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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789401704854
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 278 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy and science. ; Philosophy, modern ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: -Selected papers on Renaissance philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes offers the best work in these fields by the acclaimed historian of philosophy, Karl Schuhmann (1941-2003), displaying the extraordinary range and depth of his unique scholarship, -Topics covered include Renaissance philosophy of nature; the development of the notion of time in early modern philosophy; Telesio's concept of space; Hermetic influences on Pico, Patrizi and Hobbes; Hobbes's Short Tract; Spinoza and Hobbes; Hobbes's political philosophy, -This book brings together, in chronological arrangement, twelve papers. Though these were published before in some form, several were not easily accessible so far, -All articles have been edited in accordance with the author's wishes, and incorporate his later additions and corrections
    Description / Table of Contents: Francis Bacon und Hobbes’ Widmungsbrief zu De CiveGedankenschnelle und Himmelsflug: einige hermetische Motive bei Hobbes -- Methodenfragen bei Spinoza und Hobbes: zum Problem des Einflusses -- Zur Entstehung des neuzeitlichen Zeitbegriffs: Telesio, Patrizi, Gassendi -- Telesio’s Concept of Matter -- Le concept de l’espace chez Telesio -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola und der Hermetismus: Vom Mitstreiter zum Gegner -- Francesco Patrizi und die hermetische Philosophie -- La notion de loi chez Hobbes -- Hobbes and the Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle -- Hobbes und Gassendi -- Le Short Tract, première œuvre philosophique de Hobbes -- Karl Schuhmann - Bibliography (December 2003).
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789401090469
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 434p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Mathematics ; Education ; Electrical engineering.
    Abstract: Among organizations devoted to mathematics education, The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is distinctive because of its close ties to the mathematics community. The great challenges now facing mathematics education around the world demand a deeper and more sensitive involvement of disciplinary mathematicians than we now have, both in the work of educational improvements and in research on the nature of teaching and learning. This book constitutes the Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Mathematical Education (ICME9), which was held in Tokyo/Makuhari Japan, in July and August 2000. ICME9 brought together experts from 70 countries, working to understand the challenges of mathematics education including boundary crossing and collaboration, such as the need to reconcile language, epistemology, norms of evidence and, in general, all of the intellectual and attitudinal challenges that face multidisciplinary research and development
    Description / Table of Contents: International Round Table: The Role of Mathematics in General Education for the 21st CenturyPlenary Lectures -- Regular Lectures -- Working Groups for Action -- Topic Study Groups -- Presentation by Distribution and Reports on Working Groups -- ICMI Studies -- Affiliated Study Groups -- List of Participants.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789401756167
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (LXXIV, 1017 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Law ; Constitutional law
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9789401756006
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIV, 287 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Developments in International Law
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Regional planning ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; History ; Ethnology. ; Culture.
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    ISBN: 9789401717311
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 790 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Linguistics ; Consciousness ; Applied linguistics ; Education. ; Cognitive psychology.
    Abstract: The Handbook of Children’s Literacy provides a unique collection of papers, offering a multi-perspective, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding alphabetic literacy. The analyses at word, text and cultural levels offer an integrative view of literacy. Basic research, theoretical advances, investigations in the classroom, analyses of literacy acquisition by readers with special needs, cross-linguistic comparisons and a historical and cultural perspective will enrich the understanding of literacy of academics and practitioners alike. This is a rare opportunity to consider literacy in breadth and depth by consulting a single collection. The contributing authors are distinguished experts in their domain of investigation, teacher educators and teachers in sixteen different countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Al. Childhood Conceptions of LiteracyA2. Phonology and Spelling -- A3. Linguistic Processes in Reading and Spelling: The Case of Alphabetic Writing Systems: English, French, German and Spanish -- A4. Connectionist Models of Children’s Reading -- A5. Morphology and Spelling -- A6. Children’s Self-Perception as Readers -- B1. The Development of Comprehension Skills -- B2. Text and Cognition -- B3. The Use of Context in Learning to Read -- B4. Reading Stories -- B5. Computers and Writing -- Cl. Reading and Spelling Difficulties -- C2. The Concept of Dyslexia -- C3. Developmental Dyslexia: Evidence from Brain Research -- C4. Epidemiology: Genetic and Social Influences on Reading Ability -- C5. Reading Comprehension Difficulties -- C6. Early Identification -- C7. Early Intervention -- C8. Individual Differences in Dyslexia -- C9. Specific Speech and Language Difficulties and Literacy -- C10. Reading by Touch in Blind Children and Adults -- C11. Deafness and Reading -- Introduction: Teaching Literacy: What Practices, When and Why? -- D1. Literacy in Time and Space: Issues, Concepts and Definitions -- D2. Teaching Reading: A Historical Approach -- D3. The Cognitive Consequences of Literacy -- D4. Comparative Studies of Instructional Methods -- D5. Early Emergent Literacy -- D6. The Linguistic Consequences of Literacy -- El. Phonological Awareness and Learning to Read: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective -- E2. Morphology, Reading and Spelling: Looking Across Languages -- E3. Bilingualism and Reading -- E4. Grammatical Awareness Across Languages and the Role of Social Context: Evidence from English and Hebrew -- E5. Literacy, Socialisation and the Social Order -- E6. Segmentation in the Writing of Mayan Language Statements by Indigenous Children with Primary Schooling -- E7. Paths to Literacy for Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) Users.
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  • 6
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401755962
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 242 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Law—Philosophy. ; Law
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  • 7
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
    ISBN: 9789401761727
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 382 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9781402021244
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIII, 148 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Oncology ; Ethics ; Nursing. ; Medical ethics. ; Cancer research.
    Abstract: The intention behind this anthology is to continue and deepen the discussion about the sedation of dying patients. Those who have contributed constitute a mixture of distinguished bioethicists and doctors and nurses with experience of terminal sedation, some of them in favour of, and others in strong opposition to, voluntary euthanasia. They give their view on terminal sedation by answering questions such as: "Is terminal sedation euthanasia in disguise?", "Should terminal sedation be a part of standard palliative care?", "Should terminal sedation be provided at the patient's request?" This is the first book devoted exclusively to this subject. It does not give the final verdict, but it does contain strong defences by very competent thinkers of the most important and influential positions. It has been published in the hope that it will provoke further thought and discussion. This volume is of interest to students, teachers and professionals working in palliative medicine and medical ethics
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Palliative Options of Last Resort2. Terminal Sedation A Substitute for Euthanasia ? -- 3. Sedation - Unconsciousness - Anaesthesia! What are We Talking About? -- 4. Sedation in Palliative Care - The Doctor’s Perspective -- 5. Terminal Sedation: A Nursing Perspective -- 6. Why Terminal Sedation Is No Solution to the Voluntary -- 7. Terminal Sedation From a Moral Right’s Perspective -- 8. Terminal Sedation and Sanctity-of-Life in Medicine -- 9. Terminal Sedation and the Artefactual Fallacy -- 10. Terminal Sedation: Different Practices, Different Evaluations -- 11. The Sanctity-of-Life and the Active/Passive Distinction.
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  • 9
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 1904339204 , 9781904339205
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (366 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: This compact but comprehensive exposé of the best international practical experience in catastrophe risk management at the country level outlines the key challenges involved in building national catastrophe insurance schemes. Clearly illustrates how countries exposed to natural disasters can manage their catastrophe risk exposures to reduce the cost of risk for national economies by following the classical corporate risk management model. Contains valuable practical insights for risk and insurance professionals, and government policy makers on the key challenges involved in designing a successful national catastrophe risk management programme. Offers innovative insights of the foremost academics in the area alongside practical expertise from leading international reinsurance and risk professionals, based on their experience of running some of the largest catastrophe risk programmes worldwide. Demonstrates the importance of public-private partnerships in catastrophe risk financing by suggesting the roles of government and private risk markets. In addition to risk financing, this title uniquely covers the role of risk reduction and prevention in disaster prone countries. Examines the best international practices at each stage of catastrophe risk management including: country risk assessments and risk modelling, risk transfer products as well as optimal institutional arrangements for national catastrophe risk management, including national reinsurance and insurance pools
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    ISBN: 1552501140 , 9781552501146
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (384 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Abstract: Fish species that migrate within the great rivers of South America support important local fisheries but are little known outside their native range. This book, written specially for the World Bank and the International Development Research Centre, represents the first collection of the work of local scientific experts on these remarkable fish. The authors cover the Upper Paraná, Paraguay-Paraná, Uruguay and São Francisco basins in Brazil, as well as the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon. They discuss not only the principal migratory species and their fascinating relationship with the water cycle in the rivers and wetlands, but also the fisheries they support, and their often precarious conservation status
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 0821356828 , 9780821356821
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (288 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: World Development Report
    Abstract: Firms and entrepreneurs of all types-from microenterprises to multinationals-play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions drive job creation, the availability and affordability of goods and services for consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw on to fund health, education, and other services. Their contribution depends largely on the way governments shape the investment climate in each location-through the protection of property rights, regulation and taxation, strategies for providing infrastructure, interventions in finance and labor markets, and broader governance features such as corruption. The World Development Report 2005 argues that improving the investment climates of their societies should be a top priority for governments. Drawing on surveys of nearly 30,000 firms in 53 developing countries, country case studies, and other new research, the Report explores questions such as: What are the key features of a good investment climate, and how do they influence growth and poverty? What can governments do to improve their investment climates, and how can they go about tackling such a broad agenda? What has been learned about good practice in each of the main areas of the investment climate? What role might selective interventions and international arrangements play in improving the investment climate? What can the international community do to help developing countries improve the investment climates of their societies? In addition to detailed chapters exploring these and related issues, the Report contains selected data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World Development Indicators 2004-an appendix of economic and social data for over 200 countries. This Report offers practical insights for policymakers, executives, scholars, and all those with an interest in economic development
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  • 12
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 0821357557
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 80 p) , ill , 26 cm.
    Additional Material: 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    DDC: 333.75
    Keywords: World Bank ; World Bank ; Forest policy ; Forests and forestry Economic aspects ; Sustainable development ; Forest policy ; Forests and forestry Economic aspects ; Sustainable development ; World Bank ; Forest policy ; Forests and forestry ; Sustainable development ; Economic aspects
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-73)
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 0821359444 , 9780821359440
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (220 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: International Finance Corporation Annual Report
    Abstract: IFC shares the primary objective of all World Bank Group institutions: to reduce poverty and improve the lives of people in its developing member countries. Since 1956, IFC has committed more than
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 0821359711 , 9780821359716
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (128 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
    Abstract: Contents of Volume 2: Letter of Transmittal, Management's Discussion and Analysis, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Financial Statements and Internal Control Reports, and Special Purpose Financial Statements and Internal Control Reports of the International Development Association
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 0821357476 , 9780821357477
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (172 p.))
    Edition: Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Global Economic Prospects
    Abstract: The proliferation of regional trade agreements is fundamentally altering the world trade landscape. The number of agreements in force surpasses 200 and has risen eight-fold in two decades. Today as much as 40 percent of global trade takes place among countries that have some form of reciprocal regional trade agreement. Global Economic Prospects 2005: Trade, Regionalism, and Development addresses two questions: What are the characteristics of agreements that most promote-or hinder-development for member countries? Does the proliferation of agreements pose risks to the multilateral trading system, and if so, how can these risks be managed? The report argues that agreements leading to open regionalism-that is, deeper integration of trade as a result of low external tariffs, increased services competition, and efforts to reduce cross-border and customs delays costs-are effective as part of a larger trade strategy to promote growth. Such regional agreements can complement a strategy that, on the one hand, includes autonomous liberalization to promote productivity gains and, on the other hand, leverages domestic reforms to enhance market access. Although regional agreements can prove beneficial to member countries, they can have adverse effects on excluded countries. Lowering of border barriers around the world is crucial to minimizing these effects. The completion of the Doha Development Agenda by all countries in the World Trade Organization will reduce the risk of trade diversion associated with regional agreements and will decrease trade losses of countries excluded from agreements
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 0821357298 , 9780821357293
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (416 p.))
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    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: World Development Indicators, the World Bank's respected statistical publication presents the most current and accurate information on global development on both a national level and aggregated globally. This information allows readers to monitor the progress made toward meeting the goals endorsed by the United Nations and its member countries, the World Bank, and a host of partner organizations in September 2001 in their Millennium Development Goals. The 400-page print edition of World Development Indicators 2004 allows you to consult over 80 tables and over 800 indicators for 152 economies and 14 country groups, as well as basic indicators for a further 55 economies. There are key indicators for the latest year available, important regional data, and income group analysis. The report contains six thematic presentations of analytical commentary covering: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The CD-ROM editions contain 40 years of time series data for more than 200 countries from 1960-2002, single-year observations, and spreadsheets on many topics. It contains more than 1,000 country tables and the text from the World Development Indicators 2004 print edition and the World Bank Atlas 2003. The Windows® based format permits users to search for and retrieve data in spreadsheet form, create maps and charts, and fully download them into other popular software programs for study or presentation purposes
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    ISBN: 0821358766 , 9780821358764
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (112 p.))
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    Series Statement: Country Studies
    Abstract: The Health Sector in Eritrea is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate the results of the Bank's work on the economic and related conditions of member countries to governments and to the development community. In March 2001, the Ministry of Health of the Government of Eritrea launched a process to prepare a long-term health sector policy and strategic plan (HSPSP), with a focus on assuring equitable, quality, and sustainable health care. The Ministry outlined an open, participatory, three-step process for developing the HSPSP, with active participation from all partners in the health sector. Step One is the preparation of a health sector review carried out by the World Bank (this study), based on existing documentation provided by the Government and other sources. Step Two consists of conducting an in-depth health sector analysis among five sub-sector working groups-PHC, hospital reform, pharmaceuticals, human resource development, health financing-leading to Step Three, the preparation of a rationale for investments in the future development of the health sector. This study serves as the preliminary basis for further rounds of discussions and analyses among stakeholders to arrive at a strategic vision for the Eritrea health sector. It incorporates comments received from the Ministry of Health's central agencies, Zoba (regional) health teams, external partners working in Eritrea, and the World Bank Eritrea Country Team
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    ISBN: 9781402019104
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 448 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 59
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    Keywords: Grammar. ; Syntax. ; Linguistics. ; Comparative linguistics. ; Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax. ; Comparative Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax ; Syntax
    Abstract: Core Questions about the Edge -- On the Left and on the Right -- The Left Periphery and Cyclic Spellout: The Case of Hungarian -- Unspecified Categories as the Key to Root Constructions -- Peripheral Effects without Peripheral Syntax: The Left Periphery in Korean -- Japanese Scrambling in a Comparative Perspective -- Left or Right? A View from the Kwa Periphery -- Cross-Linguistic Word Order Variation at the Left Periphery: The Case of Object First Main Clauses -- DP-Periphery and Clausal Periphery: Possessor Doubling in West Flemish -- Submove: Towards a Unified Account of Scrambling and D-Linking -- On the Edge -- Clausal Edges and Their Effects on Scope -- Edge Coordinations: Focus and Conjunction Reduction -- Broad Subjects and Clitic Left Dislocation -- Acquiring the Left Periphery of the Modern Greek DP -- Early Peripheries in the Absence of C.
    Abstract: The syntactic periphery has become one of the most important areas of research in syntactic theory in recent years, due to the emergence of new research programmes initiated by Rizzi, Kayne and Chomsky. However research has concentrated on the empirical nature of clausal peripheries. The purpose of this volume is to explore the question of whether the notion of periphery has any real theoretical bite. An important consensus emerging from the volume is that the edges of certain syntactic expressions appear to be the locus of the connection between phrase structure, prosody, and information structure. This volume contains 16 papers by researchers in this area. The book: - contains an extensive introduction setting out the research questions addressed and setting the contributions in an overall theoretical context, - has a distinct comparative slant, - brings together work from a range of theoretical perspectives, while maintaining a unity of purpose, - could serve as the basis for a graduate course on peripheral positions, - contains papers addressing: = the question of the fine-grainedness of syntactic representations, = the relevance of syntactic edges to locality and semantic interpretation, = the nature of the dependencies connecting peripheral elements to the syntactic core. Audience: Academics and graduate students interested in syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody, acquisition of syntax, cross-linguistic comparison.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""
    Note: Based on a conference held in 2000 at the University of York , Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-435) and index
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    ISBN: 9781402026188
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 276 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology 50
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    Keywords: Epistemology. ; Philosophy. ; Phenomenology . ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Philosophy (General) ; Genetic epistemology ; Phenomenology
    Abstract: The Development of Hermeneutical Consciousness -- The Development of Hermeneutical Consciousness in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The Genesis of Philological-Historical Hermeneutics -- Methodological Hermeneutics -- Toward a General Theory of Understanding -- A Typology of Understanding -- Cultural Understanding -- Method and Methodology -- The Unsolved Problems of Methodological Hermeneutics -- Parts, Wholes, and Circles -- The First Canon and the Philological-Historical Method.
    Abstract: The goal of the investigation is a phenomenological theory of the methods and later the methodology of the human sciences, first of all the philological interpretation of texts. The first part is a critical reflection on the historical development of hermeneutics as method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics. Such reflections show that the development of hermeneutics is onesidedly founded in the development of hermeneutical consciousness, i.e. the changing attitudes in the application and rejection of cultural traditions. All methods and finally methodologies are onesidedly founded in the activities of the lifeworld. The second part is a first attempt to develop an outline of a general phenomenological theory of pre-methodical and methodical understanding in the lifeworld. The third part offers a critical phenomenologically guided analysis of methodological hermeneutics. .
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9781402022029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 254 p)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series 22
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    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Sociology ; Community psychology ; Environmental psychology ; Economic growth ; Development economics ; Regional economics ; Spatial economics
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9781402080395
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 345 p)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004
    Series Statement: Language Policy 4
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    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Sociolinguistics ; Political science ; Chinese language ; Languages ; Language and languages ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    ISBN: 9781402080746
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 433 p)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004
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    DDC: 306.43
    Keywords: Educational sociology ; School management and organization ; School administration ; Culture—Study and teaching
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    ISBN: 9781402081316
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 373 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: New ICMI Study Series 8
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    Keywords: Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Education—Curricula. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Curriculum planning ; Mathematics ; Teachers Training of ; Algebra ; Mathematikunterricht ; Computeralgebra
    Abstract: Solving the Problem with Algebra -- The Core of Algebra: Reflections on its Main Activities -- Responses to ‘The Core of Algebra’ -- The Early Development of Algebraic Reasoning: The Current State of the Field -- A Toolkit for Analysing Approaches to Algebra -- Research on the Role of Technological Environments in Algebra Learning and Teaching -- Computer Algebra Systems and Algebra: Curriculum, Assessment, Teaching, and Learning -- The History of Algebra in Mathematics Education -- Symbols and Language -- Teachers’ Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra -- The Teaching and Learning of Tertiary Algebra -- Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years of Schooling -- Algebra: A World of Difference.
    Abstract: This book presents a wide-ranging, international perspective on the state of the field of algebra from invited participants to the 12th ICMI Study Conference held in Melbourne, Australia in 2001. The authors are renowned academics from all around the world who have written individual chapters associated with the teaching and learning of algebra that relate to their particular areas of research and teaching expertise. The book includes information about different approaches to the teaching and learning of algebra - from early algebra to tertiary algebra, the impact of tools and technology (including Computer Algebra Systems), the role of symbols and language, teachers of algebra, and the history of algebra. The Future of the Teaching and Learning of Algebra: the 12th ICMI Study is of interest to researchers, curriculum developers, educational policy makers, teachers of mathematics, and trainee mathematics teachers.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About ICMI""; ""Chapter 1 Solving the Problem with Algebra""; ""Chapter 2 The Core of Algebra: Reflections on its Main Activities""; ""Chapter 3 Responses to �The Core of Algebra�""; ""Chapter 4 Working Group on Early Algebra""; ""The Early Development of Algebraic Reasoning: The Current State of the Field""; ""Chapter 5 Working Group on Approaches to Algebra""; ""A Toolkit for Analysing Approaches to Algebra""; ""Chapter 6 Working Group on Technological Environments""; ""Research on the Role of Technological Environments in Algebra Learning and Teaching""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 7 Working Group on CAS and Algebra""""Computer Algebra Systems and Algebra: Curriculum‚ Assessment‚ Teaching‚ and Learning""; ""Chapter 8 Working Group on Algebra History in Mathematics Education""; ""The History of Algebra in Mathematics Education""; ""Chapter 9 Working Group on Symbols and Language""; ""Symbols and Language""; ""Chapter 10 Working Group on Teachers� Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra""; ""Teachers� Knowledge and the Teaching of Algebra""; ""Chapter 11 Working Group on Teaching and Learning Tertiary Algebra""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""The Teaching and Learning of Tertiary Algebra""""Chapter 12 Working Group on Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years""; ""Goals and Content of an Algebra Curriculum for the Compulsory Years of Schooling""; ""Chapter 13 Algebra: A World of Difference""; ""Conference Participants""; ""Index of Authors""; ""Index""
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    ISBN: 9781402029738
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 222 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine 22
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    Keywords: Political philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Ethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Political science—Philosophy. ; Humanities ; Ethics ; medicine Philosophy ; Political science Philosophy ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Tragic Decisions -- Patient Selection and Medical Utility -- The Comparative Value of Lives -- Medical Utility Judgements and Rights -- Adequate Conscious Life and Age-Related Need -- Fair Innings and Need over a Lifetime -- Levels of Benefit, Utility Scores and the QALY Debate -- An Egalitarian Ethos -- A Threshold Level of Medical Benefit -- Waiting Lists and Lotteries in Practice -- Common Humanity and Reandom Selection -- Chance and the Challenge of Living.
    Abstract: Bioethicists, moral philosophers and social policy analysts have long debated about how we should decide who shall be saved with scarce, lifesaving resources when not all can be saved. It is often claimed that it is fairer to save younger persons and that age is an ethically relevant consideration in such tragic decisions. Medical benefit should be maximized and final selection should aim to minimize the contaminating influence of chance. These claims are challenged by Duff R. Waring in Medical Benefit and the Human Lottery, one of the few books that attempts a sustained defence of random patient selection. This book combines ethics and political philosophy in its novel and strict egalitarian approach to patient selection for transplantable organs. Waring addresses the question of whether we should choose between lives on the basis of fair chances or best outcomes. He argues that final selection criteria should be based on fair chances that equalize opportunity as opposed to best outcomes. His defence of "hardy" egalitarianism aims to show that random selection by lottery can affirm both a common humanity and the equal value of lives. The notion of patient selection by lottery has not fared well in bioethics and has been regarded by some as a moral affront. Waring argues that a human selection lottery may be neither as crude nor as ethically anomalous as some have supposed. Indeed, it can reflect a familiar conception of equality as a political and moral ideal. This conception abstracts from many undeniable differences between patients and claims that scarce resources should be allocated on the principled assumption that each of their lives is equally worth saving. The book is also notable for its critiques of some recent utilitarian notions of medical benefit which can have an age-biased impact on elderly patients. Waring then argues against the leading, contemporary age-based approaches to patient selection. He explores the way random selection by lottery can affirm his egalitarian ethos in cases where eligible transplant candidates have each passed a threshold level of prospective medical benefit that has been set by democratic deliberation. Taming chance with a human lottery is defended as the most lucid means of ensuring equal opportunity. In so doing, Waring argues that we give the principle of equal concern and respect a radical expression: above a noncomparative threshold of medical benefit, each candidate can have an equal claim to life.
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    ISBN: 9781402023989
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 154 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Law. ; Criminology. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Probabilities. ; Social sciences. ; Philosophy. ; Law—History. ; Law Philosophy ; Social sciences
    Abstract: Morality and Risks -- Realistic Discontent and Utopian Desire -- The Safety Utopia -- Characters and Manifestations -- The Pornographic Context of Sex Crimes -- Senseless Violence and the Sound of Silent Marches -- The Controversial Victim and the Offender -- Punishment, Control and Democracy -- The Changing Significance of Criminal Justice -- Criminal Proceedings as Tragedy -- Democratic Safety Policy -- Closing Comments.
    Abstract: My ?rst encounter with the world of crime and punishment was more than two decades ago, and it has since undergone vast changes. No one could have foreseen that crime-related problems would occupy such a prominent position in cultural awareness. Crime is on the rise, the public attention devoted to it has increased even more, and its political importance has mushroomed. The major change in the 1990s was perhaps the transformation of crime into a safety issue. Crime is no longer a matter involving offenders, victims, the police and the courts, it involves everyone and any number of agencies and institutions from security companies to the local authorities and from schools to pub and restaurant owners. Crime has become a much larger complex than the judicial system—a complex organized mentally and institutionally around this one concept of safety. In this book I make an effort to get to the bottom of this complex. It is the sequel to my dissertation Crime and Morality—The Moral Signi?cance of Criminal Justice in a Postmodern Culture (2000), where I hold that the victim became the essence of crime in Western culture, and that this in turn shaped public morality. In the second half of the twentieth century, a personal morality based on an awareness of our own and other people’s vulnerability, i. e. potential victimhood, succeeded the ethics of duty.
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    ISBN: 9781402021992
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 272 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Studies in Educational Leadership 3
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    Keywords: Social psychology. ; Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Personality. ; Difference (Psychology). ; Education
    Abstract: From the contents: Acknowledgements. List of tables. List of figures -- Section 1: The Critical Role Of Leadership For Organizational Learning And Improved Student Outcomes. 1 The Critical Role Of Leadership For Organizational Learning And Improved Student Outcomes -- Section 2: Using The Book. 2 Problem-Based Learning: A Vehicle For Professional Development Of School Leaders -- Section 3: The Problem-Based Learning Package. 4 Workshop Problem/Situation Outline. 5 The Altona Case Study. 6 The Heronwood Case Study. 7 Survey Data -- Section 4: A Challenge. 8 The Survey Instruments And A Challenge To Use Them In Your Own School -- Appendixes: 1 Conditions Fostering Organizational Learning In Schools. 2 Leadership For Organizational Learning In Australian Secondary Schools. 3 The Altona Case Study: Short Version. 4 The Heronwood Case Study: Short Version -- References. Other readings.
    Abstract: The change in paradigm in our field is away from the great man or woman theory of leadership and the teacher in his or her own classroom to the development of learning communities which value differences and support critical reflection and encourage members to question, challenge, and debate teaching and learning issues. How to achieve such learning communities is far from clear, but we believe the areas of problem-based learning (PBL) and organizational learning (OL) offer valuable clues. The indications are that the successful educational restructuring agenda depends on teams of leaders, whole staffs and school personnel, working together (i.e., OL) linking evidence and practice in genuine collaboration (i.e., PBL). The book is unique in that it is both about and uses these two concepts.
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    ISBN: 9781402021961
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 359 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna Vienna Circle Society, Society for the Advancement of Scientific World Conceptions 11
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    Keywords: Philosophy and science. ; Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Logic. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Science—Philosophy. ; Philosophy (General) ; Logic ; Philosophy, modern ; Science Philosophy
    Abstract: Induction and Deduction in the Philosophy of Science: a Critical Account since the Methodenstreit -- Historicizing Deduction: Scientific Method, Critical Debate, and the Historian -- Inference to the Best Theory, rather than Inference to the Best Explanation — Kinds of Abduction and Induction -- The Significance of Explanatory Considerations -- Truth-seeking by Abduction -- Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism -- Adaptive Logics and the Integration of Induction and Deduction -- Argument, Inference and Reasoning — Integrating Induction and Deduction -- Laws are Persistent Inductive Schemes -- Physical Intuition as Inductive Support -- Frege, Neo-Logicism and Applied Mathematics -- Remarks About a “General Science of Reasoning” -- Two Questions About the Revival of Frege’s Programme -- Handling Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and the Bayesian Controversy -- Artificial Intelligence and Its Methodological Implications -- Supplying Planks for Neurath’s Boat: Can Economists Meet the Demands of the Dynamics of Scientific Theories? -- Informational Economy and Creativity -- The Place of the Notion of Corroboration in Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science -- How can a Falsified Theory Remain Corroborated ? -- Inductivism in 19th Century German Economics -- The Uniformity of Nature: What Purpose does it Serve? -- Planning, Democratization and Popularization with ISOTYPE, ca. 1945: a Study of Otto Neurath’s Pictorial Statistics with the Example of Bilston, England -- Reviews -- Activities 2003 -- Preview 2004 -- Remembering Dick Jeffrey (1926-2002) (Maria Carla Galavotti) -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The articles in this volume deal with the main inferential methods that can be applied to different kinds of experimental evidence. These contributions - accompanied with critical comments - by renowned scholars in the field of philosophy of science aim at removing the traditional opposition between inductivists and deductivists. They explore the different methods of explanation and justification in the sciences in different contexts and with different objectives. The volume contains contributions on methods of the sciences, especially on induction, deduction, abduction, laws, probability and explanation, ranging from logic, mathematics, natural to the social sciences. They present a highly topical pluralist re-evaluation of methodological and foundational procedures and reasoning, e.g. focusing in Bayesianism and Artificial Intelligence. They document the second international conference in Vienna on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences" as part of the Scientific Network on "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Philosophy of Science in Europe", funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; A Critical Account since the Methodenstreit
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    ISBN: 9780306485183
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 207 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Teaching. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Education ; Teachers Training of ; Großbritannien ; Lehrerfortbildung
    Abstract: The Issues and some Attempted Solutions -- Evolving Principles: Experience of Two Large Scale Programmes -- Professional Development for Cognitive Acceleration: Initiation -- Professional Development for Cognitive Acceleration: Elaboration -- Empirical Evidence -- Measurable Effects of Cognitive Acceleration -- Testing an Implementation Model -- A Long-Term Follow-up of some Case Schools -- Teachers in the School Context -- Making the Process Systemic: Evaluation of an Authority Programme -- Modelling Professional Development -- Researching Professional Development: Just How Complex is It? -- Elaborating the Model -- Evidence-Based Policy?.
