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"Strategic Project Management" uses real life case examples to characterize and describe the organizational factors and conditions necessary for projects to thrive and to deliver the organization's strategic objectives. This characterization is formed around ten imperatives which senior managers can implement - both within individual projects and,...

This volume explores the strong link between community participation and project impact in slum upgrading and housing initiatives. It intends to help local policymakers, officials, and practitioners identify policies, procedures, and program investment strategies that are appropriate to the local context as they design and manage urban upgrading...

Policy makers in Latin America may need to complement their focus on macroeconomic stability with an increased emphasis on microeconomic reforms. Using empirical evidence linking actual firm performance to shortcomings in investment climate, the book discusses policies that could have a significant impact on firm productivity....

Review of Electricity Supply and Demand in Southeast Europe is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. This paper reviews the power sector demand-supply balance in Southeastern Europe, covering Albania, Bosnia and...

The body of evidence continues to grow around the world that the very kernel of successful project management is the effective management of risk and its absence frequently leaves project sponsors lamenting missed objectives and shareholders coming to terms with an organisation's poor bottom line performance.Dr Robert Chapman's The Rules of Project...

The aim of Crafting Labor Policy is to advance labor market reform--which has been referred to as the unfinished economic reform in Latin America--using estimation techniques to answer important labour policy questions in a quantitative manner. The contributors--leading labor economists in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile--examine key labor policy...