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  • 1
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333982990
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (315 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.7
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    Abstract: Cover -- Learning to Love -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Female and Male Desire -- 2 Do the Sexes Need Each Other? -- 3 Being a Sex Object -- 4 Morality and Sharing -- 5 Trust between the Sexes -- 6 Sex, Fantasy and Exploration -- 7 Negotiation and Communication -- 8 Dignity and Allied Concepts -- 9 Ambivalence and Affection -- 10 Recovering the Self -- Postscript -- References.
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  • 2
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780230287563
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (243 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4812
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    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 From Ritual to Performative Culture -- 2 'The Leisure Class' Today -- 3 The Cultural Context of Leisure Practice -- 4 The Abnormal Forms of Leisure -- 5 Conclusion: Engaged Freedom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 3
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780230373211
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (277 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.5130942
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Exploring the Land of Boundless Opportunity -- The issue of mobility -- Social mobility in contemporary Britain -- Perspectives on the British past -- Historical social mobility in comparative perspective -- The relics of mobility -- Coding the past -- 2. Social Mobility and Class Formation -- Origins and destinations, 1839-1914 -- Trends in class mobility -- Mobility in context -- Conclusion -- 3. Industrialisation and Social Fluidity -- A land of boundless opportunity? -- Structural change and the pattern of mobility -- Trends in social fluidity -- Fluidity in context -- Structure and fluidity -- Facilitators of fluidity -- Conclusion -- 4. Occupations, Classes and Mobility -- Occupational identity -- Occupational succession -- Pathways and prospects -- Novelty and obsolescence -- Conclusion -- 5. Career Mobility -- Occupational maturity -- Age and mobility -- Age and time -- Work-life mobility -- The emergence of the bureaucratic career -- Conclusion -- 6. Mechanisms and Meanings of Mobility -- Joining the labour market -- Getting on -- Leaving the working class -- Bowing out -- Taking stock -- Conclusion -- 7. Marriage Markets and Women's Role in Social Mobility -- Women and social mobility -- Women's marital mobility, 1839-1914 -- Men's marital mobility -- Marriage and family interaction -- Conclusion -- 8. Social Mobility and Class Structure in Historical Perspective -- The pattern of ninteenth-century mobility -- From consistent trend to constant flux -- Class formation and social change -- Appendix 1 The Social Classification Scheme -- Appendix 2 Class Outflow and Inflow Rates of Selected Occupational Groups.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780333983591
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (237 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.0973
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9780230371279
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (241 pages)
    Series Statement: Women's Studies at York Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.4/2/091724
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    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Women, Globalization and Fragmentation -- 2 Fractioned States and Negotiated Boundaries: Gender and Law in India -- 3 Right-wing Mobilization of Women in India: Hindutva's Willing Performers -- 4 The Impact of Global and the Reconstruction of Local Islamic Ideology, and an Assessment of its Role in Shaping Feminist Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran -- 5 The Informal Sector and the Conservative Consensus: a Case of Fragmentation in Egypt -- 6 Women-headed Households: Global Orthodoxies and Grassroots Realities -- 7 Women, Industrialization and the Environment in Indonesia -- 8 Gender and the Global Food Chain: a Comparative Study of Chile and the UK -- 9 Women's Work in Changing Labour Markets: the Case of Thailand in the 1980s -- 10 Health Education for Women as a Liberatory Process? An Example from Tajikistan -- 11 Why Rural Technologies Fail to Meet the Needs of Nigerian Women: Evidence from Hausa Women's Groups in Kano State -- Index.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9780230375963
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (231 pages)
    Series Statement: Explorations in Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture -- PART I: MANAGING DIFFERENCE WITHIN THE NATION -- 2 Jews, Arabs and the Theorisation of Racism in Britain and France -- 3 Bringing the 'Local' Back in: the Production of Welsh Identities -- PART II: RE-PRESENTING WHITENESS -- 4 'Pale Warriors': Skinhead Culture and the Embodiment of White Masculinities -- 5 Populist Configurations of Race and Gender: the Case of Hugh Grant, Liz Hurley and Divine Brown -- 6 Whiter Shades of Pale: Media-Hybridities of Rodney King -- PART III: COMPLEX SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND CULTURAL INTERACTIONS -- 7 Gender, Ethnicity and Politics: the Protestants of Northern Ireland -- 8 The African-Indian Antithesis? The 1949 Durban 'Riots' in South Africa -- PART IV MIGRATION AND IDENTITY -- 9 Migration and Dislocation: Echoes of Loss within Jewish Women's Narratives -- 10 Globalisation, Western Culture and Riverdance -- Index.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9780333983843
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (251 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.4/2/0951
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    Abstract: What has been the impact of this age of transformation on women's lives in China? This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from China and the West to examine the many dimensions of debate around gender issues in contemporary China. The experiences of women in education, employment, marriage and the family, in rural and urban areas are analysed and assessed. A more open acknowledgement in China of the discrepancy between the language of equality and experiences of discrimination and inequality makes this an especially timely and important volume.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 State and Economy in the Making of Women's Lives: An Introduction -- Part I: Political and Economic Transitions -- 2 State-Society Relations and Women's Political Participation -- 3 Understanding Changes in Women's Status in the Context of the Recent Rural Reform -- Part II: Gender, Migration and Labour Markets -- 4 The Role of Women in Labour Migration: A Case Study in Northern China -- 5 Divided Gender, Divided Women: State Policy and the Labour Market -- 6 From Weaving Stars to Bitter Flowers: Tradition, Reform and their Implications for Women Textile Workers -- Part III: Family and Household Relations -- 7 To Have a Son: The One-Child Family Policy and Economic Change in Rural China -- 8 'Fat Pigs' and Women's Gifts: Agnatic and Non-Agnatic Social Support in Kaixiangong Village -- 9 Rural Privatisation and Women's Labour: Property Rights and Gender Concepts in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang -- Part IV: Organising for Change -- 10 Women and the Public Sphere: Education, NGO Affiliation and Political Participation -- 11 The Development of Women's Studies: From the 1980s to the Present -- Glossary of Chinese Journals -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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  • 8
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781349276530
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (274 pages)
    Series Statement: Explorations in Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.3
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  • 9
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333983645
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (203 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.70944400000002
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    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The President: Still a 'Republican Monarch'? -- 2 The Party System: the End of Old Certainties -- 3 Trade Unions: a New Civil Single Agenda? -- 4 The Limits of Economic Dingisme and Collusion -- 5 The Press, the PAF and the Decline of Tutelage -- 6 Education: from Confessionalism to Consumerism -- 7 The State and Religion: Rethinking Laicite -- 8 Language and Power -- 9 Decentralizing or Deconstructing the Republic? -- Index -- 空白 -- 空白.
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9780230800069
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (190 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.8/009676
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    Abstract: Race and ethnicity continue to be important, if unwelcome, factors in modern politics. This is evident in East Africa: the ethnic factor is often dominant in multi-party elections, while in Rwanda and Burundi bloodshed and genocidal attacks have been linked to ethnic difference. This book examines the phenomena of race and ethnicity in general, but with particular reference to Africa, especially the East. The impact of non-indigenous groups is considered, together with ethnic differences between Africans. The relevance of tourism and religion is also examined.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Peopling of Africa -- 2 Theories of Race and Ethnicity -- 3 Racism, Racialism and Segregation in the African Context -- 4 Europeans in East Africa -- Postscript: French and Portuguese Colonial Rule -- 5 Asians in East Africa -- 6 Ethnic Factors in National Integration -- Postscript: Developments in Rwanda and Burundi in the 1990s -- 7 Religion, Race and Ethnicity in East Africa -- 8 Ethnicity and Tourism -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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  • 11
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781349149360
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (148 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301/.01
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  • 12
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781349276363
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (320 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/256041
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  • 13
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781349273485
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (300 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.6/63
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  • 14
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780230373792
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (225 pages)
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    DDC: 305.4/2
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    Abstract: Cover -- Inside the Citadel -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Part I Sapping the Foundations -- 1 Introduction: Messages from Men of Letters -- 2 John Stuart Mill Raises the Standard -- 3 The Allies of Josephine Butler -- 4 Emancipation through Birth Control -- 5 Gandhi and Liberation of Women through the Freedom Movement -- Part II The Assault on the Citadel -- 6 Education -- 7 Medicine -- 8 Religion -- 9 Parliament and the Suffrage -- 10 Breaking into the Professions -- 11 Observations and Reflections -- Notes -- Index.
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781349623778
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (183 pages)
    Series Statement: Early Modern History: Society and Culture Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.409492
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  • 16
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333982921
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (222 pages)
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.40980000000002
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    Abstract: Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Development in the New Imperial Context of Globalization -- Critical Issues in the Globalization/Imperialism Debate -- The Dynamics of Change -- The Economic Benefits of Globalization and their Distribution -- The Political Dimension of Economic Restructuring and Globalization: the Question of Governance -- Labour in the World Economy -- Forces of Opposition and Resistance -- The Dynamics of Change in Latin America -- 2 Neoliberalism and the Search for Another Development -- Neoliberalism in Theory and Practice -- The Neoliberal Project -- Neoliberal Policy and Politics: Socioeconomic Impacts and Political Responses -- Structural Adjustment with a Human Face: The Model of Social Liberalism -- The War against Poverty: the NSP in Practice -- The Search for Alternative Development -- A New Paradigm? -- Forms of Alternative Development -- ECLAC and the Neostructuralist Model -- 3 The Restructuring of Labour -- Introduction -- Latin American Labour in a Global Context -- Labour Market Reform: A New Regime of Accumulation -- The Capital-Labour Relation in the Organization of Production -- Productive Transformation -- Production and Income Shares of Capital and Labour -- By Way of a Conclusion: Forms of Exploitation in the Production Process -- 4 The Politics of Community-based Participatory Development -- Introduction -- The Itinerary of a Concept -- The Latin American Experience of Decentralization: The Dynamics of a Democratization Process -- The Context of Decentralization -- Development 'from Above' -- Development 'from Below' -- The Limits of Community-based Participatory Development and Local Democracy -- Conclusions -- 5 The Dynamics of Neoliberal Electoral Politics.
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  • 17
    ISBN: 9780230378537
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (250 pages)
    Series Statement: Explorations in Sociology Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.4/82
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    Abstract: COVER -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: IMAGINING THE GLOBAL -- 1 Introduction: Whither 'the Global'? -- 2 Imagining Globalization: Power-Geometries of Time-Space -- PART II: RISK, SOCIETY AND GOVERNANCE -- 3 Risk, 'Race' and Global Environmental Regulation -- 4 Global Environmental-Change Discourse: The Southern Critique -- 5 Governance and the Postnational Policy Process -- PART III: SYNERGETIC/DISCREPANT DIFFERENCES -- 6 New Orientalisms, Global Capitalism, and the Politics of Synergetic Differences: Discursive Construction of Trade Relations between the USA, Japan and the East Asian NICs -- 7 Reviewing the Western Spectacle: Reflexive Globalization through the Black Diaspora -- 8 Globalization, the Pope and the Gypsies -- PART IV: MIGRATION AND GLOBALIZATION -- 9 Analysing the Political Economy of Migration: the Airport as an 'Effective' Institution of Control -- 10 Crossing Borders: Mobility of Goods, Capital andPeople in the Central European Region -- 11 Migration and Globalization in Intellectual Life: a Case Study of the Post-1956 Exodus from Hungary -- INDEX.
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  • 18
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780230287259
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (189 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.2/7
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    Abstract: Cover -- The Animalizing Imagination -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Burden of the Beasts -- 2 Aesthetic Animals -- 3 Suffering Animals -- 4 Literary Beasts -- 5 Animals and Information -- 6 Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index.
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  • 19
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333983461
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (230 pages)
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    DDC: 304.8/2/082
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    Abstract: An exploration of the varied and complex ways in which women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international migration: the chapters in this volume are concerned primarily with the question of whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberating themselves from subordinate gender roles in their countries of origin. At the same time, the authors discuss whether migrant women face both traditional and new forms of subordination and discrimination in their host societies.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: The Invisibility of Women in Scholarship on International Migration -- Part I: The Economic Status of International Female Migrants -- 2 Seeds for Self-Sufficiency? Policy Contradictions at the US-Mexico Border -- 3 Labor Migration and International Sexual Division of Labor: A Feminist Perspective -- 4 Asian Women in Business in Australia -- 5 Immigration Policy, Cultural Norms, and Gender Relations Among Indian-American Motel Owners -- 6 Third World Immigrant Women in American Higher Education -- Part II: The Social Status of International Female Migrants -- 7 Mail Order Brides: The Legal Framework and Possibilities for Change -- 8 Sri Lankan Tamil Immigrants in Toronto: Gender, Marriage Patterns, and Sexuality -- 9 Gender Implications of Immigration: the Case of Russian-Speaking Women in Israel -- 10 Social Services for Immigrant Women in European Nations -- Including Lessons from the Council of Europe's Project on Human Dignity and Social Exclusion -- 11 Conclusion: Policy Considerations for the Twenty-First Century -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9781349149896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (238 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.6
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333985472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (208 pages)
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    DDC: 306.74/0941
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    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- PART I: PROSTITUTION ENCLOSED -- 2 Prostitutes, Prostitution and the Law -- 3 Ways of Talking about Prostitutes and Prostitution -- PART II: PROSTITUTION DISCLOSED -- 4 Risk, Poverty, Poncing and the Contradictions of Involvement in Prostitution -- 5 Men, Money, Violence and Identity -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9781403934314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (262 pages)
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    DDC: 306.7/09/036
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    Abstract: Cover -- Disorder in the Court -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Public Offense against Decency: the Trial of the Count de Germiny and the "Moral Order" of the Third Republic -- 3 Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain -- 4 The English Dreyfus Case: Florence Maybrick and the Sexual Double-Standard -- 5 Did "My Lord Gomorrah" Smile?: Homosexuality, Class, and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affair -- 6 A Shock to Marriage?: the Clitheroe Case and the Victorians -- 7 Books on Trial: Prosecutions for Representing Sapphism in fin-de-siècle France -- 8 "Don't Frighten the Horses": the Russell Divorce Case -- 9 Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario, 1870-1915 -- 10 Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in fin-de-siècle France, the Case of Baron d'Adelsward Fersen and Count de Warren -- 11 A New Man for a New Century: Dr. Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity -- 12 "The Magistrates are Men": Working-Class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistrates' Court to the Divorce Court after 1895 -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780230509689
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (343 pages)
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    DDC: 306.874/3
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    Abstract: Why are most British lone mothers unemployed? And is 'welfare to work' the right sort of policy response? This book provides an in-depth analysis of how lone mothers negotiate the relationship between motherhood and paid work. Combining qualitative and quantitative data, it focuses on social capital in different neighbourhoods, local labour markets and welfare states. Criticising conventional economic theories of decision-making, it posits an alternative concept of 'gendered moral rationality', and sets up new frameworks for understanding national policy differences and discourses about lone motherhood.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Explaining the 'Problem' of Lone Motherhood: an Introduction -- 2 Understanding Lone Motherhood: Competing Discourses and Positions -- 3 Lone Mothers in Neighbourhoods: Material Contexts and Social Capital -- 4 Lone Mothers and Gendered Moral Rationalities: Orientations to Paid Work -- 5 Lone Mothers and Paid Work: Human Capital or Gendered Moral Rationalities? -- 6 Lone Mothers in Labour Markets: Employment Availability and Geography -- 7 Lone Mothers and Genderfare: Positioning Lone Mothers in Welfare States -- 8 Economic Decision-making and Moral Rationalities -- 9 From National 'Welfare to Work' to Local 'Welfare and Work' -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9780333981825
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (215 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in Russian and East European History and Society Ser.
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    DDC: 305.4/0947
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    Abstract: This book explores the Soviet attempt to propagandise the 'new Soviet woman' through the magazines Rabotnitsa and Krest'yanka from the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era. Women were expected to play a full role in the construction of socialism, but they also had to reproduce the population. Balancing work and family did not prove easy in a climate of shifting economic and demographic priorities, and the book charts the periodic changes made to the model.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I The 1920s: The Women's Magazines in the Era of the New Economic Policy -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter 1 Work versus Family -- Chapter 2 Marriage, Divorce and Unwanted Pregnancy -- Chapter 3 The Promotion of New Gender Relations -- Chapter 4 Beauty, Fashion and Femininity -- Chapter 5 Variations in the 'New Woman' -- Part II The Stalin Era -- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter 6 Women's Experience of Industrialisation and Collectivisation -- Chapter 7 Overfulfilling the Plan -- Chapter 8 Home Life -- Chapter 9 Compulsory Motherhood: The 1936 Abortion Law -- Chapter 10 Gender Confusion in the Stalin Era: 'Completely New People', or Traditional Wives and Mothers? -- Chapter 11 Women in the Great Patriotic War -- Chapter 12 The Postwar Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333982365
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (243 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.2/0944
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    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Culture and the State in France -- 2. Cultural Policy and Political Science -- 3. The Cité de la Musique -- 4. Contemporary Music Policy -- 5. Theatre Policy -- 6. Film Policy -- 7. Public Funding of Popular Music -- 8. The Politics of Développement Culturel -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333982884
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages)
    Series Statement: Transforming Government Ser.
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    DDC: 302.35
    Keywords: Bureaucracy ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The Biographical Approach to Public Administration: Potential, Purpose and Problems -- 2 Excellence in Administrative Leadership: an Examination of Six US Federal Execucrats -- 3 Three Giants of the Inter-war British Higher Civil Service: Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Horace Wilson -- 4 Innovators at 10 Downing Street -- 5 The Conservatives, New Labour and Whitehall: a Biographical Examination of the Political Flexibility of the Mandarin Cadre -- 6 Chief Executives and Leadership in a Local Authority: a Fundamental Antithesis -- 7 Lord Cockfield: a European Commissioner as a Political Entrepreneur -- 8 Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: the Contribution to Health and Social Care Policy-making of Sir Roy Griffiths, 1982-92 -- 9 Executive Agency Chief Executives: Their Leadership Values -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9780333977354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (234 pages)
    Series Statement: International Political Economy Ser.
