental sustainability goals
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  • 72
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    ISBN: 9780821378731
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (230 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics. It presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 countries in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development Goals. The book's summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates
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  • 73
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (13 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Deininger, Klaus Determinants of Repayment Performance in Indian Micro-Credit Groups
    Abstract: Despite their potential importance and ease of modification, impacts of monitoring and loan recovery arrangements on micro-credit groups' repayment performance have rarely been studied. Data on 3,350 expired group loans in 300 Indian villages highlight that regular monitoring and audits, high repayment frequency, consumption smoothing support through rice credit, and having group savings deposited with the lender all significantly increase repayment rates. Estimated magnitudes of their effects vastly exceed those of members' socio-economic characteristics. Significantly lower repayment on loans originating in externally provided grant resources suggests that stringent monitoring will be essential for these to have a sustainable impact
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  • 74
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (46 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Beck, Thorsten Financial Institutions and Markets Across Countries and Over Time
    Abstract: This paper introduces the updated and expanded version of the Financial Development and Structure Database and presents recent trends in structure and development of financial institutions and markets across countries. The authors add indicators on banking structure and financial globalization. They find a deepening of both financial markets and institutions, a trend concentrated in high-income countries and more pronounced for markets than for banks. Similarly, the recent increase in cross-border lending and debt issues has been concentrated in high-income countries, while low and lower-middle income countries have experienced an increase in remittance flows. Low net interest margins, rising profitability and declining stability in high-income countries’ banking sectors characterize the recent financial sector boom in high income countries leading up to the global financial crisis of 2007
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  • 75
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (51 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Rijkers, Bob Mind the Gap?
    Abstract: This paper compares and contrasts the performance of rural and urban manufacturing firms in Ethiopia to assess the impact of market integration and the investment climate on firm performance. Rural firms are shown to operate in isolated markets, have poor access to infrastructure and a substantial degree of market power, whereas urban firms operate in better integrated and more competitive markets, where they have much better access to inputs. Fragmentation may also help explain why urban firms are much larger, much more capital intensive and why they produce much more output per worker. Capital intensity and labor productivity are strongly correlated with firm size. Manufacturing technology choice does not vary strongly across space and increasing returns to scale are modest at best, suggesting that rural-urban differences in output per worker are predominantly driven by differences in capital intensity and Total Factor Productivity (TFP). The average TFP of firms in rural towns is much higher than that of rural firms in remote areas, but small firms in rural towns are not significantly less productive than small firms in other urban areas. A key finding of the paper is that market fragmentation and investment climate constraints impair the growth of the rural non-farm sector. Whereas urban firms exhibit a healthy dynamism, rural firms are stagnant and lack incentives to invest. Paradoxically, limited local demand due to market fragmentation is the most pressing constraint for rural firms, even though they face more severe supply-side constraints than urban firms. Promoting market towns in Ethiopia might be an effective means of capitalizing on the gains from market integration
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  • 76
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (41 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Cull, Robert Does Regulatory Supervision Curtail Microfinance Profitability and Outreach?
    Abstract: Regulation allows microfinance institutions to evolve more fully into banks, particularly for institutions aiming to take deposits. But there are potential trade-offs. Complying with regulation and supervision can be costly. The authors examine the implications for the institutions’ profitability and their outreach to small-scale borrowers and women. The tests draw on a new database that combines high-quality financial data on 245 of the world’s largest microfinance institutions with newly-constructed data on their prudential supervision. Ordinary least squares regressions show that supervision is negatively associated with profitability. Controlling for the non-random assignment of supervision via treatment effects and instrumental variables regressions, the analysis finds that supervision is associated with substantially larger average loan sizes and less lending to women than in ordinary least squares regressions, although it is not significantly associated with profitability. The pattern is consistent with the notion that profit-oriented microfinance institutions absorb the cost of supervision by curtailing outreach to market segments that tend to be more costly per dollar lent. By contrast, microfinance institutions that rely on non-commercial sources of funding (for example, donations), and thus are less profit-oriented, do not adjust loan sizes or lend less to women when supervised, but their profitability is significantly reduced
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  • 77
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (38 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Brenton, Paul What Explains the Low Survival Rate of Developing Country Export Flows?
