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by Brig. R.S. Chhikara
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
This book deal with problems, prospects and perspectives of governance problems in India.It Carries contributions from distinguished leaders in several fields of contemporaneous national concern.
Viking Economics
How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality, while most conservatives fear it as a hotbed of liberty-threatening socialism. But the left and right can usually agree on one thing: that the Nordic system is impossible to replicate elsewhere. The US and UK are too big, or too...
by David Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2006
The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review of existing literature from a...
The Professions, State and the Market
Medicine in Britain, the United States and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective, in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social...
by World Bank World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as...
by Alan Lawton, Julie Rayner, Karin Lasthuizen
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this constant change, there are fears that a public service ethos, a tradition of working in the...
Climate Capitalism
Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Given the dominance...
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 Katrina Vanden Heuval in her book “Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
A brief preface lays out the purpose of the essay. Chapter 1 notes that retirement can be very hard on the elderly, often to their surprise. They lose the zest for life and the will to life. Chapter 2 proposes to do away with age discrimination and employers' handicaps in hiring seniors by several...
Dilemmas of Domination
The Unmaking of the American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
From the acclaimed globalization critic, a far-reaching analysis of America's military, economic, and political vulnerability
The empire seems unassailable, but the empire is weak-and precisely because of its imperial ambitions. So argues Walden Bello's provocative new book, which systematically...
From Political to Economic Awakening in the Arab World
The Path of Economic Integration
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The popular grievances that have fueled the Arab Spring since 2010 demonstrate that past development paradigms have failed to achieve the inclusive and sustainable growth expected by Arab populations. Countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have failed to develop a strong private...
Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement
Decision Support Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
While many social, economic, and political changes have occurred recently in internet public procurement and its decision support systems, there is still a lot of opportunity for improvement. Public Sector Transformation Processes and Internet Public Procurement: Decision Support Systems brings together...
Casino Healthcare
The Health of a Nation: America's Biggest Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Author Michael Lewis was recently interviewed by Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes and a quote from that interview was the inspiration and influence for Casino Healthcare. “If it wasn’t complicated, it wouldn’t be allowed to happen. The complexity disguises what’s happening. If it’s so complicated...
The Trickle-Down Delusion
How Republican Upward Redistribution of Economic and Political Power Undermines Our Economy, Democracy, Institutions and Health—and a Liberal Response
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
From inside the book:
“Since 1980, the economy has been growing, and productivity has been growing, but trickle-down values—that we, the American people promote, pursuant to the Republican Party’s conservative ideology—have rigged the economy to continuously upwardly redistribute those...