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This original and panoramic book proposes that the underlying forces of demography and globalisation will shortly reverse three multi-decade global trends – it will raise inflation and interest rate……続きを見る

Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der kulturell hegemonialen Rolle der Mittelschichten in westlichen Gesellschaften sowie angesichts zeitdiagnostischer Behauptungen, dass „die M……続きを見る

The cultivation of the vast lowland area of Southern Indochina is the main objective of this project. Take advantage of the waters of the northern half of the subcontinent, mountainous and heavy rai……続きを見る

‘Eighty years ago, New Zealand’s welfare state was envied by many social reformers around the world. Today it stands in need of urgent repair and renewal.’ One of our leading public policy thinkers ……続きを見る

This book conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries and outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for how it could be reimagined. Despite professionalised……続きを見る

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation,……続きを見る

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical……続きを見る

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set global, big-picture targets that nations have committed to attaining. However, unless action is taken at the local level, these targets can never be reac……続きを見る

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the consolidation of the welfare state in the 1940s, and its reshaping in the 2010s, the boundaries between the state, voluntary ac……続きを見る

By explaining the role of evaluation in modern societies and its historical development in the USA and Europe this book highlights the scientific roots of Evaluation and offers an overview of its fu……続きを見る

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing on comparative research from five countries, What Works in Improving Gender Equality provides an accessible analysis of what gende……続きを見る

Following the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2020, and the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, there is increased interest in and a nee……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditions and examines t……続きを見る

In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new momen……続きを見る

What is proposed in this study is to partially empty the lakes of Nicaragua, lowering its level to sea level by opening a simple gap in the isthmus that separates the largest lake from the Pacific O……続きを見る

Si el río Brahmaputra pudiera ser detenido por unos largos diques, de poca altitud, que formasen un estanque de agua que contuviese el caudal anual del gran río (aproximadamente, 300 kilómetros cúbi……続きを見る

Excerpt from the brief of the year 1984: “On the other hand, as the spring floods of the Yangtze were contained, many flooded, lacustrine lands would be exposed, ready for cultivation, so that the t……続きを見る

It's no secret that drug cartels have wreaked havoc upon Mexico, but the examples provided in this book will be unimaginable for the average American citizen. The profits from the drug war have enab……続きを見る

Lo que proponemos consiste en mantener el actual nivel del Caspio, no mediante las aguas del Volga, sino con las del mar. Para ello, hay que poner en comunicación El Negro y el Caspio, abriendo un c……続きを見る

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can public services and social interventions create and sustain good outcomes for the populations they serve? Building on research ……続きを見る

The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough ……続きを見る

The main object of this project is the territory, already in the Amazonian slope, that forms the high part of the Madeira river basin. Here the rainfall is sufficient for the dry land cultivation, t……続きを見る

The future of the Spanish economy is only in the development of the only firm and authentic resource it has: the agriculture. But this development cannot be natural, because the current possibilitie……続きを見る

As is well known, the great Magdalena River forms a huge palustre space, covered with marshes and fertile floods, when approaching the sea. It is an inland delta caused by the presence of a coastal ……続きを見る

Due to the horizontality of the plain and the overabundance of land, a huge waterway can be built, always on the 100-meter coast. If it was 1 km wide and the levees were 10 meters high on the bottom……続きを見る

The proposal is to remove the water mass of the Paraná from the main plain, pouring it into the course of the Uruguay River by its retention at the height of Posadas and its channelling through a ch……続きを見る

O livro analisa a circulação de ideias, a influência e as relações complexas entre as agências multilaterais e a agenda de pesquisas das Ciências Sociais, dando maior atenção para a Sociologia, nos ……続きを見る

A nation with citizen dreaming to see their nation, a super power is great. But these idea about super power is given by leaders. They predict that India will become a super power in the year 2*** .……続きを見る

Overview I love America. But it’s becoming the kind of love you have for a petulant child or an overbearing parent. Abandonment is out of the question and a much needed personality adjustment seems ……続きを見る

Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that……続きを見る