Government Business category: 2241 books
Re-invigorating Private Sector Investment
Private Sector Assessment in Fiji
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This private sector assessment reviews Fiji's private sector environment in 2006-2012, against recommendations made in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) publication "2005 Promise Unfulfilled: Private Sector Assessment for Fiji". While Fiji has made considerable reform progress in a number...
Branding for the Public Sector
Creating, Building and Managing Brands People Will Value
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
How to apply for-profit marketing strategies to non-profit organizations
Branding for the Public Sector presents powerful and effective branding strategies for the public sector illustrated through case studies and examples. The book covers branding architecture, brand vision, market research,...
The Responsible Administrator
An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Those who serve the public trust must take special care to ensure they make ethical and responsible decisions. Yet the realities of bureaucracies, deadlines, budgets, and demands for quick results make the payoffs for dealing formally with ethics seem unclear. Since its original publication, The Responsible...
Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan
From Minamata to Mad Cows
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Developing insights from a number of disciplines and with a details analysis of legislation, case law and academic theory, Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan contributes significantly to the understanding of contemporary Japan, its consumers and its law. It is also of practical use to all professionals exposed to product liability regimes evolving in Japan and other major economies.
Transforming Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Stewardship for Leading Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
In the public and nonprofit arenas, leaders face the unique challenge of protecting the public interest while implementing organizational change initiatives. To succeed, these leaders must build organizations that are “change-centric,” carefully weigh and prepare for the risks of change, and develop...
Greening of Capitalism
How Asia Is Driving the Next Great Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today. Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising hundreds of millions...
Too Little, Too Late
The Quest to Resolve Sovereign Debt Crises
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and address too little. Though unresolved debt crises impose enormous costs on societies, many recent restructurings have not been deep enough to provide the conditions for economic recovery...
Equitocracy
The Alternative to Capitalist-Ultracapitalist and Socialist-Communist Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Pundits, journalists, and individuals bemoan the state of the economy on a regular basis, but they usually direct their criticism at Wall Street manipulators and big corporations.
The real blame should go to the structure of a system that condones and overlooks practices leading to world economic...
by Dixon Southworth MPA
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
An Entirely New Way to Look at Human Resources in the Public Sector
What makes a good worker? Why do some people naturally do well at their jobs while others struggle? These questions are at the heart of the human resource (HR) profession. And while there is no shortage of theories about how people...
Criminal Prosperity
Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering and Financial Crisis after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Drug trafficking is the most visible part of the profits of organized crime, which have grown considerably since the end of the cold war. The mirror of history shows us the impact of the drug trade in the colonization of Asia. The post cold war geopolitical context reproduces elements of the past,...
by Y V Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The worst of the economic crisis has passed, and the global financial system is picking through the wreckage of its reckless ambition. Recovery has started at different paces in different places, but it promises everywhere to be prolonged and uneven. What has the world learnt from the most severe financial...
by Jorge Zicolillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Si hoy el patrimonio de algunas empresas supera el PIB de varios países: ¿en manos de quién está el futuro de la humanidad? ¿Puede una reunión de élite cambiar el destino de millones de seres con el sólo hecho de oprimir un botón? ¿Puede existir un Estado soberano cuando el factor dinero...
Public–Private Partnership Infrastructure Project: Case Studies from the Republic of Korea
Volume 1: Institutional Arrangements and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Republic of Korea has rich experience in implementing public–private partnership (PPP) projects for almost a decade. This experience provides valuable lessons for most developing member countries (DMCs) and that merits wider dissemination. This report prepared by the Korea Development Institute...
One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are...