    Abstract: Hopkins, Bruce Joyce, Michael Huberman, Matthew Miles, and Virginia Richardson. But we have chosen to present our own experience and empirical data first and then, in Part 3, to show how this experience and data relates to models which have been proposed by others. We will address here methodological issues concerned with collecting and interpreting evidence of relationships amongst the many individual and situational factors associated with PD, and re-visit the arguments about ‘process-product’ research on PD. In the light of our experience, we will interrogate models of PD which have been proposed by others and attempt to move forward our total understanding of the process of the professional development of teachers for educational change. In conclusion, we will look at some current national practice in professional development, concentrating on the recent English experience of introducing ‘strategies’ into schools but referring also, by way of contrast, to the situation in the United States. WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Why has the professional development of teachers already exercised so many good minds for so long? And how can we justify adding another book to this field? The answer to both questions must lie in the continuing demand from society in general (at least as interpreted by politicians and newspaper editors) for improvements in the quality of education.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index
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    ISBN: 9789401756204
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 191 p. 2 illus.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Law in Eastern Europe
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    Keywords: Public international law. ; International law. ; Law
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Political Map of the Caucasus""; ""Map of Georgian Cities""; ""Common Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Is There a Post-Soviet Legal Profession in Georgia?""; ""Chapter Outline""; ""Field-work""; ""Chapter 1. Approaching Georgian Lawyers""; ""Legal Professions (or the Study of Western Lawyers)""; ""Soviet Lawyers""; ""Post-Soviet Lawyers""; ""Accounting for the Georgian Difference""; ""Chapter 2. Georgian Legal Histories""; ""Introduction""; ""Indigenous Georgian Law""; ""The Tsarist Period""; ""Menshevik Georgia (1918-1921)""; ""Soviet Period""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Soviet Law and Lawyering (with Georgian Twists)""""Beyond Soviet Law and Lawyering: Georgian Non-State Law""; ""Perestroika""; ""Early Independence""; ""Chapter 3. The Legal Environment""; ""Regionalism""; ""Formal Law and Its Implementation""; ""Constitutional and Judicial Reforms""; ""Lawmaking""; ""Human Rights and Corruption""; ""Non-State Law""; ""Chapter 4. Legal Education""; ""Educating Lawyers""; ""The Numbers Boom""; ""Formal Legal Education""; ""Beyond Law School: Preparing Law Graduates for Practice""; ""Access to the Profession""; ""Educating the Public""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Chapter 5. The Politics of Regulation and Self-Regulation""""State Regulation""; ""The Players""; ""The Process""; ""Self-Regulation""; ""Restricting Supply""; ""Controlling Practice""; ""Prognosis for the Law on the Bar""; ""Chapter 6. Stratification and Professional Badges""; ""Stratification""; ""Mtatsminda Legal Consultation Bureau (LCB)""; ""The Firm-Georgia Consulting Group (GCG)""; ""Other Legal Occupations""; ""Professional Badges: Collegiality and Prestige""; ""Chapter 7. Comparisons with Armenia and Azerbaijan""; ""A Regional Legal History?""; ""Law and the Armenian Diaspora""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Azerbaijan's Late Statehood""""The Legal Environment""; ""Legal Education""; ""Regulation and Self-Regulation""; ""Armenia""; ""Azerbaijan""; ""Stratification and Professionalization: ""Musicians at a Funeral""?""; ""Conclusion: Professionalization and the Rule of Law""; ""Profession on the Rise""; ""Summary of Empirical Findings""; ""Implications for Studies of the Legal Profession""; ""Implications for the Rule of Law""; ""Type One Reforms-Changing the Laws""; ""Type Two Reforms-Institutions""; ""Type Three Reforms-Government Compliance with Law""; ""Lawyers and the Demand for Law""
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Cited Interviewees""""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""About the Author""
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    ISBN: 9781402065453
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 1541 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Springer International Handbooks of Education 12
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    Keywords: Teaching. ; Learning. ; Instruction. ; Teachers—Training of. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education
    Abstract: Understanding the Nature and Development of Self-Study -- A History and Context of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices -- The Nature of Teaching and Learning in Self-Study* -- Self-Study As Teaching -- Finding A Way Through The Swamp: A Case For Self-Study As Research* -- Learning Through Self-Study: The Influence Of Purpose, Participants And Context* -- Fundamental Features and Approaches of The S-Step Enterprise* -- Voice in Self-Study* -- Self-Study In Professional Practice* -- Thinking about the Thinking about Self-Study: An Analysis of Eight Chapters -- Developing a Professional Knowledge Base for Teaching -- Professional Knowledge, Teacher Education and Self-Study* -- Links between Self-Study and Teacher Education Reform* -- Research, Practice, and Academia in North America* -- Humanistic Research in Self-Study: A History of Transformation* -- The Significance of Race and Social Class for Self-Study and The Professional Knowledge Base of Teacher Education$*$ -- Knowledge, Narrative And Self-Study -- Practitioner Inquiry, Knowledge, and University Culture* -- Knowledge, Social Justice and Self-Study* -- Examples of Practice: Professional Knowledge and Self-Study in Multicultural Teacher Education -- Revisioning And Recreating Practice: Collaboration In Self-Study* -- The Dialectics of Passion and Theory: Exploring The Relation Between Self-Study and Emotion* -- Representing Self-Study in Research and Practice -- The Methodology of Self-Study and Its Theoretical Underpinnings -- What Counts as Evidence in Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practices -- Self-Study Through Personal History -- Self-Study Through Action Research -- Visual Artistic Modes of Representation for Self-Study -- Using Information and Communication Technologies for the Self-Study of Teaching -- The Reflective Portfolio in Self-Study: Inquiring Into and Representing A Knowledge of Practice -- The Epistemological Dimensions and Dynamics of Professional Dialogue In Self-Study -- Afterword Moving The Methodology of Self-Study Research and Practice Forward: Challenges and Opportunities -- Self-Study in Teaching and Teacher Education -- Tracing the Development of Self-Study in Teacher Education Research and Practice -- Factors Important for the Scholarship of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices -- Self-Study in School Teaching: Teachers’ Perspectives -- The Preservice Practicum: Learning Through Self-Study In A Professional Setting -- Self Study in Teaching About Teaching -- Self-Study Research in the Context of Teacher Education Programs -- Administrators also do Self-Study: Issues of Power and Community, Social Justice and Teacher Education Reform -- Identifying Ethical Issues in Self-Study Proposals -- Interpreting The What, Why and How of Self-Study In Teaching And Teacher Education.
    Abstract: The International Handbook on Self-study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices is of interest to teacher educators, teacher researchers and practitioner researchers. This volume: -offers an encyclopaedic review of the field of self-study; -examines in detail self-study in a range of teaching and teacher education contexts; -outlines a full understanding of the nature and development of self-study; -explores the development of a professional knowledge base for teaching through self-study; -purposefully represents self-study through research and practice; -illustrates examples of self-study in teaching and teacher education.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Preface; SECTION 1 UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-STUDY ; Section Editor - J. John Loughran; Foreword to Section 1; 1 A History and Context of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices ; 2 The Nature of Teaching and Learning in Self-Study ; 3 Self-Study as Teaching ; 4 Finding a Way Through the Swamp: A Case for Self-Study as Research ; 5 Learning Through Self-Study: The Influence of Purpose, Participants and Context ; 6 Fundamental Features and Approaches of the s-step Enterprise ; 7 Voice in Self-Study ; 8 Self-Study in Professional Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 9 Thinking About the Thinking About Self-Study: An Analysis of Eight Chapters Appendix to Section 1; Personal History-Based Beliefs as Relevant Prior Knowledge in Course Work ; SECTION 2 DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR TEACHING ; Section Editor - Mary Lynn Hamilton; Foreword to Section 2; 10 Professional Knowledge, Teacher Education and Self-Study ; 11 Links Between Self-Study and Teacher Education Reform ; 12 Research, Practice, and Academia in North America ; 13 Humanistic Research in Self-Study: A History of Transformation
    Description / Table of Contents: 14 The Significance of Race and Social Class for Self-Study and the Professional Knowledge Base of Teacher Education 15 Knowledge, Narrative and Self-Study ; 16 Practitioner Inquiry, Knowledge, and University Culture ; 17 Knowledge, Social Justice and Self-Study ; 18 Examples of Practice: Professional Knowledge and Self-Study in Multicultural Teacher Education ; 19 Revisioning and Recreating Practice: Collaboration in Self-Study; 20 The Dialects of Passion and Theory: Exploring the Relation Between Self-Study and Emotion ; SECTION 3 REPRESENTING SELF-STUDY IN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
    Description / Table of Contents: Section Editor - Vicki Kubler LaBoskeyForeword to Section 3; 21 The Methodology of Self-Study and Its Theoretical Underpinnings ; 22 What Counts as Evidence in Self-Studies of Teacher Education Practices ; 23 Self-Study Through Personal History ; 24 Self-Study Through Action Research; 25 Visual Artistic Modes of Representation for Self-Study ; 26 Using Information and Communication Technologies for the Self-Study of Teaching ; 27 The Reflective Portfolio in Self-Study: Inquiring into and Representing a Knowledge of Practice
    Description / Table of Contents: 28 The Epistemological Dimensions and Dynamics of Professional Dialogue in Self-Study 29 Afterword: Moving the Methodology of Self-Study Research and Practice Forward: Challenges and Opportunities ; SECTION 4 SELF-STUDY IN TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION; Section Editor - Tom Russell; Foreword to Section 4; 30 Tracing the Development of Self-Study in Teacher Education Research and Practice ; 31 Factors Important for the Scholarship of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices ; 32 Self-Study in School Teaching: Teachers' Perspectives
    Description / Table of Contents: 33 The Preservice Practicum: Learning Through Self-Study in a Professional Setting
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    ISBN: 9789401761741
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 319 p.)
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    Keywords: Ethics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Klonierung ; Rechtsethik ; Christliche Ethik ; Humangenetik ; Recht ; Mensch ; Klonierung ; Recht
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    ISBN: 9781402025389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXIV, 352 p)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004
    Series Statement: Social Indicators Research Series 21
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    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Sociology ; Quality of life ; Anthropology
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    ISBN: 9781402030673
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 508 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 189
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Medieval philosophy. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Philosophy—History. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, medieval ; Philosophy of mind ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination -- Outlines of Perennial Philosophy -- Glory -- Divine Names -- Kosmos Anthropos -- Archetypes -- Spiritual Spaces -- Theology of Time -- The Return of Time -- Epochs and Eras -- Translatio Sapientiae -- The Echo of Perennial Philosophy -- Schelling's “World-Ages”.
    Abstract: The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.
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    ISBN: 9781402025945
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(IV, 162 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Education. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Education ; Bewertung ; Schule ; Immaterielles Wirtschaftsgut ; Intellektuelles Kapital
    Abstract: to the concept of intellectual capital -- Constructing a typology for intellectual capital -- The measurement of responsibility -- A new Profile Guide Chart Method for job evaluation in schools -- Pay and incentives in an education setting -- The retention of intellectual capital: managing continuity -- Implementing a knowledge continuity initiative: an adjunct of lessons from practice -- Intellectual capital metrics.
    Abstract: A teacher may get good, even astounding, results from his pupils while he is teaching them and yet not be a good teacher; because it may be that, while his pupils are directly under his influence, he raises them to a height which is not natural to them, without fostering their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again as soon as the teacher leaves the classroom. Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889 – 1951. It is difficult to measure effectiveness in not-for-profit organisations like schools, colleges and universities. There is no ‘bottom-line’ against which to gauge performance, they have limited technical development and managers struggle to make meaningful comparisons between outcomes and targets. In education, well-publicised attempts have been made to establish - some would say impose - a set of criteria by which organisations judge success or failure. These have been largely subjective - the percentage of inspected classes regarded as good, the extent to which staff is involved in decision making, the appropriateness of the leadership shown by senior managers, and so on – if occasionally peppered with quantitative measures, like the percentage of students achieving certain grades in public examinations, to sustain the illusion of objectivity. This is not to fault the aspiration necessarily, though initially at least it created a surveillance culture in schools that did justice to neither the inspected nor the argument for inspection. Happily, this is changing.
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    ISBN: 9780306485152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 356 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Management science. ; Higher education. ; Curriculums (Courses of study). ; Economics. ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Environmental management. ; Ethics. ; Education—Curricula. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Environmental Management ; Ethics ; Education, Higher ; Curriculum planning
    Abstract: Problematics -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education -- Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse -- Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability -- Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning -- Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications -- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Promise -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education -- The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education -- Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology -- The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Stainability in Higher Education -- Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision -- Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education -- Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change -- Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education -- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis -- Practice -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction -- Education and Sustainabile Development in United Kingdom Universities: A Critical Exploration -- Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina’s Sustainable Universities Initiative -- Integrating Education for the Environment and Sustainability Into Higher Education at Middlebury College -- Sustainability in Higher Education Through Distance Learning: The Master of Arts in Environmental Education at Nottingham Trent University -- The Pedagogy of Place: The Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University -- Developing Sustainability in Higher Education Using Aishe -- Curriculum Deliberation Amongst Adult Learners in South African Community Contexts at Rhodes University -- Incorporating Sustainability in the Education of Natural Resource Managers: Curriculum Innovation at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark -- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis.
    Abstract: Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They must be able to deal with conflicting norms and values, uncertain outcomes and futures, and a changing knowledge base. At the same time they will need to be able to contextualize knowledge in an increasingly globalized society. This book provides a variety of valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek to integrate sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is not only explored as both an outcome and a process of learning, but as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation. The book raises the various problematics related to this inchoate field and provides an intellectual history and critical assessment of the prospects for institutionalizing sustainability in higher education.
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    ISBN: 9781402025297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 309 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 76
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    Keywords: Air pollution. ; Environmental management. ; Geography. ; Environmental Management ; Geography ; Environmental sciences ; Environmental protection ; Hyderabad ; Nairobi ; Abfallbehandlung
    Abstract: Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions -- Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions -- Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Urban Solid Waste -- Evolving partnerships in the collection of urban solid waste in the developing world -- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Hyderabad -- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Nairobi -- Trial and error in privatisation; the case of Hyderabad’s solid waste management -- Reuse, Recovery and Recycling of Urban Inorganic Solid Waste -- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste; modalities, commodity chains and sustainable development -- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Hyderabad -- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Nairobi -- Reuse of Urban Organic Solid Waste -- Urban organic solid waste: reuse practices and issues for solid waste management in developing countries -- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Hyderabad -- Demand for compost from urban organic solid wastes in Hyderabad -- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Nairobi -- Conclusions -- Government, market and community in urban solid waste management; problems and potentials in the transition to sustainable development.
    Abstract: This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics. Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it: -utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis; -provides embedded case study data; -deals with both formal and informal actors and institutional arrangements in solid waste management and recycling; -has chapters written by experts from the countries concerned (Kenya and India); -can be used in graduate-level courses in urban development, urban management and planning, and technical engineering courses for students, project staff, and technical students.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-303)
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    ISBN: 9781402024757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 204 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    Keywords: Globalisierung ; Entwicklung ; Sustainable development. ; Anthropology. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Environment. ; Social sciences. ; Environmental sciences ; Social sciences ; Anthropology ; Regional planning ; Sustainable development
    Abstract: Introduction: Conflictive domains of globalization and development -- Time and Contention in ‘the great globalization debate’ -- Ways forward in livelihood research -- Identity formation Issues, challenges and tools -- Governance in action -- Transcending the nation -- Unpacking and re-packing knowledge in development.
    Abstract: This book is a collective effort on the part of researchers affiliated with the CERES Research School in Development Studies in the Netherlands to discuss a series of themes and concepts crucial to the overlapping fields of globalization and development research. While development in the course of the 1980s and 1990s was becoming hinged onto globalization, prior approaches to development were increasingly being criticized. An impasse was announced by various actors in the field, and renewed reflection on some of the basic concepts and methods became inevitable. Much of the initial rethinking went under the sign of postmodernism and tended to give priority to micro- and actor-centered research. Later, with the emerging discussion on globalization, new macro dimensions were added, and efforts were launched to articulate local/global approaches. This book discusses a set of key themes and concepts that reflect these intellectual and historical developments. Used by politicians and researchers, they reflect the continuing concern about inequality and poverty by students and practitioners of development, and contain crucial perspectives for a critical engagement of current globalization processes and their consequences. The chapters in this book examine the notions and issues of globalization, livelihood, identity, governance, transnationalism, and knowledge.
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    ISBN: 9781402026768
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 232 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 26
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    Keywords: Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Applied linguistics ; Computational linguistics ; User interfaces (Computer systems). ; Artificial intelligence. ; Applied linguistics. ; Computational linguistics. ; Human-computer interaction.
    Abstract: Initial Stages -- Beyond Technology -- Design -- Ten Principles for Designing Human-Computer Dialog Systems -- Voice User Interface Design for Novice and Experienced Users -- Designing Error Recovery Dialogs -- Visualization Tools for Designing -- How to Wreck a Nice Speech Grammar -- Designing for Speaker -- Deployment -- Using VoiceXML 2.0 in the VxOne Unified Messaging Application -- New Ideas -- Building a Standards and Research Community with the Galaxy Communicator Software Infrastructure -- Building Spoken-Language Collaborative Interface Agents.
    Abstract: For professional speech researchers, there is a rich technical literature covering many years of primary research in speech. However, this literature is not necessarily applicable to the needs of business people, application developers, and students who are interested in learning about the practical uses of speech technology. On the other hand, while existing introductory resources cover the basic mechanics of development of application development as well as aspects of the voice user interface, they don’t go far enough in dealing with the details that have to be taken into account to make spoken dialog systems successful in practice. What’s missing is information in between the in-depth technical literature and the more introductory development resources. The goal of this book is to provide information for anyone who wants to take the next step beyond the basics of current speech applications but isn’t yet ready to dive into the technical literature. It is hoped that this book will help project managers, application developers, and students gain a fuller and more complete understanding of spoken dialog technology and the practical aspects of developing and deploying spoken dialog applications.
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    ISBN: 9781402025327
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXXI, 275 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Space Regulations Library 3
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    Keywords: Observations, Astronomical. ; Astronomy—Observations. ; Law of the sea. ; International law. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Criminology. ; Astronomy ; Criminology ; Physics ; Aeronautics Law and legislation ; Comparative law ; Weltraumrecht ; Luftfahrtrecht
    Abstract: Introduction -- I: The International Legal Framework. A. International Responsibility and Reliability. B. Authorization and Supervision. C. Registration. D. Conclusions -- II: The National Legal Framework. A. United States of America. B. Russian Federation. C. Australia. D. United Kingdom. E. Ukraine. F. Sweden. G. South Africa. H. Japan. I. France. J. Canada. K. Harmonization and New Rules. L. Conclusions -- III: Argentine Space Law and Policy. A. National Application of International Law. B. Nature of Argentine National Space Law. C. Responsibility and Liability. D. Implementation of the Authorization and Supervision Principle. E. Implementation of the Registration Obligations. F. Conclusions -- IV: Conclusions and Proposal. A. Conclusions Regarding the International Legal Framework. B. Conclusions Regarding the National Legal Framework. C. Conclusions Regarding Argentine Space Law and Policy. D. Recommendations and Proposal -- About the Author -- Bibliography -- List of Acronyms.
    Abstract: A. GENERAL BACKGROUND “The foremost goal of the international community in the area [of private space launch services] should be to induce states to implement effective licensing procedures applicable to commercial ventures for which state responsibility may 1 exist. ” 1. PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY In the first decades of the space age, military and state security motivations indicated the direction of national space programs. Now the development of space activities depends essentially upon the possibility of recovering 2 investments. Private sector-driven commercial endeavors in outer space have been increasing exponentially and have experienced a significant quantitative growth over the last years. Spacefarers promote commercial participation of private companies in operations related to outer space, and, thus, the private sector is now increasingly providing satellite telecommunications, remote sensing, global positioning and space launch services directly to its customers. In this context, overall revenues for the worldwide space industry 3 amounted to US$ 82 billion in 2001. In the late 1990’s the transponder demand, in particular Ku- band transponders, was consistently on the rise due 4 to the escalated utilization of geostationary satellite transponders. Global positioning systems have been playing an increasingly important role in navigation, and remote sensing systems are mapping and documenting nearly 1 E. A. Frankle & E. J. Steptoe, “Legal Considerations Affecting Commercial Space Launches From International Territory”, (1999) 50 IISL at 10. Emphasis added. 2 H. L.
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    ISBN: 9781402024429
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VI, 320 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 77
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    Keywords: Geography ; Regional planning ; Economic policy ; Urban planning. ; Culture—Study and teaching.
    Abstract: Applied Geography, A World Perspective reviews progress in applied geography in different regions of the world. It does this through the eyes of an international panel of highly regarded academic practitioners. The book offers new prospects on the use of established approaches and explores exciting new territories. Together, the contributors provide a comprehensive picture of applied geography today. This book is of relevance to faculty and graduate students in the fields of geography, planning, public policy, regional science and other related social and behavioural sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: From the contents: Introduction1: Managing geography after Y2K -- 2: The principles and practice of applied geography -- 3: Historical foundations of applied geography -- 4: Political geography, public policy and the rise of policy analysis -- 5: The role of geographic information science in applied geography -- 6: Economic base theory and applied geography -- 7: Retail location and consumer spatial choice behavior -- 8: Applied geography in Western and Southern Europe -- 9: Applied geography in Central Europe -- 10: Applied geography in 20th century North America: A perspective -- 11: Disability, disadvantage, and discrimination: An overview with special emphasis on blindness in the USA -- 12: Human wayfinding -- 13: International trade -- 14: Medicometry and regional development -- 15: Monitoring and benchmarking regional and local performance -- 16: Applied geography for the future -- 17: Biographies and fields -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781402024566
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 562 p, online resource)
    Series Statement: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research 19
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    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Higher Education : Handbook of Theory and Research
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    Keywords: Education ; Education, Higher ; Higher Education
    Abstract: Service Through Research: My Life in Higher Education -- The Opportunity Agenda: A Reexamination of Postsecondary Reward and Opportunity -- A Cultural Analysis of Shared Governance: The Challenges Ahead -- Statewide Community College Governance Structures: Factors that Influence and Issues that Test Effectiveness -- Computing and Interpreting Effect Sizes -- Follow the Money: The Changing World of Budgeting in Higher Education -- Tuition Fees in Europe and Australasia: Theory, Trends and Policies -- Toward Massification: Higher Education Development in the People’s Republic of China Since 1949 -- Theory and Research on the Development of Moral Reasoning Among College Students -- Faculty Professional Development for the 21st Century -- Doctoral Student Attrition and Persistence: A Meta-Synthesis of Research
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    ISBN: 9781402028274
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 299 p, digital)
    Series Statement: Phaenomenologica 175
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    Parallel Title: Buchausg. u.d.T. Visker, Rudi, 1959 - The inhuman condition
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, modern ; Phenomenology ; Phenomenology ; Difference (Philosophy) ; Differenz ; Philosophie ; Postmoderne ; Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976 ; Differenz ; Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 ; Differenz
    Abstract: Looking for Difference -- Levinas, Multiculturalism and Us -- In Respectful Contempt Heidegger, Appropriation, Facticity -- Whistling in the Dark Two Approaches to Anxiety -- After Levinas -- The Price of Being Dispossessed Levinas’ God and Freud’s Trauma -- The Mortality of the Transcendent Levinas and Evil -- Is Ethics Fundamental? Questioning Levinas on Irresponsibility -- After Heidegger -- Intransitive Facticity? A Question to Heidegger -- Demons and the Demonic. Kierkegaard and Heidegger on Anxiety and Sexual Difference -- Dissensus Communis How to Keep Silent “after” Lyotard
    Abstract: At the origin of this volume, a simple question: what to make of that surprisingly monotonous series of statements produced by our societies and our philosophers that all converge in one theme - the importance of difference? To clarify the meaning of the difference at stake here, we have tried to rephrase it in terms of the two major and mutually competing paradigms provided by the history of phenomenology only to find both of them equally unable to accommodate this difference without violence. Neither the ethical nor the ontological approach can account for a subject that insists on playing a part of its own rather than following the script provided for it by either Being or the Good. What appears to be, from a Heideggerian or Levinasian perspective, an unwillingness to open up to what offers to deliver us from the condition of subjectivity is analysed in these pages as a structure in its own right. Far from being the wilful, indifferent and irresponsive being its critics have portrayed it to be, the so-called 'postmodern' subject is essentially finite, not even able to assume the transcendence to which it owes its singularity. This inability is not a lack - it points instead to a certain unthought shared by both Heidegger and Levinas which sets the terms for a discussion no longer our own. Instead of blaming Heidegger for underdeveloping 'being-with', we should rather stress that his account of mineness may be, in the light of contemporary philosophy, what stands most in need of revision. And, instead of hailing Levinas as the critic whose stress on the alterity of the Other corrects Heidegger's existential solipsism, the problems into which Levinas runs in defining that alterity call for a different diagnosis and a corresponding change in the course that phenomenology has taken since. Instead of preoccupying itself with the invisible, we should focus on the structures of visibility that protect us from its terror. The result? An account of difference that is neither ontological nor ethical, but 'mè-ontological', and that can help us understand some of the problems our societies have come to face (racism, sexism, multiculturalism, pluralism). And, in the wake of this, an unexpected defence of what is at stake in postmodernism and in the question it has refused to take lightly: who are we? Finally, an homage to Arendt and Lyotard who, if read through each other's lenses, give an exact articulation to the question with which our age struggles: how to think the 'human condition' once one realizes that there is an 'inhuman' side to it which, instead of being its mere negation, turns out to be that without which it would come to lose its humanity?
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    ISBN: 9789401760270
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 304 p) , online resource
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    Keywords: Law ; Public international law. ; International law.
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    ISBN: 9781402027833
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 179 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies Series 99
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Humanities ; Philosophy. ; Language and languages—Philosophy.
    Abstract: Every two years since 1989, an international colloquium on cognitive science is held in Donostia - San Sebastian, attracting the most important researchers in that field. This volume is a collection of the invited papers to the Sixth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-99), written from a multidisciplinary, cognitive perspective, and addressing various essential topics such as self-knowledge, intention, consciousness, language use, learning and discourse. This collection reflects not only the various interdisciplinary origins and standpoints of the participating researchers, but also the richness, fruitfulness, and exciting state of research in the field of cognitive science today. A must-read for anyone interested in philosophy, linguistics, psychology, and computer science, and in the perception of these topics from the perspective of cognitive science
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionSelf-Knowledge And Externalism -- Aunty's Argument And Armchair Knowledge -- Emotional And Conversational Nonverbal Signals -- Focus In Discourse: Alternative Semantics Vs. A Representational Approach In SDRT -- On Collective Intentions -- The Plurality Of Consciousness -- The Role Of Unlabeled Data in Supervised Learning -- Cognitive Neuroscience And The Unity Of The Study Of Cognition -- Consciousness And Self-Knowledge -- Twelve Varieties Of Subjectivity: Dividing In Hopes Of Conquest -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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    ISBN: 9781402079351
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 313 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 14
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    Keywords: Education ; Teaching. ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Educational sociology. ; Teachers—Training of.
    Abstract: This book is a landmark in citizenship and citizenship education discourse. It combines conceptual debates with case studies on the question whether the notion of Asian Citizenship can be established, and if yes, what its research agenda would be. The book contains polemic discussion, empirical data analysis, consultancy reflections, and descriptions of citizenship education in Asian and Pacific countries. Its themes include citizenship paradigms, democratization, patriotism, social tolerance, globalization and information society, and colonialism. The volume explores various perspectives on citizenship, including Confucian, Islamic, humanist, global, indigenous, cultural, political, and comparative. The book covers a wide range of countries and regions, including China, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Taiwan and Vanuatu
    Description / Table of Contents: From the contents: List of Tables. List of Abbreviations. Series Editor’s Foreword. Introduction. Conceptual DebatesHistorical and Policy Perspectives -- Issues and Perceptions -- Comparative Perspectives -- Reflective Analysis. Contributors. Index.
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    ISBN: 9781402020230
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 225 p) , online resource
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    Series Statement: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education 3
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    Keywords: Education ; Music ; Performing arts ; Anthropology ; School management and organization. ; School administration. ; Theater.
    Abstract: This book aims to define new theoretical, practical, and methodological directions in educational research centered on the role of the body in teaching and learning. Based on our phenomenological experience of the world, it draws on perspectives from arts-education and aesthetics, as well as curriculum theory, cultural anthropology and ethnomusicology. These are arenas with a rich untapped cache of experience and inquiry that can be applied to the notions of schooling, teaching and learning. The book provides examples of state-of-the-art, empirical research on the body in a variety of educational settings. Diverse art forms, curricular settings, educational levels, and cultural traditions are selected to demonstrate the complexity and richness of embodied knowledge as they are manifested through institutional structures, disciplines, and specific practices
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    Parallel Title: Perotti, Enrico State Ownership
    Keywords: Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures ; Accountability ; Constituencies ; Corporate Governance ; Degree of Autonomy ; Disclosure ; Emerging Markets ; Financial Crises ; Governance ; Governance Indicators ; Governments ; Institutional Capacity ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; National Governance ; Nationalization ; Political Economy ; Political Power ; Private Sector Development ; Privatization ; Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures
    Abstract: Perotti reviews the state of thinking on the governance role of state ownership. He argues that a gradual transfer of operational control and financial claims over state assets remains the most desirable goal, but it needs to be paced to avoid regulatory capture, and the capture of the privatization process itself. In addition, the speed of transfer should be timed on the progress in developing a strong regulatory governance system, to which certain residual rights of intervention must be vested. In many countries institutional weakness limits regulatory capacity and reliability, yet the author's conclusion is that in such environments, maintaining state control undermines the very emergence of institutional capacity, and so the balance should tip toward progressively less direct state control. After all, what are "institutions" if not governance mechanisms with some degree of autonomy from both political and private interests? The gradual creation of institutions partially autonomous from political power must become central to the development of an optimal mode of regulatory governance. The author offers some suggestions about creating maximum accountability in regulatory governance, in particular creating an internal control system based on a rotating board representative of users, producers, and civic organizations, to be elected by a process involving frequent reporting and disclosure. This paper—a product of the Global Corporate Governance Forum, Investment Climate Unit—is part of a larger effort in the department to improve the understanding of corporate governance reform in developing countries
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    Parallel Title: Sakellariou, Chris N Incidence Analysis of Public Support to the Private Education Sector in Côte d'Ivoire
    Keywords: Access and Equity in Basic Education ; Dropout Rates ; Education ; Education Expenditure ; Education for All ; Education of Children ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Enrollment Ratios ; Fees ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Gross Enrollment ; High Dropout ; Higher Education ; Levels of Education ; Number of Students ; Primary Education ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Tertiary Education ; Access and Equity in Basic Education ; Dropout Rates ; Education ; Education Expenditure ; Education for All ; Education of Children ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Enrollment Ratios ; Fees ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Gross Enrollment ; High Dropout ; Higher Education ; Levels of Education ; Number of Students ; Primary Education ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Tertiary Education ; Access and Equity in Basic Education ; Dropout Rates ; Education ; Education Expenditure ; Education for All ; Education of Children ; Effective Schools and Teachers ; Enrollment Ratios ; Fees ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Gender ; Gender and Education ; Gross Enrollment ; High Dropout ; Higher Education ; Levels of Education ; Number of Students ; Primary Education ; Secondary Education ; Social Protections and Labor ; Tertiary Education
