Laporan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan 2021 menggambarkan kemajuan negara-negara dalam mencapai SDG dan menunjukkan bidang-bidang yang membutuhkan kemajuan lebih cepat. Skor Indeks SDG keseluruhan dan skor untuk masing-masing SDG dapat diartikan sebagai persentase dari kinerja yang optimal. Oleh karena itu, perbedaan antara skor suatu negara dan 100 adalah jarak, dalam poin persentase, yang perlu di…
Seperti tahun-tahun sebelumnya, dasbor dan profil negara untuk negara-negara OECD (Organisasi Kerja Sama dan Pembangunan Ekonomi) menyertakan metrik tambahan yang tidak tersedia untuk negara-negara non-anggota OECD.Dasbor tren SDG menunjukkan apakah suatu negara berada di jalur yang tepat untuk mencapai tujuan tertentu pada tahun 2030, berdasarkan kinerjanya baru-baru ini pada indikator yang di…
This book provides a critical analysis of The European Union’s regulatory framework for mobile payments and bitcoin. Chapters discuss the creation of the EU single market for e-payments and combine legal analysis with comparative case studies in their exploration of the regulatory challenges surrounding e-payments. The contributing authors analyse the key economic and legal issues of the deve…
Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the ‘Post-Washington Consensus,’ were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure.
We are indebted to colleagues around the world in the volcanological community who have generated the contemporary understanding of volcanoes on which this book draws. We are very grateful to colleagues and reviewers, including Dave Ramsey, Victoria Avery and Christina Neal of the US Geological Survey, for their valued input and suggestions, which greatly improved this book.
Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755, and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes.
Collaboration-based approaches to healthcare improvement attract much attention. They involve networks of people coming together to cooperate around a common interest, with shared goals of improving care and mutual learning. Longstanding examples of collaborative approaches have been associated with some success in improving outcomes and reducing harm.
Many healthcare improvement approaches originated in manufacturing, where end users are framed as consumers. But in healthcare, greater recognition of the complexity of relationships between patients, staff, and services (beyond a provider-consumer exchange) is generating new insights and approaches to healthcare improvement informed directly by patient and staff experience.
Existing scholarship has not systematically examined BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) as a rising power de-dollarization coalition, despite the group developing multiple de-dollarization initiatives to reduce currency risk and bypass US sanctions.
Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia.