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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development : Starting From the South
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Abstract: At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors'agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localizat...
Private Enterprise in China
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Abstract: The Chinese economy is currently undergoing a profound institutional transformation—a quiet revolution. In a regulated environment geared to the requirements of state-owned enterprises, the successs of the private sector as the main focus for economic ...
Meanings of Public and the Future of Public Services
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Abstract: Critically assessing meanings of the term'public', this book situates the emergence and expansion of'public services'within market-based forms of production and consumption. It highlights the potential for making public services more progressive within...
Breaking Conventions : Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
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Abstract: This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two British, three American – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. In all five marr...
The Making and Circulation of Nordic Models, Ideas and Images
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Abstract: This critical and empirically based volume examines the multiple existing Nordic models, providing analytically innovative attention to the multitude of circulating ideas, images and experiences referred to as'Nordic'. It addresses related paradoxes as...
Cities and Affordable Housing : Planning, Design and Policy Nexus
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Abstract: This book provides a comparative perspective on housing and planning policies affecting the future of cities, focusing on people- and place-based outcomes using the nexus of planning, design and policy. A rich mosaic of case studies features good pract...
Youth in Fiji and Solomon Islands : Livelihoods, Leadership and Civic Engagement
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Abstract: Fiji, Solomon Islands and the wider Pacific region are experiencing a'youth bulge'. As such, the livelihoods pathways of youth in these countries will be a key determinant of their social, political and economic futures. This book looks at the cultural...
Ecosistema de una pandemia. Covid 19, la transformación mundial.
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Abstract: Todos recordaremos el año 2020 como un punto de inflexión en nuestro pasado reciente. La declaración por parte de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) de la COVID-19 como una pandemia en el mes de marzo de ese año configura un nuevo escenario mund...
Stocks for All: People’s Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
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Abstract: Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad historical study of the regu...