Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development. Contents: 1. Social policy for development : Local, national and global dimensions 2. Poverty, inequality and development: The challenge for social policy 3. Soci…
This book is a New York Times Bestseller. 'Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-terms shifts taking place in full view of the world' - George Friedman. In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future - offering a lucid, highly readable forecast of …
This book tells the story of the seven-year reign of terror by the military junta that took over Greece in 1967 and of the brave resistance groups that fought it. The text reveals how the CIA manipulated Greek politics for its own ends, and how America and England betrayed the Greek nation.
The International trade and Business Law Annual is the official publication of the Australian institute of Foreign and Comparative Law. The Annual includes leading articles, case notes, and comments, as well as book reviews dealing with international trade and business law issues.
This book contains: 1. How is the Indonesian education system financed and managed 2. The "20 percent rule": Where did resources go? 3. How have outcomes changed? the unfinished agenda for equity and quality education 4. Improving the quality of spending on basic education 5. A framework for action: Policy options for improving the quality of spending
In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures, and he shows why a balance between progress and the preservation of…
Don't They Know it's Friday? has been the definitive guide to business culture and etiquette in the Gulf since it was first published in 1998. This exciting and informative book has been reprinted thirteen times. Motivate Publishing is now releasing a new edition fully updated with new information, maps and illustrations. This modern and enlarged second edition is packed with remarkable insight…
The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective response when the markets finally seized up. Drawing on his academic expertise, his years spent …
In this large-scale ISEAS study, Razeen Sally looks at Southeast Asia in the World Trade Organization, against the background of national trade policy trends post-Asian crisis, sluggish ASEAN economic integration, and the recent high-speed proliferation of bilateral and regional trade negotiations. ASEAN co-operation in the WTO has broken down, with little prospect of revival. Nevertheless, Sal…
This book contains about: - Opportunities for and limitations to technological leapfrogging - Perspectives for the international technology system: The challenge ahead for newly industrializing countries etc.