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by Slavica Joković
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This eBook analyses public procurement opportunities, rules and procedures in Serbia, with particular reference to the new legislative framework. It highlights public procurement policy, including choice of participants and award of contracts as well as information about bidding process and Public Procurement...
Results Not Receipts
Counting the Right Things in Aid and Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
In the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health to deliver basic healthcare to 90 percent of the population, at a cost of $4.50 a head. The program played a vital role in improving the country's health; the...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This publication examines the performance of the Asian Development Bank in achieving the goals of Strategy 2020, one of the institution's long-term planning documents. It tracks recent development progress in Asia and the Pacific, assesses ADB's development effectiveness, and identifies areas where...
Development Effectiveness Report 2017
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 2017, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) changed its reporting of new projects from approvals to the commitment of funds which are more closely aligned with the resources made available for development purposes. Commitments of ADB's Private Sector Operations Department reached a record level in 2017....
Development Effectiveness Report 2018
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is working with the private sector in Asia and the Pacific to help the region achieve a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable future. This report presents investments made through ADB's Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) and assesses contributions...
by Marguerite Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
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A Golden Opportunity
Advancing California's Early Care and Education Workforce Professional Development System
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
This study focuses on the education, training, and ongoing professional development of early care and education (ECE) caregivers, teachers, and administrators who work with infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children from birth to kindergarten entry in California. It aims to provide a comprehensive...
British Withdrawal from the European Union
A Guide to the Case For
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
British withdrawal from the European Union: A guide to the case for
In 1992, Britain benefited greatly by withdrawing from the European Union’s programme of Economic and Monetary Union. This is a detailed guide to the case for UK withdrawal from the bloc as a whole. Major general arguments...
by Aldo Musacchio
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Focusing on a quantitative assessment of Brazil's economic performance 1976-2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini analyze the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact with private investors either as majority or minority shareholders in publicly-traded corporations or as financial backers of purely private firms.
Social and Solidarity Economy
The World’s Economy with a Social Face
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of a section of the economy, which is often referred to as the ‘social and solidarity economy’ (SSE); and highlight some of the current issues in the field, how they are being addressed and some of their future implications....
Opportunism
How to Change the World--One Idea at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In this bold and forward-looking book, an Israeli civic leader shows how reorienting our society to make the most of "opportunity" could restore the global economy to health—and give added value to the contributions of the new class of knowledge workers.
For most of us, opportunism...
by Paresh Wankhade, Leo McCann, Peter Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2019
Critical Perspectives in Emergency Services Management makes an important contribution to the subject of emergency services management and to public administration and organization studies more generally. It critically assesses developments in emergency services management by examining the multi-dimensional...
Philanthropy in Practice
Pragmatism and the Impact of Philanthropic Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Philanthropic foundations are experiencing a crisis of professional identity. They attract considerable hopes due to an unusually high degree of independence and freedom of manoeuvre, which theoretically places them in a privileged position to find novel solutions to societies’ most severe and intractable...
Why Love Matters
Values in Governance
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
As our current systems of decision-making are increasingly unable to meet the global challenges of climate change, resource depletion, poverty, healthcare, economic instability and global violence, the contributors in this book make a radical proposal for an innovative form of governance that is based...