Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Buku ini membahas tantangan kebijakan utama yang dihadapi Asia berkembang dan bagaimana wilayah ini mempertahankan pertumbuhan ekonomi yang pesat untuk mengurangi kemiskinan multidimensi melalui langkah-langkah yang sosial inklusif dan berkelanjutan secara lingkungan. Asia menghadapi banyak tantangan yang timbul akibat pertumbuhan populasi, urbanisasi yang cepat, penyediaan layanan, perubahan i…

Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia

Pengeluaran publik untuk infrastruktur memainkan peran penting dalam mendorong pertumbuhan ekonomi dan pengentasan kemiskinan. Studi empiris menunjukkan tanpa keraguan bahwa kurangnya investasi dalam infrastruktur membatasi pertumbuhan ekonomi. Pada saat yang sama, banyak studi lain telah menunjukkan bahwa investasi dalam infrastruktur dapat menjadi alat yang sangat efektif dalam memerangi peng…

Vote Buying in Indonesia = The Mechanics of Electoral Bribery

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the impact of vote buying on the accountability of democratic institutions and policy representation in newly democratic countries, with a focus on Indonesia. In doing so, the book presents a wide-ranging study of the dynamics of vote buying in Indonesia’s young democracy, exploring the nature, extent, determinants, t…

The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924 Series: = The Khilafat Movement in…

This title addresses the Khilafat Movement in India, a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims of India to influence the British government not to abolish the Ottoman Caliphate.

The Jewel of Annual Astrology = A Parallel Sanskrit-English Critical Edition …

Authored in 1649 CE by Mughal court astrologer Balabhadra Daivajña, The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology. Martin Gansten’s scholarly edition and translation is the first ever of a Tājika text.

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia

Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their t…

Indian Islamic Architecture : Forms and Typologies, Sites and Monuments

The British scholar John Burton-Page contributed numerous formative articles on Indian Islamic architecture for the Encyclopaedia of Islam over a period of 25 years. Assembled here for the first time, these offer an insightful overview of the subject, ranging from the earliest mosques and tombs erected by the Delhi sultans in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, to the great monuments of the Mugh…

'Incidental' Ethnographers : French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Fr…

This book, connecting the fields of social anthropology and missiology, presents a body of colonial ethnographic writing applied to highland societies in the southern portion of the Mainland Southeast Asian massif. The writers under scrutiny are Catholic priests from the Société des Missions Étrangères de Paris. Their texts from the Upper-Tonkin vicariate, in today's northern Vietnam, are p…

In Search of Middle Indonesia : Middle Classes in Provincial Towns

The post-1998 surge in local politics has moved the provincial town back to centre stage. This book examines the Indonesian middle class (now 43%!) up close in the place where its members are most at home: the town. Middle Indonesia generates national political forces, yet it is neither particularly rich nor geographically central. This is an overwhelmingly lower middle class, a conservative pe…

In Leijdeckers voetspoor : Anderhalve eeuw bijbelvertaling en taalkunde in de…

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978-90-04-28713-6

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xii, 341 pp

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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 82

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