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Chinese Environmental Governance
Dynamics, Challenges, and Prospects in a Changing Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In this edited volume, leading environmental policy experts from China, USA, and Europe provide a contemporary view of Chinese environmental policy, analyzing current discussions among various actors and agencies. The book covers a wide range of topics including the gap between national policy goals...
Gender Inequality in the Public Sector in Pakistan
Representation and Distribution of Resources
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
As gender training is applied increasingly as a development solution to gender inequality, this book examines gender inequality in Pakistan's public sector and questions whether a singular focus on gender training is enough to achieve progress in a patriarchal institutional context.
by C. Chu
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
This book examines Chinese Communist activities in Hong Kong from the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the handover in 1997. It reveals a peculiar part of Chinese Communist history, and traces six decades of astounding united front between the Chinese Communists and the Hong Kong tycoons and upper-class business elite.
Post-Secondary Education and Technology
A Global Perspective on Opportunities and Obstacles to Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
As the global commitment to educational access has become enshrined in all levels of society, new technologies have also been developed that hold tremendous promise for enabling these goals. This book looks at trends and challenges for expanding access to post-secondary education via technology through a set of case studies and analyses.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This edited volume provides an overview of the current state and indigenous practices of leadership development (LD) in a select group of emerging market economies, including BRICS, Southeast and East Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Africa. While some authors focus exclusively on LD in the...
The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda
International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China's international power.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
This volume reflects the diverse perspectives presented on each of the major governance groups that contribute directly and indirectly to the G20 political process. It examines how these groups interact and what the outcomes have been of such interactions, including a fresh concept for the organization of a G20 system.
The Geography of Underdevelopment
Institutions and the Impact of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book examines why the differences in comparative economic development across the world have a geographical pattern. It argues that there is a missing component in the geography versus institutions debate, namely the role of culture and its impact either directly on development or indirectly through...
by K. Mok
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
With the rise of the knowledge economy, universities are under pressure to embrace not just their traditional missions of teaching and research but a third mission of serving economic and social development. This book examines the major strategies that governments in East Asia have adopted to promote this kind of innovation in the education sector.
The Rise of Indian Multinationals
Perspectives on Indian Outward Foreign Direct Investment
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
The contributors explore the rapid growth of Indian multinationals and provide valuable insights into the patterns and trends of their outward investments and the factors that led to their emergence in the global FDI market. They also look at their continuously evolving strategies in the global economy.
The Curse of Natural Resources
A Developmental Analysis in a Comparative Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive. It looks at how a country's political regime and quality of governance can determine the degree to which it benefits - or suffers - from having natural...
Pragmatic Conservatism
Edmund Burke and His American Heirs
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an exegesis of Burke's thought, it goes on to show how three twentieth-century thinkers who are not generally...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America explores the links between Latin American governments' economic policies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence. Based on the patterns of ten countries, the contributions to this volume trace the remarkable...
by I. Hussain, R. Dominguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Was the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) designed as a definitive trade agreement, or as a stepping stone? This book reviews NAFTA's performances on trade, investment, intellectual property rights, dispute-settlement, as well as environmental and labor side-agreements within a theoretical construct.