Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth

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Across the OECD, governments are seeking to undertake structural reforms to strengthen their economic growth. Going for Growth 2006 takes stock of the progress made in implementing policy reforms to improve labour productivity and utilisation th

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Executive Report on Strategies in Turkmenistan, 2000 edition (Strategic Planning Series)
The Turkmenistan Research Group , and The Turkmenistan Research Group
Manufacturer: Icon Group International
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Binding: Ring-bound

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ASIN: 0741824116

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Turkmenistan has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.

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A major economic dilemma for the developing world--how to achieve interest rate levels that are not inflationary but are high enough to encourage saving and domestic development--is brought into sharp focus by a leading economist with over twenty-five years experience working with third world governments. In this comprehensive analysis of the causes and international consequences of high US interest rates, Benoit thoughtfully considers many factors. Contrasting Islamic and Western banking practices; describing the real causes of the international debt crisis; revealing the strategies of creditor banks, debtor countries and others; and focusing particularly on Third World dependence on US economic health, the author offers an honest appraisal of the extent to which developing countries are responsible for their own predicament. He questions the basic premises underlying US and other aid policies and calls for increased efficiency, honesty, and self-reliance on the part of developing countries.

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In the highly competitive global arena, companies that do not forge strategic international partnerships will be left behind. Today, the old joint venture has given way to a new, more entrepreneurial globalization process. Drawing from the examples of successful alliances like Ford/Mazda, Toshiba/Motorola, and Whirlpool/Philips, the authors offer a road map for managing these entrepreneurial relationships and argue that the greatest challenge for top executives lies not in initiating such partnerships, but in continuously developing organizational process innovations to manage a global network of dynamic alliances.

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Great insigh! The role of executives in alliance management.......2000-12-14

There are so many literatures about strategic alliance for practitioner and academics. But few book are really useful for us. My message is just BUY IT. This is nothing but Great! You know what? This research was completed in 1995 and 5year has passed ...then still shining and definitely the mile stone of strategic alliance and cooperative strategy field, I believe. They begin with defining the notion of new types of alliances form 90s and make it clear how drastically the competitive situation changed and what the source of competitive advantage is. That's the entrepreneurial role of top managemant and alliance manager. Competitive advantage of alliancing corporation doesn't come from poor analysis of resources, invisible assets or core competence. The point is relationship between partners. And the greatest point of this book is not only pointing out the importance of "relationship management" of alliance but also ...wow that's enough.. Just BUY IT!

Please read this book if you're serious about joint ventures.......1998-04-23

This is the best book I know of for understanding how to create and manage a successful strategic alliance.
There is so much redundant business literature out there on this subject that it is such a relief to finally have one good source.
The great thing about this book was that it forced me to think about how competitive strategy and analysis should be the driver of any well conceived strategic alliance.
I cannot think of another book that has so skillfully integrated these two highly related disciplines in such a practical way.

If anyone knows of anyother books or articles that these authors have written on this subject can you please let me know via email?

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This book DOES offer more!

More Pleasant Surprises

More Team-Building Activities for Every Group
Alanna Jones
Manufacturer: Rec Room Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0966234170

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As a sequel to the popular book "Team-Building Activities for Every Group" this book contains 107 more games and activities that promote team-building in an interactive and fun way. The games are new, different, experiential, exciting, easy to lead and require minimal resources.

With 61 "Team Up" activities and 46 activities to "Mix It Up," "Stir It Up" and "Open Up," there is something for every group, no matter where they are in the team-building process. The "Team Up" and "Open Up" games come with discussion prompts to help the leader facilitate a group discussion after each activity and increase the level of learning and insight. Each game in the book lists the objectives, materials needed, group size, and comes with an easy to read description. Many of the activities also include helpful variations to help tailor the game to fit any group no matter the size, age or skill level.

Whatever group you work with will find "More Team-Building Activities for Every Group" to be a valuable resource that will help turn any group into a team!

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This book DOES offer more!.......2003-02-17

I use the book "Team-Building Activities for Every Group" all the time and found this book is full of just as many new and great activities, if not more! This book seems to have more active games and a wider variety of new games! I use this book for my church group, soccer team and at the ropes course where I am a facilitator.

