This book examines the challenge of reform of the urban water supply sector in developing countries, based on case studies of state-owned water companies in Ghana, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. The growing public private partnership for urban water supply is analyzed, focussing on the...

Die Rolle der strategischen Planung und der Unternehmensumwelt -- Nichtmarktstrategien im Kontext des strategischen Managements -- Koordination und Integration von Strategien -- Fallvergleich und Kausalitätenbildung -- Beurteilung einer deskriptiven Theorieentwicklung.

KfW promotes microfinance investment funds and other activities that facilitate the growth of microfinance. This book is an expression of KfW's role as information broker. It offers a range of perspectives and themes related to microfinance investment, and its promotion

Intellectual Property Today: Appropriability, Innovation and Public Policy -- Intellectual Property and Development: An Interpretation of the (NEW) Markets for Knowledge -- Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Development -- The Frontier of Trade Negotiations -- The...

This book examines the global HIV/AIDS pandemic from a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing its economic impact, the reasons behind the political response to the pandemic, international laws relating to public health and patents and mechanisms for financing global and national responses. The...

Introduction -- A Research Agenda -- The Role of Banks in the Schumpeterian Innovative Evolution - An Axiomatic Set-up -- Generalized Barriers to Entry and Economic Development -- Inventing Together: Exploring the Nature of International Knowledge Spillovers in Latin America -- Formal and...

Zusammenfassung für Entscheidungsträger -- Integrative Umwelt- und Entwicklungspolitik — Die Vision von Rio -- Armut, Vulnerabilität und Umweltveränderungen — Ausgangslage und Trends -- Wechselwirkungen zwischen internationaler Umwelt- und Entwicklungspolitik -- Armut bekämpfen und...