    Abstract: Successful export growth and diversification require not only entry into new export products and markets, but also the survival and growth of export flows. This paper uses a detailed, cross-country dataset of product level bilateral export flows to illustrate that exporting is an extremely perilous activity and especially so in low-income countries. The authors find that unobserved individual heterogeneity in product-level export flow data prevails despite controlling for a wide range of observed country and product characteristics. This questions previous studies that have used the Cox proportional hazards model to model export survival. The authors estimate a Prentice-Gloeckler model, amended with a gamma mixture distribution summarizing unobserved individual heterogeneity. The empirical results confirm the significance of a range of products as well as country-specific factors in determining the survival of export flows. From a policy perspective, an interesting finding is the importance of learning-by-doing for export survival: experience with exporting the same product to other markets or different products to the same market are found to strongly increase the chance of export survival. A better understanding of such learning effects could substantially improve the effectiveness of export promotion strategies
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  • 78
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (46 p)
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    Parallel Title: Rajadel, Tania The Mauritanian Labor Market Through the Lens of the 2004 National Household Survey
    Abstract: This paper provides a snapshot of Mauritania’s labor market using data from the 2004 national household survey. The results show that the labor market is characterized by lower participation rates, lower employment-to-population rates, and relatively higher unemployment rates than in neighboring countries. The non poor fare better in the labor market than the poor. Although the labor force participation of the poor is higher than that of the non poor, the poor display a higher unemployment rate and a lower employment rate than the non poor. The data also suggest a negative correlation between wage employment and poverty. Substantial differences in labor market indicators emerge when disaggregating the analysis by gender and age-group. Female non-participation is extremely high. Women systematically earn less than men independently of their sector and type of employment and controlling for other factors, such as education. Young adults face considerable difficulties in entering the labor market: more than half of the population aged 15-24 is neither studying nor participating in the labor force. As gender disparities remain important for similar levels of education, more work is needed to understand whether cultural factors may prevent women from entering the labor market. Concerning young adults, future poverty reduction strategies need to pay more explicit attention to the promotion of employment through informed labor market policies
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  • 79
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (18 p)
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    Parallel Title: Seo, John The Impact of Climate Change On Catastrophe Risk Models
    Abstract: Catastrophe risk models allow insurers, reinsurers and governments to assess the risk of loss from catastrophic events, such as hurricanes. These models rely on computer technology and the latest earth and meteorological science information to generate thousands if not millions of simulated events. Recently observed hurricane activity, particularly in the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, in conjunction with recently published scientific literature has led risk modelers to revisit their hurricane models and develop climate conditioned hurricane models. This paper discusses these climate conditioned hurricane models and compares their risk estimates to those of base normal hurricane models. This comparison shows that the recent 50 year period of climate change has potentially increased North Atlantic hurricane frequency by 30 percent. However, such an increase in hurricane frequency would result in an increase in risk to human property that is equivalent to less than 10 years’ worth of US coastal property growth. Increases in potential extreme losses require the reinsurance industry to secure additional risk capital for these peak risks, resulting in the short term in lower risk capacity for developing countries. However, reinsurers and investors in catastrophe securities may still have a long-term interest in providing catastrophe coverage in middle and low-income countries as this allows reinsurers and investors to better diversify their catastrophe risk portfolios
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  • 80
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (42 p)
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    Parallel Title: Okuyama, Yasuhide Impact Estimation of Disasters
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  • 81
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (53 p)
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    Parallel Title: Gibson, John The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest
    Abstract: A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices. Although the estimates indicate that the income gains from migration are very large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals, the emigration decision is found to be most strongly associated with preference variables such as risk aversion, patience, and choice of subjects in secondary school, and not strongly linked to either liquidity constraints or the gain in income to be had from migrating. Likewise, the decision to return is strongly linked to family and lifestyle reasons, rather than to the income opportunities in different countries. Overall the data show a relatively limited role for income maximization in distinguishing migration propensities among the very highly skilled, and point to the need to pay more attention to other components of the utility maximization decision
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  • 82
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (27 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Brownbridge, Martin How Should Fiscal Policy Respond To the Economic Crisis in the Low Income Commonwealth of Independent States?
    Abstract: The paper analyses how the global economic crisis will affect the economies of the low income Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and discusses the fiscal measures which can be taken to help mitigate the adverse impact of the crisis. It focuses on Tajikistan, the poorest member of the CIS but also highlights similarities with the economies of Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic and Moldova. The main channels through which the global economic crisis will affect the low income CIS economies is through a sharp reduction in remittances from migrant workers in Russia and lower export earnings. The adjustment to this external shock will involve a reduction in imports, private consumption, domestic output and government revenue. Fiscal policy, constrained by very limited macroeconomic and fiscal space, faces acute challenges. Maintaining budget targets for fiscal deficits and domestic borrowing in the face of revenue shortfalls will lead to a tightening of the fiscal stance, exacerbating recessionary pressures and making it very difficult to protect priority social expenditures from cuts. To avoid these outcomes, external support from donors, preferably in the form of quick disbursing budget support, is required. If additional external budget support can be mobilized, the priorities for fiscal policy should be to protect spending on budgeted social sector programs and, if sufficient budget resources are available, to implement a program of labor intensive repair and maintenance of public infrastructure to provide employment for returning migrant workers. Tax cuts are unlikely to be an effective use of scarce budget resources, either to stimulate the economy or protect the incomes of the poor. Up scaling existing social assistance programs may be a feasible way to protect the poor in some low income CIS countries provided they are not as poorly targeted as in Tajikistan
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  • 83
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (57 p)
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    Parallel Title: Calderon, Cesar Does Financial Openness Lead To Deeper Domestic Financial Markets?
    Abstract: Advanced and emerging market economies have rapidly integrated into international capital markets and this growing globalization of financial markets has led to some important changes in the patterns of saving and investment across the world. The main goal of this paper is to test whether the cross-border asset trade has led to improvements in the intermediation of these savings - that is, foster development of domestic financial markets. The authors have collected annual information on financial market development, financial openness, and other control variables for a sample of 145 countries for the period 1974-2007. Controlling for the likely endogeneity of financial openness, the analysis finds that rising financial openness expands private credit, bank assets, and stock market and private bond market development, and generates efficiency gains in the banking system. However, the impact of financial openness on domestic financial development may depend on the level of institutional quality, the extent of investor protection, and the degree of trade openness. In general, rising financial openness will enlarge the size and activity of financial intermediaries, improve efficiency in the banking system, and contribute to deepen private bond markets in countries with moderate to high levels of institutional quality and investor protection as well as in countries with high trade openness
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  • 84
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (105 p)
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    Parallel Title: Kaufmann, Daniel Governance Matters VIII
    Abstract: This paper reports on the 2009 update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2008: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. These aggregate indicators are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring various dimensions of governance, taken from 35 data sources provided by 33 different organizations. The data reflect the views on governance of public sector, private sector and NGO experts, as well as thousands of citizen and firm survey respondents worldwide. The authors also explicitly report the margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. They find that even after taking margins of error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country comparisons as well as monitoring progress over time. The aggregate indicators, together with the disaggregated underlying indicators, are available at www.govindicators.org
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (41 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Beine, Michel Diasporas
    Abstract: Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, the authors analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. The analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational attainment from 195 countries to 30 developed countries in 1990 and 2000. Based on simple micro-foundations and controlling for various determinants of migration, the analysis finds that diasporas increase migration flows, lower the average educational level and lead to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain the majority of the variability of migration flows and selection. This suggests that, without changing the generosity of family reunion programs, education-based selection rules are likely to have a moderate impact. The results are highly robust to the econometric techniques, accounting for the large proportion of zeros and endogeneity problems
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  • 86
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (33 p)
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    Parallel Title: Mechler, Reinhard Disasters and Economic Welfare
    Abstract: The debate on whether natural disasters cause significant macroeconomic impacts and indeed hinder development is ongoing. Most analyses along these lines have focused on impacts on gross domestic product. This paper looks beyond this standard national accounting aggregate, and examines whether traditional and alternative national savings measures combined with adjustments for the destruction of capital stocks may contribute to better explaining post-disaster changes in welfare as measured by changes in consumption expenditure. The author concludes that including disaster asset losses may help to better explain variations in post-disaster consumption, albeit almost exclusively for the group of low-income countries. The observed effect is rather small and in the range of a few percent of the explained variation. For low-income countries, capital stock and changes therein, such as forced by disaster shocks, seem to play a more important role than for higher-income economies, where human capital and technological progress become crucial. There are important data constraints and uncertainties, particularly regarding the quality of disaster loss data and the shares of capital stock losses therein. Another important challenge potentially biasing the results is the lack of data on alternative savings measures for many disaster-exposed lower-income countries and small island states