More Pleasant Surprises.......2002-10-22

The sequel to "Team Building Activities for Every Group" is another decent activity resource book by Alanna Jones. I was pleasantly surprised by the first and equally happy with this publication.

Some of the similarities are unfortunate. Like the first book, there are few diagrams and illustrations. Also, several of the activities might have been better served with more detailed descriptions. Finally, those with access to other experiential activity resource books will discover several renamed, recycled selections. For example, what you may know as "bull ring" becomes "ball ring" in this publication.

The good news? The book provides a number of decent, portable, no-props - low props, experiential activities. The majority of the 107 descriptions are clear and concise. Discussion prompts and activity variations are included whenever appropriate. Finally, when compared to other more costly publications or poor quality books, "More Team Building Activities" is a terrific value.

If you have experience facilitating groups you will almost certainly discover (or rediscover) activities to enhance your programs. I anticipate this selection becoming a frequently referenced book in our program's resource library.

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Not bad, but too much armchair psychology

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David Owen is Money in the Bank

A must-read for all parents, esp. middle class parents

Good advice on how to teach kids a valuable lesson.

The First National Bank of Dad: The Best Way to Teach Kids About Money
David Owen
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0743204808
Release Date: 2003-01-07

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Most parents do more harm than good when they try to teach their children about money. They make saving seem like a punishment, and force their children to view reckless spending as their only rational choice. To most kids, a savings account is just a black hole that swallows birthday checks. David Owen, a New Yorker staff writer and the father of two children, has devised a revolutionary new way to teach kids about money. In The First National Bank of Dad, he explains how he helped his own son and daughter become eager savers and rational spenders. He started by setting up a bank of his own at home and offering his young children an attractively high rate of return on any amount they chose to save. "If you hang on to some of your wealth instead of spending it immediately," he told them, "in a little while, you'll be able to double or even triple your allowance." A few years later, he started his own stock market and money-market fund for them. Most children already have a pretty good idea of how money works, Owen believes; that's why they are seldom interested in punitive savings schemes mandated by their parents. The first step in making children financially responsible, he writes, is to take advantage of human nature rather than ignoring it or futilely trying to change it. "My children are often quite irresponsible with my money, and why shouldn't they be?" he writes. "But they are extremely careful with their own." The First National Bank of Dad also explains how to give children real experience with all kinds of investments, how to foster their charitable instincts, how to make them more helpful around the house, how to set their allowances, and how to help them acquire a sense of value that goes far beyond money. He also describes at length what he feels is the best investment any parent can make for a child -- an idea that will surprise most readers.

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Not bad, but too much armchair psychology.......2005-06-09

Offers a few constructive observations, such as incentivizing good behavior or giving 'ownership' to children (of their financial decisions), but neither of these is particularly insightful or original. As another reviewer noted, it does read very quickly-- I'd allow about 2-3 hours. On the negative side, much of the supporting evidence for his opinions come in the form of anecdotes involving his own children, which is fine, but doesn't exactly qualify as "proof"--- unless you're salesman or politician. For instance, when discussing how much allowance to give children, he argues against "miniscule" amounts by citing a 70's comic book series in which a character in a similar situation develops an unhealthy view of money...well, okay, but...it's a comic book. This seems to be his lone evidence on this point.

Also, as another reader pointed out, this is really for middle class families and above, as he, for example, argues against allowing teenagers to work during the school year. For a large segment of society, this just isn't a "choice"-- though he seems to think it is. All in all, Owen's worldview seems a bit constrained by his own situation, and he doesn't seem to recognize the reality of many people's lives. It's worth borrowing this book from your local library, but I wouldn't buy it (and didn't).

daily affirmation.......2005-03-04

Owen takes some everyday observations about human nature, mixes in common sense and good humor, rejects a few widely held beliefs and delivers a hundred pages of readable advice.

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David Owen is Money in the Bank.......2004-05-03

In tackling a home improvement project involving joint compound and plaster buttons, I kept two books near at hand. One was "HomeOwner's Manual" by the This Old House crew, and the second was "The Walls Around Us" by David Owen. Owen's calming, sensible, everyman approach to shouldering new handyman projects helped steer me through an unfamiliar, mundane project. At some point during the countless hours of smoothing, sanding, and painting, my inattentive mind began to wonder what else Owen had written besides the occasional New Yorker story that subscribers see.

