Violence against Women: The Health Sector Responds (Occasional Publication No. 12)

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In 1995 PAHO launched a project to address violence against women in Central America. Utilizing an integrated approach that calls for action at three levels—health and other sectors, the community, and national policy development—by the end of 2002 more than 150 community networks in 10 Latin American countries had been formed. This book highlights the results of the project's recent evaluation and includes numerous insights by health workers, schoolteachers, police and court officials, women's advocates, and other community leaders regarding the effectiveness of the project's approach. Most revealing of all, however, is the voices of the women themselves, as they describe living with violence and the community's response to their needs.

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An affordable, easily scannable one-day training guide designed for use in instructor-led training courses.

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Modeling Uncertainty: An Examination of Stochastic Theory, Methods, and Applications, is a volume undertaken by the friends and colleagues of Sid Yakowitz in his honor. Fifty internionally known scholars have collectively contributed 30 papers on modeling uncertainty to this volume. Each of these papers was carefully reviewed and in the majority of cases the original submission was revised before being accepted for publication in the book. The papers cover a great variety of topics in probability, statistics, economics, stochastic optimization, control theory, regression analysis, simulation, stochastic programming, Markov decision process, application in the HIV context, and others. There are papers with a theoretical emphasis and others that focus on applications. A number of papers survey the work in a particular area and in a few papers the authors present their personal view of a topic. It is a book with a considerable number of expository articles, which are accessible to a nonexpert - a graduate student in mathematics, statistics, engineering, and economics departments, or just anyone with some mathematical background who is interested in a preliminary exposition of a particular topic. Many of the papers present the state of the art of a specific area or represent original contributions which advance the present state of knowledge. In sum, it is a book of considerable interest to a broad range of academic researchers and students of stochastic systems.

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Abitrary lines: the movement to treat teens as adults when they commit crimes loses steam.(INVESTIGATION): An article from: The Chicago Reporter
Sarah Karp , and Mick Dumke
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ASIN: B000IFPI6I
Release Date: 2006-09-08

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Title: Abitrary lines: the movement to treat teens as adults when they commit crimes loses steam.(INVESTIGATION)
Author: Sarah Karp
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Date: October 1, 2004
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Volume: 33 Issue: 8 Page: 8(8)

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Accountability for all. (Editorial).(Brief Article): An article from: Wind Speaker

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Accountability for all. (Editorial).(Brief Article): An article from: Wind Speaker

Manufacturer: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
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Release Date: 2005-07-30

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This digital document is an article from Wind Speaker, published by Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA) on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 509 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Accountability for all. (Editorial).(Brief Article)
Publication: Wind Speaker (Newsletter)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta (AMMSA)
Volume: 20 Issue: 1 Page: 4(1)

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AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 18 - Northern Alliance Agrees To Co-operate With UN; US Jets Pound Kunduz.(Brief Article): An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 18 - Northern Alliance Agrees To Co-operate With UN; US Jets Pound Kunduz.(Brief Article): An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Recorder, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on November 24, 2001. The length of the article is 445 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 18 - Northern Alliance Agrees To Co-operate With UN; US Jets Pound Kunduz.(Brief Article)
Publication: APS Diplomat Recorder (Newsletter)
Date: November 24, 2001
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AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 22 - Leaders Set For Berlin Talks On Future.(Brief Article): An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 22 - Leaders Set For Berlin Talks On Future.(Brief Article): An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Recorder, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on November 24, 2001. The length of the article is 509 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: AFGHANISTAN - Nov. 22 - Leaders Set For Berlin Talks On Future.(Brief Article)
Publication: APS Diplomat Recorder (Newsletter)
Date: November 24, 2001
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Afghanistan Is Becoming A Trap For The US Once Again, With More Serious Implications.: An article from: APS Diplomat News Service

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Afghanistan Is Becoming A Trap For The US Once Again, With More Serious Implications.: An article from: APS Diplomat News Service

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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat News Service, published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on December 8, 2003. The length of the article is 1651 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Afghanistan Is Becoming A Trap For The US Once Again, With More Serious Implications.
Publication: APS Diplomat News Service (Newsletter)
Date: December 8, 2003
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Volume: 59 Issue: 22

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After the editorials: the ground campaign to raise the minimum wage.(Frontlines): An article from: City Limits

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After the editorials: the ground campaign to raise the minimum wage.(Frontlines): An article from: City Limits
Alyssa Katz
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This digital document is an article from City Limits, published by City Limits Community Information Service, Inc. on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1316 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: After the editorials: the ground campaign to raise the minimum wage.(Frontlines)
Author: Alyssa Katz
Publication: City Limits (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
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Volume: 29 Issue: 5 Page: 6(2)

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ARAB AFAIRS - May 27 - Iran And Iraq Agree To Close Off Border To 'Saboteurs'. : An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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ARAB AFAIRS - May 27 - Iran And Iraq Agree To Close Off Border To 'Saboteurs'. : An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Recorder, published by Thomson Gale on June 3, 2006. The length of the article is 553 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ARAB AFAIRS - May 27 - Iran And Iraq Agree To Close Off Border To 'Saboteurs'.
Publication: APS Diplomat Recorder (Newsletter)
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Volume: 64 Issue: 22

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Arab politics: back to futility.(Out with the New, in with the Old)(failure of reforms and stability in the middle east): An article from: Middle East Quarterly

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Arab politics: back to futility.(Out with the New, in with the Old)(failure of reforms and stability in the middle east): An article from: Middle East Quarterly
Barry Rubin
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This digital document is an article from Middle East Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 5224 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Arab politics: back to futility.(Out with the New, in with the Old)(failure of reforms and stability in the middle east)
Author: Barry Rubin
Publication: Middle East Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Volume: 14 Issue: 1 Page: 53(10)

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Arab Quartet Is Born, As USA Shift From Democratisating To Consolidating ME Allies.(Middle East): An article from: APS Diplomat News Service

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Arab Quartet Is Born, As USA Shift From Democratisating To Consolidating ME Allies.(Middle East): An article from: APS Diplomat News Service
Gale Reference Team
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ASIN: B000PWR30S
Release Date: 2007-04-29

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat News Service, published by Thomson Gale on April 2, 2007. The length of the article is 965 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Arab Quartet Is Born, As USA Shift From Democratisating To Consolidating ME Allies.(Middle East)
Author: Gale Reference Team
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Date: April 2, 2007
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ARAB-EUROPEAN RELATIONS - Nov 2 - The Netherlands And Hungary To Quit Iraq Coalition. : An article from: APS Diplomat Recorder

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This digital document is an article from APS Diplomat Recorder, published by Thomson Gale on November 6, 2004. The length of the article is 533 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: ARAB-EUROPEAN RELATIONS - Nov 2 - The Netherlands And Hungary To Quit Iraq Coalition.
Publication: APS Diplomat Recorder (Newsletter)
Date: November 6, 2004
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Volume: 61 Issue: 18

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So Simple- so perfect, why isn't everyone doing this?

Buried Alive! Digging Out of a Management Dumpster
Shane Yount , Anna Versteeg , Debra Boggan , John Pyecha , and Linda Segall
Manufacturer: Oaklea Press
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The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

ASIN: 1892538156

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Let's get real. All of the touchy-feely leadership stuff of the last decade has not really served you nor many others in management very well. Now that downsizing has taken its toll, reality is setting in. Fortunately, you lived through downsizing, but now that it's hopefully over, and you're one of the survivors, you're expected to do more with less. It's called productivity, and while there's no doubt increased productivity will beat the competition, touchy-feeling is definitely not the way to get it.

This book will make the goal of increased productivity possible. Yet it doesn't suggest returning to the old dictatorial style of management. It's all about process based leadership. Process based leadership makes sure you don't subconsciously play favorites. Process based leadership insures that everyone accepts accountability, and that each person on your team pulls his or her own weight. Because empowered team leaders like you can end up doing all the team's work if you don't have a process like this one in place.

Buried Alive! explains a new management system the authors call process based leadership (PBL), which relies on non-negotiable processes to drive focus, urgency and accountability throughout an organization. These non-negotiable processes lead empowered team leaders out of their personal "management dumpsters" and provide them with tangible and auditable systems to insure ongoing business success.

Establishing non-negotiables is step number one. Once these clear ground rules are laid, a leader can build the steps needed to climb out of the dumpster. The first step is communication, which must be face to face. People need to know what's going on and putting it in an e-mail or memo simply won't do. Next is an auditable business focus process using "business scorecards.î These scorecards create urgency, focus and accountability among team members because they are reviewed monthly. The third step is to get everyone to accept accountability. Managers often are at a loss to find a way to do this. But with PBL, it's part of the process. What we called "action registers" are used that go into a team workbook. These record decisions made, who is to take action, and when the action is to be completed. They have the effect of lighting a fire under folks. Fifth is to establish and elevate everyone's expectations. Leaders must tell their empowered team what's expected of them. The team needs to say what they expect of the leader, and of one another. These expectations must be brought out into the open and written down. They become the team's ground rules.

Process based leadership as revealed in this book is a proven system already at work in a number of very successful organizations. Harley-Davidson, Michelin, Boeing, General Mills, O'Hare Airport, and the Department of Defense are just a few. So why wait? Order a copy today and start your climb out of that management dumpster.

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Fun, interesting to read.......2004-05-25

This was the most fun book to read regarding on how to be a good manager! It has a no nonsense look on how to improve your organizational skills. I highly recommend this book to read.

So Simple- so perfect, why isn't everyone doing this?.......2004-03-03

I was blown away. This easy-to-read book is a salvation and a demonstration that complicated problems sometimes only require simple answers. The concepts that are described reaffirm your intuition and gently challenge your comfort zone as a manager. I think that if you're willing to be open to change, the changes that are laid out within Buried Alive! are impactful and will achieve nearly immediate results. Outstanding concepts, simple to understand, easy to implement. I'm very impressed and will recommend the book to anyone who wants to improve their organization from top down or bottom up.

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In IEconomic Careers, fourteen senior economists describe their early introduction to the study of economics and their contribution to the development of academic economics in Britain. With experience covering a period from the mid-1920s to the late 1960s, many of the contributors not only provide an insight into the role of university disciplines in the education system, but describe their experience in wartime administration or as government advisors. The result of these interviews is a fascinating picture of the changing shape and role of economics in the twentieth century.

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The Informed Student Guide to Marketing has been compiled by a team of recognized marketing experts to equip students with everything they need to know about marketing. The guide comprises an A-Z listing of over 400 entries, including coverage of the most recent conceptual developments in this rapidly changing field: Accessible and concise, easy to read style Entries include the most up to date references Useful further reading section at the end, citing major works and journals Relevant to business and management students as well as those following marketing courses Each and every entry has been carefully devised to provide essential and relevant definitions of the core theories, approaches and jargon adopted by those in the profession and its academic studies. The Informed Student to Marketing provides an ideal `first base' for first year undergraduates or those new to marketing studies, and an invaluable reference bible for those already familiar with the subject.

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This text addresses the question of public service in the context of privatization, with specific reference to the water industry. The notion of public service is examined both theoretically and historically, thereby placing the development of the public utilities in a broader frame than usual. The way in which public services are part of a complicated state relation that has developed throughout the 20th century is systematically investigated, opening up a series of questions of direct relevance for current debates about public ownership and nationalization.

Management Innovation in U.S. Public Water and Wastewater Systems

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Management Innovation in U.S. Public Water and Wastewater Systems

Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471657441

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A pioneering volume of best practices for running effective public water and wastewater utilities

Management Innovation in U.S. Public Water and Wastewater Systems is a unique guidebook of cutting-edge managerial and operational best practices currently used at a number of different municipal water and wastewater utilities. The diverse group of contributors consists of managers, utility directors, analysts, and consultants who know the real-world demands of the industry, and add authoritative insights to the examination and critique of each management innovation.

Featuring numerous case histories illustrating how each innovation was developed and how the principles supporting each were put into practice, Management Innovation in U.S. Public Water and Wastewater Systems:

Establishes standards for measuring success as utilities innovate and improve
Evaluates financial concerns and innovations
Illuminates innovations in planning for future investments
Explores tools for customer communications and other technology concerns
Details state-of-the-art management strategies, including Six Sigma

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This book is a compilation of the most significant published work on desalination from January 2001 through March 2004. The articles presented were selected from AWWA conference proceedings and AWWA periodicals. Topics include seawater desalination, brackish water desalination, membrane softening, concentrate disposal issue, planning cost, and project delivery.

