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Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth
Industrial Upgrading and Diversification in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This report discusses key policy challenges that need to be addressed if the Philippines were to embark on sustainable and inclusive growth. We take the view that the main reason behind the Philippines' lagging growth and development outcomes in the regional context lies in a sluggish transformation...
The Disaster Experts
Mastering Risk in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. How is it that we know more about the hazards of modern American life than ever before, yet the nation faces ever-increasing losses from such events? History shows that disasters...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
This second edition of Government at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available data on public administrations in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries. It contains new indicators on public finances, centres of government, regulatory governance, open government,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms, women and development, environmental governance and public sector programmes, together with the impact of globalization on local issues and its influence on governance...
The Nation's Largest Landlord
The Bureau of Land Management in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
It is the largest landholder in America, overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River, with even twice as much below the surface. Its domain embraces wildlife and wilderness, timber, range, and minerals, and for over 60 years,...
Agents of Change
Strategy and Tactics for Social Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
While governments around the world struggle to maintain service levels amid fiscal crises, social innovators are improving social outcomes for citizens by changing the system from within. In Agents of Change, three cutting-edge thinkers and entrepreneurs present case studies of social innovation that...
Dying and Living in the Neighborhood
A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances...
True Green
Executive Effectiveness in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Drawing on the careers of senior executives of the US Environmental Protection Agency, True Green identifies the concrete actions that work in protecting our nation’s environment. By examining the exquisitely difficult tasks of executive leadership in environmental protection, one of the most conflicted...
by Wendy N. Whitman Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Is whether we contract cancer—and whether we survive the disease, if we get it—largely just a result of good versus bad luck, or are these outcomes regarding cancer tied to the policies and actions of our federal government? Cancer-treating drug development and approval is overseen by the U.S....
Health and Climate Change
Modelling the impacts of global warming and ozone depletion
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
'Understanding how complex ecological and climatic change can influence human health is the new challenge before us. The book confronts these multidimensional risk assessments head-on and will catalyse the important interdisciplinary and integrated approach that is the new paradigm now required for...
by Roger Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2008
Prostitution has become an extremely topical issue in recent years and attention has focused both on the situation of female prostitutes and the adequacy of existing forms of regulation. Prostitution, Politics & Policy brings together the main debates and issues associated with prostitution in...
by Kari Karppinen
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Access to a broad range of different political views and cultural expressions is often regarded as a self-evident value in both theoretical and political debates on media and democracy. Pluralism is commonly accepted as a guiding principle of media policy in addressing media concentration, the role...
by Philip B. Heymann
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Policymaking in large bureaucracies is hardly a simple process. Even the most respected policymakers have to contend with obstacles that seemingly have little to do with the issue at hand--office politics, work structure, and shifting political environments. Yet learning to manage such complex environments...
When the Senate Worked for Us
The Invisible Role of Staffers in Countering Corporate Lobbies
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Every politically sentient American knows that Congress has been dominated by special interests, and many people do not remember a time when Congress legislated in the public interest. In the 1960s and '70s, however, lobbyists were aggressive but were countered by progressive senators and representatives,...