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Charting the Roots of Anti-Chinese Populism in Africa
This book investigates China’s emergence as an outside player in SSA over the last several decades and the current understanding of the impact of Beijing’s growing presence on the continent, including several case studies focused on specific SSA countries. China’s accelerating economic and political engagement with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has gained growing attention in political and aca…
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- 978-3-319-17629-1
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- 337
Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare Essays in Honor of Nick …
The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of social welfare. The topics include individual and collective rationality, motivation and intention in economics, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these fields.
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- 978-3-662-46438-0
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- X, 377
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- 330
Inflation versus Price-Level Targeting Bayesian Estimation of a Small Open D…
Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting rule. The comparison is based on a medium-scale DSGE model which has been estimated based on state-of-the-art Bayesian methods. The model for the Swiss economy is an expanded version of the framework proposed by Galì and Monacelli (2005) as well as Monacelli (2005). It is enr…
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- 978-3-658-08227-7
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- XII, 69
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- 330 INF
Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences Proceedings of t…
The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues.
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- 9781138626768
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Consumer Economic Wellbeing
This timely text overviews theories, concepts, and contexts relating to the emerging field of behavioral economics. Research theories and data gathered across psychology, sociology, marketing, finance, and other relevant disciplines are synthesized to identify and elaborate on the defining aspects of consumer economic wellbeing. Against a background of consumer rights and responsibilities, the …
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- 9781493928217
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Problem-Based Learning for the 21st Century : New Practices and Learning Envi…
Education has become available to everyone with Internet access and the ability to read and write, and the cultural and personal inclination to do so – anywhere, anytime. Monopolies and control systems will gradually break down while new ones are emerging. Moreover, this is experienced by all teachers on a day-to-day basis in a variety of ways. This book is about the struggle of teachers to k…
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- 9788771121179
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- 370 CHR p
The Politics of Access : University Education and Nation Building in Nigeria,…
Access to university education in Africa was inadequate during the colonial period. With independence, various African countries moved away from the elitist colonial education system by embarking on programs designed to provide education to all, regardless of class, ethnicity, or creed. Nowhere in Africa has the question of access to university education reached such a crescendo of concern and …
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- 9781552385807
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Institutional Arrangements for Conservation, Development and Tourism in Easte…
This book presents an overview of different institutional arrangements for tourism, biodiversity conservation and rural poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa. These approaches range from conservancies in Namibia, community-based organizations in Botswana, conservation enterprises in Kenya, private game reserves in South Africa, to sport hunting in Uganda and transfrontier conservatio…
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- 978-94-017-9528-9
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- XX, 265
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- 304 INS
Inspiring STEM Minds Biographies and Activities for Elementary Classrooms
The purpose of this book is to serve as a supplemental reference text for 21st century elementary classrooms. The primary objective is to help teachers inspire and engage their students in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects. The push for incorporating STEM education in elementary school has become increasingly important, yet most educators and publishers have …
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- 978-94-6300-352-0
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- X, 126
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- 370 INS
Opening Up Education : The Collective Advancement of Education through Open T…
Experts discuss the potential for open education tools, resources, and knowledge to transform the economics and ecology of education. Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and r…
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- 9780262033718
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- 500 halaman
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- 370 OPE
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