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    DDC: 305.8
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The book examines, among other issues, the emergence of civil war as a result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the 'other' has meant that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in SubSaharan Africa. The political power struggle which evolved around the state is at the forefront of the analysis of civil war and societal conflict.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures and Maps -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Ethnicity Kills? Social Struggles for Power, Resources and Identities in the Neo-Patrimonial State -- 2 The Politics of War: a Meditation -- Part 2 Ethnicity and Civil War -- 3 The Somali Catastrophe: Explanation and Implications -- 4 Causes of Civil War in Rwanda: the Weight of History and Socio-Cultural Structures -- 5 The Struggle for Kingship: Moses or Messiah - Ethnic War and the Use of Ethnicity in the Process of Democratization in Congo-Brazzaville -- 6 The Political Economy of State Collapse in Somalia and Liberia -- Part 3 Transitions from War to Peace? -- 7 Nigeria and West Africa: from a Regional Security Complex to a Regional Security Community? -- 8 Nationalism and Ethnicities: Lessons from Mozambique -- 9 Conclusion - Transcending the Discourse on the Politics of War -- 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 -- Z.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780333982969
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (233 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.420941
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Welfare Provisions Do Women Need to Become Full Citizens? -- 3. Work, Gender and Unemployment: a Household Perspective -- 4. Caring for Children -- 5. What Do Older Women Want? -- 6. Women's Pension Poverty: Prospects and Options for Change -- 7. Revisiting the Sex Equality Laws -- 8. Violence against Women: a Policy of Neglect or a Neglect of Policy? -- 9. A Crisis in Masculinity, or New Agendas for Men? -- 10. Rethinking the Boundaries of Political Representation -- 11. Sexing Political Behaviour in Britain -- Index.
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  • 29
    ISBN: 9780230379398
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (287 pages)
    Series Statement: Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.3/5
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Rosemary Stewart -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Managing, Organising and Performing in Health Care: what do we know and how can we learn? -- 3 Organisational Development: from a reactive to a proactive process -- 4 Methodology and Marketing: making organisational behaviour research irresistible in health care -- 5 The Consumer's Role in Co-ordination: making sense of transitions in health care -- 6 Professional Control Issues between Medicine and Nursing in Primary Care -- 7 Enabling Leaders to Change: interventions with established GP principals through a mid-career break scheme -- 8 Medical Managers: puppetmasters or puppets? Sources of power and influence in clinical directorates -- 9 Variations on a Theme: clinicians in management in England and the Netherlands -- 10 Leadership in the NHS: what are the competencies and qualities needed and how can they be developed? -- 11 The Influence of Middle Management upon Emergent Strategy: a case for more microempirical studies -- 12 MAPS for PAMS: managerial and professional solutions for professions allied to medicine -- 13 Evidence into Practice? An exploratory analysis of the interpretation of evidence -- 14 Value Critical Analysis and Actor Network Theory: two perspectives on collaboration in the name of health -- 15 Organising for Incompatible Priorities -- 16 Evaluating Interventions to Health Organisation -- 17 Conclusion -- Index.
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  • 30
    ISBN: 9781349274239
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (228 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4/4/0899162
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 31
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780230379626
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (164 pages)
    Series Statement: Migration, Minorities and Citizenship Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.6/971/04
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Muslims in Britain: Change of Generation? -- 3 Migration, Settlement and Families -- 4 Muslims and British Local and Central Government -- 5 Muslims in English Schools -- 6 Transmitting the Faith in a Secular Society -- 7 Muslim Family Law in Europe -- 8 Muslim Radicalism -- 9 State, Religion and Pluralism -- 10 Christian-Muslim Relations in Western Europe -- 11 Muslims in Europe into the Next Millennium -- References -- Index.
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  • 32
    ISBN: 9780230279377
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.42
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 33
    ISBN: 9780230376632
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (241 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.3
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Part I Theoretical Issues -- 1 Connecting Gender, Power and the Household -- 2 Gendering the Household: Some Theoretical Considerations -- Part II Gendered Care -- 3 Men in the Household: Caring Fathers -- 4 Gender Roles and Food in Families -- 5 Using Gendered Discourses in Negotiations: Couples and the Onset of Disablement in Marriage -- Part III Gendered Time and Space -- 6 A Fight for Her Time: Challenges Facing Mothers who Work in Hospital Medicine -- 7 Negotiating the Home and the School: Low Income, Lone Mothering and Unpaid Schoolwork -- 8 'Oh Please, Mum. Oh Please, Dad': Negotiating Children's Spatial Boundaries -- 9 Intra-household Power Relations and their Impact on Women's Leisure -- Part IV Gendered Work, Income and Power -- 10 Unequal Partners: Inequality in Earnings and Independent Income within Marriage -- 11 Decision Making in Dual-Career Households -- 12 Sexing the Enterprise: Gender, Work and Resource Allocation in Self-Employed Households -- Index.
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    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
    ISBN: 9780230378896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (261 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4/83
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Football in the Making -- Part I: The Old World Superpowers: Veteran Players -- 1 Associating with Football: Social Identity in England 1863-1998 -- 2 Hooligans and Carnival Fans: Scottish Football Supporter Cultures -- 3 The Coming of Age: the World Cup of France '98 -- 4 Football Identity and Youth Culture in Germany -- Part II: Glory and Innovation: Pre-eminent Players -- 5 Everything in Moderation: the Swedish Model -- 6 Post-Modern Times: Identities and Violence in Argentine Football -- 7 The Brazilian Style of Football and its Dilemmas -- Part III: Waiting in the Wings: Marginal Players -- 8 Making the Maltese Cross: Football on a Small Island -- 9 Beyond Edirne: Football and the National Identity Crisis in Turkey -- 10 View from the Periphery: Football in Indonesia -- Part IV: Contested Decisions: Disunited Players -- 11 The Generation Game: Football among the Baga of Guinea -- 12 The Territorial Politics of Soccer in Northern Ireland -- 13 Team Selection and the Chosen People in Israel: the Case of Hapoel Taibeh -- 14 From Ends to Trenches, and Back: Football in the Former Yugoslavia -- Part V: New Tactics: Contemporary Players -- 15 Bhola Lethu: Football in Urban South Africa -- 16 No Longer Worlds Apart? British Influences in Norwegian Football -- 17 The Suburban Soccer Field: Sport and America's Culture of Privilege -- 18 The Japanese Dream: Soccer Culture towards the New Millennium -- References -- Index.
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  • 35
    ISBN: 9780230598423
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (238 pages)
    Series Statement: St Antony's Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.48/273047
    Keywords: Electronic books
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  • 36
    ISBN: 9780333982525
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (360 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.8094
    Keywords: Immigrants-Europe, Southern.. ; Europe, Southern-Emigration and immigration ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Within the ever-changing global map of migrations, Southern Europe has come to occupy a strategic position. As Europe struggles to control immigration from the developing world, the EU's southern flank is perceived as the weak flank of 'Fortress Europe'. This book examines the many facets of Southern Europe's new immigration: the diverse roles played by immigrants in the labour market, issues of social and spatial exclusion, the slow evolution of policy, and wider strategic concerns of security and geopolitics.
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Southern Europe in the Changing Global Map of Migration -- Part II: Labour Market -- 2 The Participation of Immigrants in the Underground Economy in Italy -- 3 Migration and Unregistered Labour in the Greek Economy -- 4 Labour Market and Immigration: Economic Opportunities for Immigrants in Portugal -- 5 Recent Immigration to Catalonia: Economic Character and Responses -- 6 Clandestine Labour Migration from Poland to Greece, Spain and Italy: Anthropological Perspectives -- Part III: Gender Relations and Social Exclusion -- 7 Immigrant Women in Southern Europe: Social Exclusion, Domestic Work and Prostitution in Italy -- 8 Migrant Flows from Albania to Greece: Economic, Social and Spatial Exclusion -- 9 'Racists? Us? Are You Joking?' The Discourse of Social Exclusion of Immigrants in Greece and Italy -- 10 Urban Restructuring, Immigration and the Generation of Marginalized Spaces in the Lisbon Region -- Part IV: Questions of Policy -- 11 European Migration Policy: Questions from Italy -- 12 Becoming a Country of Immigration at the End of the Twentieth Century: the Case of Spain -- 13 Migration, Trade and Development: the European Union and the Maghreb Countries -- Part V: Migration and Security -- 14 Migration and Security in the Mediterranean: a Complex Relationship -- 15 The EU Mediterranean States, the Migration Issue and the 'Threat' from the South -- Index.
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  • 37
    ISBN: 9780230374584
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (238 pages)
    Edition: 3rd ed.
    Series Statement: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Ser.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800941
    Keywords: Great Britain.-Race Relations Act 1976.. ; Immigrants-Great Britain-Social conditions.. ; Minorities-Great Britain-Social conditions.. ; Great Britain-Race relations-History-20th century ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Politics of the Race Relations Act 1976 -- 3 Law Enforcement or Lack of It -- 4 The Impact of Legislation on British Race Relations -- 5 Reflections from the Chair -- 6 Tackling Racism: Britain in Europe -- 7 Lessons from the US Civil Rights Experience -- 8 Strategic Vision in Combating Racial Discrimination -- 9 Race Relations in New Britain -- 10 National Identity in a Multicultural Society -- Index.
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  • 38
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    Language: French
    Pages: 47 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: Cahiers de politique économique du Centre de Développement de l'OCDE no.16
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. After the Great Asian Slump: Towards a Coherent Approach to Global Capital Flows
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: • Le repli massif des capitaux étrangers investis en Asie — plus de 10 pour cent du PIB des pays en crise — les place devant un problème de transfert. Pour favoriser la relance en Asie, les pays créanciers devraient impliquer leurs banques domestiques dans les opérations de sauvetage financier, ce qui réduirait les aléas de moralité dans les activités de prêt du secteur privé. • Pour les pays d’Asie, la priorité est de résoudre le problème du surendettement domestique. Financer le coût budgétaire inhérent à la restructuration exige que les gouvernements des pays asiatiques élargissent la base d’imposition tout en adoptant une politique d’abondance monétaire. • Les pays en développement doivent s’assurer du bon équilibre financier des établissements bancaires et non bancaires et être plus exigeants sur la qualité des capitaux étrangers investis. Toutefois, une réglementation « à la chilienne » ne peut être efficace que dans un contexte politique approprié. • Pour évoluer vers un système financier international moins vulnérable aux crises, il importe d’agir sur les risques excessifs pris par les banques. Les Accords de Bâle induisent des distorsions favorisant les prêts bancaires à court terme qui devraient être corrigées.
