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Africa's power infrastructure investment, integration, efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? …”
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Opening standards the global politics of interoperability /

Table of Contents: “…Injecting the public interest into ICT standards / John B. Morris -- The government at the standards bazaar / Stacy Baird -- Governments, the public interest, and standards setting / D. …”
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Rents to riches? the political economy of natural resource led development /

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Solving the health care problem how other nations succeeded and why the United States has not / by Behan, Pamela

Subjects: “…Medical care, Cost of Government policy United States.…”
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State constitutions for the twenty-first century.

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The fence and the neighbor Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Israel among the nations / by Newton, Adam Zachary

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From Edward Brooke to Barack Obama African American political success, 1966-2008 / by Nordin, Dennis S. (Dennis Sven), 1942-

Subjects: “…African Americans Politics and government 20th century.…”
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Urban social movements in Jerusalem the protest of the second generation / by Hasson, Shlomo

Subjects: “…Jews, Oriental Jerusalem Politics and government.…”
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Health financing in Ghana

Subjects: “…Medical care Finance Government policy Ghana.…”
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Wheel of fortune the battle for oil and power in Russia / by Gustafson, Thane

Subjects: “…Petroleum industry and trade Government policy Russia (Federation)…”
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Freedom of environmental information by Cramer, Benjamin W., 1971-

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Climate change and global poverty a billion lives in the balance? /

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Natural gas markets and lessons learned

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U.S. oil sources turmoil and tranquility /

Subjects: “…Petroleum industry and trade Government policy United States.…”
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Infrastructure rebuilding, repairing and restructuring /

Subjects: “…Roads Government policy United States.…”
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More than they bargained for Scott Walker, unions, and the fight for Wisconsin / by Stein, Jason, journalist

Subjects: “…Collective bargaining Government employees Wisconsin.…”
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Growing green the economic benefits of climate action / by Deichmann, Uwe

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Food security and farm land protection in China by Mao, Yushi

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A legacy of leadership governors and American history /

Subjects: “…Decentralization in government United States History 20th century.…”
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The new climate policies of the European Union : internal legislation and climate diplomacy /

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