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Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.3 Categories of institutional arrangements -- 5.4 The Regulatory Framework -- Chapter 6: The human rights to water and sanitation in the essential functions of service providers and regulators -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Planning and management -- 6.3 Legal support -- 6.4 Budget, finance and accounts -- 6.5 Operation and maintenance -- 6.6 Monitoring and evaluation -- 6.7 Customer services -- 6.8 Communications -- 6.9 Human resources -- 6.10 In conclusion -- Chapter 7: Addressing sensitive practices, dealing with challenges and avoiding pitfalls -- 7.1 Technical options -- 7.2 Affordability mechanisms -- 7.3 Cut-offs, credit control and debt collection -- 7.4 Simultaneous progressive realisation against various criteria -- 7.5 Setting geographic and investment priorities -- 7.6 Land tenure -- 7.7 Pre-paid meters -- 7.8 Interim standards -- 7.9 Continuity of supply -- Annex A: Context and contents of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation -- A.1 The scale of the global drinking water and sanitation challenges -- A.2 What is the human rights framework? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Notas sobre integración para empresarios desprevenidosTelevisión versus democracia; Cuando la política desaparece viene la policía; El viejo muerto no puede resucitar; La democracia, un entierro sin dolientes; La estructura y el funcionamiento del poder; La sombra de la imagen; La búsqueda del modus vivendi global; El reino de la incertidumbre; La organización del desamparo; La riqueza escondida en los bulbos de tulipán; La confusión de los tiempos; Los extravíos nacionales; La perplejidad avasallante; Una obsoleta cultura política; La apuesta fundamental…”

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“…From the macro aspects of translation as an inter- cultural project to actual analysis of textual ingredients that contribute to translation and interpreting as discourse, the ten chapters represent different explorations of 'global' theories of discourse and translation. Offering interrogations of theories and practices within different sociocultural environments and traditions (Eastern and Western), Discourse in Translation considers a plethora of domains, including historiography, ethics, technical and legal discourse, subtitling, and the politics of media translation as representation. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Ethical Challenges of Technology in a Global Context -- The Unintended Consequences of Unethical Practices in Technology -- Ethical Concerns Related to Technology -- References -- Chapter 14 Restart: The Most Powerful Vote We Have: The Ballot, Money, or Attention? …”

“…This report offers a first global mapping of principles for the good governance of evidence in policy making, as well as standards of evidence from a significant range of OECD countries and international research bodies…”

“…The seventh edition of the OECD Agricultural Outlook analyses how both global and domestic forces are impacting on the agricultural sector and shaping world and OECD agricultural markets up to 2006. …”

“…The first OECD Report on Public Communication: The Global Context and the Way Forward examines the public communication structures, mandates and practices of centres of governments and ministries of health from 46 countries, based on the 2020 Understanding Public Communication surveys…”

“…Governments are major issuers of debt instruments in the global financial market. This volume provides quantitative information on central government debt instruments for the 34 OECD member countries to meet the analytical requirements of users such as policy makers, debt management experts and market analysts. …”

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“…Certes, les progrès des technologies agricoles ont permis, au plan global, de maintenir le niveau nutritionnel moyen pendant les années de la "Révolution verte", mais la situation restait loin d'être satisfaisante, puisque environ 850 millions de personnes étaient sousalimentées au début du XXIe siècle. …”

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