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UNINA9910780757603321 |
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Autore |
Wallace Laura |
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Titolo |
Africa : : Adjustment to the Challenges of Globalization / / Laura Wallace |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 1999 |
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1-4623-8760-8 |
1-4552-9198-6 |
1-283-53791-5 |
9786613850362 |
1-4552-1628-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Free trade - Africa |
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) - Africa |
Investments, Foreign - Africa |
Banks and Banking |
Exports and Imports |
Labor |
Public Finance |
Industries: Financial Services |
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General |
Employment |
Unemployment |
Wages |
Intergenerational Income Distribution |
Aggregate Human Capital |
Aggregate Labor Productivity |
Banks |
Depository Institutions |
Micro Finance Institutions |
Mortgages |
Trade Policy |
International Trade Organizations |
International Investment |
Long-term Capital Movements |
Public finance & taxation |
Banking |
International economics |
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Civil service & public sector |
Labour |
income economics |
Finance |
Expenditure |
Public employment |
Trade liberalization |
Commercial banks |
International trade |
Financial institutions |
Foreign direct investment |
Balance of payments |
Trade policy |
Expenditures, Public |
Banks and banking |
Commercial policy |
Economic theory |
Civil service |
Africa Economic policy Congresses |
Uganda |
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Monografia |
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"Proceedings of a seminar held in Paris, May 4-5, 1998." |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Overview""; ""Session I Improving the Environment for Private Investment and Activities""; ""Opening Remarks""; ""Lessons on Regulatory Reform: The Philippines� Experience""; ""Lessons on Regulatory Reform: Kenya�s Experience""; ""Comments""; ""General Discussion""; ""Developing Sound Banking Systems and Practices in Africa""; ""Relevance of Banking Lessons for Africa: Zimbabwe�s Experience""; ""Comments""; ""General Discussion""; ""Liberalizing the Trade System""; ""Comments""; ""General Discussion"" |
""Session II Strengthening the Contribution of Government""""Better Public Sector Resource Management: Capacity Building and Good Governance""; ""Comments""; ""General Discussion""; ""Quality and Composition of Public Spending in Africa: Suggestions for Increased Effectiveness""; ""Comments""; ""General Discussion""; ""Session III Reform Priorities for Africa""; ""Panel Discussion""; ""General Discussion""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""List of Participants"" |
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Sub-Saharan Africa needs much faster economic growth and more effective economic, financial, and social policies if it is to make up for lost ground and reduce the number of people living in abject poverty. Edited by Laura Wallace, this volume presents the proceedings of a May 1998 seminar in Paris, organized jointly by the IMF and the Japanese Ministry of Finance, on ways to accelerate Africa's growth in our increasingly globalized world. Senior African and Asian government officials, representatives from multicultural institutions, donors, academics, and private sector participants gathered to discuss how to |
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improve the private investment environment in African countries and take advantage of globalization's benefits while minimizing its risks, and how to strengthen the contribution of government in areas of capacity building, good governance, effective public resource management, and improved quality and composition of government spending. |
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UNINA9910778071903321 |
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Autore |
Minnich Richard A |
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Titolo |
California's fading wildflowers [[electronic resource] ] : lost legacy and biological invasions / / Richard A. Minnich |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
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1-282-35937-1 |
9786612359378 |
0-520-93433-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Biological invasions - California |
Plant invasions - California |
Wild flowers - California |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index. |
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The golden state -- Pre-Hispanic herbaceous vegetation -- Invasion of Franciscan annuals, grazing and California pasture in the nineteenth century -- A century for bromes and the fading of California wildflowers -- Lessons from the Rose Parade -- App.1. Location of Franciscan campsites, Franciscan place names, and modern place names -- App.2. Spanish plant names for California vegetation -- App.3. Selected earliest botanical collections of exotic annual species in California -- App.4. References to wildflowers in the Los Angeles Times, The Desert magazine, and the Riverside Press Enterprise. |
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Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San |
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Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources-from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory-to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California. |
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UNINA9910367750603321 |
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Autore |
Ovchinnikova Tatiana V |
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Titolo |
Marine Bioactive Peptides : : Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential / / Tatiana V. Ovchinnikova |
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MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019 |
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Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 electronic resource (442 p.) |
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This Special Issue Book, "Marine Bioactive Peptides: Structure, Function, andTherapeutic Potential" includes up-to-date information regarding |
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bioactivepeptides isolated from marine organisms. Marine peptides have been found invarious phyla, and their numbers have grown in recent years. These peptidesare diverse in structure and possess broad-spectrum activities that have greatpotential for medical applications. Various marine peptides are evolutionaryancient molecular factors of innate immunity that play a key role in host defense.A plethora of biological activities, including antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral,anticancer, anticoagulant, endotoxin-binding, immune-modulating, etc., makemarine peptides an attractive molecular basis for drug design. This Special IssueBook presents new results in the isolation, structural elucidation, functionalcharacterization, and therapeutic potential evaluation of peptides found inmarine organisms. Chemical synthesis and biotechnological production of marinepeptides and their mimetics is also a focus of this Special Issue Book. |
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