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  • Japan’s International Cooperation in Education

    History and Prospects

    Edited by Nobuko Kayashima, Kazuo Kuroda, Yuto Kitamura ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book records the history of Japan’s international cooperation in education from the 1950s to 2020. It provides a crucial overview of the nearly 70 years since Japan began engaging in international cooperation in education in order to record and document these efforts that range from basic to higher education to technical and vocational education and training, and the large numbers of people ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development

    Examining the Experiences of Faculty at Leading Universities in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Nobuko Kayashima, Miki Sugimura, Kazuo Kuroda, Yuto Kitamura ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open-access book is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning fields of higher education development and higher education internationalization as it empirically examines the impact of the study abroad experiences of faculty members on individual and institutional development. The research and its outcomes presented here utilize results from a large-scale survey and interviews of faculty ... Read more

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  • Japan

    The Precarious Future

    Edited by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison ...
    Series Book 1 - Possible Futures
    On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake off Japan’s northeast coast triggered a tsunami that killed more than 20,000 people, displaced 600,000, and caused billions of dollars in damage as well as a nuclear meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, was already grappling with recovery from both its own economic recession of the 1990s and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Community

    A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices

    by Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo ...
    Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

    Edited by Kearrin Sims, Nicola Banks, Susan Engel, Paul Hodge, Jonathan Makuwira, Naohiro Nakamura, Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Pichamon Yeophantong ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world’s most pressing global development challenges – including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Development Co-operation Report 2010

    by Collective ...
    The Development Co-operation Report, issued by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), is the key annual reference for statistics and analysis on the latest trends in international aid.With only five years left to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), much remains to be done. The task has become even more challenging given the economic, food and climate change crises of recent ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda

    Contested Collaboration

    Edited by Sachin Chaturvedi, Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebiel, Xiaoyun Li, André de Mello e Souza, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Dorothea Wehrmann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of development. The ... Read more

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  • Embedded Autonomy

    States and Industrial Transformation

    by Peter B. Evans ...
    In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Comparative Governance

    Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing

    by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre ...
    Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and globalization. In this book, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance, arguing that government remains a central actor in governance. By articulating the functionalist ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Gender at Work

    Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations

    by Aruna Rao, Joanne Sandler, David Kelleher, Carol Miller ...
    At a time when some corporate women leaders are advocating for their aspiring sisters to ‘lean in’ for a bigger piece of the existing pie, this book puts the spotlight on the deep structures of organizational culture that hold gender inequality in place. Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations makes a compelling case that transforming the unspoken, informal institutional ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Challenge Of Youth Unemployment In Sril Lanka

    by Vodopivec Milan; Gunatlilaka Ramani; Mayer Markus ...
    Sri Lanka has long been regarded as a model of a successful welfare state in a low-income setting, yet it has not succeeded in creating a suffi cient number of "good jobs" for the increasing number of young people. Hence, young Sri Lankans perceive their country as an unjust and unequal society, in which mainstream institutions have failed to address inequalities in the distribution of resources, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD