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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 262 Seiten) , 24 Illustrationen, 9 Illustrationen (farbig)

ISBN: 9789811924088

Series Statement: Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-981-1924-07-1

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-981-1924-09-5

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-981-1924-10-1

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Emerging Market ; Umweltschutz ; Umweltverträgliches Produkt ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-2408-8

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Content: July 2000 - Many transport projects undertaken during the boom period of the 1990s came to a crashing halt in 1997, and conditions in emerging markets worsened in 1998 and 1999. Many projects failed, victim of everything from overoptimistic forecasts to excessive debt to an inability to refinance bridge loans. As available financing dried up, many projects went bankrupt, had to be renegotiated, or were taken over by the government. What have we learned from all this? Recent developments in emerging financial markets have dramatically changed the appetite for (and terms of) transport infrastructure projects. As a result of defaults in Asia and Russia and devaluations in Asia, Brazil, and Russia, political and currency and exchange risk premia have increased dramatically. Given large needs for sovereign debt financing, infrastructure project finance will be seeking guarantees at the same time as governments are issuing primary securities.

Content: Large portfolio outflows in emerging market funds mean that the sources of both equity and debt capital that became available in the mid-1990s are drying up for all but the most creditworthy projects. Moreover, real economic effects from financial events have consequences in the transport sector, since transport is a derived demand. Any decline in real economic activity is felt quickly in traffic levels and revenues. Currency devaluations that help spur exports may generate higher volumes for seaports and air cargo activity. These effects vary by sector, especially over the medium to longer term. Declines in real economic activity make matters especially difficult for toll roads, as drivers shift to free alternatives and reduce the number of trips taken. What does all this mean for project finance in transport? Risks have increased. Debt finance costs more. The available tenor of debt instruments has shortened and more equity is required for projects.

Content: The sources and availability of equity finance have changed. Project finance efforts have shifted from new projects to the privatization, rehabilitation, and expansion of existing facilities. And a superclass of sponsors, bankers, and investors has emerged. Failures and mistakes in project finance deals in the 1990s were sharp and persistent. But much has been learned about sound project economics, conservative financial structures, comprehensive sensitivity analysis, the effects of macroeconomic factors, and the need for proper incentives and sound institutional and regulatory arrangements. This paper-a product of Governance, Regulation, and Finance, World Bank Institute-is part of a larger effort in the institute to increase understanding of infrastructure regulation. The authors may be contacted at aestache@worldbank.org or jstrong@worldbank.org

Additional Edition: Estache, Antonio The Rise, the Fall, and . . . the Emerging Recovery of Project Finance in Transport

Language: English

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Content: July 2000 - This guide to the issues at stake when toll roads are privatized answers many questions that privatization teams and regulators should be asking-providing useful information to project specialists, many of whom are now learning how much they did not know when they started. Road transport has long been the dominant form of transport for freight and passenger movement throughout the world. Because most road projects require investments with long amortization periods and because many projects do not generate enough demand to become self-financing through some type of user fee or toll, the road sector remains in the hands of the public sector to a much greater extent than other transport activities. But governments throughout the world, including those of many poor African and South Asian countries, are commercializing their operations to cut costs, improve user orientation, and increase sector-specific revenue.

Content: There seems to be demand for toll roads in specific settings, but the problems met by many of this first generation of road concessions-from Mexico to Thailand-have given toll projects a bad reputation. Many mistakes were made, and tolling is obviously not the best solution for every road. Most of the alternatives aim at improving efficiency (lowering costs). But there are many ways of getting the private sector involved in toll roads, thus reducing public sector financing requirements for the sector. Understanding the context in which toll roads are viable is essential both for their initial success and for effective long-run regulation. Estache, Romero, and Strong provide a broad overview of issues at stake from the viewpoint of both privatization teams and regulators responsible for supervising contractual commitments of private operators and the government, to each other and to users.

