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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 ...
The biology of the first 1000 days
(2018)
The first 1,000 days, from conception to 2 years of age, is a critical window of growth and development. Exposures to dietary, environmental, hormonal, and other stressors
during this period have been associated with an ...
Chapter 8 A European field of public administration?
(2019)
The European Union started to coordinate and harmonise the asylum policies of
their Member States in 1999 within a common ‘area of freedom, security and
justice’, as stipulated by the Treaty of Amsterdam. However, the ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
Introduction: This introduction provides the rationale and theoretical anchoring for the volume and its focus on aparadigmatic cases. It argues that practice and scholarship in paradigmatic transitional justice contexts ...
Chapter 1 Sailing on Cold War Tides
(2022)
Africa, Cape of Good Hope, maritime security, naval history, piracy, Suez Canal
Early Childhood Teachers‘ Professional Competence in Mathematics
(2021)
This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on the professional competence of early childhood mathematics teachers. It considers professional knowledge, motivational-affective dispositions, skills and performance in ...
Chapter 2 Freedom of speech in the age of digitalisation
(2022)
The author analyses one of the ‘Four Freedoms’—the freedom of speech—which is closely connected to political rights. Digitalisation has created a number of opportunities for ‘speech’ and reduced the barriers in human ...
Chapter Introduction
(2022)
This volume examines the perception of the French principle of laïcité or secularism and attempts to demonstrate to English-speaking readers that the configurations of the French model of laïcité are both more flexible and ...
Chapter 3 The Gender of the Cartesian Mind, Body, and Mind-Body Union
(2019)
The turn of the millennium has been marked by new developments in the study of early modern philosophy. In particular, the philosophy of René Descartes has been reinterpreted in a number of important and exciting ways, ...
Chapter 11 We are similar, but different in writing curriculum and instruction
(2021)
Here we present our analyses and inferences arising from the data in the cases, representing countries whose educational systems are diverse: Chile, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, England, the United ...