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Poor Poverty : The Impoverishment of Analysis, Measurement and Policies
This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. It is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s, poverty r…
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- 9781849664523
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- 330
Youth and the Politics of the Present : Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence
Youth and the Politics of the Present presents a range of topical sociological investigations into various aspects of the everyday practices of young adults in different European contexts. Indeed, this volume provides an original and provocative investigation of various current central issues surrounding the effects of globalization and the directions in which Western societies are steering the…
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- 9780429198267
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- 330
Digital Transformation and Public Services : Societal Impacts in Sweden and B…
Through a series of studies, the overarching aim of this book is to investigate if and how the digitalization/digital transformation process affects various welfare services provided by the public sector, and the ensuing implications thereof. Ultimately, this book seeks to understand if it is conceivable for digital advancement to result in the creation of private/non-governmental alternatives …
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- 9780429319297
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- 330
Social Innovation : Comparative Perspectives
Social Innovation: Comparative Perspectives investigates socio-economic impact. Since it is hard to establish causality and to measure social properties when investigating impact, especially at the level of society, the book narrows down impact to one priority aspect: social innovation – understood as organizations’ capacity to generate novel ideas, ways and means of doing things, of addres…
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- 9781315158020
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Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal: Beyond the …
Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Nuclear Engineering; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Waste Management/Waste Technology; Industrial Pollution Prevention; Nuclear fuel cycle; Environmental radiation; Nuclear transmutation; Accelerator-driven systems (ADS); Nuclear reactor; Radioactive wastes
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- 9783319191683
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- 341
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- 333.71 NAK n
Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory
As the breadth and empirical diversity of entrepreneurship research have increased rapidly during the last decade, the quest to find a "one-size-fits-all" general theory of entrepreneurship has given way to a growing appreciation for the importance of contexts. This promises to improve both the practical relevance and the theoretical rigor of research in this field. Entrepreneurship means diffe…
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Inequality, Polarization and Conflict An Analytical Study
This monograph initially offers a systematic treatment of the theory and methodology of alternative notions of income polarization and related issues. It then goes on to analyze social polarization, ordinal polarization, and the relations between inequality polarization, fractionalization and likelihood of conflicts. Axiomatic approaches to the measurement of polarization from different perspec…
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- 978-981-10-0007-2
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- XI, 137
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- 330 MIT i
Industrialization and Challenges in Asia
This book provides a much-needed review of Asia’s economic growth and its challenges in the context of post-war industrialization. In the early 1990s, the World Bank (1993) recognized eight high-performing Asian economies (HPAEs) (Japan, the Asian tigers, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) and named them the ‘Asian economic miracle’. In the recent past, the term ‘emerging economies’ ha…
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- 978-981-10-0823-8
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- XXIV, 265
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- 330 JAY i
Industrial and Labor Economics Issues in Developing and Transition Countries
This book is an attempt to capture and analyze several idiosyncratic features of industry and labor in the developing world. Available books and graduate-level texts in labor economics largely discuss industrial and labor market situations prevalent in developed countries, where well-defined institutional arrangements and regulations create a very different scope of analysis. The patterns of ch…
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- 978-3-319-12840-5
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- IX, 314
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- 330 KAR i
Migration in Southern Africa: IMISCOE Regional Reader
This open access Regional Reader proposes new ways of theorizing migration in Southern Africa by arguing that traditional western forms of theorizing do not adequately fit the South-South migration context. It explores the existing definitions of a ‘migrant’ with a view to conceptualise a definition which will speak to the complexities, envisioning a more inclusive Southern African region. …
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- 9783030921149, 9783031041051
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- 270
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- IMISCOE Research Series,
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- 325.1 MIG m
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