Depuis quelques dizaines d'années, les pays en développement riches en ressources naturelles utilisent ces dernières en tant que garanties pour obtenir accès à des sources de financement pour leurs investissements et contourner les obstacles qu'ils rencontrent lorsqu'ils s'efforcent d'obtenir des prêts traditionnels auprès des banques ou des capitaux sur les marchés financiers. Différents modèles de financement sont issus de ces efforts, parmi lesquels le modèle des infrastructures financé...

In recent decades, resource-rich developing countries have been using their natural resources as collateral to access sources of finance for investment, countervailing the barriers they face when accessing conventional bank lending and capital markets. One of the financing models that have emerged as a result is the Resource Financed Infrastructure (RFI) model, a derivation of previous oil-backed lending models pioneered by several Western banks in Africa. Under a Resource Financed Infrast...

Nas últimas décadas, os países em desenvolvimento ricos em recursos têm utilizado os seus recursos naturais como garantia colateral para ter acesso a fontes de financiamento para o investimento, contrabalançando assim as barreiras com que se deparam no acesso a empréstimos bancários convencionais e a mercados de capital. Um dos modelos de financiamento que surgiu desta situação foi o modelo de Infraestruturas Financiadas por Recursos (RFI), uma adaptação dos anteriores modelos de empréstim...

Ein flächendeckendes Radwegenetz, lückenlos ausgeschildert und bestens unterhalten: Damit trumpfen Osnabrücker und Oldenburger Land auf. Dieser Radführer kennt die schönsten Touren zwischen Nordseeküste und Osnabrück, zwischen Hase und Weser. Ob anspruchsvoll durchs Bergland des Teutoburger Walds oder entspannt entlang der Kirschblütenroute, ob durchs Hasetal, zum Heidesee oder über die Dammer Berge: Entdeckungen in einem Paradies für Tourenfans.

Opposites attract? Elakshi and Adam Land aren’t married. In fact, a month ago, they were perfect strangers, dwelling in lands foreign to one another. But now, they’re forced to remain by one another’s side, for their separation could mean the planet’s demise. Their greatest challenge is to stay together — even if they have to tear the world apart to do so.

It only took a matter of days for the zombies to overrun Redding, California. Those unlucky enough to survive prayed for salvation at the hands of the military only to find new horrors awaiting them.Two boys, riding out the end of the world in a tree house, are now faced with eventual starvation unless they venture beyond streets of their once idyllic neighborhood. Not an easy situation to be in when you can’t trust adults.Pockets of survivors huddle together to form what’s...

Sie wollen den anstrengenden Alltag hinter sich lassen? Sich an der frischen Luft bewegen? Den Geräuschen des Wassers lauschen? Dann ist dieser Radführer genau das Richtige für Sie! Schwingen Sie sich auf Ihr Rad und genießen Sie die traumhafte Mecklenburgische Seenplatte. 30 entspannte Fahrradtouren am Wasser fernab vom Motorverkehr werden Ihnen zeigen, wie schön und erfrischend Radfahren sein kann.

Africa's resource boom has lifted growth, but has been less successful in improving people's lives. Yet much of the focus in academic and policy circles has been on appropriate management of the macro-fiscal and governance risks that have historically undermined development outcomes.

North American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference assists individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals in identifying wildland plants. The two hundred species of wildland plants in this book were selected because of their abundance, desirability, or poisonous properties.Each illustration has been enhanced with labe...

In a huge world, a little caterpillar finds that fear can be overcome, and friendship matters the most.

This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on the welfare effects of mineral resources, which, until now, has concentrated more on the national or macroeconomic impacts. Economists have long been intrigued by the paradox that a rich endowment of natural resources may retard economic performance, particularly in the case of mineral-export...

Abraham Lincoln may or may not have fought vampires, but not many people know that when Abraham Lincoln was 10 years old, he fought something much worse - a Tyrannosaurus Rex.One day young Abe Lincoln is marveling over meeting his hero, Davy Crockett. The next, Davy saves Abe's life. But when they kindly agree to teenage inventor Nehemiah's urging to test his newfangled time machine, they wind up sent back in time...to the age of dinosaurs.When the machine breaks, adventure...