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The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance = Insights from Ethio…
This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. The lessons learned from the informal credit markets in Ethiopia and South Africa indicate that pluralism offers better opportunities for people to access affordable and susta…
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- 9783031716539
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- VII, 160 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Future of Third Sector Research = From Theory to Definitions, Classificat…
The volume discusses the current state of international comparative Third Sector research and potential avenues for future development of the field. Building on seminal work by Helmut Anheier and Lester Salamon, the volume provides necessary updates to ensure further Third Sector research is relevant and impactful due to the changing landscape of international relations and the way that the Thi…
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- 9783031678950
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- VI, 269 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer dep…
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- 978-1-137-55833-6
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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The Educational Turn = Rethinking the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in…
This open access book explores how educational researchers working at the edges of innovations in languages and literacies, leadership, assessment, social and cultural transformation, and pedagogies rethink the educational turn in new sites. It engages with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) for educational researchers to redefine ways of knowing about learning post-COVID and deepe…
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- 9789811989513
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- XX, 233 ill; hlm
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Audacious Education Purposes = How Governments Transform the Goals of Educati…
This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland…
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- 9783030418823
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- X, 250 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Mobilitäts- und Transportrecht in Europa = Bestandsaufnahme und Zukunftspers…
Dieser Open Access Band beleuchtet den weit über die wissenschaftliche Community hinaus diskutierten Bereich der Personen- und Gütermobilität aus einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Perspektiven. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch seinen interdisziplinären Ansatz aus: neben rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen werden auch Aspekte aus Verkehrswirtschaft, Technik sowie nachhaltiger Verkehrspolitik beleuchtet…
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- 9783662636350
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- VIII, 293 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 2
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Guardians of Public Value = How Public Organisations Become and Remain Instit…
This open access book presents case studies of twelve organisations which the public have come to view as institutions. From the BBC to Doctors Without Borders, from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra to CERN, this volume examines how some organisations rise to prominence and remain in high public esteem through changing and challenging times. It builds upon the scholarly tradition of instit…
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- 9783030517014
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- XIII, 353 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Resiliente Infrastrukturen = Perspektiven und Handlungsempfehlungen für ein …
Störungen, Krisen und Katastrophen stellen immer weniger die Ausnahme dar. Vielmehr werden und sind sie Teil unseres Alltags. Die Resilienz der Infrastrukturen zu stärken ist daher eine essenzielle Aufgabe unserer Zeit. Der vorliegende Sammelband betrachtet branchen- sowie ressortübergreifend die komplexer werdenden Rahmenbedingungen, mit denen unsere Gesellschaft konfrontiert ist. Die Beson…
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- 9783503238439
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- 350 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Lives in Peace Research = The Oslo Stories
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, Ingrid Eide, and Mari Holmboe Ruge, who founded the institute back in 1959, tell the stories of their roles in inventing and developing peace research. They reflect on their p…
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- 9789811647178
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- XX, 508 ill; lamp
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- 3
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The Nexus Between Legal Pluralism and Inclusive Finance = Insights from Ethio…
This open access book provides detailed information on informal credit markets in Africa and how various legal systems affect these markets. Laws that impose strict formalism exclude many people from the financial system. The lessons learned from the informal credit markets in Ethiopia and South Africa indicate that pluralism offers better opportunities for people to access affordable and susta…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031716539
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- VII, 160 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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