Content: This paper-a product of Governance, Regulation, and Finance, World Bank Institute-is part of a larger effort in the institute to increase understanding of infrastructure regulation. The authors may be contacted at aestache@worldbank.org or jstrong@worldbank.org

Additional Edition: Estache, Antonio The Long and Winding Path to Private Financing and Regulation of Toll Roads

Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (72 p) , col. ill., col. maps , 24 cm

Edition: Online-Ausgabe World Bank E-Library Archive Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041181-4

ISBN: 0821347578

Note: Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:c2000

Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Shah, Mahendra M. Food in the 21st century 2000

Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (70 p) , 19 cm

Edition: Online-Ausgabe 2007 Empire Online Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041086-X

Edition: Electronic reproduction

Uniform Title: Our country. Selections

Note: 1st work comprises chapters from the 125th ed. of of the author's 'Our country'. 2nd work is the text of a paper read by the author before a meeting of the British Association at Bath. - British Library. - Includes bibliographical references

Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Strong, Josiah The United States and the future of the Anglo-Saxon race 1889

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Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures

Content: Puerto Ricans referred to here are descendants of people from the island of Puerto Rico who migrated from the island to the mainland United States. This file consists of 49 documents and is focused primarily on the Puerto Rican population of New York City from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s

Note: Culture summary: Puerto Ricans (Mainland) - Arlene Torres and John Beierle (file evaluation and indexing notes) - 2002 -- - Puerto Ricans: born in the U.S.A. - by Clara E. Rodríguez - 1991 -- - Puerto Rican Americans: the meaning of migration to the mainland - [by] Joseph P. Fitzpatrick - 1987 -- - From colonia to community: the history of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1917-1948 - [by] Virginia E. Sánchez Korrol - 1983 -- - The Puerto Rican migrant in New York City - by Lawrence R. Chenault - 1938 -- - The Puerto Rican journey: New York's newest migrants - by C. Wright Mills, Clarence Senior [and] Rose Kohn Goldsen - [1967, c1950] -- - Up from Puerto Rico - by Elena Padilla - 1958 -- - Puerto Rican poverty and migration: we just had to try elsewhere - by Julio Morales - 1986 -- , - Rx-spiritist as needed: a study of a Puerto Rican community mental health resource - [by] Alan Harwood - 1987 -- - The cultural expression of Puerto Ricans in New York: a theoretical perspective and critical review - [by] Felix Cortes, Angelo Falcon, and Juan Flores - 1976 -- - Puerto Rican language and culture in New York City - [by] Juan Flores, John Attinasi, and Pedro Pedraza, Jr. - 1987 -- - Economic factors affecting Puerto Ricans in New York - [by] Clara E. Rodríguez - 1979 -- - The Puerto Rican farmworker: from exploitation to unionization - [by] Felipe Rivera - c1979 -- - Patterns of political participation of Puerto Ricans in New York - [by] Rosa Estades - 1978 -- - Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: a contribution to the history of the Puerto Rican community in New York - edited by César Andréu Iglesias ; translated by Juan Flores - 1984 -- - An ethnography of New Yorican mural communication - [by] Mary Clare Strong - 1982 [1992 copy] -- - The cultural dynamic of Puerto Rican spiritism: class, nationality, and religion in a Brooklyn ghetto - [by] José E. Figueroa - 1981 [1992 copy] -- , - Sterilization among Puerto Rican women: a case study in New York City - [by] Iris Ofelia Lopez - 1985 [1992 copy] -- - Un milagro de Loisaida: alternative technology and grassroots efforts for neighborhood reconstruction on New York's Lower East Side - [by] Daniel Elliot Chodorkoff - 1980 [1992 copy] -- - A history of Puerto Rican politics in New York City: 1860s to 1945 - [by] Angelo Falcon - 1984 -- - Organizational politics of the East Harlem Barrio in the 1970s - [by] Monte Rivera - 1984 -- - Puerto Rican politics in New York City: the post-World War II period - [by] Sherrie Baver - 1984 -- - The political topography of Spanish and English: the view from a New York Puerto Rican neighborhood - [by] Bonnie Urciuoli - 1991 -- - Poverty and discrimination: Puerto Ricans in the United States - by the United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1980 -- - Ethnographic bibliography of mainland U.S. Puerto Ricans - Human Relations Area Files, Inc. - n.d. -- - For every story there is another story which stands before it - Rina Benmayor - 1988 -- - Manos que sobran: work, migration and the Puerto Rican in the 1990's - Frank Bonilla - 1994 -- , - In search of masculinity: violence, respect and sexuality among Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem - Philippe Bourgois - 1996 -- - In search of respect: selling crack in El Barrio - Philippe Bourgois - 1995 (1996 printing) -- - Variations in familism in two generations of Puerto Ricans - Dharma E. Cortés - 1995 -- - 'Que assimilated, brother, yo soy asimilao': the structuring of Puerto Rican identity - Juan Flores - 1993 -- - The 'Puerto Rican syndrome' in psychiatry and ESPIRITISMO - Vivian Garrison - 1977 -- - Doctor, espiritista or psychiatrist?: health-seeking behavior in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of New York City - Vivian Garrison - 1977 -- - Salsa and migration - Isabelle Leymarie - 1994 -- - Puerto Rican New Yorkers in 1990 - The City of New York, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor ; Department of City Planning, Joseph B. Rose, Director - 1994 -- - EN LA AGUJA Y EL PEDAL ECHéLA HEIL: Puerto Rican women in the garment industry of New York City, 1920-1980 - Altagracia Ortiz - 1996 -- - Migration between Puerto Rico and the United States - Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Carlos E. Santiago - 1996 -- , - The Puerto Rican population in the United States - Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Carlos E. Santiago - 1996 -- - Placing race in context - Clara Rodríguez and Hector Cordero-Guzman - 1992 -- - The racialization of Puerto Rican identity in the United States - Víctor M. Rodríguez - 1997 -- - Return to the future: Puerto Rican vernacular architecture in New York City - 1996 -- - 'We're not here just to plant. We have culture.': an ethnography of the South Bronx Casita Rincón Criollo - Joseph Sciorra - 1996 -- - Masculinity and gender roles among Puerto Rican men: machismo on the U.S. mainland - Jose B. Torres - 1996 -- - Negotiating gender, work, and welfare: Familia as productive labor among Puerto Rican in New York City - Rosa M. Torruellas, Rina Benmayor, Ana Juarbe - 1996 -- - Growing up bilingual: Puerto Rican children in New York - Ana Celia Zentella - 1998 -- - Anastasia's story: a window into the past, a bridge to the future - Ana Juarbe - 1988 -- , - The stories our mothers tell: projections-of-self in the stories of Puerto Rican garment workers - Blanca Vazquez Erazo - 1988 -- - EL HILO QUE NOS UNE/the thread that binds us: becoming a Puerto Rican woman - Celia Alvarez - 1988 -- - Postscript: Stories to live by : continuity and change in three generations of Puerto Rican women - Blanca Vazquez Erazo - 1988 -- - References - Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Carlos E. Santiago - 1996