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  • 39
    Language: English
    Pages: 46 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.220
    Keywords: Economics
    Abstract: As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in the long run outweighs this short run loss. This paper points to such “learning cost” in technology upgrading as a potential explanation of the following two “productivity puzzles” reported in the Information Technology (IT) literature and in the studies of East Asian economic growth. First, in the 1980s, US companies made enormous IT investments, but little productivity gain was observed. Second, Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth of “Newly Industrialising Countries” (NICs) in East Asia was mediocre in spite of the impressive investment drive in those countries. A simple model of optimal intervals for technology upgrading with learning cost is developed. This model predicts that a company with higher frequency in technology upgrading will tend to have higher market value even with lower current profitability. An empirical study using unbalanced panel data of 1,031 US companies from 1986 to 1995 supports this prediction. Extending the scope from firm-level to industry-level, the paper estimates the magnitude of industry-wide learning-by-doing effects using annual data on 15 sub-industries in the Japanese machinery manufacturing sector from 1955 to 1990. The results show that industry-wide learning-by-doing was strong in low-tech industries where technological change was relatively slow, while it was insignificant in high-tech industries which experienced rapid technological evolution. It is also observed in the US and Japanese manufacturing industries that TFP growth tends to decrease with faster capital accumulation. This negative correlation is reproduced in simulations based on the extended model of learning cost.
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  • 40
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    Language: English
    Pages: 3 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building no.1999/05
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Une école modèle en Albanie
    Keywords: Education ; Albania
    Abstract: The school soon to be completed in Paskuqan, a suburb of Tirana, was created to meet the present and changing needs of the community. The long-lasting, flexible structure designed to stimulate learning is the result of a close collaboration between pedagogical and building experts. The Albania Education Development Project (AEDP) of the Soros Foundation has financed the school – for pupils in the first eight years of education – as part of its larger programme to foster the country’s educational system.
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  • 41
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    Language: English
    Pages: 66 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.153
    Keywords: Development ; China, People’s Republic
    Abstract: China is considered to be a particularly successful example of a gradual approach to transition from a command economy to a market economy. This paper reviews the initial conditions, the calendar of reform steps, and the political preconditions for liberalisation. It argues that gradualism was rather the result of a political balancing act between orthodox and reform–minded elements in the Chinese Communist Party than a deliberate approach towards facilitating transition. Economic liberalisation was considered as an instrument for safeguarding the power of the Party, but opinions differed on the degree of liberalisation needed to achieve this goal. Thus, the pace and the direction of the reform process were very much a function of the composition of the leadership of the Party at any given time ...
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  • 42
    Language: English
    Pages: 50 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers no.38
    Keywords: Social Issues/Migration/Health
    Abstract: This paper examines the various constraints which OECD Member countries must now deal with, faced with the prospects of rapid growth in the number of frail elderly persons. It pays particular attention to recent trends in disability. Most of the available cross-country evidence shows trends towards better functional health in older populations, although the magnitude of the gains and their significance need further assessment. In this context, this paper advocates an “active ageing” approach to long-term care policies. It provides some rough estimates of the macroeconomic costs of long-term care. It also presents some indicators of public/private financing and institutionalisation rates. The public costs of providing long-term care are estimated to be relatively modest as a proportion of GDP (of the order of 1 or 2 per cent or less). However, much care for the frail elderly is provided through informal care-giving arrangements which are not reflected in official figures.
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  • 43
    Language: French
    Pages: 3 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Échanges, Programme pour la construction et l'équipement de l'éducation no.1999/13
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Austria's Training Firms
    Keywords: Education ; Austria
    Abstract: L’Autriche s’enorgueillit d’être le premier pays à avoir obligé les élèves des écoles secondaires de commerce et de gestion à s’exercer dans une entreprise de formation. Dans les autres établissements secondaires et post-secondaires de formation professionnelle, l’entreprise de formation peut être choisie en option supplémentaire.
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  • 44
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264274365
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (64 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Beneficial Uses and Production of Isotopes
    Keywords: Nuclear Energy
    Abstract: Les isotopes radioactifs et stables sont utilisés à travers le monde dans de nombreux secteurs, notamment en médecine, dans l'industrie, l'agriculture et la recherche. Les isotopes sont irremplaçables dans bon nombre de leurs applications et s'avèrent généralement plus efficaces et moins chers que d'autres techniques ou procédés. Cette publication est la première étude internationale sur les usages bénéfiques et la production d'isotopes. Elle donne une vue d'ensemble de leurs principaux usages ainsi que des informations détaillées sur les installations qui les produisent à travers le monde. Les tendances de l'offre et de la demande d'isotopes sont analysées. Enfin, les conclusions et recommandations qui sont faites signalent aux organismes gouvernementaux les questions clés qu'il leur faut examiner. Cette publication sera utile aux décideurs des agences gouvernementales impliquées dans la production et l'utilisation des isotopes ainsi qu'aux chercheurs et aux experts travaillant dans ce domaine.
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  • 45
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264173149
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Edition 1999
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  • 46
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264173576
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (112 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Development Co-operation Reviews no.34
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Examens en matière de coopération pour le développement ; Japon 1999
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    Keywords: Development ; Japan ; Japan ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Entwicklungshilfe
    Abstract: Japan is the leader in volume among DAC donors, but it ranks 19th out of 21 bilateral Members in terms of ODA as a percentage of GNP. Compared to other Members, its aid programme has a higher proportion of loans, with preference towards Asia and lower middle-income countries, and a heavy emphasis on assistance for economic infrastructure as opposed to the social sectors. Japan is making major efforts to improve its aid programme through an administrative reform, piloting the new international development strategy, a country-focused approach, and a push towards increased quality, transparency, and efficiency. The DAC encourages these developments and recommends that Japan should: - strengthen staffing and decentralisation; - enhance NGO involvement; - mainstream cross-cutting issues such as poverty, gender, and governance; - design and evaluate projects with a view towards cost-efficiency, sustainability, technological appropriateness, and socio-economic impact; - and ensure policy dialogue with recipient countries.
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  • 47
    ISBN: 9789264273412
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (212 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Examens des politiques nationales d'éducation
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Reviews of National Policies for Education; Tertiary Education and Research in the Russian Federation 1999
    Keywords: Education ; Russian Federation
    Abstract: La rapidité, la nature et le caractère incertain de l’évolution de la situation économique, sociale et politique de la Fédération de Russie continuent à poser d'immenses défis pour l’enseignement tertiaire et la recherche dans les universités, les écoles professionnelles de niveau supérieur et les instituts de l’Académie des Sciences. Ces défis appellent des stratégies de réformes afin d’élargir le champ des opportunités d’apprentissage dans l’enseignement tertiaire et d'accroître la qualité et l'étendue de la recherche, mais aussi afin que l’enseignement tertiaire et la recherche puissent alimenter la croissance économique et contribuer au bien-être social. Cet ouvrage s'appuie sur l’une des études les plus récentes, complètes et prospectives en la matière. L’examen proposé tient compte des structures spécifiques, des atouts et des traditions de l’enseignement tertiaire et de la recherche en Fédération de Russie. Il offre un ensemble d’orientations générales et de recommandations spécifiques pour les politiques concernant des questions clés telles que : l’accès, la qualité et les niveaux d’enseignement ; les nouvelles orientations permettant de diversifier et rendre accessible l’enseignement tertiaire ; la qualité de la recherche dans les établissements académiques et les instituts de recherche ; et les réformes dans la gestion, l’administration et le financement de l’enseignement et de la recherche. Cet examen de l’enseignement tertiaire et des politiques de recherche a été précédé par une première analyse du système d’enseignement général russe intitulée Examens des politiques nationales d’éducation : Fédération de Russie.
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  • 48
    ISBN: 9789264273771
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (324 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Examens de l'OCDE de la réforme de la réglementation
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform; Regulatory Reform in the Netherlands 1999
    Keywords: Governance ; Netherlands
    Abstract: La réforme de la réglementation menée aux Pays-Bas est riche d'enseignements tant pour la modernisation de l'État-providence en Europe que pour l'intégration au marché unique européen. La réforme de la réglementation est la composante la plus récente de la rénovation du modèle néerlandais. Aux réformes apportées aux marchés du travail et au système de protection sociale dans les années 80 a succédé, dans les années 90, la recherche d'un « nouvel équilibre entre la protection et le dynamisme », fondé sur la politique de la concurrence, la réforme de la réglementation et l'ouverture des marchés. Les Pays-Bas font aujourd'hui partie des pays de l'OCDE les plus performants au regard de nombreux critères économiques, notamment pour la croissance de l'emploi. Bien qu'encore à ses débuts, la réforme de la réglementation a déjà apporté des avantages considérables aux Pays-Bas, en termes de compétitivité, de flexibilité, ou de bénéfices pour les consommateurs. Des défis majeurs restent cependant à relever. La lenteur de certaines réformes importantes indique que le modèle néerlandais est encore en train de chercher l'équilibre entre l'établissement d'un consensus et l'ajustement des politiques. De l'application de la réforme à de nombreux nouveaux domaines découleront des gains aussi importants qu'un net progrès du taux d'emploi, une amélioration des performances sectorielles, et une réduction des coûts de la protection sociale. Les Pays-Bas sont un des premiers pays à avoir demander à l'OCDE de procéder à un examen général de ses pratiques réglementaires et des réformes de la réglementation menées à l'échelon national. Cet ouvrage est le fruit de l'évaluation approfondie menée par l'OCDE et d'un examen par ses pays Membres. Il présente une évaluation intégrée sans équivalent de la réforme de la réglementation dans des domaines aussi essentiels que le contexte macro-économique, la qualité du secteur public, la politique de la concurrence et sa mise en oeuvre, ainsi que l'intégration des principes d'ouverture du marché dans les processus réglementaires et dans des secteurs tels que l'électricité et les télécommunications. Les politiques recommandées offrent un plan d'action équilibré à court et à plus long terme fondé sur les meilleures pratiques réglementaires à l'échelon international. Pour en savoir plus A lire dans la même collection : La réforme de la réglementation au Japon, La réforme de la réglementation aux États-Unis, La réforme de la réglementation au Mexique. L'analyse de fond dont découlent ces premiers examens par pays est présentée dans le Rapport de l'OCDE sur la réforme de la réglementation : Rapport de synthèse et dans les deux volumes du Rapport de l'OCDE sur la réforme de la réglementation : Études sectorielles et Études thématiques, publiés en 1997.
