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Libro dedicado al tema de la inclusión social como base para la política y la gestión pública en el Perú. Recoge las ponencias del VII Seminario de la Reforma del Estado que organiza anualmente la Escuela de Gobierno y Políticas Públicas de la PUCP.
En este volumen se presentan y discuten distintas experiencias de la política pública, en particular de su rama social, con el fin de que la inclusión sea uno de los ejes centrales en la reforma...
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Online discourse has created a new media environment for contributions to public life, one that challenges the social significance of the role of public intellectuals-intellectuals who, whether by choice or by circumstance, offer commentary on issues of the day. The value of such commentary is rooted in the assumption that, by virtue of their training and experience, intellectuals possess knowledge-that they understand what constitutes knowledge with...
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Taxing "sin" is one of the oldest and most persistent forms of selective taxation. Founding Father and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is, said to have imposed a tax on whiskey "before the ink on the US Constitution was dry." Motivated as much by a need to increase revenues as by a desire to do good, politicians often claim that "sin taxes" will fund projects that promote public health as well as curb unhealthy behavior. Yet sin taxes often...
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Policy makers in the People's Republic of China have been experimenting with new approaches to environmental management, resulting in a wide array of policy and program innovations under the broad heading of eco-compensation. Many of these are market-based instruments, particularly payments for ecological services---currently an emerging policy debate regarding the extent to which beneficiaries should pay, and the providers should be compensated---for...
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THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa evoked such intense memories of his resolute struggles against an oil behemoth and a deaf autocratic government. His crusade frames one of the most tumultuous periods of Nigeria's...
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El Plan Estratégico de Turismo de la Mancomunidad de la Canal de Navarrés es una apuesta de ocho municipios para trazar las líneas de trabajo que permitan el diseño participativo de una comarca como territorio de interior de la Comunidad Valenciana. Pretende reforzar su potencial para convertirse en referente turístico en la provincia de Valencia. El plan constituye un instrumento flexible de planificación, destinado a dotar a los municipios...
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This publication provides an update of developments in Pacific economies and explores topical policy issues to date. The 10th edition features policy briefs focusing on the effects of climate change, impacts of natural hazards, income and purchasing power, service delivery, economic empowerment of women, and labor markets in the region.
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The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Transport Strategy 2030 builds on progress made and lessons learned from the CAREC Transport and Trade Facilitation Strategy 2020. It separates trade facilitation from transport and links to the overall CAREC 2030 program in the areas of enhanced connectivity and sustainability. This strategy underscores increasing sustainability and network quality alongside continued construction and rehabilitation...
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This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall. It also identifies successful or promising community-based approaches to dispute resolution that can be useful in urban project design. It uses ADB's Governance policy as a framework for analyzing key...
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Ottawa, lieu de vie français traite des transformations urbaines et des façons pour les francophones d'Ottawa de penser et de construire leur ville, à partir des années 1960, creuset d'idées et d'actions qui moulent encore aujourd'hui la vie française de la capitale.
Issu du Chantier Ottawa, un projet collaboratif et interdisciplinaire, cet ouvrage magistral réunit des
chercheurs qui s'intéressent à l'histoire des institutions francophones...
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This latest energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map for Indonesia highlights energy sector performance, major development constraints, and government development plans and strategy. This report reviews previous support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and other development partners, and outlines ADB's future support strategy in Indonesia's energy sector. This publication provides energy sector background information for ADB investment...
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This report introduces the Global Integration Index, which assesses the progress of globalization across traditional areas, such as trade, investment and institutional arrangements, and includes new areas of digital connectivity and environmental cooperation. Building on ADB's framework to measure progress in regional cooperation and integration, the index confirms Asia's deeper global economic linkages, enabling comparison with other regions and...
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This report presents the findings of an environmental performance assessment that covered the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) during 2006–2016. The GMS Environment Operations Center conducted the assessment, using the driver–pressure–state–impact–response model to examine the consequences of rapid economic development in the subregion, identify the major natural resource and environmental issues, and determine the effectiveness of responses...
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The Ha Noi Action Plan 2018–2022 addresses the unfinished and expanded agenda of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program for the remaining 5 years of the GMS Strategic Framework 2012–2022. The Ha Noi Action Plan provides directions and operational focus to the GMS program and guides identification of projects in transport, urban development, energy, agriculture, environment, tourism, trade facilitation, human resource development,...
95) Accessibility and Active Offer: Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities
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It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading professionals. Accessibility and Active Offer thus combines theory and empirical data to help future professionals understand the workplace issues...
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The Wartime Letters of Leslie and Cecil Frost, 1915–1919 brings to light the correspondence between two officer brothers and their family at home from 1915 to 1919. Despite wartime censorship, Leslie and Cecil wrote frank and forthright letters that show how the young men viewed the war, as well as what they observed both during training and from the trenches in some of the war´s bloodiest battles. The letters also deal with the war´s political...
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El objetivo principal de esta obra es reconstruirlos procesos migratorios que llevaron a los migrantes de la ex Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, a residir en Bucaramanga (Colombia). Así mismo, se indaga sobre la falsa creencia de que en Colombia no existe la inmigración y el vacío en la producción académica frente a este tema, que suele centrarse en quienes dejan el país y no en los que llegan.
Metodológicamente, este estudio...
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This new strategy for transport development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) consists of a strategic framework covering 2018–2030 and a set of performance indicators initially covering 2018–2022. It is mainly a strategic document providing a common framework for GMS cooperation in the transport sector. Cooperation in the transport sector has been at the core of the GMS Economic Cooperation Program since its inception in 1992. The main thrust...
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James M. Buchanan, Nobel Laureate in Economics and one of the premier political economists of the 20th-century, was at the heart of the emergence of public choice theory and the reintroduction of politics to academic economic analysis. Like any great and productive scholar, his body of work includes tensions, flaws, and inconsistencies that must be confronted by scholars looking to engage, critique, and advance his distinctive project in political...
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Asia's population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge. Strengthening pension systems in Asia is therefore a key concern for inclusive development in the region. In many Asian countries, pension systems are still inadequate in terms of both coverage and delivery of stipulated benefits. This is particularly so for smaller economies of Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet...
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