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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ground-breaking transitions have sparked diversification and the naissance of new platforms. The case of the media industry is not any different with the latest fashion being social media. Despite the short life cycle of social media, the cadence in which it has attained high esteem is no short of a continuous and worthy tribute. Having amassed an abundant base of faithful and loyal followers or consumers, as regarded by media companies, it has broadened possibilities for media companies within the realms of marketing, branding or building customer relationships. Nevertheless, companies face challenges within the areas of consumer engagement and providing a strong value proposition to consumers. This script analyzes this dilemma and illustrates how it is advantageous to incorporate consumers in the production of content so as to understand and satisfy their needs better. It is also found that the incorporation of consumers in the offer development process can lead to innovation and possibly, exercise blue ocean strategies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In 2006, the Google Corporation appeared in China with google.cn. The business model of Google, as a search engine corporation, is looked at in China from the point of view of market share, revenue streams, profit and loss, and competition from Chinese search engine rivals. This work also explores the Google experience in China by using well established concepts of corporate goodwill and corporate reputation. Like many multinational corporations in China, Google may have underestimated political risk when entering the Chinese Internet economy, and/or, was unprepared for unlevel playing field.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This study documents and explores the emerging trend of music festivals that are incorporating transmedia narratives into their programming. Through a study of music festivals, the concept of transmedia, and the emergence of a transmedia aspect to music festivals, the reader will gain a background to the field. I will then expand with three case study festivals: Midpoint Music Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, Treasure Island Music Festival, in San Francisco, California, and South by Southwest, a music, film and interactive media festival in Austin, Texas. Through attendance, observation, and interviews of those associated with the festivals, a few trends emerge. This study serves to document these trends, and the place of a transmedia festival in a wider culture of media-consumer interaction.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 56 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Over the past few years, a drastic change has occurred in the nature of financial services for the rural poor in India. Andhra Pradesh is one of the leading Indian state in terms of SHG and MFI growth, with the largest number MFIs based in the state. This rapid growth has caused intense competition amongst MFIs competing for both clients and staffs. Clients with multiple-borrowings from various sources are in some cases over-indebted. Many microfinance commercial organisations have entered the Rural Credit Market in search of profit and are competing to lend to the poor. In the process of giving loan to the poor the MFIs started chasing targets and numbers. This book tries to identify the gaps, issues and challenges faced by the rural households to manage their indebtedness situation. Further this book aims at understanding the critical issues of multiple borrowing and the collection practices followed by the MFIs in the state of Andhra Pradesh. With growing global interests from the scholars of Microfinance, Development Studies, Policy Planners and Civil Society Organisation, this book would be an important and timely reading for all of them.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The purpose of this research project is to identify the various ways in which NFIs affect levels of motivation while suggesting appropriate ways to improve and increase the value of the reward package, based on relevant data and an assessment of the current reward package. The results reveal that NFIs are particularly valued by case study UK organisation¿s employees hence the need to design an improved total reward package that would take into consideration the intrinsic needs of individuals as satisfaction levels were also found to be higher for NFIs compared with compensation. It was also found that employees had different opinions concerning what was called ¿self¿ levels of motivation and ¿others¿ levels of motivation. Finally, an elusive character of employee benefits was identified in the literature as well as in the case study organisation and was addressed through a classification of benefits depending on what was named the ¿incorporated intrinsic element¿.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The aim of this book is twofold:on the one hand it seeks to examine the relation between different policies of backward-looking truth and justice and the quality of democracy established in the aftermath of violence through the analysis of the Moroccan transitional experience. On the other hand, while much of transitional justice literature tends to be state-centric often focusing on intra-state issues of truth-seeking, retribution and reconciliation after mass atrocity, this book tries to explore the role of civil society in the reconciliation processes.In doing so, it aims to push the discussion beyond a normative perspective and to examine the full spectrum of roles played by civil society actors including supporting dialogue and reconciliation as well as breeding discord and intolerance. Based on a comparison between Morocco, Spain and Cyprus, the book tries to address questions such as: To what extent can the mode of accountability for past human rights violations determine the outcome of the transition from authoritarianism to democracy What is the relationship between state and civil society actors engaged in the transitional process Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Wetlands represent a complex multifaceted domain due to complexity of resource users, diversity of uses and stakeholders. They continue to degrade rapidly across Nepal as its management has remained fragmented and centralized. Numerous agencies claim the ownership but no one manages it. There are numerous laws with overlapping jurisdictions where most of them do not acknowledge each other and are formulated in isolation. Local fragmented management clearly lacks a common objective to co-manage. Formation of coordinating bodies at central level and a multi-stakeholder forum at the district level are positive initiatives. But a drawback is that they function to be more of an advisory body and less of a power sharing mechanism. The term 'multi' should refer to the diversity of stakeholders in a resource rather than their diverse stakes. The current status of institutional arrangements expanding across ministries to local practices and laws to plans needs to streamline as a separate wetlands law could only be more ambiguous. The institutionalization process of the multi-stakeholder bodies is crucial but paradoxically uncertain under current political pandemonium.