Nobody performs better under pressure. The reality is that pressure only makes you do worse. But there are things you can do to diminish its effects on your performance. In How to Perform Under Pressure, Hendrie Weisinger and J. P. Pawliw-Fry explore the science and psychology behind pressure and give empirically tested short-term and long-term solutions to help you overcome its debilitating ef…
This publication presents the key debates that took place in the Economic and Social Council meetings on the theme of the high-level segment of 2005 "Achieving the Internationally Agreed Development Goals, Including those Contained in the Millennium Declaration, as well as Implementing the Outcomes of the Major United Nations Conferences and Summits: Progress Made, Challenges and Opportunities"…
Hazel Henderson provides a survival guide for our ride on the "tiger of change," offering new directions and expanded contexts for creating patterns of operation based on win-win models and a new planetary culture. She provides numerous examples of the new paradigm and outlines concrete steps toward it, including the use of renewable resources and chaos systems theory, the greening of social po…
The role of the state in the economy has always been a controversial issue in public debate, but it has become more so in the last quarter of a century with the rise of neoliberal thinking that preaches the virtues of unregulated markets and recommends de-regulation, opening-up, and privatisation. This push for a minimal, pro-business state, especially in developing countries, has been furth…
Contents: 1. Ad hoc expert group meeting of the secretary-general of UNCTAD: Issues and problems arising from the integration of countries into the multilateral trading system, Geneva, 9-10 April 2001. 2. General issues in WTO accessions. 3. Tariffs, agriculture and other issues. etc.
Contents: Section one : The big future Section two : Building and protecting sustainable communities Section three : Reforming the institutions Section four : Organizing, lobbying, networking, negotiating.
An edited collection of essays by a group of international experts and scholars that address the politics and policy of environmental change and sustainable development in East and Southeast Asia. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which foreign policy and international relations theories help explain eco-politics and sustainable development in the region. Case studies cover e…
This book is a proceeding and has content: 1. Session 1: Pursuing growth objectives after the crisis 2. Session 2: Monetary policy trade-offs in an open economy 3. Session 3: Achieving financial stability in periods of monetary policy divergence
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The western powers in the period of 1850-1890 and Japan's response to the west 3. The economic liberalization and its impacts 4. The making of the Kogyo Iken: Roles of Matsukata Masayoshi and Maeda etc.
New and emerging technologies can yield a high payoff in catalyzing Africa's transition to sustainable development. Where effective, the new technologies can lower the incidence of disease, reduce food insecurity, and reduce vulnerability to environmental damage by allowing more flexible crop management systems. These are some of the conclusions in harnessing technologies for sustainable dev…