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The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
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Nicholas Stern
A world-renowned economist's authoritative assessment of the price of global warming vividly illuminates the scale of the problem, the urgency to address it now, and where--and how--to begin
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Undiscovered Country (Star Trek Movie 6)
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J M Dillard, Dave Stern (Editor), Nicholas Meyer
Paramount Pictures' newest epic space adventure! The Enterprise is ordered to escort Klingon Chancellor Gorkon safely into Federation space for negotiations. But Spock and the crew must avert a destructive conflict when Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy are held by the Federation's greatest enemy. Based on the screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny ...
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The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review
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There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth-s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this challenge. The Stern Review is an independent, ...
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Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen
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Jean-Jacques Dethier, Halsey Rogers, Nicholas Stern
Despite significant gains in promoting growth and living conditions or "human progress" worldwide over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In Growth and Empowerment, Nicholas Stem, ...
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Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective
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Joseph E Stiglitz (Editor), Professor Gerald M Meier (Editor), Nicholas Stern (Foreword by)
Edited by Vice President of the World Bank and Gerald Meier, author of several very successful Oxford titles, Frontiers in Development, offers cutting edge thinking from a new generation of dynamic thinkers in development economics.
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Economic Development in Planpur Over Five Decades
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Peter Lanjouw, Nicholas Stern
This book provides an account of economic development in Palanpur, a village in rural North India, based on five detailed surveys of the village over the period 1957 to 1993. These five decades have seen economic well-being rise in some important respects, but stagnation and even decline in other areas. The analysis presented here focuses on the ...
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2001/2002
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Boris Pleskovic (Editor), Nicholas Stern (Editor)
This volume is based on the 13th Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in May 2001. The conference focused on the current thinking in development policy and the implications for the global economy, with emphasis on globalization and health.
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--Europe 2003: Toward Pro-Poor Policies: Aid, Institutions, and Globalization
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Boris Pleskovic (Editor), Nicholas Stern (Editor), Bertil Tungodden (Editor)
This annual conference has become a key event in Europe for the discussion of development issues. It is a unique platform for many of the world's finest development thinkers and experienced policymakers to present their perspectives, ideas, and to challenge researchers and senior staff of the World Bank and other organizations with their views. ...
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Goethe
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Nicholas Boyle, J P Stern (Editor)
Nicholas Boyle begins with a fascinating survey of earlier versions of the Faust story. He then offers a detailed reading of Faust Part One, emphasising the poetic and dramatic coherence of the work and tracing its links with the thought and culture of Goethe's time. The play emerges as a tragic poem which may, to a certain extent, be read ...
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Theory and Practice of Tax Ref
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Ehtisham Ahmad, Etisham Ahmad, Nicholas Stern
This study approaches the subject of tax reform from basic economic principles. The objectives are to develop guidelines for the design of tax policy; to show how the principles can structure systematic research into tax reform in terms of the consequences for households, producers and government; and finally, to combine the guidelines and applied ...
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Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2003: The New Reform Agenda
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Boris Pleskovic (Editor), Nicholas Stern (Editor)
This annual conference is a global gathering of the world's leading scholars and development practitioners. Among the attendees are participants from developing countries, universities, think tanks, NGOs, and international financial instutitions. These papers concentrate on issues like trade and poverty; Africa's future; rural or industrial ...
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A Strategy for Development
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Nicholas Stern
The speeches in this collection-all delivered since Nicholas Stern became Chief Economist of the World Bank in July 2000-reflect insights that Mr. Stern has gained over more than three decades of study and work in development economics. Together they provide an analysis of development experience and an agenda for action in the coming years. In his ...
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The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries
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Ehtisham Ahmad, Etisham Ahmad, Nicholas Stern
This study approaches the subject of tax reform from basic economic principles. The objectives are to develop guidelines for the design of tax policy; to show how the principles can structure systematic research into tax reform in terms of the consequences for households, producers and government; and finally, to combine the guidelines and applied ...
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Goethe: Faust Part One
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Nicholas Boyle, J P Stern (Editor)
The 13 most productive years of Goethe's life are chronicled in this volume of a celebrated biography. The book includes detailed analysis of Goethe's poems and books of the period, which included WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP and much of FAUST.
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Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
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Nicholas Stern
Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our everyday lives are immense. The way we live in the next thirty years - how we invest, use energy, organise transport and treat forests - will determine whether these risks become realities. Although poor countries - the least responsible for ...
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El Informe Stern/ the Stern Review: La Verdad Del Cambio Climatico/ Economics of Climate Change (Historia Contemporanea/ Contemporary History)
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Nicholas Stern
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The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries
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David M Newberry (Editor), Nicholas Stern (Editor)
Tax policy has far-reaching implications for economic development and public administration. This book, which presents a modern theory of public finance, brings together many distinguished economists who have written on the subject. They provide coherent principles for tax design and a systematic framework for the analysis of practical questions ...
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Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen
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Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, F Halsey Rogers
Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In "Growth and Empowerment", ...
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A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
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Nicholas Stern
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The World Bank as 'intellectual actor'.
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Nicholas Stern, Francisco Ferreira, Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines
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