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  • 49
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264272163
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (220 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Examens environnementaux de l'OCDE
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews; Czech Republic 1999
    Keywords: Environment ; Czech Republic
    Abstract: Ce rapport consacré à la République Tchèque évalue les progrès accomplis ou à faire dans la réduction de la charge polluante, la gestion des ressources naturelles, l'intégration des politiques économique et environnementale et le renforcement de la coopération internationale. Les analyses s'appuient sur un large ensemble de données économiques et environnementales.
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  • 50
    ISBN: 9789264172999
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (240 p.) , ill.
    Keywords: Nuclear Energy ; Portugal
    Abstract: The use of ion beams in nuclear research is well established, with many facilities and networks of experts active in the field. Applications for ion beams are expanding, in particular in the development of new materials, biotechnology and the creation of new isotopes. Positron beams are likewise a very powerful tool for observing and influencing microscopic material structures, as well as for medical diagnosis. The combined utilisation of ion and positron beams is expected to open up new horizons in the areas of material science and biotechnology. These proceedings provide an overview of the latest developments in this field, and highlight areas for future international co-operation.
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  • 51
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264172937
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (288 p.) , ill.
    Keywords: Finance and Investment
    Abstract: The once booming dynamic economies in Asia were drawn into a whirlpool of business failures and economic devastation following the flotation of the Thai baht in July 1997, and the consequent collapse of asset prices and currency depreciations in several East Asian countries. High growth in these emerging market economies had masked important structural weaknesses that eventually triggered the economic slump now referred to as the Asia Crisis. To address the structural measures needed to restore sustained economic growth and stability in the crisis-affected countries, this book brings forth analyses and recommendations on the crisis from internationally respected economists and policy makers and the OECD. Overall, experts conclude that, to deal with the crisis and alleviate social distress, structural reforms of government, business and the financial sector must be undertaken rapidly. Such reforms must be established with a long-term view to protect these and other countries from future crises. Economic recovery in Asia is a high priority for the OECD. As an international organisation with experience across a broad range of structural issues, it is a unique forum for the exchange of views on national experiences with policy reforms and possible improvements in the functioning of financial markets. In November 1998, the OECD's Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members (CCNM) held the symposium that led to this publication. Experts from OECD Member and non-member economies attended the symposium. This publication assembles their contributions and provides insight into the possible role of the OECD in promoting economic recovery in the region.
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    ISBN: 9789264174085
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (72 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Programme on Educational Building - PEB Papers
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. La gestion stratégique des biens en capital des établissements d'enseignement supérieur
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: Universities and other tertiary institutions maintain buildings, sites and communications infrastructure worth many millions of dollars. A more strategic approach to asset management is essential for success in a new environment, where tertiary education is becoming increasingly competitive, direct public funding is being cut back and technology and globalisation are bringing new challenges. What impact will new information technology have on space requirements? What steps can institutional managers take to manage risks in rapidly-changing circumstances? In what ways is the role of facilities managers changing, and what skills and tools will be required for them to do their job more effectively in the future? This book provides some answers to these questions and shows how the resources invested in facilities can be made to work more efficiently in the pursuit of institutional objectives. It is based on the proceedings of an international workshop that examined current trends in tertiary education policy: a more open market, student-centredness and user choice, lifelong learning and the blurring of sectoral differences.
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  • 53
    ISBN: 9789264172586
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (484 p.) , ill.
    Keywords: Environment ; Industry and Services
    Abstract: Environmental permits have played a major role in improving industry's environmental performance across the last few decades. Because they adopt a precautionary approach during the setting of environmental requirements, permitting strategies have also favoured pollution prevention. However, current permitting systems will have to adapt to address growing pressures on the environment. How are OECD countries currently meeting this challenge? What are the main features of the laws, regulations, policies and practices governing the negotiation and delivery of industrial permits in OECD countries? This publication's three volumes give new insights into these questions. Volume 1 contains a policy study entitled Environmental Requirements for Industrial Permitting: Approaches and Instruments. This report is the first comprehensive review of permitting practices for industry in OECD Member countries. It explores the principles behind environmental permits and identifies major trends in their use. In particular, the report examines how technology-based requirements and environmental quality objectives are used together to develop permit conditions. Results are also presented from four sectoral case studies of the iron and steel, metal finishing, pulp and paper, and oil refining industry . Volume 2 contains the proceedings of an unprecedented OECD workshop on "Environmental Permitting of Industrial Facilities". This international workshop brought together nearly 100 government experts, regulators, permit writers, industry permit holders and other private sector representatives from OECD Member and Observer countries in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Considering the wide range of policies, practices and viewpoints discussed, the workshop represented a significant step toward a mutual international understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of current environmental permitting systems. Volume 3 provides a valuable reference guide on regulatory approaches to environmental permitting in OECD countries. It presents the main features of the laws, regulations, policies and practices governing the negotiation and delivery of industrial permits in eighteen OECD Member countries, the European Union and other international organisations.
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    ISBN: 9789264474222
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: Online-Ressource (52 p.)
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Principes de gouvernement d'entreprise de l'OCDE
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. OECD Grundsätze der Corporate Governance
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; (Russian version)
    Keywords: Governance ; Industry and Services
    Abstract: En la última década el mundo ha sido testigo de transformaciones significantes del papel que juega el sector privado en el desarrollo de la economía y en la creación de empleos. Debido a que cada vez más países adoptan enfoques basados en mercado a la política económica, ha aumentado la conciencia de la importancia de corporaciones privadas para el bienestar de los individuos.Un buen régimen de gobierno corporativo ayuda a afirmar que las corporaciones utilizan su capital de manera eficaz. El buen gobierno corporativo ayuda además a asegurar que las corporaciones toman en cuenta los intereses de un amplio rango de componentes, al igual que para comunidades con las que operan, y que sus Juntas de Administración son responsables con la compañía y los accionistas. Ello ayuda a asegurar que las corporaciones operen para el beneficio de la comunidad. Ayuda a mantener la confianza de los inversionistas -trátese de nacionales o extranjeros - y a atraer capitales estables y a largo plazo.Los "Principios de la OCDE para el gobierno de las sociedades" fueron aprobados por los Ministros en la reunión del Consejo de la OCDE a nivel ministerial del 26-27 de mayo de 1999. Estos Principios responden al mandato dado a la Organización por el Consejo de la OCDE reunido a nivel ministerial del año 1998 a fin de definir normas y directrices de un sistema de gobierno de empresas de calidad.
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  • 55
    ISBN: 9789264274242
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Series Statement: Les systèmes de financement des crédits à l'exportation dans les pays membres et les économies non membres de l'OCDE
    Keywords: Trade
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  • 56
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    Pages: 40 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Policy Briefs no.16
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Au lendemain de la crise asiatique : Comment gérer les flux de capitaux ?
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: • The unprecedented withdrawal of foreign private capital from Asia, more than 10 per cent of GDP in the crisis countries, confronts them with a transfer problem. Creditor governments should induce their home banks into financial rescue operations to reduce moral hazard in private-sector lending, and to encourage Asia’s recovery. • The resolution of Asia’s domestic debt overhang must be the overriding policy concern for Asia’s governments; paying the inevitable fiscal cost in Asia’s restructuring process requires tax-base broadening, supported by easy monetary policy. • Progress towards a less crisis-prone international financial system will hinge on how to correct the excessive risk taking by banks. Regulatory distortions through the Basle Accord which bias bank lending towards the short term should be corrected. • Developing countries should strengthen bank and non-bank balance sheets and raise the quality of inflows; Chile-type regulatory measures, however, will only be effective in an appropriate policy context.
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  • 57
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    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.147
    Keywords: Development ; China, People’s Republic
    Abstract: During the 1990s, China has experienced a surge in imports of services, particularly those of communication, insurance and other business services, despite the fact that the authorities have maintained a plethora of restrictive measures limiting access to the service sector. Not only does this cast strong doubt over the effectiveness of these measures currently in place but also raises some important political-economy questions regarding the market access issues related to this sector. Following a brief review of the country’s efforts made since 1994 to sustain its openeconomy reforms, the paper takes stock of major policy developments in the service sector and discusses the pros and cons of liberalisation of services. The paper argues that a further liberalisation of services would be imperative for China to develop a more viable and dynamic service sector and stands to gain the full benefits of globalisation. The protective measures imposed for short-term, political ...