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Puerto Ricaner

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource ([19] leaves)

Edition: Online-Ausgabe 2007 Empire Online Sonstige Standardnummer des Gesamttitels: 041086-X

Edition: Electronic reproduction; Reproduced from records in the Church Missionary Society archives in the University of Birmingham Library

Note: Title from publisher's Web site. - University of Birmingham Library

Additional Edition: Reproduktion von Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, 1809-1891 [Obotsi outrages] 1886

Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 263 S.) , Ill., graph. Darst.

ISBN: 9789462093478

Series Statement: Transgressions, Cultural Studies and Education

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-94-6209-345-4

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-94-6209-346-1

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

Keywords: Erinnerung ; Pädagogische Soziologie ; Pädagogische Psychologie ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-6209-347-8

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (116 Seiten)

ISBN: 9781784525422

Content: ARE YOU WINNING THE GAME OF BUSINESS? Has your business plateaued, or are you feeling stuck? Play the Game outlines 18 strategies from game-changing leaders and disruptors on how to break the cycle that stunts your business growth

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe + 17 Game-Changing Leaders, Adam Strong Play the Game St Albans : Rethink Press,c2021 ISBN 9781784529536

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (218 pages)

ISBN: 9781946885289

Content: FBI Agent Jeff Rinek, well-known for a number of high-profile investigations, including the Unabomber, the kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, and the Yosemite Park murders committed by a serial killer named Cary Stayner deeply personal account of what it's like to work cases when a missing child's life hangs in the balance or when a serial child killer must be identified and stopped before he kills again

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rinek, Jeffrey L. In the Name of the Children : An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators La Vergne : BenBella Books, Inc.,c2018

Language: English