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Strategic capacity planning involves an investment decision that must match resource capabilities to a long term demand forecast. This work finds out explanations of the techniques of capacity planning and management techniques to end the power interruption in general and input for strategic decision-making purposes in particular in ethiopia. Secondly, it incorporates the views of some manufacturing industries. The research identifies the causes of power interruption with regard to planning functions actions, compared the corporation¿s planning systems with the scientific approaches of demand planning (forecasting. The research explored the following areas: the corporation¿s capacity planning and management techniques during the past four years, actions are taken to improve the distribution systems and substations, the level of the corporation¿s integrity with external entities, the corporation¿s use scientific capacity planning and management systems, the alternative ways of managing power interruption EEPCo used.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -In this study, the integration policy of Enschede is investigated. More specifically, the work-oriented integration program. Herman van Gunsteren (1992) has developed five concepts of citizenship. These are the republican citizenship, citizenship for all, citizenship as a bearer of rights and preferences, citizenship as a member of a community and the neo-republican citizenship. A definition of citizenship: 'Active citizenship refers to the social behavior and independence of citizens, and how service providers and public policy invite citizens to social behavior and self-reliance, and support them in it' (Steyaert, Bodd & Lindens, 2005, p. 23). Citizens are expected to solve the problems as responsible, decent, caring and deliberative citizens. Citizens are considered to build bridges between citizens and between citizens and government. Self-reliance and economic independence are key elements of active citizenship. The idea is that the welfare state made people passive and lazy. This was the reason that people were first called to account for their independency and then also their responsibility.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book provides an assessment of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives adopted by Hospitality Establishments (HEs) in supporting communities living adjacent to Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. The author assesses the paradox of many hospitality establishments that appreciate the importance of improving locals¿ well-being but do little, if any, to that effect. He evaluates the haphazard implementation process of CSR program that is characterized by superficial initiatives that do not address key socio-economic issues that affect the locals in Kerinkani and Oloirien group ranches in Transmara District. James Kamwea highlights the different CSR initiatives that HEs in the group ranches are involved in. He also analyses the effect of the initiatives on the locals¿ livelihoods and the challenges encountered in the adoption and implementation of the initiatives. He recommends that HEs should strategically implement the initiatives to ensure that their existence helps to better locals¿ socio-economic well-being. This book is recommended to hospitality students, researchers, policy makers and hoteliers with establishments bordering tourism destination areas.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The limitations of conventional wastewater treatment technologies demand advanced research methods to tackle complex wastewater treatment. Chemical treatment of wastewaters containing biocidal or nonbiodegradable components is part of a long-term strategy to improve the quality of drinking water resources by eliminating toxic materials of anthropogenic origin before releasing the used water into natural cycles. An improvement in oxidative degradation procedures for organic compounds in aquatic media has been achieved recently in applying catalytic and photochemical methods. Such methods include processes which generated the hydroxyl radical in this category, namely ozone at high pH values, hydrogen peroxide with UV radiation and ozone or hydrogen peroxide with other hydroxyl radical initiators such as metals and metal oxides. Use of UV radiation for wastewater treatment was the initial and remains the most promising large long term market for the technology.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Despite the recent increase in research by academic, practitioners and the focus from the policy makers, the topics of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Stakeholder Management still remain relatively misunderstood. This book tackles the concepts of CSR and Stakeholder Management from a more encompassing perspective, looking at their effects in both the for-profit and the non-profit sector. From a for-profit perspective, the book begins by examining and empirically testing the insurance properties of CSR in the context of an economy-wide crisis (the 2008 Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy). In the second half of the book, a non-profit perspective is utilized in investigating the effects of Stakeholder Management and its relationship with organizational effectiveness in the case of art museums, which represents a cleaner environment with which to test Stakeholder Theory. Overall, the book provides readers with an indepth review of the current state of the literature as well as discusses new empricial evidence from a two perspective approach that informs companies, investors, as well as policy makers in terms of better understanding CSR and Stakeholder Management.