    Abstract: Sakellariou and Patrinos analyze the equity effects of public subsidization of private schools in Côte d'Ivoire, update previous analyses, and attempt to assess how efficiently public spending is targeted. The subsidy per student in private (and public) schools increases at higher quintiles. Students from families in the highest quintile receive more than twice the subsidy received by students from families in the lowest quintile, compared with four times more in the case of students attending public schools. However, the subsidy system is progressive as there is a clear tendency for the share of family education expenditure covered by subsidies to decline at higher quintiles. This element of progressivity is stronger in the case of private school attendance. This paper—a product of the Education Sector Unit, Latin America and the Caribbean Region—is part of a larger effort in the region to evaluate education policies
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    Parallel Title: Kee, Hiau Market Access for Sale
    Keywords: Debt Markets ; Export Growth ; Exporters ; Exports ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Free Trade ; International Economics & Trade ; International Trade ; International Trade and Trade Rules ; Localization ; Market Access ; Multilateral Tariff Negotiations ; Preferential Access ; Preferential Scheme ; Public Sector Development ; Tariff ; Tariff ; Trade Policy ; Debt Markets ; Export Growth ; Exporters ; Exports ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Free Trade ; International Economics & Trade ; International Trade ; International Trade and Trade Rules ; Localization ; Market Access ; Multilateral Tariff Negotiations ; Preferential Access ; Preferential Scheme ; Public Sector Development ; Tariff ; Tariff ; Trade Policy ; Debt Markets ; Export Growth ; Exporters ; Exports ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Free Trade ; International Economics & Trade ; International Trade ; International Trade and Trade Rules ; Localization ; Market Access ; Multilateral Tariff Negotiations ; Preferential Access ; Preferential Scheme ; Public Sector Development ; Tariff ; Tariff ; Trade Policy
    Abstract: Kee, Olarreaga, and Silva assess the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American and Caribbean countries. The authors extend the basic framework developed by Grossman and Helpman (1994) to explain the relationship between foreign lobbying and tariff preferences. Their results suggest that returns to Latin American and Caribbean exporters lobbying for tariff preferences in the United States are around 50 percent. The reason for these large returns is the relatively low estimated weight given to social welfare in the U.S. government's objective function when deciding whether or not to grant tariff preferences to Latin American and Caribbean exporters. This paper—a product of Trade, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to study the issues related to trade and growth
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    Parallel Title: Luo, Xubei The Role of Infrastructure Investment Location in China's Western Development
    Keywords: Accessibility ; High Transport ; Infrastructure ; Infrastructure Development ; Infrastructure Investment ; Infrastructures ; Investments ; Policies ; Profit Margin ; Route ; Transport ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning ; Accessibility ; High Transport ; Infrastructure ; Infrastructure Development ; Infrastructure Investment ; Infrastructures ; Investments ; Policies ; Profit Margin ; Route ; Transport ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning ; Accessibility ; High Transport ; Infrastructure ; Infrastructure Development ; Infrastructure Investment ; Infrastructures ; Investments ; Policies ; Profit Margin ; Route ; Transport ; Transport ; Transport Economics, Policy and Planning
    Abstract: Development of the western region is vital to the balanced growth of China. Luo studies the impacts of infrastructure investment that may most efficiently alleviate the burden of geographical remoteness of the West. Having constructed the "adjusted distance" to approximate the transport cost, which takes into account the effects of real distance and infrastructure development, the author defines the "peripheral degree" to measure the effective remoteness of a province to an economic center. Using panel data for 1979–99 from the Chinese provinces, she shows that geographic attractiveness plays a significant role in a Solow-type growth determination model. Given the invariability of pure geographic position, progress in transportation facilities is essential to reduce the geographic handicap and to encourage the catching-up of the western region. The author's simulation results show that the central transportation hubs (Hubei, Henan, and Hunan) merit most infrastructure investments, for they favor the development of many provinces, if regional balanced growth is considered as the prime objective. In particular, improvement in the transportation facilities in central hubs will have greater effects on western development than that in the western region by itself. Improvements in the transportation facilities of the central hubs substantially improves the geographic attractiveness of the western region by reducing the transport cost from the West to the Coast and by promoting the emergence of new economic centers in such hubs, which tends to modify the national economic geographic structure. This paper is a product of the Office of the Vice President and Chief Economist, Development Economics
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    Parallel Title: Zhai, Fan Labor Market Distortions, Rural-Urban Inequality, and the Opening of China's Economy
    Keywords: Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Factor Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Household Survey ; Income Distribution ; Income Inequality ; International Economics & Trade ; Labor ; Labor Force ; Labor Market ; Labor Markets ; Labor Markets ; Labor Mobility ; Labor Policies ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Markets and Market Access ; Poverty Reduction ; Product Market ; Product Market Reform ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Urban Development Policy ; Urban Housing and Land ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Factor Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Household Survey ; Income Distribution ; Income Inequality ; International Economics & Trade ; Labor ; Labor Force ; Labor Market ; Labor Markets ; Labor Markets ; Labor Mobility ; Labor Policies ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Markets and Market Access ; Poverty Reduction ; Product Market ; Product Market Reform ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Urban Development Policy ; Urban Housing and Land ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Factor Markets ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Literacy ; Household Survey ; Income Distribution ; Income Inequality ; International Economics & Trade ; Labor ; Labor Force ; Labor Market ; Labor Markets ; Labor Markets ; Labor Mobility ; Labor Policies ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Markets and Market Access ; Poverty Reduction ; Product Market ; Product Market Reform ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Social Protections and Labor ; Urban Development Policy ; Urban Housing and Land
    Abstract: Hertel and Zhai evaluate the impact of two key factor market distortions in China on rural-urban inequality and income distribution. They find that creation of a fully functioning land market has a significant impact on rural-urban inequality. This reform permits agricultural households to focus solely on the differential between farm and nonfarm returns to labor in determining whether to work on or off-farm. This gives rise to an additional 10 million people moving out of agriculture by 2007 and lends a significant boost to the incomes of those remaining in agriculture. This off-farm migration also contributes to a significant rise in rural-urban migration, thereby lowering urban wages, particularly for unskilled workers. As a consequence, rural-urban inequality declines significantly. The authors find that reform of the Hukou system has the most significant impact on aggregate economic activity, as well as income distribution. Whereas the land market reform primarily benefits the agricultural households, this reform's primary beneficiaries are the rural households currently sending temporary migrants to the city. By reducing the implicit tax on temporary migrants, Hukou reform boosts their welfare and contributes to increased rural-urban migration. The combined effect of both factor market reforms is to reduce the urban-rural income ratio dramatically, from 2.59 in 2007 under the authors' baseline scenario to 2.27. When viewed as a combined policy package, along with WTO accession, rather than increasing inequality in China, the combined impact of product and factor market reforms significantly reduces rural-urban income inequality. This is an important outcome in an economy currently experiencing historic levels of rural-urban inequality. This paper—a product of the Trade Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to evaluate the poverty impacts of trade policy reforms
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    ISBN: 0821358596 , 9780821358597
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    Series Statement: Global Monitoring Report
    Abstract: The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium Declaration - signed by 189 countries in September 2000 - led to the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals, which set clear targets for eradicating poverty and other sources of human deprivation. Following other major international meetings came broad agreement on the goals and strategies to achieve them. The task now is implementation - to translate vision into action. Drawing attention to priorities for action and related accountabilities, the new Global Monitoring Report provides an integrated assessment of the policies and actions needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Produced in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international partners, the Report assesses how the various parties-developing countries, developed countries, and international financial institutions-are playing their part under the agreed development partnership and highlights progress on the development policy agenda
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    Abstract: One of the most significant developments of the Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations (1986-94) was the inclusion of intellectual property rights (IPRs) issues on the agenda of the multilateral trading system. The resulting Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is one of three pillar agreements, setting out the legal framework in which the World Trade Organization (WTO) has operated since the end of the Uruguay Round. For the multilateral trading system, TRIPS marked the departure from narrow negotiations on border measures such as tariffs and quotas toward the establishment of multilateral rules for trade-affecting measures beyond borders. This move reflected underlying trends in international commerce. Due to the growth of trade in knowledge and information-intensive goods, the economic implications of imitation, copying, and counterfeiting had in many industries become at least as relevant for international commerce as conventional border restrictions to trade. Yet the TRIPS negotiations on intellectual property were marked by significant North-South differences. Developed countries, which host the world's largest intellectual property-producing industries, were the key advocates for comprehensive minimum standards of protection and enforcement of IPRs. By contrast, many developing countries, which see themselves mostly as a consumer of intellectual property, felt that stronger standards of protection would serve to limit access to new technologies and products, thereby undermining poor countries' development prospects. Not surprisingly, the TRIPS Agreement remains one of the most controversial agreements of the WTO.This short paper seeks to provide an introduction to the main instruments used to protect intellectual property in section second, the key economic trade-offs of stronger IPRs in section third, the basic provisions of the TRIPS Agreement in section four, and recent TRIPS developments affecting access to medicines in developing countries in section five
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: Cette evaluation s'appuie sur un travail anterieur du departement de l'evaluation des operations (OED) qui evalue dans quelle mesure la strategie de reduction de la pauvrete a permis jusqu'a present de concretiser les principes de la Carte de developpement integree (CDF) en actions, en quoi la strategie repond a la demande des pays en termes de reduction durable de la pauvrete, et l'efficacite de la Banque dans l'appui et l'alignement de ses propres programmes sur l'approche de la strategie de reduction de la pauvrete. L'OED a mene cette evaluation parallelement a une evaluation, par le Bureau d'evaluation independant du Fonds monetaire international (FMI), des documents de la strategie de reduction de la pauvrete et de la Facilite pour la reduction de la pauvrete et pour la croissance
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    Series Statement: World Development Report
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Abstract: Firms and entrepreneurs of all types - from microenterprises to multinationals - play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions drive job creation, the availability and affordability of goods and services for consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw on to fund health, education, and other services.The World Development Report 2005 argues that improving the investment climates of their societies should be a top priority for governments. Drawing on surveys of nearly 30,000 firms in 53 developing countries, country case studies, and other new research, the Report explores questions such as: - What are the key features of a good investment climate, and how do they influence growth and poverty? - What can governments do to improve their investment climates, and how can they go about tackling such a broad agenda? - What has been learned about good practice in each of the main areas of the investment climate? - What role might selective interventions and international arrangements play in improving the investment climate? - What can the international community do to help developing countries improve the investment climates of their societies? In addition to detailed chapters exploring these and related issues, the Report contains selected data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World Development Indicators 2004. This Report offers practical insights for policymakers, executives, scholars, and all those with an interest in economic development
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    Abstract: The Arab region faces a growing realization that development paths of the past are no longer capable of achieving national objectives. The problem of insufficient job creation in the Arab region is mounting, and without fundamental transitions in the Arab economies which ensure greater and sustainable job creation, the employment challenge will worsen rapidly and dramatically. The authors will articulate the broad course of action needed in the Arab economies. First, in Section II the authors describe the development challenges facing the Arab world, in particular, the challenge of employment creation. In Section III, the authors examine the constraints of the old development model in the region in terms of meeting these development challenges. Section IV proposes a set of transitions that constitute the contours of a new development model. Section V outlines the fundamental changes needed for making this transition, including improved governance, higher quality education and greater gender equality. The concluding section VI makes a few observations about the feasibility and issues of implementation
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    Series Statement: Country Procurement Assessment
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    Abstract: The first Country Procurement Assessment Report (CPAR) was completed in June 2002 and published in March 2003. This CPAR has served as an analytical tool to help assess the public procurement system in the Philippines, and in the process, helped to generate a dialogue with the Government to improve procurement practices, and to help civil society and the private sector better understand the current processes, and procedures in place. The CPAR Update reviewes the status of the reforms, and finds that over 50 percent of the recommendations from the first CPAR have been completed, and another 26 percent are in progress. The key accomplishments include the passage and promulgation of the Government Procurement Reform Act, and implementing rules and regulations, the establishment and immediate functioning of a powerful Government Procurement Policy Board (GPPB) and its Technical Services Office, mandatory implementation of electronic procurement systems, a well-defined complaint mechanism and blacklisting procedures, provision for civil society monitoring, reasonable procurement audit provisions, numerous dissemination and training activities, and near-completion of harmonized bid documents and manuals. It is worth particularly noting that the new procurement policy has institutionalized the participation of civil society organizations in all bids, and awards committees, thus enhancing the integrity of the bidding process. There is still much to be done however. This Update identifies several emerging priorities, including the perception of high cost of some works and goods, and the eligibility of Philippine firms to compete for internationally financed contracts
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    Series Statement: miniAtlas Series
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    Abstract: Le 'miniAtlas du developpement global' est un guide permettant de discerner en un seul coup d'oeil les problemer de developpement les plus urgents dans le monde. Fonde sur la compliation predominante de donnees de developpement de la Banque Mondiale-les 'Indicateurs de developpement mondial'-ainsi que 'l'Atlas de la Banque Mondiale' et le 'Petit livre de donnes', le 'miniAtlas' fournit des cartes en couleur et faciles a lire, des tableaux et des graphiques qui recapitulent les principales donnees sociales, economiques et environnementales de 208 pays et territoires. Plus particulierement destine a presenter des informations detaillees en format poche, le 'miniAtlas' constitue une introduction pratique et une reference rapide aux problemes actuels de developpements les plus urgents
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    Series Statement: Country Environmental Analysis
    Abstract: The main objectives of the Country Environmental Analysis for Tunisia are: (a) to facilitate the integration of environmental issues into sectoral development strategies, which could affect the sustainability of development in particular with respect to economic growth, poverty reduction, and quality of life, and (b) to improve, adapt, and strengthen institutional capacity and decision-making processes in line within this integration requirement and the international economic context. Three outcome and progress indicators, which despite being incomplete and could be improved, made it possible to assess the trends and environmental progress for this study: The cost of environmental degradation is estimated at 522 million Tunisian dinars, or 2.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)-the lowest rate among the Mashreq and Maghreb countries. Adjusted Net Savings (ANS) rose from 2.6 percent of GDP in 1980 to 19 percent in 1999, with a prevalence of around 15 percent and steady growth between 1993 and 1999. In the Environmental Sustainability Index, Tunisia ranks 61st among 142 countries rated. Its ranking places it in the middle of the countries of the Mediterranean Basin and first in the group of southern Mediterranean countries
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    Parallel Title: Chen, Shaohua How Have the World's Poorest Fared Since the Early 1980s?
