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by Mark Aiston
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Public Relations - Beginners Guide is an ideal resource for anyone who is looking to promote their business, their products and services and themselves through the media.
This detailed E-book offers tips and strategies that will help you understand how the media operates, guide you through the process...
PR In A Week
A Public Relations Masterclass In Seven Simple Steps
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Brilliant PR just got easier
You are about to discover everything you need to know about Public Relations. PR is the practice of conveying messages to the public with the intention of changing the public's actions by influencing their opinions. By targeting different audiences with different messages...
by Virginia Berridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Part of the Understanding Public Health series, this book offers a critical overview of public health in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as critical and long-term perspectives on current issues.
The Global Challenge of Malaria
Past Lessons and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Malaria is one of the most important “emerging” or “resurgent” infectious diseases. According to the World Health Organization, this mosquito-borne infection is a leading cause of suffering, death, poverty, and underdevelopment in the world today. Every year 500 million people become severely...
by Manmohan Mr. Kumar, Pablo Mr. Guidotti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1991
This study discusses the evolution of domestic public debt in several indebted countries and its relationship with their external debt and underlying fiscal developments. It examines the links between domestic and external debt, taxes, subsidies, and government spending, and reviews strategies for managing domestic public debt.
“Civilizing” Rio
Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 1996
A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized...
Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy
How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...
From Government to E-Governance
Public Administration in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way. Keeping this simple notion in mind, From Government...
by Susan M. Opp, Samantha L. Mosier, Jeffery L. Osgood
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Local officials are responsible for a number of important tasks that have a significant impact on the quality of life of most Americans. Arguably, the policy choices made by local governments in the United States more directly impact individual well-being than do the choices made at any other level...
State Government Budget Stabilization
Policy, Tools, and Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive, full-scale treatment of the law, politics and economics with regard to the policies and policy instruments for budget stabilization at the state level. Covering the period from 1946 through 2008 in the United States, it provides details on the methods and results...
Lethal But Legal
Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Decisions made by the food, tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceutical, gun, and automobile industries have a greater impact on today's health than the decisions of scientists and policymakers. As the collective influence of corporations has grown, governments around the world have stepped back from their responsibility...
Public Administration and the Modern State
Assessing Trends and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied. Civil services at the forefront of tackling pressing problems in a whole range of areas from climate change to income inequality are being allocated less money to do so. This collection explores how public sectors have adapted to address the demands placed on them in the 21st Century.
The Guardian
Perspectives on the Ministry of Finance of Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2011
Finance departments have often been portrayed as guardians of the public purse. In The Guardian, a multidisciplinary group of contributors examines the Ministry of Finance of Ontario since the Second World War. During the last sixty years the Ministry was transformed from a relatively small 'Treasury'...
by David Coady, Benedict Mr. Clements, Sanjeev Mr. Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Health care reform will be a key fiscal policy challenge in both advanced and emerging economies in coming years. In the advanced economies, the health sector has been one of the main drivers of government expenditure, accounting for about half of the rise in total spending over the past forty years....