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Global Pandemic and Human Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Global Pandemic and Human Security

This book highlights how the human security aspect has been affected by the global pandemic, based on the specific case study, field data, and evidence. COVID-19 has exemplified that the pandemic is global, but its responses are local. The responses depend on national governance and policy framework, use of technology and innovation, and people’s perceptions and behavior, among many others. There are many differences in how the pandemic has affected the rich and the poor, urban and rural sectors, development and fiscal sectors, and developed and developing nations and communities.Echoing human security principles, the 2030 Agenda emphasized a “world free of poverty, hunger, disease and w...

Systems Thinking for Global Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Systems Thinking for Global Health

How can systems-thinking contribute to solving key challenges in Global Health? Global Health is an evolving field operating within a complex interaction of political, environmental, economic, and socio-cultural factors. Any work on the subject needs to reflect current developments and be supported by a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach that retains a focus on the underpinning determinants of health. This book reflects the importance of applying a systems-thinking approach to Global Health challenges: one that examines both the individual elements within the system as well as the interrelationships between them and wider contextual patterns. Bringing together a global and multidiscip...

Developing Country Perspectives on Public Service Delivery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Developing Country Perspectives on Public Service Delivery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

The book examines the status of public service in developing countries, in the sectors of health, infrastructure, labour and marginalized populations, rural economy and public administration. The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like South Africa, Philippines, India and Malaysia. At the forefront of this movement has been the public sector reforms significantly driven by two broad factors: public sector inefficiencies and liberal economic ideology. This move towards efficient public service delivery in developing nations (versus developed nations) has required a significant shift in institutional thinking and institutional capac...

Workers and Margins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Workers and Margins

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book focuses on informal workers and margins and seeks to advance the discourse on the concepts of ‘work’, ‘workers’ and ‘margins’. By largely focusing on informal, non-formal and non-industrial sector workers where unionism, collective bargaining, and labour laws have little influence, the book promotes approaches to understanding alternate worker politics and organising practices. As such, it presents an alternative to conventional approaches to understanding workers in management and organisation studies. The book draws attention to the mechanisms of erasure implicit in disciplinary and governmental practices that allow the worker to remain invisible. By making the worker...

Informal Economy and Sustainable Development Goals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 433

Informal Economy and Sustainable Development Goals

What role does the informal economy have to play in SDG implementation? The chapters collected here by a range of scholars explore this question in detail; examining case studies and presenting empirical evidence based on both qualitative and quantitative assessment.

Perspectives on Knowledge Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Perspectives on Knowledge Management

In an effort to integrate the thought processes of prominent scholars in the field of Knowledge Management (KM), editors I V Malhan and Shivarama Rao K have selected contributions from these scholars and encapsulated them in a single volume. Compiled primarily to make information professionals and knowledge workers aware of the growing diversity and importance of KM, the comprehensive coverage provided in Perspectives on Knowledge Management will contribute to better understanding of the evolving and significant field of KM. Consisting of five sections divided into 28 chapters, each essay was selected based on careful review of its suitability to the theme, as well as the experience and cont...

AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism

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Development of MSMEs in Developing Countries Stories from Asia, Africa and Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Development of MSMEs in Developing Countries Stories from Asia, Africa and Latin America

Development of MSMEs in Developing Countries Stories from Asia, Africa and Latin Americas an excellent reference book of Economics and Business Study. It is a best book for researchers and person, who belongs to Economics and Business Study.

Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Development

The book will be of interest to South Asian studies departments across the globe looking at how India/South Asia are tackling sustainable development and related growth challenges. Sustainable development is an emerging interdisciplinary field with international appeal as many of these problems are trans-boundary in nature - global climate change, greenhouse gas, for example. International organizations and institutes working in this field and in India including United Nations, World Resources Institute, World Wide Fund for nature, and International Institute for Sustainable Development and others will be interested in this volume

Seduced and Betrayed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Seduced and Betrayed

The contributors to this multidisciplinary volume consider the origins, evolution, and outcomes of microfinance from a variety of perspectives and contend that it has been an unsuccessful approach to development.