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| Author | : Nadine Reis |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 3643901968 |
Lack of access to clean water is an urgent problem in developing countries, including Vietnam. This book investigates the 'everyday politics' of domestic water supply and sanitation in the rural Mekong Delta. It offers new theoretical perspectives on policy-making in Vietnam, as well as the cultural aspects of globalization. The book shows that policy practices have to be understood as mechanisms for the (re-)production of a political order, manifest in the cultural and social properties of the Vietnamese state. It provides a critical perspective on donor support to Vietnamese water policy and practice. (Series: ZEF Development Studies - Vol. 20)
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| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0821368915 |
"Analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms plays an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing and transitional countries, promoting evidence-based policy choices and fostering debate on policy reform options. International agencies and national partners are increasingly encouraging a more systematic application of policy reform analysis. Requisite to a systematic application is capacity building within countries as well as within donor agencies." "Tools for Institutional, Political, and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A Sourcebook for Development Practitioners contributes to this agenda by introducing a framework and a set of practical tools that analyze the institutional, political, and social dimensions of policy design and implementation. The authors fill a perceived gap in knowledge of the application of social tools and complement existing guidance on conventional economic analysis of distributional impacts of reform." "This book will be of interest to commissioners and practitioners working in policy analysis in a range of areas - including macroeconomic, sectoral, and public sector policy - that are subject to ongoing policy reform discussions."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Zdenka |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2014-04-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3838261739 |
Informal relations have been one of the major research topics of the social sciences since the 1990s. In order to allow for meaningful comparisons between different combinations of the positive and negative effects of informal relations on democratic representation, this book focuses on post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe as a particular region where formal democratic rules have been established, but competing informal rules are still strong. A broad spectrum of related analytical concepts is discussed from different perspectives and from different academic disciplines, then empirical cases of the relationship between informal relations and democratic representation are analyzed. The contributions span the whole continuum, as we perceive it, from civil society networks seen as supporting democratic representation to the perversion of democratic representation through political corruption. The final part of the book takes a closer look at corruption through four case studies from Russia.
| Author | : Ben Ramalingam |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 471 |
| Release | : 2013-10-24 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0199578028 |
Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' verses 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid could be transformed into a truly dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Eva Schiffer and Douglas Waale |
| Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-07-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781020452789 |
Networks are everywhere, and understanding how power and influence flow through them is vital for success in today's interconnected world. In this groundbreaking book, Schiffer and Waale introduce readers to the Net-Map tool and provide a step-by-step guide for using it to map out networks and identify key players. Packed with real-world examples and actionable insights, this book is a must-read for researchers, strategists, and anyone looking to gain a competitive edge. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
| Author | : Jianying Zhou |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 630 |
| Release | : 2022-09-23 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 3031168151 |
This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite workshops held around the 20th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2022, held in Rome, Italy, in June 2022. Due to the Corona pandemic the workshop was held as a virtual event. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They stem from the following workshops: – AIBlock: 4th ACNS Workshop on Application Intelligence and Blockchain Security – AIHWS: 3rd ACNS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security – AIoTS: 4th ACNS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial IoT Security – CIMSS: 2nd ACNS Workshop on Critical Infrastructure and Manufacturing System Security – Cloud S&P: 4th ACNS Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy – SCI: 3rd ACNS Workshop on Secure Cryptographic Implementation – SecMT: 3rd ACNS Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies – SiMLA: 4th ACNS Workshop on Security in Machine Learning and its Applications
| Author | : Marco Ferroni, Mercedes Mateo, and Mark Payne |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : David Coady, Paul Dorosh, and Bart Minten |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Higher world food prices have led many developing countries to adopt policies to mitigate the impact on low-income households. This article sets out a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the efficiency, distributional, and revenue implications of alternative policy responses. The model is applied to evaluate tariff reductions and targeted transfers in Madagascar. Although lowering tariffs generates substantial efficiency gains, these accrue mainly to the top half of the welfare distribution, and poor net sellers are actually worse off. Developing a system of targeted direct transfers to poor households is likely to be a substantially more cost-effective approach to poverty alleviation.
| Author | : Michael Johnson |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Bernard Amadei |
| Publisher | : Momentum Press |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2015-09-14 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 160650519X |
This book makes the case for a systems approach to small-scale community development projects. It specifically looks at the application of one branch of systems science, called system dynamics, to develop conceptual models of small-scale communities and address specific issues they might be facing at different scales. A systems approach recognizes that, by definition, communities are complex adaptive systems consisting of multiple subsystems and parts (e.g., individuals, institutions, and infrastructure) that are interconnected, driven by some purpose, follow certain rules, and interact with each other and with their surrounding environment. In order to address community issues and problems, complexity and uncertainty must be embraced and dealt with. Inside, the author emphasizes and shows how to include a system- and complexity-aware approach in the different phases of small-scale community project management. Adopting this approach comes with unique challenges such as dealing with ill-defined problems, considering uncertainty, recognizing that no unique and best solutions to complex problems exist, and accepting satisficing solutions. The text demonstrates the need for community development practitioners to integrate in all stages of their projects: participation, systems thinking, continuous reflection-in-action, and a combination of critical and creative tools.
