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This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a
methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of
development projects and policies on local economies. Projects and
policies often create spillovers within project areas. LEWIE uses
simulation methods to quantify these spillovers. It has become a
complement to randomized control trials (RCTs), as governments and
donors become interested in documenting impacts beyond the treated,
comparing the likely impacts of alternative interventions, and
designing complementary interventions to influence program and
policy impacts. It is also a tool for impact evaluation where RCTs
are not feasible. Chapters 1-4 motivate and present the basics of
impact simulation, including how to design a LEWIE model, how to
estimate the model, and how to obtain the necessary data. The
remaining chapters provide a diversity of interesting real-world
applications and extensions of the basic models. The applications
include evaluations of the impacts of cash transfers for the poor,
ecotourism, global food-price shocks, irrigation projects,
migration, and corruption. Each chapter provide readers with the
tools they need to conduct their own local economy-wide impact
evaluations. All models and data used in this book are available
on-line.
This timely book emphasizes the importance of regulation in
enabling and channelling innovation at a time when technology is
increasingly embedded in healthcare. It considers the adequacy of
current regulatory approaches, identifying apparent gaps, risks and
liabilities, and discusses how these might be collectively
addressed. The authors present possible solutions that balance the
protection and promotion of public trust in healthcare against
enabling technological progress and disruptive innovation. Offering
both a theoretical and practical approach to challenges at the
intersection of healthcare, law and technology, this
thought-provoking book explores broad questions of regulation and
innovation before analysing contextual applications of these
topics. It moves from a wide-ranging consideration of the
polycentric and changing nature of health regulation through to a
more specific examination of topics including patient consent, the
role of device representatives, privacy, artificial intelligence
and big data. Providing an international perspective, Technology,
Innovation and Healthcare will be a valuable resource for scholars
and students of health law, innovation, technology law, law and
development and law and society. It will also be of benefit to
lawyers, healthcare professionals, technology developers and policy
makers, seeking to better integrate technology with healthcare.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key
attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics;
innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city
connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states.
Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these
characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten
short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities
and themes. Key features include: analysis of cities as the
creative nodes of societies discussion of both contemporary and
historical cities exploration of the different spaces created by
cities and states identification of the demands of cities in
relation to climate change. This Advanced Introduction will be a
valuable guide for scholars and advanced students of urban studies,
cities, urban geography, urban sociology, and social and cultural
geography.
The legendary Hotel Magnifique is like no other: a magical world of
golden ceilings, enchanting soirees and fountains flowing with
champagne. It changes location every night, stopping in each place
only once a decade. When the Magnifique comes to her hometown,
seventeen-year-old Jani hatches a plan to secure jobs there for
herself and her younger sister, longing to escape their dreary
life. Luck is on their side, and with a stroke of luminous ink on
paper the sisters are swept into a life of adventure and opulence.
But Jani soon begins to notice sinister spots in the hotel's
decadent facade. Who is the shadowy maitre who runs the hotel? And
can the girls discover the true price paid by those who reside
there - before it's too late?
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated.
Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers” (Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review) and “a lodestar for a generation of students and, increasingly, for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker). In Scenes of Subjection―Hartman’s first book, now revised and expanded―her singular talents and analytical framework turn away from the “terrible spectacle” and toward the forms of routine terror and quotidian violence characteristic of slavery, illuminating the intertwining of injury, subjugation, and selfhood even in abolitionist depictions of enslavement. By attending to the withheld and overlooked at the margins of the historical archive, Hartman radically reshapes our understanding of history, in a work as resonant today as it was on first publication, now for a new generation of readers.
This 25th anniversary edition features a new preface by the author, a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an afterword by Marisa J. Fuentes and Sarah Haley, notations with Cameron Rowland, and compositions by Torkwase Dyson.
60 wonderful whisky and bourbon cocktails Oaky, smoky, young or
old, whisky is a versatile and highly spirited spirit that has been
the backbone of the classic cocktail since the old-fashioned was
new. From the highlands of Scotland to Bourbon county, Kentucky,
whisky distilleries have spread across the world, and today there
are multitudes of styles and flavours to complement any manner of
mixer. This beautifully illustrated book will introduce you to the
wider world of malts, and showcase the true potential of whisky and
bourbon. In Whisky Made Me Do It, award-winning mixologist and
Certified Specialist of Spirits, Lance Mayhew explains everything
you need to know: how to choose the right type, mix the ultimate
Manhattan and find the perfect cocktail for any occasion. From
grown-up scotch and sodas, celebratory mint juleps, or playful
picklebacks, there are recipes here for any mood, any event, and
any whisky-drinker.
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