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (44 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Gamberoni, Elisa Aid for Trade
    Abstract: This paper is designed to help both the beneficiary governments and donors of aid-for-trade identify countries that are under-performing in trade and which are receiving less aid for trade than their global performance might otherwise suggest is necessary. The authors develop ten measures of trade performance and capacity (including trade-related infrastructure, institutions, and incentives) to assess potential demand, and then look at country allocations of aid for trade to see which are receiving below-average amounts in the supply of aid for trade - relative to their potential demand. As they design national development strategies, countries may wish to consider giving greater attention to trade and requesting that donors allocate more aid for trade. As part of the analysis, the paper provides a conceptual framework for selecting indicators of trade performance and its policy determinants that the World Trade Organization and its partners might monitor closely as part of the aid for trade initiative
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    Parallel Title: Labonne, Julien The Power of Information
    Abstract: The authors explore the impact of access to information on poor farmers’ consumption. The analysis combines spatially coded data on mobile phone coverage with household panel data on farmers from some of the poorest areas of the Philippines. Both the ordinary least squares and instrumental variable estimates indicate that purchasing a mobile phone has a large, positive impact on the household-level growth rate of per capita consumption. Estimates range from 11 to 17 percent, depending on the sample and the specification chosen. The authors perform a range of reliability tests, the results of which all suggest that the instruments are valid. They also present evidence consistent with the argument that easier access to information allows farmers to strike better price deals within their existing trading relationships and to make better choices in terms of where they choose to sell their goods
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  • 89
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (22 p)
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    Parallel Title: Filmer, Deon Are There Diminishing Returns To Transfer Size in Conditional Cash Transfers?
    Abstract: There is increasing evidence that conditional cash transfer programs can have large impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor countries. However, little is known about which features of program design - including the amount of the cash that is transferred, how frequently conditions are monitored, whether non-complying households are penalized, and the identity or gender of the cash recipients - account for the observed outcomes. This paper analyzes the impact of one feature of program design - namely, the magnitude of the transfer. The analysis uses data from a program in Cambodia that deliberately altered the transfer amounts received by otherwise comparable households. The findings show clear evidence of diminishing marginal returns to transfer size despite the fact that even the larger transfers represented on average only 3 percent of the consumption of the median recipient households. If applicable to other settings, these results have important implications for other programs that transfer cash with the explicit aim of increasing school enrollment levels in developing countries
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  • 90
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (58 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Knack, Stephen Aid and Trust in Country Systems
    Abstract: The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. A consensus view holds that country systems are strengthened when donors trust recipients to manage aid funds, but undermined when donors manage aid through their own separate parallel systems. This paper provides an analytical framework for understanding donors’ decisions to trust in country systems or instead to micro-manage aid using their own systems and procedures. Where country systems are sufficiently weak, the development impact of aid is reduced by donors’ reliance on them. Trust in country systems will be sub-optimal, however, if donors have multiple objectives in aid provision rather than a sole objective of maximizing development outcomes. Empirical tests are conducted using data from an OECD survey designed to monitor progress toward Paris Declaration goals. Trust in country systems is measured in three ways: use of the recipient’s public financial management systems, use of direct budget support, and use of program-based approaches. The authors show using fixed effects regression that a donor’s trust in recipient country systems is positively related to (1) trustworthiness or quality of those systems, (2) tolerance for risk on the part of the donor’s constituents, as measured by public support for providing aid, and (3) the donor’s ability to internalize more of the benefits of investing in country systems, as measured by the donor’s share of all aid provided to a recipient
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  • 91
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (28 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Dailami, Mansoor Measures of Investor and Consumer Confidence and Policy Actions in the Current Crisis
    Abstract: The current financial crisis has highlighted the danger that declines in confidence can have a self-fulfilling effect on economic activity. In this paper, the authors consider ways of measuring investor and consumer confidence, and try to explain the evolution of confidence using measures of financial volatility, investment performance, macroeconomic outcomes, and policy actions. They identify a link between investor and consumer confidence. Finally, they show that liquidity provision and easing of interest rates had only a limited effect on financial market spreads during the crisis, arguing for additional measures to address the loss of confidence. The paper focuses on the need for financial regulatory reform, and shows how the incentives to cooperate in this area are stimulated by a common shock to confidence
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  • 92
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (34 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Fofack, Hippolyte Africa and Arab Gulf States