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 120 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -As international information and communication technology increasingly redefines global issues, the traditional understanding of international political theory is also questioned. In addition,the concept of global citizenship is now a reality with increased participation of citizens across the world through social media outlets and other forms of communication.The Arab Spring was instigated through social media sites. The 99% movement and Occupy Wall Streets protests in the Summer / Autumn of 2011 all provide examples of the increased power civil society now has to challenge the traditional concept of nation-states and 'national citizenship'. In the light of this, the very notion of global governance needs to be interrogated. It is my hope this research project is a start to reconceptualise the issues around global governance, civil society action and the role of governments in the post 9/11 world.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Today, nonprofit organizations are of major importance for the society. Their missions contribute to fulfilling societal needs that otherwise would not get enough resources. Marketing for these organizations becomes more important and most nonprofit marketing research has had a theoretical approach. This work therefore investigates market practice, which covers all concrete actions that form a market. Market practice has been studied through a case study of the nonprofit fundraising organization the Swedish Cancer Society (SCS; Swe: Cancerfonden) and findings are analyzed with a theoretical framework developed by Helgesson, Kjellberg and Liljenberg (2004). Results show that the market for SCS is formed by market practices seen at different levels and departments within the organization. In its daily work, SCS enhances economic transactions through developing relations and new channels. It emphasizes its specific features within the nonprofit sector and actively tries to change perception of the industry.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 88 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The research will analyze the restaurant industry in Taipei and make the business plan of PHO24 franchisee with some forecasts based on two strategies including entrepreneurship and franchising. The supports from franchisor like logo, trademark, and training, etc, will reduce the pressures and challenges for franchisee. However, the research finds that in order to succeed in Taipei market, the individual who intends to take part in franchising should consider the Taiwanese taste, the balance between system and local factors and pay more attention on marketing. From the analysis, some suggestions are made to improve the efficiency and feasibility of business plan.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 76 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The world as is said has soon become a global village due to the implications of the globalization phenomenon.As individual states are positioned to actualize their national interest in the international arena, other actors are not at all left out in this power tussle. These interests, often selfish, are engendered through the activities of the state actors and their agencies; especially, the Multinational Corporations (MNCs). Globalization in reality is the outcome of these interactions between the states and the other actors (MNCs inclusive) in their quest to strike a balance in their individual, personal and selfish pursuits. This book is an in-depth and empirical study on the reason the Nigerian state is alleged weak and their plight in this globalization plethora. The book went further to avert the long held assumption that colonialism climaxed in imperialism is the reason the Nigerian state has remained weak. Suggestions were made on the way forward to diversify the Nigerian economy from its monolithic nature of total dependence on the proceeds of crude oil production. This book would be beneficial to both the academics and the freelance public.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Recent migration research emphasizes the development potential of migration in both sending and receiving countries. These studies provide compelling evidence of the positive effect migration can have on poverty reduction, gender equality, health, education and the environment. Equally however, many other studies highlight the negative impact that migration can have on sending countries, including because of issues associated with the ¿brain drain¿. Examining the role various actors play in the migration-development process will bring more clarity on how states and non-state actors can maximize the gains of migration while mitigating its risks, including in both sending and receiving countries. This study focuses on various initiatives undertaken by the Government of Ghana and non-state actors to promote diaspora engagement in Ghanäs development process. Initiatives designed to maximize the benefits of migration while mitigating its negative effects are a particular focus. The study analyzes both state and non-state led initiatives operating in Ghana, as well as those conducted in cooperation with diaspora groups,destination country governments and development organizations.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Relationships influence behaviors at work. Expectations of each other, perceptions of the intentions of either, distributions of assignments, readiness to conform or to rebel, enthusiasm to contribute, etc., are to some extent outcomes of these relationships. Attitudes and motivations influence, and are influenced by, the nature of these relationships. Relationships also contribute to stress and conflicts at work, which in turn, affect quality of work life of individuals as well as the quality of organizational outputs, measured in terms of customer satisfaction, competitive advantage, innovation, and so on. We can say that Relations add in achieving organizational goals and objectives, and they can also dismantle different organizational structures.Therefore these Relations should be nourished and nurtured well to achieve the common organizational goal.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 80 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Kiowa people are frustrated with their tribal government. Much of that frustration derives from a Kiowa Constitution formulated from western ideals and practices which never experienced a revision since the 1930s. The structure was presented to the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache (KCA) designated leaders, as a corporate format to conduct business meetings. During this time, all proposed constitutions were rejected by the Kiowa leaders because of the corporate organization and the concerns of their reservation leases and permits. The Superintendent of Indian Affairs did not recognize the Kiowa Business Committee members who were only functioning as an advisory council. Instead, control of tribal affairs was given to the Superintendent or the Commissioner. The Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act) policy presented a basic model of a corporate charter structure to the Kiowa leaders to operate as a local tribal business in land issues and adoption concerns. In 1970, the Kiowa government adopted this familiar structure to continue as a corporate organization instead of a tribal government. Several attempts to revise the current constitution have failed.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 112 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The study under reader¿s view is an effort to reveal the inside dynamics for determination of Dividend Payout with reference to Non Financial Firms listed in the KSE100 Index. In light of prior literature, key explanatory variables were identified as Earnings, Firm Size, Growth, Profitability, Corporate Tax & Financial Leverage. Through observation, 53 such companies were identified from the listed non financial firms in the Karachi Stock Exchange that have been paying out dividend consistently for the past 6 years (2005-2010), hence encompassing one complete business cycle. These 53 companies represent 11 sectors. Multivariate Regression Analysis was identified as the most appropriate tool for econometric analysis of the data. Data was tested to fulfill the conditions of OLS. Regression Results revealed that Corporate Tax and Firm¿s Size had significant relationship with Dividend Payout. Rest of the four explanatory variables were found to be insignificant in context of Pakistani market. This paper is a must read for Capital Market Students & Investors.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Burmese migrants in Thailand live on the fringes of Thai society, legally and socially. It is a well-known fact that most Burmese migrants face barriers when trying to access health care services in Thailand. Deborah Ling interviewed 150 registered and unregistered Burmese migrant workers at two markets outside Bangkok on the differences between male and female migrants' access to health care services, health problems and health care seeking behaviours. One of these markets had an NGO clinic, and one did not. This study presents the results of these interviews; it reveals how female migrants experience more barriers than male migrants as well as experience the same barriers in more limiting ways, and it shows the importance, especially for female migrants, of having an NGO clinic in the migrants¿ vicinity. Recommendations on how access to health care services for Burmese migrants in Thailand can be improved are also provided.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Open Source environment is gaining momentum. One of the latest example is contribution of Microsoft has increased over the past few years. Recent example is they provide support for Ubuntu in their cloud infrastructure Azure.Open Source has great community in all fields including Image Processing , Human Computer Interaction , Open Source Hardware and Cloud.For students it is a great learning tool and for businessmen they can get their job done at no cost or at low cost compared with tools they are using today.This book is designed to help newbie engineer to get started with open source culture. Future edition of this book will include in depth guide to engineering software introduced in this edition as well as cover exciting topic like 'Open Source for your daily business'.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The study of on-the-job training in service sector has always been a widely discussed topic in the literature. Well-trained workforce is considered a critical success factor for modern organizations in today¿s dynamic corporate environment and organizations particularly financial institutions from all around the globe spend huge amounts of money per year on formal on-the-job training of their employees but still much is unknown regarding the phenomenon in the context of developed countries like Pakistan. This book enhances the understanding of a little studied topic by empirically identifying OJT techniques being used in banking organizations of Pakistan and which one is more extensively used than the others. After studying this book academicians and managers will come to know that financial institutions which spend more on OJT of their employees are relatively more successful as human resources contribute to productivity more than physical and other resources. This book also provides some recommendations on how on-the-job training practices can be improved in banks and therefore it will serve as a base for future research on a much important but little studied phenomenon.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 72 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The present study was undertaken to identify the perception of customer in pantaloons (GIP) and by the perception of customer analyze the positive and negative points which are in favour/against of pantaloons .Study reveals that most of the customer who have income above 40 thousand comes to pantaloons generally 3 to 4 times for shopping and the overall study gives a hint that most of the customers were satisfied in doing shopping at pantaloons store .Some of the suggestions were also given by the customers and if they were implemented on the store that can give an edge on other store .Social factors were also been given importance such as influence on paper bags rather than poly bags. Pantaloons as a store is very much demanding among the customers generally middle income people used to do shopping in pantaloons and if new expensive brands were introduced pantaloons can capture high income people. The book is profusely illustrated.Avoiding the temptation for haste annd ending up with a cook-book.The author has put in one year of intensive effort and research.