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Public Budgeting Reform in China: Theory and Practice
Sejak reformasi dan keterbukaan Tiongkok dimulai pada tahun 1978, negara ini telah mengalami kemajuan signifikan dalam jalur sosialisme berkarakter Tiongkok di bawah kepemimpinan Partai Komunis Tiongkok. Upaya reformasi dan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang berkelanjutan selama lebih dari 30 tahun telah mengubah Tiongkok menjadi negara dengan perekonomian terbesar kedua di dunia dan membawa banyak perub…
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- 978-3-662-47776-2
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- Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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Health care turning point: Why single payer won't work
In the battle over health care reform we can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas—or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues that the conventional wisdom that dominates health policy debates is out of date. Battistella takes on popular misconceptions about the advantages of single-paye…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 165 pages)
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Reforming Rules and Regulations: Laws, Institutions, and Implementation
Contributors examine how regulatory & institutional environments affect the functioning of markets & propose reforms, arguing that quantitative methods should be used to guide policy & to reform rules & regulations. These essays offer methodologies for the assessment of policy alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289412
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- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Business and Security Sector Reform the Case for Corporate Security Respons…
Challenges to security and human rights involving extractive and other industries are addressed in a framework known as business and human rights (BHR), which shares many challenges and goals with SSR. This paper describes the grounds where BHR and SSR coincide in principles, actors and activities and which synergies can be built on that base. Opportunities for bridging BHR and SSR are drawn fr…
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Activists under surveillance :the FBI files
Selections from FBI files on political activists including Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, Martin Luther King, Aaron Swartz, and Malcolm X. The FBI has always kept tabs on political activists. During the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover, it was a Bureau-wide obsession. Did you see that guy who didn't quite look like a journalist, taking pictures at a demonstration He was probably FBI. Did you say …
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- 9780262356381
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- 1 online resource (392 pages).
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Our selfish tax laws :toward tax reform that mirrors our better selves
Most of us think of tax as a pocketbook issue: how much we owe, how much we'll get back, how much we can deduct. In Our Selfish Tax Laws, Anthony Infanti takes a broader view, considering not just how taxes affect us individually but how the tax system reflects our culture and society. He finds that American tax laws validate and benefit those who already possess power and privilege while stark…
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- 9780262347532
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Transforming Institutions : Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
"Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them competitive in the 21st-century workplace. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that many global issues will require creative and critical thinking deeply rooted in the technical STEM (science, tec…
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A Task for Sisyphus : Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail
Despite the increasing number of policy measures and initiatives targeting the Roma in Europe, their position has continued to worsen, which requires answers from policymakers, activists and academics. The author sums up why Roma policies fail on European and national levels as follows: failure to define the target group; to provide good information and data; to establish a mechanism for effect…
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- 380 halaman
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The State, Business and Education : Public-Private Partnerships Revisited
The State, Business and Education contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding the effects of public funding of private entities by examining the ways in which they affect the quality and equity of those services, and the realization of human rights. Using case studies from both the developing and developed world this book illustrates the variety of ways in which private actors have expanded …
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- 208 halaman
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- NORRAG Series on International Education and Development
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- 370 STA
Systemic School Improvement Interventions in South Africa : Some Practical Le…
Looking at two smaller-scale systemic school improvement projects implemented in selected district circuits in the North West and Eastern Cape by partnerships between government, JET Education Services, and private sector organisations, this book captures and reflects on the experiences of the practitioners involved. The Systemic School Improvement Model developed by JET to address an identifie…
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