Social Policy category: 9249 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
This book offers innovative insights on South–South human mobility. It features a collection of papers that highlight often overlooked mobility patterns among and within regions in the global South as well as address critical realities faced by South-South migrants.
This publication thoroughly...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The fall-out from the economic and financial crisis of 2008 had profound implications for countries across the world, leading different states to determine the best approach to mitigating its effects. In The Austerity State, a group of established and emerging scholars tackles the question of why...
Coping with Regional Vulnerability
Preventing and Mitigating Damages from Environmental Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.e., vulnerability. We focus on regional vulnerability considering the fact that regional socioeconomic conditions determine the aspects of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book provides the state of the art in the simulation and gaming study field by systematically collecting excellent papers presented at the 46th International Simulation and Gaming Association annual conference held in Kyoto 17–25 July 2015. Simulation and gaming has been used in a wide variety...
Running across Europe
The Rise and Size of one of the Largest Sport Markets
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Analysing in-depth data from 11 European countries, this collection explores the rise of the European running market, the reasons and motives for running, and the most important players in the field. The volume sets out policy challenges and marketing possibilities and addresses issues of participation, cost and health.
The Politics of Global AIDS
Institutionalization of Solidarity, Exclusion of Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time. It raises important questions about who benefits, who decides, and in whose interests decisions are made. Taking the early international response to the epidemic as its starting point, and focusing...
The Welfare Trait
How State Benefits Affect Personality
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its own economic and social foundations. In The Welfare Trait, award-winning...
Communalism
A Socio-Political Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2000
Communal Riots have been a complete problem for our politicians, thinkers, scholars and administrators alike. Before formulating any strategy or an effective policy,to keep on the aim to control in the meance of communal riots e is of dire necessity. This study has the same noble motive.
Refugee Law in India
The Road from Ambiguity to Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This book considers refugee protection mandates and addresses how legal scholarship can articulate a comprehensive and humane response to the contemporary refugee problem. Analyzing philosophical discourses and India’s policies and practices on refugee protection, including judgments of Indian...
Population and Family in the Low Countries 1994
Selected Current Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
EDITORS NIDI, P.O. Box 11650, 2502 AR The Hague, The Netherlands CBGS, Markiesstraat 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium This volume is the tenth edition in the series "Population and Family in the Low Countries". It is published by the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demo graphic Institute (NIDI,...
NEGROS, PARDOS E POBRES NAS UNIVERSIDADES
MITOS ROMPIDOS; NOVOS DESAFIOS POLÍTICOS-EDUCACIONAIS
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 2, 2015
(a5,141p.) - Segundo uma pesquisa da UFF Tereza Olinda Caminha Bezerra, em sua tese de doutoramento defendida em 2011-UFF, ao longo da década de 90, período em que ainda não eram cotas para negros, pardos "Em 1997 apenas 2,2% dos pardos e 1,8% dos negros, entre 18 e 24 anos cursavam ou já...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The contributions are uniformly well written and reflect the larger social implications of the research undertaken. The book will be useful for a broad array of courses on...
Trust, Voice, and Incentives
Learning from Local Success Stories in Service Delivery in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
This report examines the role of incentives, trust, and engagement as critical determinants of service delivery performance in MENA countries. Focusing on education and health, the report illustrates how the weak external and internal accountability undermines policy implementation and service delivery...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at all stages must work at an intersection...