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This book reveals the Armenians¿ perception and the collective memory of the Genocide committed by the Turks during World War I with the aim of understanding and explaining the key factors of keeping the memory of the Genocide alive. The manuscript scrutinizes the Turkish state-orchestrated continuous denial and its influence on the collective memory of the Armenian Genocide. The historical transitions, authoritarian regime pressure, the massacres of 1988 in the Azerbaijani city Sumgait, and the foreign environment in the case of the Armenian Diaspora are analyzed as incentives of keeping the memory of the Genocide alive.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This is a contribution to both practitioners and scholars interested in the human resources management and industrial psychology discipline. It presents a new dimension on commitment the employees have to their organizations, particularly, the public sector organization employees in Africa. Undertaking organizational commitment study, researchers often find themselves confronted with diverse questions which have to be blended together in order to understand and disentangle perceptions on why staff morale decline in many organizations. Initial studies have pointed out to a large role played by extrinsic rewards to the decline in staff morale. The current research stretches the scope of study to find the impact of both the extrinsic rewards, intrinsic rewards as well as the social rewards on enhancing organizational commitment of employees in the public sector organizations, reference herein being made to the government ministries. The author believes this study will open up for more academic debates and invoke new arguments made in many studies of behavioural theories as propagated by academicians and writers in the human resource management and industrial psychology disciplineBooks on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 100 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The rights to ¿procedure permitted by law¿ granted to accused persons are not primarily their own privilege. On the contrary ¿procedure permitted by law¿ is a pledge to the entire Nigerian Society that our police, our prosecuting officials and our courts will do that which is right and just in obedience to the rules of law which have been evolved out of years of experience. It should not be swallowed hook, line and sinker that the fact that these rights exist guarantees automatic compliance by some officials. Cases abound in our law reports which shows that there have been occasions in which our courts have stoutly prevented the abuses of power by overzealous public officials. In some however, the courts have experienced great difficulty in eradicating illegal methods adopted against accused person. This is so because where the accused persons make such allegations, the courts have found it difficult to admit or accept such allegations since such accused persons have had to prove their allegations and this task has never been an easy one for them. Then arose the question 'WHAT ARE THE RIGHTS AVAILED AN ACCUSED IN NIGERIA '.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Undoubtedly, the issue of optimum tax rate is of crucial importance to both government and tax-payers. In this book, the author tries to answer the interesting question of whether should we apply a big tax rate or a small tax rate and discusses the various parameters involved in the process of tax application and arrives at an optimum tax rate for a given number of years of tax application that maximizes the size of collected taxes on the long run and allows tax-payers to pay less taxes. The author derives the optimum tax rate based on the application of calculus as he gets the maximum size of the collected taxes and the optimum tax rate given the initial capital of the project, the annual profit, the annual project cost and the number of years of tax application or the project lifetime.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 60 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Developing nations are faced with challenges of meeting the development needs of their people. They are faced with what is termed the 'The Forex Exchange Gap and Investment Gap. The developed world in their bid to ameliorate the situation have given billions of dollars in the form of aid to the developing world of the years. Despite aid, developing countries are still faced with challenges of extreme poverty, preventable diseases and weak economies.As such lots of questions were asked about aid effectiveness. This resulted in discussions on aid effectiveness. Two important conferences that discussed aid effectiveness were the Paris High-Level Forum and the Accra Agenda for Action.The outcome of these meetings were the establishment of the tenets of harmonizing donor assistance in order to make it more effective. The Multi Donor Budget Support programme was designed as a general budget support through which aid is made available to Ghana, to augment its budget. The MDBS followed the principles of the Paris Declaration to make aid effective. This book assesses the effectiveness of the MDBS in the areas of poverty reduction, aid predictability and aid alignment with national policies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The risks associated with healthcare waste, and the contemporary management system, have gained attention across the world in various events, local and international forums and summits. The need for proper healthcare waste management is gaining recognition slowly due to the substantial disease burdens associated with poor practices, including exposure to infectious agents and toxic substances. Despite the magnitude of the health problem, capacities and policy approaches in many countries, especially developing nations, in dealing with environmental health problems are inadequate and require intensification. The world is generating more and more waste and hospitals and health centers are no exception. Medical waste can be infectious, contain toxic chemicals and pose contamination risks to both people and the environment. If patients are to receive health care and recover in safe surroundings, waste must be disposed of safely. Choosing the correct course of action for the different types of waste and setting priorities are not always straightforward, particularly when there is a limited budget.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 68 pp. Englisch.