Financial Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Debt: The Case of Water and Power Investments

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C. Vaughan Jones
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ASIN: 0899304885

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The water and power industries, including the most capital-intensive producers of goods and services in our economy, are exposed to financial risks of staggering proportions. With projects that are routinely large and require long-term planning, and with demand and supply often highly volatile, costs regularly defy prediction. Still, there has been little explicit analysis of financial risk in the water and power industries. In this work, C. Vaughan Jones provides a comprehensive discussion of financial risk and risk analysis for these utilities. Writing in clear, straightforward language, he explores the application of risk analysis to construction projects, rate-setting and price effects, and customer characteristics. In developing a method for evaluating risk, Jones brings together material from business, engineering, economics, demography, probability theory, computer simulation, and policy studies. The materials are organized around risk factors affecting costs and revenues, and support a practical analysis with spreadsheet and simulation examples. Separate chapters present findings relating to the variability of construction costs, customer demand, and population growth. Together with qualitative information about risks, these chapters offer suggestions about quantitative representation of relevant patterns of variability of key risk sources. The techniques are integrated in simulation models dealing with contract risk, the evaluation of sinking funds and amortization schedules, and long-run capacity planning. The concluding chapters summarize major findings, consider issues of reliability and validation, and discuss the way in which this analysis can be applied to a variety of infrastructure investments. Finance and investment professionals and students in business and finance studies will find this work to be a useful reference tool. For public and academic libraries, it will represent a valuable addition to their collections.

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2002 Water Utility Compensation Survey
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2004 Water Rate Utility Compensation Survey

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2004 Water Rate Utility Compensation Survey

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2005 Water Utility Compensation Survey
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This annually updated survey contains information on salary levels and trends, benefits, incentives, performance, awards and more. The data is based on over 1,012 surveys of water and wastewater utilities throughout the US, who provided data on 9,713 employees and 45 positions. Data is summarized by type of utility ownership (city/county, board operated, private, or other), utility size (population served), location, and average gallons managed.

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2006 Water Utility Compensation Survey

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This annually updated survey contains information on salary levels and trends, benefits, incentives, performance, awards and more. The data is based on over 1,012 surveys of water and wastewater utilities throughout the US, who provided data on 9,713 employee and 45 positions in the water and waster industries. Data is summarized by type of utility ownership (city/county, board operated, private, or other), utility size (population served), location, and average gallons managed.

The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa

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The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa
David A. McDonald , and Greg Ruiters
Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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* The most complete and rigorous examination of the core issues in global water privatization debates and conflicts
* Provides a wealth of cases studies, empirical data, thematic approaches, and frameworks for analysis
* Essential reading for academics, policymakers, donor agencies, and activists involved in water privatization issues around the world

In recent years, as globalization and market liberalization have marched forward unabated, the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pace. In this global process, the ownership, sale, and supply of water are increasingly the flashpoints for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the debate more advanced or acute than southern Africa.
"The Age of Commodity" provides an overview on the debates over water privatization including a conceptual overview of water "privatization," how it relates to human rights, macro-economic policy and GATS, and how the debates are shaped by research methodologies. The book then presents case studies of important water privatization initiatives in the region, drawing out crucial themes common to water privatization debates around the world including corruption, gender equity, and donor conditionalities. This is book is powerful and necessary reading in our new age of commodity.

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Capital For Our Time is among the first to bring together experts from widely different fields to address the challenges of intellectual capital. It includes essays by cutting-edge academics, economists, attorneys, researchers, intellectual capital managers, and CEOs as well as representatives of the venture capital, government, and trade association communities. Prominent professionals discuss the impact of intellectual capital on national and corporate performance including

The role of ideas in economic growth

The effectiveness of the legal system in protecting idea-based property rights

The demands of knowledge management

Investor, policy maker, and management perspectives on valuing intellectual assets

The impact of intellectual capital on business relationships

Specific challenges of the Internet and the Genome Project

Impending changes and opportunities in the international regime

Intellectual capital and the innovation imperative

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Intellectual Capital Review.......2000-06-05

It is interesting in today's world to see books that remond us all the present and future value of intellectual capital. It is unfortunate the book does not focus on the de-valuation of intellectual capital when downsizing occurs in an organisation. The cost of replacing the intellectual capital does never figure in anual reports, it is 'hidden' by other standard costs, such as employee related costs, equipments, etc. We need to establish a quantification method, so that intellectual capital replacement is thoroughly investigated.

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