    Abstract: In spite of the similarities between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab Gulf region (Gulf Cooperation Council states), development policies implemented in these two regions of the world have produced markedly different and even divergent outcomes. While Gulf Cooperation Council states have drawn on hydrocarbon revenues to dramatically transform their economic landscape, Sub-Saharan African countries have exhibited abysmal economic and social outcomes. The remarkable increase in personal income and large current account surpluses in Arab Gulf states is in sharp contrast with widespread poverty and recurrent balance of payments crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews the possible causes of these divergent development paths and discusses the prospects for economic convergence in the new globalization landscape of growing trade ties between the two regions. In particular, it shows that development models underpinned by institutional continuity and intergenerational accountability could enhance long-run growth in Sub-Saharan Africa and income convergence between the two regions
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  • 93
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (49 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Robalino, David A Ex-Ante Methods To Assess the Impact of Social Insurance Policies On Labor Supply With An Application To Brazil
    Abstract: This paper solves and estimates a stochastic model of optimal inter-temporal behavior to assess how changes in the design of the unemployment benefits and pension systems in Brazil could affect savings rates, the share of time that individuals spend outside of the formal sector, and retirement decisions. Dynamics depend on five main parameters: preferences regarding consumption and leisure, preferences regarding formal Vs. informal work, attitudes towards risks, the rate of time preference, and the distribution of an exogenous shock that affects movements in and out of the social security system (given individual decisions). The yearly household survey is used to create a pseudo panel by age-cohorts and estimate the joint distribution of model parameters based on a generalized version of the Gibbs sampler. The model does a good job in replicating the distribution of the members of a given cohort across states (in or out of the social security / active or retired). Because the parameters are related to individual preferences or exogenous shocks, the joint distribution is unlikely to change when the social insurance system changes. Thus, the model is used to explore how alternative policy interventions could affect behaviors and through this channel benefit levels and fiscal costs. The results from various simulations provide three main insights: (i) the Brazilian SI system today might generate distortions (lower savings rates and less formal employment) that increase the costs of the system and might generate regressive redistribution; (ii) there are important interactions between the unemployment benefits and pension systems, which calls for joint policy analysis when considering reforms; and (iii) current distortions could be reduced by creating an actuarial link between contributions and benefits and then combining matching contributions and anti-poverty targeted transfers to cover individuals with limited or no savings capacity
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  • 94
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (44 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Aterido, Reyes Big Constraints To Small Firms' Growth?
    Abstract: Using data on more than 56,000 enterprises in 90 countries, this paper finds that objective conditions in the business environment vary substantially across firms of different sizes and that there are important non-linearities in their impact on employment growth. The paper focuses on four areas: access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and infrastructure. The results, particularly on the impacts of finance and corruption on growth, depend on whether and how the analysis accounts for the possible endogeneity of the business environment. Controlling for endogeneity revises the finding that small firms benefit most from access to finance, particularly for sources of finance associated with investment and growth. The findings are also sensitive to how “small” is defined. Differentiating micro (less than 10 employees) from other small firms shows that, while small firms can be disadvantaged in such an environment, micro firms tend to be proportionally less affected by a weak business climate - and, on occasion, it can help them to grow. Overall, allowing different size classifications provides insights into the impact of the business environment that are lost in more aggregate analyses
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  • 95
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (42 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Newhouse, David The Value of Vocational Education
    Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between the type of senior high school attended by Indonesian youth and their subsequent labor market outcomes. This topic is very timely, given the government’s recent decision to dramatically expand vocational enrollment. The analysis controls for an unusually rich set of predetermined characteristics, and exploits longitudinal data spanning 14 years to separately identify cohort and age effects. There are four main findings. First, students are sorted into different school types largely on the basis of their entering exam score. Public schools attract the highest-scoring students, while private vocational schools serve the lowest-scoring students. Second, after controlling for a variety of characteristics, including test scores, male public school graduates earn a substantial premium over their privately schooled counterparts. Third, private vocational school graduates fare at least as well as private general graduates, despite coming from more disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Finally, the returns to public vocational education have declined sharply for the most recent cohort of men. This raises important concerns about the current expansion of public vocational education, and the relevance of the male vocational curriculum in an increasingly service-oriented economy
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  • 96
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (32 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Brenton, Paul Assessing the Adjustment Implications of Trade Policy Changes Using TRIST (Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool)