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  • 58
    ISBN: 9789264273795
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (160 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. STI Review, Volume 1999 Issue 1; Special Issue on The Global Research Village
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. STI Review, Volume 1999 Issue 1: Special Issue on The Global Research Village
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  • 59
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    Pages: 7 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Échanges, Programme pour la construction et l'équipement de l'éducation no.1999/10
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. After-Hours Use of Schools
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: L’expérience d’un certain nombre de pays de l’OCDE montre aujourd’hui comment l’utilisation des écoles en dehors des heures de classe peut améliorer les résultats des élèves en leur donnant davantage de temps pour étudier, enrichir le programme scolaire par des activités hors programme, donner aux adultes des possibilités de développement personnel ou de formation et offrir à la population en général un cadre bien situé qui puisse être le centre de la vie collective. Les pratiques actuelles dans ce domaine en Belgique, au Canada, aux États-Unis, en France, en Irlande, au Royaume-Uni, en Suisse et en Turquie sont décrites dans cet article.
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  • 60
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    Pages: 3 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Échanges, Programme pour la construction et l'équipement de l'éducation no.1999/07
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Educational Facilities in Korea
    Keywords: Education ; Korea, Republic of
    Abstract: Un programme de modernisation des bâtiments et des installations scolaires est actuellement entrepris en Corée afin de mieux répondre aux besoins actuels d’enseignement.
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  • 61
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    Pages: 24 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Economics Department Working Papers no.219
    Keywords: Economics
    Abstract: This paper reports estimates of a reduced form relationship explaining inflation in terms of the output gap and import price inflation for most OECD countries. Results are reported both for single equation estimation on a country-by-country basis and using a system estimation technique in order to impose common parameters across countries where such restrictions are consistent with the data. A striking feature of the results is that most of the countries accept a common sacrifice ratio ...
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  • 62
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    Pages: 2 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building no.1999/17
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Utilisation de l'espace : Et si nous changions de pédagogie ?
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: A Sydney University, Australia, case study by John Simmons, Facilities Management Office, University of Sydney, and Kenn Fisher, Woods Bagot Architects, Australia.
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  • 63
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    Edition: Edition 1999
    Series Statement: Examens en matière de coopération pour le développement 35
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Development Co-operation Reviews: Ireland 1999
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  • 64
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    Language: English
    Edition: Edition 1998
    Series Statement: Development Co-operation Reviews 30
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Examens en matière de coopération pour le développement : Communauté Européenne 1998
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  • 65
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    ISBN: 9789264273030
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    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Edition 1999
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    Edition: Edition 1999
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  • 67
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    ISBN: 9789264173996
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Le prix de l'eau ; Les tendances dans les pays de l'OCDE
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Le prix de l'eau : Les tendances dans les pays de l'OCDE
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    Keywords: Environment ; Wasserpreis ; OECD
    Abstract: The price of water is a key determinant of both the economic efficiency and the environmental effectiveness of water services. This book reviews current practices and recent trends in water pricing practices for the household, agriculture, and industrial sectors in OECD countries. It addresses pricing issues related to the full range of water services, including public supplies, sewage treatment and disposal, abstraction and discharge fees, and cost recovery. It also outlines recent developments in institutional arrangements related to water pricing, and briefly considers questions concerning the affordability of water services and the responsiveness of water demands to changes in price levels. Its broad coverage of issues, sectors, and countries makes it a unique overview of trends in the water pricing field.
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    ISBN: 9789264173316
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (132 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Issues in International Taxation no.6
    Series Statement: Issues in international taxation
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. L'Application du Modèle de Convention fiscale de l'OCDE aux sociétés de personnes
    DDC: 343.068
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    Keywords: Taxation ; Industry and Services ; OECD ; Internationales Steuerrecht
    Abstract: The application of tax treaties to cases involving partnerships raises a number of complex issues. When is a partnership entitled to the benefits of a tax convention? What happens when the residence and source States apply different articles of the Convention on the basis of differences in their domestic law? How can the problems arising from conflicts of income allocation be solved? This report addresses these issues in detail and focuses on specific factual examples. For each example, the facts and, where applicable, relevant aspects of domestic tax laws are described. Comprehensive recommendations for dealing with the international taxation of partnerships in practice are also presented.
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  • 69
    ISBN: 9789264273306
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (60 p)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Trade, Investment and Development; Reaping the Full Benefits of Open Markets
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Trade, Investment and Development: Reaping the Full Benefits of Open Markets
    Keywords: Finance and Investment ; Development ; Trade
    Abstract: Les économies en développement et en transition s'efforcent d'accélérer leur développement en libéralisant leurs échanges et leurs investissements, et en saisissant les opportunités offertes par l'économie mondiale. A la suite des crises financières récentes, la crainte a cependant été exprimée que certains pays se détournent de la libéralisation des échanges et de l'investissement. En fait, la plupart des pays touchés par la crise continuent de libéraliser échanges et leurs investissements, en quoi ils voient une solution, et non une cause de la crise. Cette étude examine les avantages et les enjeux de la libéralisation des échanges et de l'investissement pour le développement, en s'appuyant sur les expériences menées par des économies de différentes régions du monde. L'expérience montre que l'ouverture des marchés et de l'investissement a été bénéfique lorsqu'elle s'est accompagnée d'un ensemble cohérent de mesures macroéconomiques et structurelles conçues pour stimuler la croissance, d'un renforcement des capacités, d'une politique sociale appropriée, et d'une bonne gestion des affaires publiques. Qui plus est, des pays comme la Corée ou le Mexique, qui ont opposé à la crise économique la libéralisation et les réformes structurelles, en ont tiré des résultats positifs. Un nouveau cycle de négociations commerciales multilatérales est donc d'un intérêt vital pour tous les pays -- développés, en développement ou en transition -- pour préparer l'économie mondiale du XXIe siècle. Pour en savoir plus Echanges, investissement et développement : Pour la cohérence des politiques
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  • 70
    ISBN: 9789264274488
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (192 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Taxation of Cross-Border Portfolio Investment; Mutual Funds and Possible Tax Distortions
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Taxation of Cross-Border Portfolio Investment: Mutual Funds and Possible Tax Distortions
    Keywords: Finance and Investment ; Taxation
    Abstract: Les dix dernières années ont été marquées par un gonflement sensible des flux transnationaux de capitaux et par un déplacement prononcé de leur composition au profit des investissements de portefeuille, une bonne partie de ces capitaux étant gérée par des organismes de placement collectif (OPC) résidant dans les pays de l'OCDE, ainsi que dans des zones off shore en régime d'exonération fiscale. Ces phénomènes incitent les pays à réexaminer et à contrôler le fonctionnement de leur réglementation fiscale dans ce domaine, notamment en ce qui concerne l'interaction des règles fiscales nationales avec les régimes et pratiques d'autres pays, afin de permettre aux pouvoirs publics de réaliser leurs objectifs. Cet ouvrage analyse l'imposition des investissements transnationaux de portefeuille par l'intermédiaire d'organismes de placement collectif. Il met en évidence d'éventuelles distorsions fiscales spécifiques au domaine des organismes de placement collectif dans le cas d'un groupe représentatif de pays de l'OCDE. Cette analyse et les calculs qui l'étayent se veulent avant tout illustratifs et ne prétendent pas rendre compte de toute la richesse des permutations possibles entre régimes fiscaux. Mais ils identifient clairement les principales distorsions fiscales, les conditions de neutralité et les solutions offertes aux pouvoirs publics.
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    Language: French
    Edition: Edition 1998
    Series Statement: Examens en matière de coopération pour le développement 30
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Development Co-operation Reviews: European Community 1998
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  • 72
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    Edition: Edition 1998
    Series Statement: Examens en matière de coopération pour le développement 27
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Development Co-operation Reviews: Spain 1998
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  • 73
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    ISBN: 9789264189416
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (120 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Gérer les systèmes nationaux d'innovation
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    Abstract: With the emergence of a knowledge-based society, innovation has become an increasingly important factor in the competitiveness of firms, the prosperity of nations and dynamic world growth. Innovation uses scientific progress to meet the changing needs of society and is thus one of the keys to sustainable development. Promoting innovation is now a high priority in most OECD countries. However, the pursuit of this objective is often hampered by an inadequate understanding of the extent to which the mechanisms of innovation are being transformed by globalisation, the development of information and communications technologies and the expanding scientific knowledge base. Drawing on new empirical data, this book analyses the fundamental changes in the linkages between industry and the science system as well as in the nature of the competencies required for firms to innovate. The changes which are transforming the respective roles of competition and co-operation in stimulating innovation and which are enabling enterprise creation and SMIs to play an increasingly active role in innovation are also examined. This book shows that innovation performance depends on the way in which the different components of the "innovation system" -- businesses, universities and other research bodies - interact with one another at the local, national and international levels, and concludes that the public authorities must change their approach to the promotion of innovation. This study defines the aims and tools of this new innovation policy and identifies examples of good policy practice recently implemented in OECD countries.
