Publications
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Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar
(2006)
Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from ...
Spectral Geometry of Partial Differential Operators
(2020)
Access; Differential; Durvudkhan; Geometry; Makhmud; Michael; OA; Open; Operators; Partial; Ruzhansky; Sadybekov; Spectral; Suragan
Chapter 35 Digital Learning for Developing Asian Countries
(2018)
Education – that is, the development of knowledge, skills, and values – is an important means by which to empower individuals in a society. As both a means towards and an outcome of
gaining the capabilities necessary to ...
Chapter 4 Development and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2019)
This paper puts sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development into perspective. While much did not go as hoped for at independence, much of the region has been on a more promising development trajectory since the mid-1990s, ...
Finance Against Poverty: Volume 2
(1997)
Over the last decade, the theory that poverty in the world's poorest regions could be alleviated by providing small loans to micro-entrepreneurs has become increasingly popular. This volume examines the effectiveness of ...
Film in contemporary Southeast Asia
(2012)
This book discusses contemporary film in all the main countries of Southeast Asia, and the social practices and ideologies which films either represent or oppose. It shows how film acquires signification through cultural ...
Politics of Quality in Education
(2018)
The question of quality has become one of the most important framing factors in education and has been of growing interest to international organisations
and national policymakers for decades. Politics of Quality in ...
Chapter 9 Medicine and Improvement in the Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17)
(2018)
In this chapter I examine how Archibald Constable’s Scots Magazine; and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany (1804–17) became a medium for the
promotion of key medical initiatives in early nineteenth-century Edinburgh,
including ...
Renegotiating the Welfare State
(2003)
Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state ...
Partnership at Work
(2006)
The partnership established between the Irish Airports Authority and its trade unions in the mid-1990s was groundbreaking in promoting union and staff involvement in all aspects of company decision-making. This book charts ...