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Healthy City Planning
From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.
Having made the...
Digital Government
Leveraging Innovation to Improve Public Sector Performance and Outcomes for Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book focuses on the implementation of digital strategies in the public sectors in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India and Germany. The case studies presented examine different digital projects by looking at their impact as well as their alignment with their national governments’ digital strategies....
by Edmond H. Weiss,Steven M. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Making Arguments: Reason in Context offers a new approach to the teaching of argumentation and debate.Nearly all argumentation courses and textbooks tilt toward one of two extremes:* Critical thinking/informal logic, in which the "laws" of reasoning are universal and not affected by audience...
Public Speaking for Beginners
How to Communicate Effectively in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The movie, The King's Speech, drew attention to the challenges of public speaking. This book provides hints on making a formal speech from a podium. It covers specific scenarios: the after dinner speech, delivering an address at a wedding and the delicate task of delivering a eulogy at a funeral....
Public Debt Management
Separation of Debt from Monetary Management in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
This book examines the objectives of public debt management and the re-emerging issue of separating monetary policy formulation from fiscal and debt management. The recent Great Recession has resulted in a rethink of the objectives and working of macroeconomics, and in many countries, including India,...
by P. Linquiti
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The Public Sector R&D Enterprise combines a primer on how government R&D programs actually work with a sophisticated methodology for prospectively putting a dollar figure on the value of R&D investments before they are made.
Money Matters
Local Government Finance in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in November reinforced the importance of public finance reform. Drawing on recent technical assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), special reports, and the work of ADB staff, the publication offers observation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how issues and actions are translated into public policies for resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the role of government regulation in markets)....
Public Policy and the Internet
Privacy, Taxes, and Contract
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This book presents the initial findings that framed early discussions on Internet public policy and outlines proposals that should guide policymaking in the future. In addition, Cronin, McLure, and Radin's viewpoints show that the future of e-commerce has as much to do with how policy issues are resolved as with how technological challenges are overcome.
A New City O/S
The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local government
At a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a state of long-term, partisan-based gridlock, local government can still be effective—indeed...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Private Health Sector Assessment in Ghana is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Banks ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion. The private health sector in Ghana is a large and important sector in the market for health-related...
Harm Reduction
A New Direction for Drug Policies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Since the First International Conference on the Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, held in 1990, the term 'harm reduction' has gained wide currency in the areas of public health and drug policy. Previously the field was characterized by heated struggle between prohibition and legalization of addictive...
Hiding Politics in Plain Sight
Cause Marketing, Corporate Influence, and Breast Cancer Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
As late as the 1980s, breast cancer was a stigmatized disease, so much so that local reporters avoided using the word "breast" in their stories and early breast cancer organizations steered clear of it in their names. But activists with business backgrounds began to partner with corporations...
Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Ethical Public Relations
Strengthening Synergies with Human Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Nowhere is the study of workplace ethics more relevant today than in the context of empowering organizations to meet their goals in corporate social responsibility and sustainability (CSR/S). Aimed at helping organizations uphold their commitments to people and the planet as well as profit, these...