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    ISBN: 9789264173873
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (48 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Indicateurs environnementaux pour l'agriculture ; Concepts et cadre d'analyse Volume 1
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Indicateurs environnementaux pour l'agriculture : Concepts et cadre d'analyse Volume 1
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    Keywords: Agriculture and Food ; Environment ; Landwirtschaft ; Umweltindikator ; Grundlage
    Abstract: Little quantitative information is available to assess the impacts, both harmful and beneficial, of agriculture on the environment and to measure how different policy measures affect the environment. To help fill these gaps, a major effort is underway in the OECD to develop a set of policy-relevant agri-environmental indicators. This first volume, of the series Environmental Indicators for Agriculture, outlines an analytical framework to further the analysis of agri-environmental linkages and sustainable agriculture. It describes the main environmental concepts in agriculture of relevance to OECD policy-makers and the indicators that need to be calculated: the use of nutrients, pesticides, and water; land conservation; water and soil quality; greenhouse gases; biodiversity; wildlife habitats; landscape; and environmental impacts related to farm management practices, the availability of farm financial resources, and rural socio-cultural issues.
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    ISBN: 9789264173903
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Manuel de protection de la biodiversité ; Conception & mise en oeuvre des mesures incitatives
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Manuel de protection de la biodiversité : Conception & mise en oeuvre des mesures incitatives
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    Keywords: Environment ; Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Artenreichtum ; Artenschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Anreiz
    Abstract: Governments need to implement appropriate policies to ensure both the private and the public goods values of biological diversity are realised. Unless the users of biological resources are given incentives to sustainably use these resources, valuable biodiversity will continue to be lost. Because of the inherent complexity of biological systems, and the range of pressures that act on them, a "bundle" of carefully-designed and complementary incentive measures are often necessary to provide the appropriate signals to prevent biodiversity loss. This unique Handbook draws on the experiences described in 22 case studies to develop a comprehensive step-by-step process for identifying and implementing appropriate incentive measures for biodiversity conservation, and the sustainable use of its components. It identifies the incentive measures that are most suitable for particular ecosystems, and for addressing the specific sectoral pressures in effect, describing both the advantages and the disadvantages of each incentive measure. A wide range of incentive measures are described, including both the more common economic and regulatory incentives, and also the necessary framework conditions, such as scientific and technical capacity building, education and awareness raising, and the involvement of local populations and other stakeholders.
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    ISBN: 9789264174474
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (144 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Décentralisation et infrastructure locale au Mexique ; Une nouvelle politique publique de développement
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Décentralisation et infrastructure locale au Mexique : Une nouvelle politique publique de développement
    DDC: 352.2/83/0972
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    Keywords: Urban, Rural and Regional Development ; Mexico ; Mexiko ; Infrastrukturpolitik ; Dezentralisation
    Abstract: This publication sheds light on the issue of decentralisation in Mexico. It shows that decentralisation can make decision-making more efficient and increase local participation in development issues. Decentralisation can provide a better framework to improve local infrastructure and to channel the necessary finance from public and private sources. The modernisation of infrastructure systems in Mexico's cities and regions would improve the quality of life and stimulate economic development, thus fostering entrepreneurship and employment. The initiatives being launched in Mexico in this direction constitute a major change of the country, one better adapted to the opportunities of the global economy and to the country's increasingly pluralistic system. Over time, Mexico will make better use of its own natural and human resources, reducing inequality and broadening opportunity throughout its territory.
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    ISBN: 9789264272910
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (160 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Recherche en matière de transport routier et intermodal
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Safety Strategies for Rural Roads
    Keywords: Transport
    Abstract: Plus de 75 000 personnes sont tuées chaque année sur les routes de rase campagne des pays de l'OCDE, ce qui représente près de 60 pour cent de l'ensemble des accidents mortels de la circulation. Ces pertes en vie humaine ont un coût économique de l'ordre de 135 milliards de dollars US. La proportion relative du nombre de tués sur les routes de campagne comparée au nombre total de tués dans les accidents de la circulation est passée de moins de 55 % en 1980 à plus de 60 % en 1996. Étant donné que les pays de l'OCDE ont connu une réduction du nombre total d'accidents mortels au cours des vingt dernières années, cela signifie clairement que les mesures de sécurité visant les autoroutes et les zones urbaines ont été bien plus fructueuses que celles visant les routes rurales. Après un examen approfondi des caractéristiques des accidents de la route en rase campagne, cet ouvrage propose une série de mesures de sécurité portant sur la gestion de l’infrastructure, les contrôles de police, les outils innovants, comme les systèmes de transport intelligents, ainsi que sur la gestion des traumatismes. Ce livre s'attache à faire prendre conscience aux usagers de la route, aux décideurs et aux hommes politiques de l'importance de la sécurité sur les routes en zone rurale. Il constitue un manuel très utile pour les autorités locale, régionale ou nationale, qui cherchent à améliorer -- souvent à faible coût -- la sécurité des routes de rase campagne.
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    Edition: Edition 1999
    Series Statement: Examens des performances environnementales
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Turkey 1999
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    ISBN: 9789264274112
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (88 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Food Safety and Quality; Trade Considerations
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Food Safety and Quality: Trade Considerations
    Keywords: Agriculture and Food
    Abstract: Des problèmes sanitaires très médiatisés ont récemment mis le débat sur la sécurité alimentaire au cœur de l'actualité. Des pressions croissantes s'exercent en faveur de normes plus restrictives et d'une application plus stricte des réglementations existantes. Les consommateurs ne se préoccupent pas seulement de l'innocuité des produits : la qualité des aliments et la façon dont ils sont produits, le bien-être animal, l'utilisation d'organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM), d'hormones ou d'autres promoteurs de croissance, les préférences culturelles, la préservation des ressources et la protection de l'environnement sont également devenus des enjeux importants du débat public sur la réglementation de l'industrie alimentaire. Face à la complexité de ces problèmes, il n'est pas facile de voir clairement les réponses politiques qui doivent être apportées. Différents facteurs renforcent les risques de conflits commerciaux : le durcissement des règles du commerce international, le développement des échanges agroalimentaires et l'utilisation croissante de nouvelles techniques biologiques. Les enjeux économiques sont importants et ces différends risquent d'occuper, à l’avenir encore, une place essentielle dans l’ordre du jour du commerce international. Ce rapport examine les désaccords commerciaux soulevés par les problèmes de qualité et de sécurité des produits alimentaires. Il résume les accords internationaux clés, illustre l’étendue et la nature des différends en cours, et étudie les contributions éventuelles de l’analyse économique pour la résolution du conflit. Il identifie également les domaines où une analyse complémentaire est nécessaire.
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  • 80
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    Paris : OECD Publishing
    ISBN: 9789264174399
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (428 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Science and Technology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Innovation ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: Both firms, keen to improve their competitiveness, and governments, keen to exploit new sources of economic and social progress, need to understand how innovation works in order to better stimulate it. The paradox of innovation is that it uses co-operation to enhance competition and to link many different actors in innovative clusters. In a knowledge-based economy, these clusters of innovative firms form around sources of knowledge. They are based on a sophisticated infrastructure in which knowledge is developed, shared and exchanged, and are characterised by highly concentrated and effective links between entrepreneurs, investors and researchers. Clusters can take a variety of forms, depending on their main technological and commercial areas of specialisation. In most cases they operate within localised geographical areas and interact within larger innovation systems at the regional, national and international level. With globalisation, dynamic clusters are becoming key factors in a country’s capacity to attract the international investment that generates new technological expertise, to interest investors in innovation (venture capital, etc.) and to benefit from the international mobility of skilled personnel. This book reviews the latest economic research on these issues, shows how technology policy makers in OECD countries are making practical use of the concept of clusters and suggests how government policies to foster innovation might best be refocused.
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  • 81
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    ISBN: 9789264280007
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (108 p.)
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Trade and Competition Policies for Tomorrow
    Keywords: Governance ; Trade
    Abstract: Les liens entre politique des échanges et politique de la concurrence suscitent un intérêt croissant depuis quelques années. En effet, avec la baisse des droits de douane, les négociateurs s’intéressent de plus en plus aux politiques intérieures sources de distorsions dans les échanges, ainsi qu'aux obstacles non gouvernementaux au commerce. En outre, la disparition des barrières officielles aux échanges et à l’investissement peut inciter les entreprises à adopter un comportement anticoncurrentiel pour protéger leurs marchés. D'où la nécessité de développer des politiques cohérentes. Parce qu'elles cherchent les unes comme les autres à améliorer l’allocation des ressources, politiques des échanges et politiques de la concurrence se complètent et se renforcent mutuellement. Les travaux rassemblés dans cet ouvrage sont issus du Groupe conjoint sur les échanges et la concurrence de l’OCDE. Ils examinent les relations et les complémentarités qui existent entre ces politiques à travers une approche multidisciplinaire typique de l’OCDE. Ce livre -- dont un chapitre entier est consacré au secteur des télécommunications -- jette sur toutes ces questions un éclairage inédit avant le nouveau cycle de négociations de l'OMC. Mais quelle que soit l'issue du sommet de Seattle, les problèmes soulevés dans cet ouvrage resteront d'actualité.
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  • 82
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    ISBN: 9789264180123
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (440 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    DDC: 346.5/086
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    Keywords: Finance and Investment
    Abstract: This is the first OECD publication dealing with insurance issues in Asia. It provides a unique overview and analysis on insurance regulation and supervision in Asia. Dedicated studies are included on Brunei, Hong Kong China, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Chinese Taipei, Thailand and Vietnam.Thanks to the broad range of high-quality information and the importance of issues addressed, this set of texts should constitute a reference work on insurance policy for policy makers and experts in the public sector, actors in the private sector and academics both in OECD Member countries and non-Member economies.
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  • 83
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    ISBN: 9789264280199
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Edition 1999
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  • 84
    ISBN: 9789264272149
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Edition 1999
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9789264072510
    Language: Multiple languages , English , French
    Pages: Online-Ressource (384 p.) , ill.
