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International Political Risk Management

Looking to the Future

By: Theodore H. Moran,Gerald T. West,World Bank

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International Political Risk Management

Looking to the Future

By: Theodore H. Moran,Gerald T. West,World Bank

Contributors to this volume consider the state of the political risk insurance industry in the wake of September 11, 2001, the Argentine economic crisis, and other upheavals. The book begins with the supply-side perspective of insurers and then turns to the concerns of investors and lenders, in particular those involved in large infrastructure projects in emerging markets. It concludes with in-depth assessments of new challenges to definitions and coverage of currency transfer, expropriation, breach of contract, and political force majeure. The diverse and detailed arguments collected here come to a consensus: recent changes, contractions, and even losses are fueling the search for creative solutions and will ultimately prove beneficial for participants in the industry.

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World Bank Publications

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ISBN 10

0821361546

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9780821361542

Investment Insurance and Developmental Impact

Evaluating MIGA's Experience

By: Gerald T. West,Ethel I. Tarazona

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Investment Insurance and Developmental Impact

Evaluating MIGA's Experience

By: Gerald T. West,Ethel I. Tarazona

The purpose of MIGA is to encourage the flow of investments for productive purposes. As well as providing guarantees (or insurance) covering qualified foreign direct investment, it also provides technical assistance to governments on ways to attract and retain foreign investment and disseminates information on investment opportunities. This publication shows the impact of its work based on an assessment of 52 projects.

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128

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World Bank Publications

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0821349139

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9780821349137

Somme 1916

A Battlefield Companion

By: Gerald Gliddon

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Somme 1916

A Battlefield Companion

By: Gerald Gliddon

Gerald Gliddon's classic survery of the Somme battlefield in 1916, first published in 1987 to great acclaim, has been greatly expanded and updated to include the latest research and analysis. Supported by a wide selection of archive photographs and drawing on the testimony of those who took part, this new edition covers both the famous battle sites, such as High Wood and Mametz Wood and lesser known villages on the outlying flanks. It includes a day-by-day account of the British build-up on the Somme and the ensuing struggle, British and German orders of battle and a full history of the cemeteries and memorials, both 'lost' and current, that sprang up in the years following the First World War. The author also provides thumbnail biographies of all the senior officers to fall, as well as the winners of the Victoria Cross and those who were 'shot at dawn'. In addition, Somme 'personalities' such as George Butterworth are covered in far greater detail than before.

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560

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The History Press

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0752495356

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9780752495354

Bornologies and Lipschitz Analysis

By: Gerald Beer

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Bornologies and Lipschitz Analysis

By: Gerald Beer

This monograph, for the first time in book form, considers the large structure of metric spaces as captured by bornologies: families of subsets that contain the singletons, that are stable under finite unions, and that are stable under taking subsets of its members. The largest bornology is the power set of the space and the smallest is the bornology of its finite subsets. Between these lie (among others) the metrically bounded subsets, the relatively compact subsets, the totally bounded subsets, and the Bourbaki bounded subsets. Classes of functions are intimately connected to various bornologies; e.g., (1) a function is locally Lipschitz if and only if its restriction to each relatively compact subset is Lipschitz; (2) a subset is Bourbaki bounded if and only if each uniformly continuous function on the space is bounded when restricted to the subset. A great deal of attention is given to the variational notions of strong uniform continuity and strong uniform convergence with respect to the members of a bornology, leading to the bornology of UC-subsets and UC-spaces. Spaces on which its uniformly continuous real-valued functions are stable under pointwise product are characterized in terms of the coincidence of the Bourbaki bounded subsets with a usually larger bornology. Special attention is given to Lipschitz and locally Lipschitz functions. For example, uniformly dense subclasses of locally Lipschitz functions within the real-valued continuous functions, Cauchy continuous functions, and uniformly continuous functions are presented. It is shown very generally that a function between metric spaces has a particular metric property if and only if whenever it is followed in a composition by a real-valued Lipschitz function, the composition has the property. Bornological convergence of nets of closed subsets, having Attouch-Wets convergence as a prototype, is considered in detail. Topologies of uniform convergence for continuous linear operators between normed spaces is explained in terms of the bornological convergence of their graphs. Finally, the idea of a bornological extension of a topological space is presented, and all regular extensions can be so realized.

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243

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CRC Press

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1000884309

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9781000884302

Teamwork

By: Gerald Donaldson

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Teamwork

By: Gerald Donaldson

Going behind the scenes at one of the best known and most successful names in Formula One, this biography of a racing team gives an honest and forthright appraisal of the drivers, management and team personnel that make up McLaren.

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0002189046

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9780002189040

Day and Section Hikes Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon

By: Paul Gerald

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Day and Section Hikes Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon

By: Paul Gerald

The Pacific Crest Trail was designated as one of the first National Scenic Trails way back in 1968. As it traverses the “high road” from Mexico to Canada, incredible views are not only commonplace but also uniquely diverse, because the trail connects six of North America’s seven eco-zones. The PCT’s familiar, well-worn path is a special place for hikers from all walks of life on walks of all lengths and for all reasons. Instead of guiding you through the arduous task of hiking the entire PCT, the goal of this book is to help you plan trips that incorporate hiking on the PCT in Oregon, whether you have just an afternoon to spare or you want to escape for the entire weekend. Carefully edited maps and elevation graphs generated with GPS data collected by the author on the trail will help make your trip a success. This cargo-pocket guide offers author-tested advice to help you make the most of your time away from civilization, however long (or short) that stretch may be.

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Wilderness Press

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0899976891

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9780899976891

Book's by Gerald T. West

International Political Risk Management

International Political Risk Management

Investment Insurance and Developmental Impact

Investment Insurance and Developmental Impact

Somme 1916

Somme 1916

Bornologies and Lipschitz Analysis

Bornologies and Lipschitz Analysis

Teamwork

Teamwork

Day and Section Hikes Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon

Day and Section Hikes Pacific Crest Trail: Oregon

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