    Keywords: Extreme Poverty ; Food Consumption ; Global Poverty ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household Size ; Household Survey ; Household Surveys ; Income ; Inequality ; International Poverty Line ; Per Capita Consumption ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Extreme Poverty ; Food Consumption ; Global Poverty ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household Size ; Household Survey ; Household Surveys ; Income ; Inequality ; International Poverty Line ; Per Capita Consumption ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Extreme Poverty ; Food Consumption ; Global Poverty ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; Household Size ; Household Survey ; Household Surveys ; Income ; Inequality ; International Poverty Line ; Per Capita Consumption ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction
    Abstract: Chen and Ravallion present new estimates of the extent of the developing world's progress against poverty. By the frugal
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    Abstract: The paper investigates adjustment costs of trade liberalization in Russia by estimating various labor market elasticities with respect to indicators of trade liberalization in the 90-ies. In particular, the influence of tariff reduction on demand for labor is estimated, inter-sectoral employment flows in recent years and their determinants are studied, as well as determinants of sectoral wage premiums and of wage differentials between skilled and unskilled labor. The estimated elasticities of labor demand and wages show to be of very moderate size implying a modest adjustment cost in the labor market
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    Series Statement: World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
    Abstract: This report discusses the number of cross-currents and risks within and without the East Asia region. One of the concerns discussed is the steep spike in world oil prices, which will reduce incomes among the majority of economies in the region that are net energy importers, as well as among the developed nations which comprise Emerging East Asias major extra-regional export markets - the United States, Japan and Europe. The report also reviews the affects of oil prices, as well as a variety of domestic factors and the fact that growth in the developed world shifted to a lower pace in the second quarter of 2004, most notably in Japan and to a lesser extent in the U.S., while monthly indicators suggested softening activity in Europe in the third quarter. Also discussed is the growth pause in the developed world and the likelihood of another cyclical downturn in the global high tech industry, a concern for East Asia which is now the leading location for manufacturing and assembly in this industry. The study notes that East Asian decision makers are also giving much attention to the outlook for China
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    ISBN: 0821357484 , 9780821357484
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    Series Statement: Doing Business
    DDC: 338.5/1
    Abstract: Doing Business in 2005: Removing Obstacles to Growth is the second in a series of annual reports investigating the scope and manner of regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 145 countries-from Albania to Zimbabwe-and over time. The previous report, Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation, presented indicators in five main topics: starting a business, hiring and firing workers, enforcing contracts, getting credit and closing a business. Doing Business in 2005 updates these measures and adds another two sets: registering property and protecting investors. The indicators are used to analyze economic and social outcomes, such as productivity, investment, informality, corruption, unemployment, and poverty, and identify what reforms have worked, where and why. In Doing Business in 2005, you will also find answers to such questions as: Which are the Top 10 reformer countries since last year? Which are the Top 20 economies for doing business? As well as which countries implemented more harmful regulations? Doing Business is a comprehensive resource that no investor, policymaker, or economic advisor should be without
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    ISBN: 0821357344 , 9780821357347
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    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: In its 3rd annual edition, The Little Green Data Book 2004 is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. Profiles of each country include 48 key development indicators like: Population, Urban Population, Rural Population Density; GNI, GDP, Gross National Savings; Forest Area, Annual Deforestation; Agricultural Land, Fertilizer Consumption, Irrigated Land, Food Production Index; Mammal and Bird Species Threatened; Electric Power Consumption, GDP per unit of energy use; CO2 Emissions per Capita, Passenger Cars; Freshwater resources per capita, Access to Sanitation; Energy Depletion, Education Expenditure, Under-5 Mortality Rate. Drawing on data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2004, The Little Green Data Book provides quick reference to the latest available environmental data for World Bank member countries as well as other economies with populations of over 30,000
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    Abstract: In this study, the authors analyze where we stand and where we are heading on capital market development. More specifically, this study has three main goals. First, the authors take stock of the state and evolution of Latin American capital markets and related reforms, over time and relative to other countries. Second, authors analyze the factors driving the development of capital markets, with particular interest on measuring the impact of reforms. Third, in light of this analysis, authors discuss the prospects for capital market development in Latin America and emerging economies in general, and the implications for the reform agenda going forward. To understand the state and future of capital markets in developing countries, the report consists of three additional chapters. Chapter two documents the main developments in international financial markets and the increasing globalization process. The chapter also describes the influence of these worldwide trends on Latin America, with particular attention to the effects on the policies and reforms adopted. Chapter three evaluates the factors behind the development (or lack of development) of capital markets. The chapter first studies how different macroeconomic and institutional variables affect the development of domestic stock and bond markets and their internationalization. The second part of chapter three analyzes the effects of reforms on capital markets. The chapter finishes by examining whether the experience of Latin America is similar to that of other regions. Finally, chapter four discusses the future of capital markets in developing countries, the policy implications, and the lessons for the reform agenda
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    Abstract: This module illustrates the basics of trade policy analysis. It focuses on the following questions: 1) What do countries gain by trading with each other instead of opting for self sufficiency?; 2) What are the main instruments of trade policy?; 3) How do they affect prices, output and welfare?; and 4) What are the effects of trade policy in the presence of market imperfections. This book is arranged as follows: In Section one, the authors show how the main welfare effects of trade policy can be analyzed. In Section two, the authors illustrate the main sources of gains from trade, namely, how and why international trade raises welfare. In Section three, the authors examine the main trade policy instruments and discuss their welfare effects, while in Section four the authors ask whether there is scope for trade policy in the presence of externalities generated by domestic production or when markets are imperfectly competitive. The main issues will be illustrated in very simple and intuitive terms. Boxes will instead provide a more rigorous analysis of the arguments discussed in this module
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    Parallel Title: Do, Quy-Toan Institutional Trap
    Keywords: Agents ; Bargaining ; Consensus ; Corruption ; Entry ; GDP ; Index ; Institutional Change ; Licensing ; Nature ; Production ; Roads and Highways ; Supply ; Transport ; Agents ; Bargaining ; Consensus ; Corruption ; Entry ; GDP ; Index ; Institutional Change ; Licensing ; Nature ; Production ; Roads and Highways ; Supply ; Transport ; Agents ; Bargaining ; Consensus ; Corruption ; Entry ; GDP ; Index ; Institutional Change ; Licensing ; Nature ; Production ; Roads and Highways ; Supply ; Transport
    Abstract: The author studies the persistence of inequality and inefficient governance in a physical capital accumulation model with perfect information, missing credit markets, and endogenous barriers to entry. When access to investment opportunities is regulated, rent-seeking entrepreneurs form coalitions of potentially varying size to bribe a regulator to restrict entry. Small coalitions run short of resources, while large coalitions suffer more severe free-rider problems. The distribution of wealth thus determines the equilibrium coalition structure of the economy and consequently the level of regulatory capture. A dynamic analysis supports the persistence of inefficiencies in the long run. Initial conditions determine whether the economy converges to a steady state characterized by efficient governance and low levels of inequality, or a path toward an institutional trap where regulatory capture and wealth inequality reinforce each other. This paper—a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of institutions
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    Parallel Title: Do, Quy-Toan Trade and Financial Development
    Keywords: Comparative Advantage ; Cred Development ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economy ; Emerging Markets ; Equilibrium ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Sector ; GDP ; Goods ; Income ; Increasing Returns ; Increasing Returns To Scale ; International Trade ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Private Sector Development ; Comparative Advantage ; Cred Development ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economy ; Emerging Markets ; Equilibrium ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Sector ; GDP ; Goods ; Income ; Increasing Returns ; Increasing Returns To Scale ; International Trade ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Private Sector Development ; Comparative Advantage ; Cred Development ; Debt Markets ; Economic Theory and Research ; Economy ; Emerging Markets ; Equilibrium ; Finance and Financial Sector Development ; Financial Sector ; GDP ; Goods ; Income ; Increasing Returns ; Increasing Returns To Scale ; International Trade ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Private Sector Development
    Abstract: The differences in financial systems between industrial and developing countries are pronounced. It has been observed, both theoretically and empirically, that the differences in countries' financial systems are a source of comparative advantage in trade. Do and Levchenko point out that to the extent a country's financial development is endogenous, it will in turn be influenced by trade. They build a model in which a country's financial development is an equilibrium outcome of the economy's productive structure: in countries with large financially intensive sectors, financial systems are more developed. When a wealthy and a poor country open to trade, the financially dependent sectors grow in the wealthy country, and so does the financial system. By contrast, as the financially intensive sectors shrink in the poor country, demand for external finance decreases and the domestic financial system deteriorates. The authors test their model using data on financial development for a sample of 77 countries. They find that the main predictions of the model are borne out in the data: trade openness is associated with faster financial development in wealthier countries, and with slower financial development in poorer ones. This paper—a product of the Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to investigate the relation between finance and trade
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    Parallel Title: Chen, Shaohua China's (Uneven) Progress Against Poverty
    Keywords: Economic Policies ; Extreme Poverty ; Farmers ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; High Inequality ; Household Survey ; Impact On Poverty ; Income Growth ; Inequality ; Measures ; National Poverty ; Poor ; Poor People ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Economic Policies ; Extreme Poverty ; Farmers ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; High Inequality ; Household Survey ; Impact On Poverty ; Income Growth ; Inequality ; Measures ; National Poverty ; Poor ; Poor People ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction ; Economic Policies ; Extreme Poverty ; Farmers ; Health, Nutrition and Population ; High Inequality ; Household Survey ; Impact On Poverty ; Income Growth ; Inequality ; Measures ; National Poverty ; Poor ; Poor People ; Population Policies ; Poverty Reduction ; Pro-Poor Growth ; Rural Development ; Rural Poverty Reduction
    Abstract: While the incidence of extreme poverty in China fell dramatically over 1980–2001, progress was uneven over time and across provinces. Rural areas accounted for the bulk of the gains to the poor, though migration to urban areas helped. The pattern of growth mattered. Rural economic growth was far more important to national poverty reduction than urban economic growth. Agriculture played a far more important role than the secondary or tertiary sources of GDP. Rising inequality within the rural sector greatly slowed poverty reduction. Provinces starting with relatively high inequality saw slower progress against poverty, due both to lower growth and a lower growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Taxation of farmers and inflation hurt the poor. External trade had little short-term impact. This paper—a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the causes of country success in poverty reduction
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    Abstract: The twelve members of the Commonwealth of Independent States established a Free Trade Area to help maintain trade among each other. More recently, Belarus, Kazakstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Russia agreed, in principle, to establish a Customs Union (CU). The paper concludes that the dynamic effects of the CU (and Free Trade Area) are likely to be negative because it would tend to lock the countries into the old technology of the Soviet Union. The static effects are mixed but are adverse for countries that have liberal trade regimes compared to the common external tariff contemplated for the CU
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    Series Statement: Transport Papers
    Abstract: This report is intended to facilitate the discussions between the World Bank and the Governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, City Governments of Chennai and Bangalore, on possibly expanding the Bank's urban transport assistance in these two cities, and elsewhere in the two states. The report consists of a diagnostic chapter, a discussion of pivotal issues, a reformulated strategy, and a menu of possible Bank-funded projects to support this strategy. Case studies of urban transport in Chennai and Bangalore, the basis for the report, are attached
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    Abstract: The desiccation of the Aral Sea was one of the greatest environmental disasters of the latter part of the twentieth century. In 1960, it was the fourth largest lake in the world. However, since 1965, the sea has lost seventy five percent of its volume and the coastline has advanced hundred kilometers. The sea is now divided into two sections and if desiccation continues, it will eventually devolve into a string of isolated salt lakes. The desire of the former Soviet Union for self-sufficiency in cotton led to massive expansion of cotton production in Central Asia, mostly in Uzbekistan, and to the use of irrigated water from rivers that normally fed the Aral Sea. Could the environmental disaster have been avoided if the former Soviet Union had relied more on imported cotton and not diverted these rivers? Can we conclude that if the cost of the irrigated water had been properly considered, Uzbekistan did not have a comparative advantage in cotton production, and the Soviet Union should have imported the cotton? Or are other explanations more important in explaining the environmental disaster?. The authors consider these questions in this case study, but begin with an elaboration of the environmental problems
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    Series Statement: Accounting and Auditing Assessment
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    Abstract: Financial reporting and auditing practices in Moldova's corporate sector are currently in a period of transition from providing for tax calculation and statistical needs to convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Standards on Auditing (ISA). This report draws upon recent international experience in developed economies and EU accession countries as well as expected amendments to EU Directives. The National Accounting Standards (NAS) were developed on the basis of International Accounting Standards (IAS) from 1996 to 1998 for the most part, but they are substantially incomplete and out of date vis-A-vis IFRS (which incorporate IAS). Accordingly, the standard-setting process should be streamlined so as to allow the prompt adoption of the numerous existing IASs not yet reflected in the NAS. The National Standards of Auditing were developed recently and mirror ISA. The existing Accounting Law and certain aspects of the Joint Stock Companies Law are unduly onerous and restrictive in that they demand bookkeeping and other administrative procedures not normally required in market economy systems. These conflict with mandated accounting standards, confuse the preparers of financial statements and are detrimental to the quality of the financial information. A new Accounting Law should be passed with simplified requirements and incorporating key elements of the NAS and relevant EU Directives on that matter
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    Abstract: This report summarizes the measures of contingent protection regulated by the WTO and their purposes. They can be divided into two categories. The first one regards temporary provisions that can be used when a predefined set of circumstances legitimize temporary increases in import barriers. The second one includes permanent exceptions to the general obligations. Temporary restrictions allowed by the WTO are anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, and safeguard measures, (tariffs to assist with balance of payments problems, tariffs to protect infant industries, or tariffs for emergency protection). Permanent exceptions are general waivers from binding obligations, which, in contrast with the other mechanisms, must be formally approved by the WTO Council
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    ISBN: 0821359363 , 9780821359365
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    Abstract: The World Bank's research program has four basic objectives: to broaden the understanding of development, to assist in developing research capacity in the Bank's member countries, to improve its capacity to advise its members, and to support all aspects of its own operations. Whether these aims are achieved depends in part on how extensively Bank research is used internally and externally. In early 2004, surveys were commissioned to assess the use of publications including Bank-wide research (annual flagship publications, Policy Research Reports, Policy Research Working Papers, and the two research journals) by Bank staff and by the Bank's clients. The findings lead to four main conclusions: clients use Bank research publications frequently, Bank research publications are influential, translations are important, and for external clients the Internet is an important source of information. The World Bank Research Program reports on research projects that were initiated, under way, or completed from July 2001 through June 2003 and, for the first time, it includes summaries of large research programs. These multiyear programs undertake analysis on several broad development related issues with the aim of providing strategic directions on critical problems facing Bank clients and operations. Each program centers on a theme giving coherence to the research and its outputs. This title addresses thematic programs such as investment climate, rural development, finance and trade
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    Series Statement: Country Procurement Assessment
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    Abstract: The Malawi Country Procurement Assessment Report is a joint undertaking between the Malawi Government and the World Bank to analyze the country procurement system and recommend appropriate actions to improve the efficiency, economy and transparency of the system. This report is divided into (a) an Executive Summary, (b) Main Report on Findings and Recommendations, and (c) Annexes. Since the preparation of the diagnostic study on Malawi's public procurement system in 1996, the Government has made good progress with establishing new - and relatively good - legal framework for procurement reform. But there has not yet been much reform (institutional, practical and oversight). In 2003, the Malawi Parliament passed a new procurement law, the Public Procurement Act of 2003, which became effective in August of that year. The new Procurement Act requires procurement regulations to provide, among things, thresholds for the use of the various procurement methods, bid and bid evaluation procedures and contract management. The analysis of the CPAR is carried out against the five basic pillars of a sound public procurement system, including: (i) a functioning legal, regulatory and institutional framework, (ii) use of modernized procurement procedures and practices; (iii) procurement proficiency of Government staff; (iv) independence of audits and recourse for complaints; and (v) inclusion of anti-corruption measures in the procurement law and application of effective sanctions. In addition, the CPAR analyses the performance of the private sector in public procurement and the procurement performance of Bank financed projects. The analysis has led to the recommendations made below, summarized in the Action Plan, to strengthen each pillar over time. Weaknesses in current procurement performance are identified as substantial delays in the procurement process, insufficient capacity, and inadequacies in procurement organization, documents and management. The continued reliance on the Interim Guidelines, which include a number of practices that are considered incompatible with internationally acceptable procurement standards, are also partially to blame for this
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    ISBN: 0821356569 , 9780821356562
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (256 p.))
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    Abstract: The Institutional Economics of Water evaluates water institutional reform and water sector performance from an institutional economics and political economy perspective. Against an exhaustive review of the theoretical and empirical literature on institution and performance both in general and in water sector contexts, the title develops an alternative methodology built on: 'institutional ecology' principle, 'institutional decomposition and analysis' framework, and 'subjective theory' of institutional change. Empirical application of this methodology with information collected from 127 water experts from 43 countries/regions and a cross-country review of recent water sector reforms within an institutional transaction cost framework enables the book to conclude with significant implications for both theory and policy in the realm of water sector reform in particular and institutional reforms in general. 'We are both impressed by the book. It will merit prominent publication as a far-reaching application of innovative methodologies to an important, and well explained, worldwide policy problem.' - Randall Calvert, Washington University, St. Louis, US and Thrainn Eggertsson, University of Iceland '[The] literature review . . . is one of the best and most comprehensive that I have seen.' - Daniel W. Bromley, University of Wisconsin, US
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    ISBN: 082135938X , 9780821359389
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (112 p.))
