Government Business category: 2241 books
The Blame Game
Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades government and public organizations at every level. Political and bureaucratic blame games and blame avoidance are more often condemned than analyzed....
How to Get Rich Doing Business in Turkey
Turkey Business Guide and Contacts
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Welcome to the Internationalist Business Guides series: The key to a successful business is knowing the markets. HOW TO GET RICH DOING BUSINESS IN TURKEY: TURKEY BUSINESS GUIDE AND CONTACTS offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs the need-to-know information about doing business...
Traversing Digital Babel
Information, E-Government, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
A groundbreaking approach to information sharing among government agencies: using selective incentives to “nudge” them to exchange information assets.
The computer systems of government agencies are notoriously complex. New technologies are piled on older technologies, creating layers that...
Eurasian Economic Union
The new Power: banking, insurance, foreign exchange market, stock market
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Eurasian Economic Union
The Competences of the Eurasian Economic Commission
The Competences of the Eurasian Economic Commission are defined in the Article 3 of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Commission dated November 18, 2010. All the powers of the Customs Union's Commission have...
by Claudio O. Delang
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
China’s rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation.
China’s Air Pollution Problems...
by Claudio O. Delang
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Water pollution is one of the most serious problems plaguing China today with millions of citizens drinking water unfit for consumption. These abysmal conditions have fuelled increasing social discontent, as people become more concerned by the need to address the pressing issues of water pollution,...
by Michael Heppell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Capacity development is central to improving standards of living and reducing poverty in developing member countries. It is much more than just training or skills transfer; it is about effective institutions, a sound unpoliticized policy environment, accountability systems, effective relationships,...
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 Michael Mandelbaum in his book “Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government ”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading...
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 Derek Bok in his book “The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However...
The Chaining of Prometheus
Evolution of a Power Structure for Canadian Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The development of a national science policy for Canada – and the priorities to be set within any such policy – have been topics of a mounting debate within government and the scientific community. The questions involved are of concern in every country today: Can governments now afford to support...
Subsidizing Culture
Taxpayer Enrichment of the Creative Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In the American mind, state subsidization of writers and artists was long associated with monarchies and, in later years, socialist states. The support these regimes gave to intellectuals was understood to come with a cost, yet, beginning with the New Deal's Federal Writers', Art, and Theater Projects,...
by Wesley Krug
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
This book is about how to reduce poverty and improve global living standards. Topics include economic growth, income inequality, poverty, corruption, causes of the decline of the middle class, sustainable development, emerging technologies, and more. This isn't a textbook, and there is no specific...
Climbing the Hill
How to Build a Career in Politics and Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Inspiring, nonpartisan insider's advice on how anyone can build a career in local, state, and national government, from two rising stars in Washington government and policy.
This inspiring, nonpartisan guide, written by longtime staff members of Republican and Democratic house leadership teams...
Blaming the Government: Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies
Citizens and the Economy in Five European Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This work examines the impact of macroeconomic conditions on public support for the government in Britain, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.