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Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
As China continues to ride out the global economic crisis while still retaining year on year GDP growth it is increasingly important to understand how this 'new' economic giant, with its communist-capitalist model operates its economic and business environments. This book is designed to scientifically...
Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains
Improving Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, oilseeds,...
The Resilient Sector Revisited
The New Challenge to Nonprofit America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Nonprofit America is one of the least understood segments of national life, yet also one of the most crucial.
Author Lester Salamon, who pioneered the empirical study of the nonprofit sector in the United States, provides a wealth of new data to paint a compelling picture of a set of institutions...
Costly Fix
Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues. It considers the position of First Nations, the character and strength of environmental critiques, and the difficulties that...
by Barrie Gunter
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Historically, there has been a lack of parity between women and men in senior corporate roles, particularly in major companies with the biggest market capitalisation. This can be partly explained by inequalities of career opportunity and also women’s self-perceptions. Yet there are plenty of examples...
IDRC
40 Years of Ideas, Innovation, and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The book focuses on the International Development Research Centre as a unique institution that has funded research in the developing South—research proposed and undertaken by Southern researchers—and how, as a result, it has had tremendous impact despite a relatively small budget. The IDRC is...
Who Really Runs Britain?
The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Who do you think is running our prisons, providing healthcare, transport, legal aid and child protection? You might think it has to be the government, but in reality £80 billion of public money is given every year to private companies to handle some of our most sensitive and important services. These...
Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers entire rural area of the country....
The New Pioneers
How Entrepreneurs Are Defying the System to Rebuild the Cities and Towns of America
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Imagine a world where there are no building codes, no licensing requirements, no permit fees, no inspectors-no rules or regulations, only common sense and the desire to build something better. This is the world that forged America, the land where the early pioneers and town developers thrived.
But...
Economic Analysis of Suicide Prevention
Towards Evidence-Based Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of economic and institutional settings...
Urban Innovation and Upgrading in China Shanty Towns
Changing the Rules of Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience of Liaoning province is relatively successful and can be of great significance for developing countries...
by Trevor Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This Brief discusses the current policy environment in which the United States space program operates and proposes an industry-government partnership as a long-term policy solution. Since the Reagan administration, American space policy has increasingly sought to involve private sector operators for...
Rethinking Public Accounting
Policy and Practice of Accrual Accounting in Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
This volume argues for reforms in India's public spending and accounting systems. According to the author, it will help set performance standards and provide reliable information to monitor government expenditure. Critically analysing the cash accounting system, he shows that it is inadequate to respond...