"The First National Bank of Dad" was the answer, and upon reading its subtitle 'The Best Way to Teach Kids about Money' I scooped up a copy. Having two little spenders of my own, I knew I needed this new advice manual from a man who has been there before me. FNBD did not let me down. David Owen writes with a straightforward, humorous, easy-going style that spews common sense and good ideas. His Bank of Dad idea is genius, but only because it flips upside-down the usual parenting mantras of command and control. Put your kids in charge of their money urges Owen, and watch them learn how to spend and save. Stop running Aunt Millie's birthday presents down to the local bank, which to your kids is a "black hole that swallows birthday checks." Instead, Owen puts his kids entirely (almost) in charge of their money, and with his home-based Bank of Dad gives them the opportunity to learn about the power of compound interest. Using a home computer and a slightly more influential rate of interest, he quickly captures his kids' attention.

It's a terrific idea, one I've already adopted, and my kids are unexpectedly as thrilled as his. Owen has more. He teaches his kids free market economics via eBay, creates his own successful Stock Exchange of Dad, and expostulates on the value of part-time employment for kids. His recommendations are surprisingly fresh, honest and logical. Chapter Seven offers perhaps the best observations about life and I could think of many adults I know who would benefit from reading this alone. Chapter Eight is an epistle to the value of reading. By "learning how to purse a subject until their curiosity is satisfied," Owen observes, "later in life they will be able to use that same ability to teach themselves about the bond market." And anything else.

FNBD is an investment of under six hours reading time. It is already paying dividends in my home.

A must-read for all parents, esp. middle class parents.......2003-09-23

I got a few books on how to teach kids money from the local library and settled on David Owen's book. Owen used his real life experience with his own children to get his messages acrossed. Some of the approached Owen used are really "out-of-the-box". He also offerred the lessons he learned from his experiments.

Owen's philosophy is sound, his approaches are sensible, and this book is easy to read and often funny. Highly recommmended.

Good advice on how to teach kids a valuable lesson........2003-03-06

I read this book in one afternoon. It is a relatively quick and easy read. David Owen does a good job of supplying advice and a lesson in money management with a little humor. My son is 6 years old and I just started giving him an allowance so he can buy things and stop pestering me. It turns out that this is exactly what Mr. Owen recommends in his book.

This book was enjoyable and informative; I recommend it to anyone with young children.

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Very informative, great piece of work

AWSOME!

california cool

Excellent Structural Analysis

Very well written, easy to follow and insightful.

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128
AnnaLee Saxenian
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Very informative, great piece of work.......2005-07-21

The book is written by a person who lived in the Route 128 area and in the Silicon Valley. Besides the great insights and fantastic scholarly work, the book reflects the experience of seeing the development of both regions, not only through the eyes of a scholar, but also through the experiences that can only be gained by "being there."

AWSOME!.......2001-09-23

The best book I have ever read concerning High Tech culture. Everyone should read this book to better understand how to motivate info exchange and networking among our society and world.

california cool.......2001-03-03

saxenian argues that silicon valley's competitive advantage is the vast network of small firms that compose silicon valley and cross pollinate each other. she compares the valley to the route 128 area in boston which she classifies as detrimentally hierarchical, even puritanical.

Excellent Structural Analysis.......2000-02-21

Contrary to one of the other reviewer's comments, the importance of this book is in showing precicely that it is not the "endemic" culture of Silicon Valley, but rather the innovative institutions and networked relationships in Silicon Valley that explains the region's success. A great contribution to the literature on embeddedness and network forms of organization.

Very well written, easy to follow and insightful........1999-10-10

Although she is a bit partial to the Silicon Valley area, the author presents the information in a very "down to earth", easy to read fashion - not too technical or too dry.

Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. (book reviews): An article from: Planning

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Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. (book reviews): An article from: Planning
Harold Henderson
Manufacturer: American Planning Association
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Binding: Digital

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Title: Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128. (book reviews)
Author: Harold Henderson
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 1995
Publisher: American Planning Association
Volume: v61 Issue: n8 Page: p28(2)

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Well written Guide for Nontechnical Business Managers.......2001-02-01

This is a very readable, interesting book which takes an eclectic approach to the history of telecommunications in business. The exercises are excellent and would be wonderful in a seminar or business course for nontechnical managers. The integration of marketing, business, communications, and telecommunications is well done. The RTC model for studying businesses based on the key concepts of "Regulation, Technology, and Competition" is both highly creative and original. The historical references and cases (entitled from Cave to Satellite) make the book especially readable and interesting. I commend the authors for their very fine book and will look forward to the second edition.

A Breadth of History, Business & Telecommunications.......2000-06-13

This is a wonderful book in how it presents a variety of interesting business subjects to the reader. Several chapters are devoted to a review of the Telecommunications field, to the subject of telemarketing and communications, and to a history of these fields. A ready made guide, this book presents helpful information about economics, international business, marketing, and technology. Rather than overwhelming the reader with technical data and sophisticated terms and nominclature, the authors (Drs. Zajas & Church)present a readable, and interesting book on the fundamentals of doing business in a competitive marketplace. Hats off to both authors for taking the time to provide such a fundamental and practical book. Thanks!

Neither global, nor a telecommunications book!.......1999-03-16

Neither author is a telecom professional. The LAN discussion is 1 page; the WAN discussion is 1 more page. The word "enterprise" does not appear in the index, but "sexual motivation" does. Likewise, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET/SDH are omitted from the book. ISDN receives exactly 2 sentences. The striking lack of Telecommunications and Technology could be forgiven, except for the equally apparent lack of Global Business discussion. The term "multinational" can't be found; neither can "ITU" or its erstwhile equivalent "CCITT". If you're looking for a discussion or reference on the role of telecommunications in the increasing global economy, this book is not for you.

Designed to be a booklet for a workshop........1999-03-13

There are exercises! This is certainly not a "reader" for those familiar with telecommunications and business.

Fantastic book on telecommunications & marketing.......1998-06-21

This is a must book for persons interested in the area of telecommunications and technology from an applied global perspective. The book presents a variety of topics from basic economics and telemarketing, to telecommunications and business strategy. Innovative activities and exercises are provided to enrich the reader's knowledge of the field of telecommunications from a historical and business perspective. Insightful, interesting, and well written. Numerous references, key concepts, a detailed glossary, and practical ideas are included to assist the reader in developing a greater expertise in the telecommunications field. The introductory section on the Telecommunications Law of 1996 is worth the price of the entire book. Another exciting and valuable aspect of the book is the illustrations provided, such as the one on the "Wheel of Telecommunications." The coverage on international business developments was also helpful in broadening one's perspective of the importance of telecommunications in the global market. Investors interested in learning more about the promising telecommunications industry would do well to read this book and pass on the knowledge gained therefrom. Dr. Zajas and Dr. Church has done a marvelous job summarizing a dynamic, and important field. Looking forward to reading others books by these contemporary authors and business management consultants. A Five Star commendation to Dr.Zajas and Dr. Chruch for an outstanding book.

Applying Telecommunications and Technology from a Global Business Perspective.(Review): An article from: Journal of Global Information Management

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Applying Telecommunications and Technology from a Global Business Perspective.(Review): An article from: Journal of Global Information Management
Jan Guynes Clark
Manufacturer: Idea Group Publishing
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Title: Applying Telecommunications and Technology from a Global Business Perspective.(Review)
Author: Jan Guynes Clark
Publication: Journal of Global Information Management (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Volume: 8 Issue: 4 Page: 55

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Japanese foreign direct investment generated new opportunities and benefits but also created new problems for the recipient countries. This volume examines the countries that received nearly three-fifths of all Japanese foreign direct investment between 1980 and 1990 and asks the following questions. Why did Japanese foreign direct investment increase so dramatically between 1970 and 1991? What are some of the significant patterns that Japanese foreign direct investment have on the host countries? Focusing on six major destination countries—the United States, Great Britain, Mexico, Australia, the Republic of China, and Thailand—the essays in this volume explore the benefits and problems Japanese foreign direct investment has created, particularly in terms of recipient countries' employment, foreign trade, acquisition of new technology and management skills, economic output, resource development, and public opinion.

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