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    Series Statement: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
    Abstract: Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2003 examines the effectiveness of Bank support for developing country policy reform. The report finds that reform has been widespread across countries during the last few years and across a wide spectrum of policy areas. Countries that improved their policies over this period-on average - achieved substantially higher per-capita economic growth than those that did not. The report also finds that Bank support has contributed to reform in a number of cases. But there are also cases where the Bank's support has not been associated with improvements in the policy environment. This is especially noticeable in countries with no track record at all-or an inconsistent or deteriorating record-of policy reform. Several countries have absorbed large amounts of adjustment lending with only mixed results on reform and a substantial increase in indebtedness. The report finds, in conclusion, that management should consider ways to better customize its support to clients' needs and should explore pilot mechanisms to introduce a more direct linkage between its support and results in terms of poverty reduction
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    Abstract: This report is the outcome of a study of public spending and service delivery issues in Papua New Guinea (PNG) undertaken as part of the work on the PNG Poverty Assessment. The study itself is the result of a collaborative effort involving several agencies and organizations including the National Research Institute, the National Department of Education, the Department of National Planning and Rural Development (DNPRD), AusAID and the World Bank. The PESD study is undertaken in a challenging economic and social context for PNG with growing concerns about delivery of basic services. The PNG economy has been in a state of recession since the mid-1990s with negative growth in 7 of the last 9 years. The fiscal situation has been compromised by large deficits. Debt-to-GDP ratio has risen to levels where debt servicing is significant claim on total revenues. Poverty levels have been rising. A growing imperative to contain levels of spending has raised significant concerns for maintaining the level of basic services while needs have grown, and it has also raised pertinent questions about how effectively social spending is translating into the actual delivery of services. The study focuses on the education sector though its findings have wider relevance. The problems that plague the education sector have close parallels in other sectors. The report presents some illustrative data for the health sector for which a limited amount of primary information was collected, but the study's inquiry into conditions promoting or impeding effective service delivery in education has broader relevance for other sectors in PNG, and beyond that for other countries too
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    Series Statement: World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update
    Abstract: This report looks at three sets of issues underlying the present cyclical moment and the outlook for East Asia. First, the evolution of the world economy is always relevant in as open and globally integrated a region as East Asia. Japan's economy seems to have finally returned to broad-based and sustainable growth, while the U.S. economy is growing at 4-5 percent. Global high technology industries appear to have returned to a phase of multi-year expansion (no doubt with quarter to quarter fluctuations). Rising world demand has helped pull primary commodity prices sharply higher, a boon to some of the low-income, commodity exporters in the region, if not to their more industrially developed, commodity importing neighbors. The second set of issues centers on the emergence of China as the economic powerhouse of the region, its rapid integration with other Asian economies and the region wide opportunities, risks and policy challenges that are coming up as a result. Over the last decade the structure of intra-East Asian trade with China has been transformed by the emergence of intricate and sophisticated production networks between countries. For two years now the boom in the Chinese economy has contributed around half the export growth in many other East Asian economies. A third set of issues in this report are the policy efforts undertaken by countries to address domestic challenges as well as international and regional ones. While domestic and foreign direct investment is booming in economies like China and Vietnam, it has only just begun to recover in Thailand, and remains weak in several of the other economies hit by the 1997-98 financial crisis
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    ISBN: 0821357204 , 9780821357200
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (436 p.))
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    Series Statement: Africa Development Indicators
    Abstract: African Development Indicators 2004 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It contains more than 500 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering 53 African countries with data from 1970-2002. The book is grouped into 15 chapters: background data; national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external sector; external debt and related flows; government finance; agriculture; power, communications, and transportation; public enterprises; labor force and employment; aid flows; social indicators; environmental indicators; and HIPC debt initiative. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction on the nature of the data and their limitations, followed by a set of statistical tables, charts, and technical notes that define the indicators and identify their specific source. Included this year are new tables on HIV/AIDS, Communications and Transportation, and the HIPC Debt Initiative. Designed to provide all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data to monitor development programs and aid flows in the region, this is an invaluable reference tools for analysts and policymakers who want a better understanding of the economic and social developments occurring in Africa
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    ISBN: 0821357417 , 9780821357415
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (650 p.))
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    Series Statement: Global Development Finance
    Abstract: The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, private capital flows to developing countries increased to
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    ISBN: 0821357409 , 9780821357408
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    Series Statement: Global Development Finance
    Abstract: The external financing environment facing developing countries has brightened. In 2003, as global growth gained momentum, private capital flows to developing countries increased to
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    ISBN: 0821358294 , 9780821358290
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (56 p.))
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    Abstract: The purpose of these Guidelines is to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) or a credit or grant from the International Development Association (IDA), of the policies that govern the procurement of goods, works, and services (other than consultant services) reqired for the project
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    ISBN: 0821357336 , 9780821357330
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (240 p.))
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    Series Statement: World Development Indicators
    Abstract: Now in its 6th edition, The Little Data Book 2004 is a pocket-sized ready reference on key development data for 206 countries. Profiles of each country include 54 key development indicators like: Population and population growth; GNI, GDP, GDP growth, Exports and Imports, and Gross Capital Formation; Deforestation, Water Use, Energy Use and Electricity Use per Capita; Life Expectancy, Fertility Rate, Child Malnutrition, Prevalence of HIV, Girls in Primary School; Paved Roads, Aircraft Departures, Personal Computers; High-technology exports, Foreign Direct Investment, Present Value of Debt, and Aid per Capita. Drawing on data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators 2004, The Little Data Book provides quick reference to the latest available data for World Bank member countries as well as other economies with populations of over 30,000. Separate tables summarize data for the World, by Region (East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and Africa, etc.), and Income Group. A helpful Glossary of Terms defines each indicator
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    ISBN: 0821358286 , 9780821358283
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    Abstract: The purpose of these Guidelines is to define the Bank's policies and procedures for selecting, contracting, and monitoring consultants required for projects that are financed in whole or in part by loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), credits or grants from the International Development Association (IDA), or grants from the Bank or trust funds administered by the Bank and executed by the beneficiary
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    ISBN: 0821358006 , 9780821358009
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (287 p.))
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    Series Statement: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics
    Abstract: The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge about development. First held at World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. in 1988, the ABCDE has become broader in scope as the world's economies have become more interconnected and challenges have become more complex. Presenting the proceedings of the May 2003 World Bank Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), the volume imparts new research findings and discussions on key policy issues related to poverty reduction by eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world. Topics include Fostering Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth; Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions; Participation, Inclusion and Results and Scaling Up and Evaluation. Contributors to the volume include, Nicholas Stern, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank; Azim Hasham Premji, Chairman of Bangalore's Wipro Corporation; Francois Bourguignon of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Possiy, France; Partha Dasgupta of Cambridge University; Justin Lin of Hong Kong University; Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India; Jean Philippe Platteau of the University of Namur, Belgium; Karen Polenske of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; T. N. Srinivasan, of Yale University; and Anthony Venables of the London School of Economics. The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2004 is a critical reference guide for development research and will be of interest to practitioners and those studying international development and poverty reduction
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    ISBN: 0821357719 , 9780821357712
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    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
    Abstract: Contents of Volume 1: Message from the Chairman, The Board of Executive Directors, The World Bank Group, The Development Agenda, Regional Perspectives, Thematic Perspectives, Improving Development Effectiveness, Summary of Fiscal 2004 Activities, and About the World Bank
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    ISBN: 0821360051 , 9780821360057
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    Abstract: Firms and entrepreneurs of all types-from microenterprises to multinationals-play a central role in growth and poverty reduction. Their investment decisions drive job creation, the availability and affordability of goods and services for consumers, and the tax revenues governments can draw on to fund health, education, and other services. Their contribution depends largely on the way governments shape the investment climate in each location-through the protection of property rights, regulation and taxation, strategies for providing infrastructure, interventions in finance and labor markets, and broader governance features such as corruption. The World Development Report 2005 argues that improving the investment climates of their societies should be a top priority for governments. Drawing on surveys of nearly 30,000 firms in 53 developing countries, country case studies, and other new research, the Report explores questions such as: What are the key features of a good investment climate, and how do they influence growth and poverty? What can governments do to improve their investment climates, and how can they go about tackling such a broad agenda? What has been learned about good practice in each of the main areas of the investment climate? What role might selective interventions and international arrangements play in improving the investment climate? What can the international community do to help developing countries improve the investment climates of their societies? In addition to detailed chapters exploring these and related issues, the Report contains selected data from the World Bank's new program of Investment Climate Surveys, the Bank's Doing Business Project, and World Development Indicators 2004-an appendix of economic and social data for over 200 countries. This Report offers practical insights for policymakers, executives, scholars, and all those with an interest in economic development
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    ISBN: 9781402022456
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 321 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Analecta Husserliana, The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research 83
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    Keywords: Modern philosophy. ; Philosophy. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Phenomenology . ; Anthropology. ; Philosophy, Modern. ; Philosophy—History. ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, modern ; Anthropology ; Phänomenologie
    Abstract: The Ontopoietic Spread of the Logos of Life -- Around the Aretelogical Challenge of the “ontopoiesis of Life” -- The Cipher as the Unity of Signifier and Signified -- “Ontopoi?sis” and the Interpretation of Plato’s “khÔra” -- Self-individualization as the Main Principle in the Phenomenology of Life -- The Individualized Living Being as Node in Networks of Significant Affairs within a Vital System -- A Philosophy of the Unsayable: Apophasis and the Experience of Truth and Totality -- Creative Imagination Ciphering the Moral Discourse Between the Self and the Other -- Creative Process as a Factor and Condition of the Phenomenology of Life -- Levinas’ Disruptive Imagination: Time, Self and the Other -- Human Life as a Creative Completion of an An-archical Promise of Goodness in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas -- The Ethical Orientation of the Art of Human Creativity in the Book Ethics of Value and Hope by J. Tischner -- Creative “Représentance”: Ricoeur on Care, Death and History -- The Productive Function of the Will in the Philosophical Thought of William James -- The ‘Is-Ought Question’ Once More Reconsidered -- Multiple Rays of Creative Imagination Ciphering the Elemental Expansion of the Human Condition -- Wilderness: A Zoocentric Phenomenology — from Hediger to Heidegger -- Gewalt und Passibilität des Lebens: Entwurf Einer Praktischen Phänomenologie -- “African Vitalogy”: The African Mind and Spirituality -- The Tales of the Woods -- What the Eyes Alone Cannot See: Lakota Phenomenology and the Vision Quest -- The Ontopoiesis of the Dwelling: Art as Construction of a Human Space -- Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Organic Architecture”: An Ecological Approach in Theory and Practice -- The Creative Inwardness As a Forge of the Novel Types of Aesthetic Ciphers -- Creative Inwardness in Early Modern Italian Thought -- Creativity and Aesthetic Experience: The Problem of the Possibility of Beauty and Sensitiveness -- Confirmations of ‘life’ in a Phenomenology of Poetic Images -- The Sense of Creativity by Andrei Tarkovski -- Twilight of the Eidos: The Question of Form in Heidegger’s Reading of Nietzsche’s Thought upon Art -- Traditional Works of Art and Networks of Art: Phenomenological Reflection -- Vincent Van Gogh’s Five Bedrooms at Arles: An Analysis of Creative Copies -- Figureless Landscape: The Persistence of the Sublime in American Landscape Painting -- The Aestheticization of Life by Photography -- The Convergent ‘I’: Empathy as an Aesthetic Category -- Mass-media Communication as a Possible Creative Source -- La Modernidad y la Filosofía de la Historia -- Creativity, Intentionality, Hermeneutics; Husserlian Inquiries -- The Function of Intentionality and the Function of Creativity; A.-T. Tymieniecka and E. Husserl: A Confrontation -- Creativity in Husserl’s Impulsive Intentionality -- Merleau-Ponty and Expressive Life: A Hermeneutical Study -- The Philosophical Psyche and Creativity -- Sein und Zeit in the Works of Edith Stein -- Creative Imagination in the Invention of Ciphers of the Cognitive Scientific Logos -- Transworld Individuals Versus David Lewis’s Creation of Counterpart Individuals -- The Endurance of Aesthetic Objects and the Relative Durability of Scientific Theories -- Phenomenology of Creative Application of Mathematical Analogy in Arts and Literature -- The Analogy Between “Orthodox” Quantum Theory and Polyphony of Fiction -- A Systemic Typology of Scientific Phenomena -- New Humanism.
    Abstract: The fulgurating power of creative imagination - Imaginatio Creatrix - setting in motion the Human Condition within the-unity-of-everything there-is-alive is the key to the rebirth of philosophy. From as early as 1971 (see the third volume of the Analecta Husserliana series, The Phenomenological Realism of the Possible Worlds, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, ed.), Imaginatio Creatrix has been the leitmotif for the research work of the World Phenomenology Institute (now published in eighty-three Analecta Husserliana volumes), one that is eliciting echoes from all around. Husserl's diagnosis of a crisis in Western science and culture, the inspiration of much of postmodern phenomenology, has yielded place to a wave of scientific discovery, technological invention, and change in societal life, individual lifestyles, the arts, etc. These throw a glaring light on human creative genius and the crucial role of the imagination that gives it expression. This present collection is an instance of that expression and the response it evokes. It manifests the role of imagination in forming and interpreting our world -in-transformation in a new way and opens our eyes to marvel at the new world on the way. Papers by: Semiha Akinci, John Baldacchino, Angela Ales Bello, Elif Cirakman, Tracy Colony, Carmen Cozma, Charles de Brantes, Mamuka G. Dolidze, Edward Domagala, Shannon Driscoll, Nader E1-Bizri, Ignacy Fiut, William Franke, Elga Freiberga, Beata Furgalska, Nicoletta Ghigi, Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, David Grünberg, Oliver W. Holmes, Milan Jaros, Rolf Kühn, Maija Kule, Rimma Kurenkova, Matthew Landrus, Nancy Mardas, David Martinez, William D. Melaney, Mieczyslaw, Pawel Migon, Martin Nkafu Nkemnkia, Leszek Pyra, W. Kim Rogers, Bruce Ross, Osvaldo Rossi, Julio E. Rubio, Diane G. Scillia, Mina Sehdev, Dennis E. Skocz, Mariola Sulkowska, Robert D. Sweeney, Jan Szmyd, Piero Trupia, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Richard T. Webster.
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    ISBN: 9781402022241
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 202 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 11
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Philosophy. ; Religion. ; Ethics. ; Law—Philosophy. ; Ethics ; Philosophy of Law ; Philosophy (General) ; Religion (General) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Naturrecht ; Ethik
    Abstract: Confronting Moral Pluralism: Assessing Universal Applicability -- Natural Law and Global Ethics -- Natural Law and Moral Pluralism -- Natural Law and Modern Meta-Ethics -- Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory -- Engaging The Limits of Human Nature -- Global Ethics and Natural Law -- Natural Law and Conflict -- Natural Law and Historical Mindedness -- An Assessment of the Requirements of the Study of Natural Law -- Beyond Rationalistic Philosophy: Assessing Universal Accessibility -- Natural Law and Global Ethics -- The Perversity of Thomistic Natural Law Theory -- Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition -- Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition: A Biblicist Responds -- The Natural Law Tradition and a Culture in Crisis -- Insights and Hindsights from Seeking a Global Ethic.
    Abstract: Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself. This volume critically explores and assesses our contemporary culture wars in terms of: the possibility of natural law moral philosophy and theology to provide a unique, content-full, canonical morality; the character and nature of moral pluralism; the limits of justifiable national and international policy seeking to produce and preserve human happiness, social justice, and the common good; the ways in which morality, moral epistemology, and social political reform must be set within the broader context of an appropriately philosophically and theologically anchored anthropology. This work will be of interest to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists, ethicists and political scientists.
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    ISBN: 9781402021275
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 570 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Philosophy and Medicine 78
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    Keywords: Life sciences. ; Ethics. ; Medical ethics. ; Medicine—Philosophy. ; Ontology. ; Medical laws and legislation. ; Ethics ; Ontology ; Philosophy (General) ; medicine Philosophy ; Medical ethics ; Public health laws ; Bioethik
    Abstract: Introduction: Taking Stock of Bioethics From a Philosophical Perspective -- Introduction: Taking Stock of Bioethics From a Philosophical Perspective -- The Emergence of Bioethics -- The History of Bioethics as a Discipline -- Bioethical Theory -- Principles and Principlism -- Casuistry -- Virtue Theory in Philosophy of Medicine -- Common Morality -- Feminist Approaches to Bioethics -- Four Narrative Approaches to Bioethics -- Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Ethics: A Phenomenological Perspective -- Core Concepts in Clinical Ethics -- The Logic of Health Concepts -- Physicians and Patients in Relation: Clinical Interpretation and Dialogues of Trust -- Informed Consent -- Philosophical Challenges to the Use of Advance Directives -- Ethics Committees and Case Consultation: Theory and Practice -- The Public Policy Context -- The Ethics of Controlled Clinical Trials -- Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis for the Prioritization of Health Resources -- Sic Et Non: Some Disputed Questions in Reproductive Ethics -- Testing Genes and Constructing Humans — Ethics and Genetics -- Foundations of the Health Professions -- Death, Dying, Euthanasia, and Palliative Care: Perspectives from Philosophy of Medicine and Ethics -- Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry -- Nursing Ethics -- Geroethics -- Ethics and Philosophy of Public Health.
    Abstract: In general, the history of virtue theory is well-documented (Sherman, 1997; O’Neill, 1996). Its relationship to medicine is also recorded in our work and in that of others (Pellegrino and Thomasma, 1993b; 1996; Drane, 1994; Ellos, 1990). General publications stress the importance of training the young in virtuous practices. Still, the popularity of education in virtue is widely viewed as part of a conservative backlash to modern liberal society. Given the authorship of some of these works by professional conservatives like William Bennett (1993; 1995), this concern is authentic. One might correspondingly fear that greater adoption of virtue theory in medicine will be accompanied by a corresponding backward-looking social agenda. Worse yet, does reaffirmation of virtue theory lacquer over the many challenges of the postmodern world view as if these were not serious concerns? After all, recreating the past is the “retro” temptation of our times. Searching for greater certitude than we can now obtain preoccupies most thinkers today. One wishes for the old clarity and certitudes (Engelhardt, 1991). On the other hand, the same thinkers who yearn for the past, like Engelhardt sometimes seems to do, might stress the unyielding gulf between past and present that creates the postmodern reaction to all systems of Enlightenment thought (1996).
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    ISBN: 9781402020940
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 308 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Innovation and Change in Professional Education 2
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    Keywords: Learning. ; Instruction. ; Education. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Professionalisierung
    Abstract: On the Long Way from Novice to Expert and How Travelling Changes the Traveller -- The Role of Experience in Professional Training and Development of Psychological Counsellors -- The Case of Plant Identification in Biology: When Is a Rose a Rose? -- Overcoming Problems of Knowledge Application and Transfer -- Does Practice Make Perfect? -- Fostering Managerial Problem-Solving -- From Theory to Practice in Medical Education -- Embedding and Immersion As Key Strategies in Learning to Teach -- Teaching Expertise -- Professional Learning: Deliberate Attempts at Developing Expertise -- Learning Professionals: Towards an Integrated Model -- From Individual Cognition to Communities of Practice -- Competence-Supporting Working Conditions -- Network Ties, Cognitive Centrality, and Team Interaction Within a Telecommunication Company.
    Abstract: About the Book Series The idea for the Book Series “Innovation and Change in Professional Education” (ICPE) was born in 1996. While working on another publication in this area, we noticed that professional educators faced similar problems without even knowing from each other. It was this observation that resulted in examining the possibilities for a new publication platform about professional education with input from different professions. We wanted to develop a publication source that would bring together educators and researchers to exchange ideas and knowledge about theory, research and professional practice. But we were not only striving for a book series informing readers about important themes in the professions. A second goal was to focus on processes of change and innovation. We were heavily involved in innovations going on in our institutions, and were convinced that a better understanding was needed in a wide range of issues critically important to the future of professional education. It was our belief that scholarly publications about innovation processes may support fundamental change in professional education. ICPE reflects our view that professional education deserves such a publication platform. It aims to approach critical questions of educational innovations, and to examine dynamics of educational change in various professional domains in the context of innovation processes. The books will include contributions from frontline practitioners, leading researchers, or distinguished scholars in professional education, delivering reports of empirical or theoretical research, reviews, interpretations of evaluation studies, or descriptions of innovative approaches.
    Description / Table of Contents: ""Contents""
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    ISBN: 9781402030147
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 659 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 325
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    Keywords: Philosophy. ; Philosophy of mind. ; Ethics. ; Metaphysics. ; Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Metaphysics ; Philosophy of mind
    Abstract: Personal Borders -- Border Control -- Physiological Borders -- Neurological Borders -- Spatial Borders -- Psychological Borders -- Causal Borders -- Metaphysical Borders -- Identity Borders -- Phenomenological Borders -- Transcendental Borders -- Moral Borders.
    Abstract: Borders enclose and separate us. We assign to them tremendous significance. Along them we draw supposedly uncrossable boundaries within which we believe our individual identities begin and end, erecting the metaphysical dividing walls that enclose each one of us into numerically identical, numerically distinct, entities: persons. Do the borders between us—physical, psychological, neurological, causal, spatial, temporal, etc.—merit the metaphysical significance ordinarily accorded them? The central thesis of I Am You is that our borders do not signify boundaries between persons. We are all the same person. Variations on this heretical theme have been voiced periodically throughout the ages (the Upanishads, Averroës, Giordano Bruno, Josiah Royce, Schrödinger, Fred Hoyle, Freeman Dyson). In presenting his arguments, the author relies on detailed analyses of recent formal work on personal identity, especially that of Derek Parfit, Sydney Shoemaker, Robert Nozick, David Wiggins, Daniel C. Dennett and Thomas Nagel, while incorporating the views of Descartes, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Kant, Husserl and Brouwer. His development of the implied moral theory is inspired by, and draws on, Rawls, Sidgwick, Kant and again Parfit. The traditional, commonsense view that we are each a separate person numerically identical to ourselves over time, i.e., that personal identity is closed under known individuating and identifying borders—what the author calls Closed Individualism—is shown to be incoherent. The demonstration that personal identity is not closed but open points collectively in one of two new directions: either there are no continuously existing, self-identical persons over time in the sense ordinarily understood—the sort of view developed by philosophers as diverse as Buddha, Hume and most recently Derek Parfit, what the author calls Empty Individualism—or else you are everyone, i.e., personal identity is not closed under known individuating and identifying borders, what the author calls Open Individualism. In making his case, the author: * offers a new explanation both of consciousness and of self-consciousness * constructs a new theory of Self * explains psychopathologies (e.g. multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia) * shows Open Individualism to be the best competing explanation of who we are * provides the metaphysical foundations for global ethics. The book is intended for philosophers and the philosophically inclined—physicists, mathematicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, economists, and communication theorists. It is accessible to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
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    ISBN: 9781402022081
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VII, 394 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Political science. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Environmental law. ; Environmental policy. ; Social sciences. ; Social sciences ; Environmental law
    Abstract: 1 The Consequences of International Regimes -- I: Simple Effectiveness -- 2 Methodological Challenges in the Study of Regime Effectiveness -- 3 Case Studies of the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes -- 4 Causal Mechanisms and the Study of International Environmental Regimes -- 5 Boolean Analysis, Mechanisms, and the Study of Regime Effectiveness -- 6 A Quantitative Approach to Evaluating International Environmental Regimes -- 7 Formal Theory and Regime Effectiveness: Rational Players, Irrational Regimes -- 8 Does Regime Robustness Require a Fair Distribution of The Gains from Cooperation? -- II: Broader Consequences -- 9 Methodological Issues in the Study of Broader Consequences -- 10 Exploring Regime Interaction -- 11 International Regimes And Democracy -- 12 Into the Methodological Void -- 13 Regimes and Social Transformation -- III: Conclusion -- 14 Research Strategies for the Future.
    Abstract: This volume has a long and distinguished pedigree. It is the product of an effort to devise clear and unambiguous methods for demonstrating that international regimes make a difference stretching back at least to the early 1990s. What has transpired in the meantime is the development of a suite of useful techniques of analysis rather than the creation of a single, correct methodology for use in this field of study. Our assumption is that we can be relatively confident regarding assessments of the consequences of individual regimes when those employing a variety of methods converge on the same conclusions. When different methods yield divergent conclusions, on the other hand, we can take this as a signal that more work is needed to arrive at convincing judgments regarding the consequences of the regimes in question. Along the way, we came to understand that there is an important distinction between what we describe in this book as simple effectiveness and broader consequences. Most analyses of the effectiveness of international regimes focus on individual cases and seek to assess the performance of regimes on a case-by-case basis. This is entirely understandable. Yet it is now clear that individual regimes not only interact with one another but also operate in and affect broader settings. The study of these broader consequences is less mature than research on the effectiveness of individual regimes.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; Contributing Authors; Preface; Chapter 1 The Consequences of International Regimes ; Part I: Simple Effectiveness ; Chapter 2 Methodological Challenges in the Study of Regime Effectiveness ; Chapter 3 Case Studies of the Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes ; Chapter 4 Causal Mechanisms and the Study of International Environental Regimes ; Chapter 5 Boolean Analysis, Mechanisms, and the Study of Regime Effectiveness ; Chapter 6 A Quantitative Approah to Evaluating International Environmental Regimes
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 7 Formal Theory and Regime Effectiveness: Rational Players, Irrational Regimes Chapter 8 Does Regime Robustness Require a Fair Distribution of the Gains from Cooperation?; Part II: Broader Consequences ; Chapter 9 Methodological Issues in the Study of BroaderConsequences; Chapter 10 Exploring Regime Interaction ; Chapter 11 International Regimes and Democracy; Chapter 12 Into the Methodological Void ; Chapter 13 Regimes and Social Transformation ; Part III: Conclusion; Chapter 14 Research Strategies for the Future ; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402020742
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 368 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Studies in Philosophy and Religion 25
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    Keywords: Religion. ; Philosophy. ; Metaphysics. ; Humanities ; Philosophy (General) ; Metaphysics ; Religion (General)
    Abstract: Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Introduction -- The Future of Religion in the West: Prospects at the Beginning of a Millennium -- The Grammar of Transcendence -- Does Philosophy Tolerate Christening? Thomas Aquinas and the Notion of Christian Philosophy -- God in the Summa Theologiae: Entity or Event? -- Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts -- Value Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism -- An Audience for Philosophy of Religion? -- What’s a Philosopher of Religion to Do? -- Nietzsche and Christians with Beautiful Feet -- The Religious (Re)Turn in Recent French Philosophy -- Instances: Levinas on Art and Truth -- Appropriating Beginnings: Creation and Natality -- ‘Moralizing’ Love In Philosophy of Religion -- The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology -- God and Nothingness: Two Sides of the Same Coin? -- Universal Religion and Comparative Philosophy -- Religion and Politics, Fear and Duty -- On the Proper Roles of Secular Reason and Religious Reason in a Liberal Democracy -- Eugene Thomas Long: A Brief Biography -- The Works of Eugene Thomas Long.
    Abstract: Philosophy of Religion for a New Century represents the work of nineteen scholars presented at a conference in honor of Eugene T. Long at the University of South Carolina, April 5-6, 2002. This volume is a good example of philosophy in dialogue; there is both respect and genuine disagreement. First, an account of our present situation in the Philosophy of Religion is given, leading to a discussion of the very idea of a 'Christian Philosophy' and the coherence of the traditional concept of God. The implications of science and a concern for the environment in our concepts of God are carefully examined. A discussion follows on the possibility of speech about God and silence about God. Since much of modern European philosophy is concerned with the `Death of God' theme, the positions of Nietzsche and some of his twentieth-century interpreters are presented. There are presentations on Feminist Approaches to Philosophy of Religion, and Comparative Religion is examined in relation to cultures and the demands of rationality. The volume concludes with a critical dialogue on the relation of Religious Discourse to the Public Sphere. Developing global awareness has led to significant change in the Philosophy of Religion. One-dimensional approaches have given way to honest dialogue. The traditional boundaries between the secular and the religious have shifted, and new approaches to traditional problems are required. This volume presents examples of these new approaches.
    Description / Table of Contents: CONTENTS; List of Authors; Preface; Philosophy of Religion for a New Century: Introduction; The Future of Religion in the West: Prospects at the Beginning of a Millennium ; The Grammar of Transcendence; Does Philosophy Tolerate Christening? Thomas Aquinas and the Notion of Christian Philosophy ; God in the Summa Theologiae: Entity or Event?; Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts; Value Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism; An Audience for Philosophy of Religion?; What's a Philosopher of Religion to Do?; Nietzsche and Christians with Beautiful Feet
    Description / Table of Contents: The Religious (Re)Turn in Recent French PhilosophyInstances: Levinas on Art and Truth; Appropriating Beginnings: Creation and Natality; 'Moralizing' Love In Philosophy of Religion; The Role of Concepts of God in Cross Cultural Comparative Theology ; God and Nothingness: Two Sides of the Same Coin?; Universal Religion and Comparative Philosophy; Religion and Politics, Fear and Duty; On the Proper Roles of Secular Reason and Religious Reason in a Liberal Democracy ; Eugene Thomas Long: A Brief Biography; The Works of Eugene Thomas Long; Index
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    ISBN: 9781402023446
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 216 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
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    Keywords: Higher education. ; Education. ; Education, Higher. ; Education ; Education, Higher
    Abstract: Liberalism, Mass Education and a Loss of Academic Trust -- The Market Metaphor — A Good Basis for Trust? -- What Form of Trust Might be Appropriate for Universities to Build a Praxis of Higher Education Designed to Encourage Authenticity? -- Education in a Culture of Suspicion? -- If Not the Market Model, then Perhaps a Heideggerian Perspective? -- A University’s Authenticity is in its Community -- Trusting in Thinking about Knowing -- Trusting in Teaching to Let Learn -- A Trusting Praxis for Higher Education Institutions -- Reflections.
    Abstract: The world in which we learn is changing rapidly. That rapidity is driven by a range of influences, conveniently, but inadequately, clustered under the rubric of globalisation. . The context in which globalisation and education is often linked is that of progression, progression realisable through technology, the free movement of finances and the optimum utilisation of human capital. To fuel this progression, formal educational institutions have grown, adapted and changed to provide highly skilled ‘outputs’ to satisfy demand. Along the way, I will argue, the questioning, learning, reflecting and worthiness of formal education has been sacrificed for instrumentality, compliance and self-interest. This is seen throughout the educational system but this book concentrates on higher education and, more importantly, higher educational institutions that are known as universities. I will try to argue for a distinctive place for universities that does not resist progression but defines it differently from that allowable by the market. I propose a university system where students and faculty are together allowed to ‘let learn’ who they might become, rather than realise their being as the artefact of economic imperatives. I accept from the very beginning that this might be incompatible with universities being in the world of commerce and industry, in fact, I demand that they are not! However, my text is not a polemic against the capitalist entrapment of education per se but for the development of centres that question whilst engaging with the realities of our existence.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-211) and index
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    ISBN: 9781402027192
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(VI, 322 p.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
    Series Statement: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 61
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    Keywords: Languages. ; Language and languages. ; Comparative linguistics. ; Indo-Iranian languages. ; Syntax. ; Linguistics ; South Asian Languages ; Comparative linguistics ; Indo-Iranian philology ; Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
    Abstract: Functional Projections -- Some Developments in the Functional Architecture of the Kannada Clause -- Two Types of Negation in Bengali -- Argument Structure -- The Serial Verb Construction in Malayalam -- Causation and Reflexivity in Kannada -- Light Verb Raising, Empty Preposition and Zero Derivation -- Case Theory -- The Status of Case -- Structural Case, Lexical Case and the Verbal Projection -- Movement Phenomena -- Particle Movement in Sinhala and Japanese -- The Topic Interpretation in Universal Grammar -- Remarks on Adsentential, Adnominal, and Extraposed Relative Clauses in Hindi.
    Abstract: The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly presented linguistic treatments of various syntactic phenomena in South Asian languages. Clause Structure in South Asian Languages: provides a comprehensive overview and covers major aspects of clause structure in a variety of South Asian languages; provides detailed analyses of several aspects of phrase structure of many prominent South Asian languages; gives theoretically up-to-date treatment of several important issues in South Asian syntax and semantics; contains papers by some of the most prominent linguists working on South Asian languages.
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    ISBN: 9789401759687
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 269 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
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    ISBN: 9789401760195
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXV, 319 p) , online resource
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: Law ; Public international law. ; Private international law. ; Conflict of laws. ; Political science. ; Comparative law. ; International law.
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