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The Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative
Papua New Guinea: A Case Study on Subnational Capacity Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Provincial Performance Improvement Initiative (PPII) is an undertaking of the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) that seeks to improve public administration at the subnational level. The case study describes how PPII has benefited from "enthusiastic leadership" and a high level of...
Strengthening Pacific Fragile States
The Marshall Islands Example
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The Republic of the Marshall Islands joined the Asian Development Bank in 1990. Since then it has received 12 loans for 11 projects, totaling $78.1 million, and 49 technical assistance programs and projects totaling $18.8 million. The publication tells the story of how a country strategy was formulated...
Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries
Paradoxes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unrealistic. In reality, the practice of development management is characterized by processes of mutual adjustment among individuals, agencies, and interest groups...
by Irum Ahsan, Saima Amin Khawaja
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Government of Pakistan has adopted laws to combat adverse environmental impacts of unsustainable development, but there are several issues that make effective implementation of these laws and adjudication of environmental disputes difficult. This report examines the state of environmental law,...
Governmental Forms and Economic Development
From Medieval to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
This book investigates the performance of economic development under different forms of government, ranging from autocratic states to liberal democracies. Starting with a critical review of the literature on social and economic development, including the works of Frank Knight, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter...
Making Things Simpler?
Harmonizing Aid Delivery in the Cook Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
A 2001 report by the Australian Agency for International Development and the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade marked the beginning of efforts by both governments to increase their emphasis on aid harmonization in the Pacific. This was followed by a decision to pilot a cofunded program...
The Indigenous Dynamic in Taiwan's Postwar Development: Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship
Religious and Historical Roots of Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Using Taiwan's third largest export industry - shoe manufacturing - as a case study, this work contends that economic development can be tied to Taiwan's own cultural history as well as to the influx of foreign capital or the initiatives of the state government.
Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi
The democratic dividend
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Malawi is among the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has witnessed significant improvements in relation to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It exhibits some of the main challenges facing African democracies while they attempt to consolidate the benefits of democratisation.
Political...
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain
Perspectives on Change and Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The last two decades of the twentieth century saw the most fundamental changes in British social policy since the creation of the welfare state in the 1940s. From Margaret Thatcher's radical reassessment of the role of the state to Tony Blair's 'Third Way', the voluntary sector has been at the heart...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Glenn Beck and Joshua Charles in their book “The Original Argument, The Federalists’ Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than...
by Prof. Dr. Heinz D. Kurz, Prof. Dr. Richard Sturn
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Sie prägen seit Jahrhunderten die Welt der Ökonomie: die größten Ökonomen. Einer von ihnen ist Adam Smith.
Der Name Adam Smith ist vielen Menschen ein Begriff, über das Leben dieses großen Denkers wissen allerdings die wenigsten Bescheid. Diese Wissenslücke schließt das Buch.
Die...
Democracy Reinvented
Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Participatory Budgeting-the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the United States.
Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology...
by Gordon Blake
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
The Canadian tariff has been a singularly faithful mirror of economic and political change in this country, but it is a glass through which much has been seen darkly. This study is an attempt to improve the view. It traces the administration of the tariff through Canadian history, and provides the...
Imagining Sustainability
Creative urban environmental governance in Chicago and Melbourne
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies. This is due to the combination of growing urban populations and increased action on the part of local governments (generally attributed to national governments’ failure to act on climate change).
Imagining...