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Higher Education Financing in East and Southern Africa /

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Strategy, innovation, and change challenges for management /

Table of Contents: “…Lawler -- HR dreams: where human resource management is headed to deliver value / Dave Ulrich -- Services, counsel, and values: managing strategically in the public sector / J.A. Murray -- Develop your options -- The rising costs of offering valueless propositions in a connected world / Sen Meehan and Willem Smit -- Managing the evolving global production network / Kasra Ferdows -- From lines to loops: an iterative approach to strategy / Donald Sull -- Opening up strategic space through discontinuous innovation / John Bessant -- How to create the industries of the twenty first century / Costas Markides -- Lead the change -- Leading in the knowledge economy / Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones -- The leaders prison / Robert Galavan and John Cullen -- Nurturing innovation hot spots / Lynda Gratton -- The contrasting faces of the chairman of the board / Nada K. …”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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A Decision-Makers Guide to Public Private Partnerships in Airports by Ricover, Andy

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Mythbusters; "PPP is free money"; "Don't bother with bidding, just select a good operator and go; it is much faster and cheaper"; "The private sector is always more efficient than the public sector"; "PPP is all about getting more financing"; "PPP financing is cheaper"; "Airport PPP is only for rich countries"; "PPP is only for big airports"; "In time of need, sell the family jewels"; "The myth of the hospital pass"…”
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Restoring fiscal sanity 2007 the health spending challenge /

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