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by Patrick J. McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the late nineteenth century, scientists began allying themselves with America's corporate, political, and military elites. They did so not just to improve their professional standing and win more money for research, says Patrick McGrath, but for political reasons as well. They wanted to use their...
Bridging the State-Society Gap
The Community Justice Liaison Unit of Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Community Justice Liaison Unit was established under Papua New Guinea's (PNG) law and justice sector program, with the support of the Australian government, to enhance the capacity of PNG's civil society and facilitate its involvement in policy development and delivery of services in the justice...
Public Service Operations Management
A research handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
How do policy makers and managers square the circle of increasing demand and expectations for the delivery and quality of services against a backdrop of reduced public funding from government and philanthropists? Leaders, executives and managers are increasingly focusing on service operations improvement....
Environmentally Sustainable Development in the People's Republic of China
Visions for the Future and the Role of the Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The rapid pace of growth, the sectoral structure of the economy, the sources of energy used, and increased urbanization are four large-scale drivers behind the complex environmental agenda of the People's Republic of China (PRC). To improve the quality of the ambient environment, the recently released...
by Patrick W. Nee
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Welcome to the Making Money in China series: The first step to being successful is having the right contacts. MAKING MONEY IN CHINA: KEY CONTACTS AND ADDRESSES offers executives, investors, and entrepreneurs key contacts for updated information about doing business in China. Organized by...
The Promise of Wilderness
American Environmental Politics since 1964
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
From Denali's majestic slopes to the Great Swamp of central New Jersey, protected wilderness areas make up nearly twenty percent of the parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands that cover a full fourth of the nation's territory. But wilderness is not only a place. It is also one of...
by Vincent Blackburn, Shae Brennan, John Ruggiero
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
This book provides a complete analysis of educational production and costs using the nonparametric technique known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book focuses on estimation of technical, allocative and scale efficiency in the public sector characterized by the influence of exogenous socio-economic...
Latinos and the Economy
Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
At 15.4 percent of the population, Latinos are the largest minority group in the United States. They are a growing presence in all sectors of the economy, play an increasingly important role in government and politics, and are influential across a wide range of cultural domains. Despite the growing...
Children’s Participation in Global Contexts
Going Beyond Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Children's and young people’s right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet much of this has focused on collecting children’s voices, rather than achieving change, and has met its limits....
The Fixer
My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The famed political advisor to Uber, FanDuel, Lemonade, Tesla and other startups reveals what really happens at the intersection of politics, tech and business
Most new startups today are in highly regulated industries with strong incumbents - transportation, hotels, drones, energy, gaming,...
Systems Science for Complex Policy Making
A Study of Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This volume applies a systems science perspective to complex policy making dynamics, using the case of Indonesia to illustrate the concepts. Indonesia is an archipelago with a high heterogeneity. Her people consist of 1,340 tribes who are scattered over 17,508 islands. Every region has different natural...
Public Performance Budgeting
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Performance budgeting involves costs, from the drafting and passage of legal foundations, and the political capital and will to implement it, to training personnel to create a performance-oriented culture, and information technology requirements to track performance. Through comprehensive examination...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This publication explains the evaluation and strategic investment priorities of the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the agriculture, natural resources, and rural development sector. It highlights sector performance, priority development constraints,...
by Toshihiro Ihori, Martin C. McGuire, Shintaro Nakagawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
In this book the authors demonstrate how the economics of insurance, risk reduction, and damage control or limitation can be combined with concepts of collective choice and collective behavior to improve analysis of the escalating threats faced by alliances throughout the world.
The book develops...