    Abstract: TRIST is a simple, easy to use tool to assess the adjustment implications of trade reform. It improves on existing tools. First, it is an improvement in terms of accuracy because projections are based on revenues actually collected at the tariff line level rather than simply applying statutory rates. Second, it is transparent and open; runs in Excel, with formulas and calculation steps visible to the user; and is open-source and users are free to change, extend, or improve according to their needs. Third, TRIST has greater policy relevance because it projects the impact of tariff reform on total fiscal revenue (including VAT and excise) and results are broken down to the product level so that sensitive products or sectors can be identified. And fourth, the tool is flexible and can incorporate tariff liberalization scenarios involving any group of trading partners and any schedules of products. This paper describes the TRIST tool and provides a range of examples that demonstrate the insights that the tool can provide to policy makers on the adjustment impacts of reducing tariffs
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  • 97
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (24 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Hoekman, Bernard The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
    Abstract: This paper discusses options to facilitate movement of workers between high-income and developing countries within the framework of trade agreements, focusing on the European Union’s partnership agreements with neighboring countries. Existing frameworks for cooperation offer the possibility of expanding temporary rather than longer-term or permanent movement of workers since extant trade agreements provide scope for negotiating specific market access commitments for services, including those delivered through the cross-border movement of natural persons. Even though the potential for such "embodied" trade in services will not be anywhere near what would be associated with substantial liberalization of migration regimes, furthering the services trade dimension in the European Union’s trade agreements offers significant potential Pareto gains. For the partner countries these gains from temporary movement of service providers are both direct - through greater employment in/revenue from providing services in the European Union - and indirect - by helping to increase and sustain higher growth at home
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  • 98
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (37 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Strand, Jon “Revenue Management” Effects Related to Financial Flows Generated by Climate Policy
    Abstract: This paper discusses possible macroeconomic implications for low-income countries of increased revenue inflows that may follow from implementing certain global greenhouse gas mitigation policies. Such revenue sources include revenue from emissions offset mechanisms, direct investments, and financial transfers that form parts of possible future mitigation treaties. In the short run such revenue will come mainly from offset markets and donor-sponsored programs, with some additional financial inflows due to foreign direct investments. In the longer run, comprehensive global cap-and-trade or carbon tax schemes could provide a potentially much larger revenue flow to many low-income countries. The author argues that the macroeconomic implications of such flows are manageable in the short run, but the larger revenues resulting from global emissions schemes could overwhelm this capacity and lead to a number of potential macroeconomic management problems
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  • 99
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (45 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Ju, Jiandong Endowment Structures, Industrial Dynamics, and Economic Growth
    Abstract: This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model to explore industrial evolution and economic growth in a closed developing economy. The authors show that industries will endogenously upgrade toward the more capital-intensive ones as the capital endowment becomes more abundant. The model features a continuous inverse-V-shaped pattern of industrial evolution driven by capital accumulation: As the capital endowment reaches a certain threshold, a new industry appears, prospers, then declines and finally disappears. While the industry is declining, a more capital-intensive industry appears and booms, ad infinitum. Explicit solutions are obtained to fully characterize the whole dynamics of perpetual structural change and economic growth. Implications for industrial policies are discussed
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  • 100
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    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (56 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Ostrom, Elinor A Polycentric Approach for Coping With Climate Change
    Abstract: This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues that single policies adopted only at a global scale are unlikely to generate sufficient trust among citizens and firms so that collective action can take place in a comprehensive and transparent manner that will effectively reduce global warming. Furthermore, simply recommending a single governmental unit to solve global collective action problems is inherently weak because of free-rider problems. For example, the Carbon Development Mechanism (CDM) can be ‘gamed’ in ways that hike up prices of natural resources and in some cases can lead to further natural resource exploitation. Some flaws are also noticeable in the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) program. Both the CDM and REDD are vulnerable to the free-rider problem. As an alternative, the paper proposes a polycentric approach at various levels with active oversight of local, regional, and national stakeholders. Efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions are a classic collective action problem that is best addressed at multiple scales and levels. Given the slowness and conflict involved in achieving a global solution to climate change, recognizing the potential for building a more effective way of reducing green house gas emissions at multiple levels is an important step forward. A polycentric approach has the main advantage of encouraging experimental efforts at multiple levels, leading to the development of methods for assessing the benefits and costs of particular strategies adopted in one type of ecosystem and compared to results obtained in other ecosystems. Building a strong commitment to find ways of reducing individual emissions is an important element for coping with this problem, and having others also take responsibility can be more effectively undertaken in small- to medium-scale governance units that are linked together through information networks and monitoring at all levels. This paper was prepared as a background paper for the 2010 World Development Report on Climate Change
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