    Parallel Title: Druckausg.
    Keywords: Employment ; Taxation ; Industry and Services ; OECD ; Steuerbelastung
    Abstract: This annual publication provides unique information on direct taxes levied from employees and their employers in all OECD Member countries. In addition, the book specifies family benefits paid as cash transfers. Amounts of taxes and benefits are detailed program by program, for eight household types, which differ by income level and household composition. Results include the tax burden for one- and two- earner families.
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  • 86
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    ISBN: 9789264272798
    Language: French
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Edition 1999
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  • 87
    ISBN: 9789264164093
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (214 p.) , ill.
    Keywords: Education ; Social Issues/Migration/Health
    Abstract: Fears of the prospect of growing social exclusion have become important concerns in recent years for many countries. Improving the quality of education and the standards attained by students to improve employability is one of the tools being used to prevent exclusion. However, changing social realities are leaving young children and students more exposed than ever to failure at school and unemployment. It is becoming increasingly clear that communities, education systems, schools and teachers are not equipped to deal with the many problems which arise and when social or health services become involved conflicts of interest can arise leading to actions which are not always in the clients' best interests. The necessity to provide greater co-ordination among these services, to improve their efficiency and effectiveness and to provide a seamless support to meet the holistic needs of students and their families is now becoming more accepted. Such an approach, inter alia, is community-based, emphasises prevention rather than being crisis-oriented, is customer-driven rather than being focused on an agency, and is accountable through outcomes rather than inputs. For many, better co-ordination of services is seen as the only solution available which is commensurate with our present democratic societies. All of the papers in this book were presented at a conference held in Toronto, Canada. They are original and have been written by policy-makers from different ministries, researchers from different disciplines and clients who come variously from Canada, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, and the USA.
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  • 88
    ISBN: 9789164180315
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (308 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: OECD Reviews of Regulatory Reform
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Examens de l'OCDE de la réforme de la réglementation ; La réforme de la réglementation au Mexique 1999
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Examens de l'OCDE de la réforme de la réglementation : La réforme de la réglementation au Mexique 1999
    Keywords: Governance ; Mexico
    Abstract: OECD's 1999 review of regulatory reform in Mexico. It finds that regulatory reform has been key to the transformation of the Mexican economy over the past 15 years. Formerly inward-looking and heavily regulated, the Mexican economy today is relatively open and market-based. The rapid pace, broad scope, and depth of regulatory reforms exceed those of most OECD countries. These reforms have already produced major benefits for Mexico, not least by increasing economic flexibility so that Mexico rebounds more quickly from economic crises. But benefits of reforms have been slowed by the macroeconomic crises of the 1990s. Sustained attention is needed now to complete and implement reforms to establish conditions for vigorous market competition and entry, while strengthening the capacity of the Mexican state to use high quality and transparent regulatory instruments in carrying out public policies. A multi-year period of policy stability supportive of market-led growth could produce enduring and broad-based benefits for Mexican consumers and businesses. Mexico was one of the first OECD countries to request a broad review by the OECD of its national regulatory practices and domestic regulatory reforms. This report -- the result of intensive assessment by the OECD and review by its Member countries -- is unique in that it presents an integrated assessment of regulatory reform in framework areas such as the macroeconomic context, the quality of the public sector, competition policy and enforcement, and integration of market openness principles in regulatory processes, and in sectors such as telecommunications. The policy recommendations present a balanced plan of action for both short and longer-term based on best international regulatory practices.
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  • 89
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    Language: French
    Pages: 3 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Échanges, Programme pour la construction et l'équipement de l'éducation no.1999/11
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Study Support in Extra Time in the United Kingdom
    Keywords: Education ; United Kingdom
    Abstract: Le Royaume-Uni a lancé au printemps 1999 un grand projet pour accroître l’utilisation des bâtiments scolaires. Les bonnes écoles des secteurs public et privé ont toujours offert des activités récréatives et scolaires en dehors des heures de classe. Le gouvernement a décidé maintenant d’investir 200 millions de livres sterling provenant de la Loterie nationale pour permettre aux écoles des zones défavorisées dont les élèves ont de faibles résultats scolaires de développer ce type d’initiatives.
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  • 90
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    Language: French
    Pages: 2 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Échanges, Programme pour la construction et l'équipement de l'éducation no.1999/17
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Space Utilisation: Dare We Use A Pedagogical Measure?
    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: Une étude de cas de l’université de Sydney, en Australie, par John Simmons, Bureau de la gestion des équipements de l’université de Sydney, et Kenn Fisher, Woods Bagot Architects, en Australie.
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  • 91
    ISBN: 9789264173866
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (462 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Nuclear Science
    Keywords: Nuclear Energy ; Switzerland
    Abstract: Plutonium and minor actinide burning or recycling in thermal and fast reactors is being studied in many countries with the aim of maintaining and developing fuel cycle options which can be adjusted to changing demands and constraints. The challenge is to move towards an economically and socially sustainable nuclear energy system based on advanced reactors - advanced water-cooled reactors, fast reactors and perhaps accelerator-based, hybrid reactors - and new types of fuel cycles which help to minimise the waste arising. An additional issue concerns the availability of resources for the long-term future. This workshop introduced new ideas on R&D activities and identified areas and research tasks relevant for the deployment of new systems and in which international co-operation can be strengthened. The roles played by existing experimental facilities as well as possible needs for new ones are discussed. The conclusions of the technical sessions are synthesised and the results of a round table discussion on international co-operation are presented.
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9789264180031
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (236 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: ECMT Round Tables no.108
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Quels marchés pour les transports par voies navigables ?
    Keywords: Transport
    Abstract: Despite the fact that the freight transport market in Europe almost doubled in volume over the period 1970 to 1995, growth in the inland waterway sector has remained stagnant. Until now the waterways have primarily been used to transport goods produced by sectors that have been hard hit by industrial restructuring. However, the past does not necessarily hold the key to the future. Waterways can be readily incorporated into logistics chains in which regular supply streams and low transport costs are more important than speed. The transportation of hazardous materials and container transport also offer promising markets. The Round Table identified a number of policy measures which could help to promote development in the inland waterways sector (discontinuation of scrapping policies, support for the grouping of enterprises and the creation of co-operatives, incentives for private-sector investment). Reading the proceedings of this Round Table offers an opportunity to look at the inland waterways in a wholly new light which shows that there is a genuine future for this mode provided that operators are prepared to become entrepreneurs.
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  • 93
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    Language: English
    Pages: 40 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: Sigma Public Management Profiles no.8
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Lettonie
    Keywords: Governance ; Latvia
    Abstract: Latvia is a parliamentary republic first established on 18 November 1918, whose constitution (Satversme) was adopted on 15 February 1922. Its de facto sovereignty and independence ended with the USSR’s occupation as from 1940 and were restored by the Declaration of the Renewal of the Independence of the Republic of Latvia dated 4 May 1990 and the 21 August 1991 declaration re-establishing de facto independence, both of which proclaimed the authority of the Satversme. The Satversme was fully reinstated on 6 July 1993 when the parliament (Saeima) convened after the first democratic elections since the 1930s. On 17 June 1999, the 100-member Saeima cast 53 votes for Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who became the first woman to be elected president in the former Soviet Union.
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  • 94
    ISBN: 9789246180547
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (108 p.) , ill.
    Series Statement: Radioactive Waste Management
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Évacuation géologique des déchets radioactifs ; Bilan des dix dernières années
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Évacuation géologique des déchets radioactifs : Bilan des dix dernières années
    DDC: 621.48/38
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    Keywords: Nuclear Energy ; Untertagedeponie ; Entsorgung ; Radioaktiver Abfall
    Abstract: The concept of removing long-lived radioactive wastes from the human environment by disposal in deep geological repositories was developed several decades ago. In the intervening years, research efforts world-wide have increased our knowledge and understanding of how underground disposal systems will function over very long periods of time. Significant progress has also been made towards implementation of such facilities. There have, however, been delays in the disposal programmes of several countries. This report is a review of developments in the past decade. The primary sources of information are the answers to a questionnaire provided by waste management organisations represented in the NEA Radioactive Waste Management Committee (RWMC). The latter is an international forum of senior specialists from safety authorities, waste management agencies, R&D institutions and policy-making bodies.
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  • 95
    Language: English
    Pages: 46 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.156
    Keywords: Development ; Chile
    Abstract: What interest do developing countries have in limiting the growth of their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions? Answering this question is crucial to moving international climate policy negotiations forward. The primary benefits for individual countries of GHG abatement remain highly uncertain and, in any case, long-term in nature. The costs, on the other hand, are near-term. Using an economy-wide model of Chile, this study examines a hitherto neglected set of benefits from climate policy, viz., the reduction in emissions of local and regional air pollutants and the “ancillary” health benefits, in this case for the people of Santiago, the capital city. These benefits are both near-term and readily captured by the country implementing the policy. Extensive sensitivity analysis is performed in recognition of the uncertainty surrounding certain key parameter and exogenous variable values — notably, Santiago residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) for reduced mortality and morbidity risk, and ...
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  • 96
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    Language: English
    Pages: 71 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.155
    Keywords: Development ; India
    Abstract: The paper analyses economic and political causes as well as outcomes of the sudden reversal of Indian economic policies in 1991–93, after four decades of autarky and interventionism. It argues that a changing political landscape and the emergence of new interest groups, coupled with a severe balance–of–payments crisis, left little choice to the governing party but to break with the legacy of a patrimonial state. More competition, at political and economic levels, forced the hand of politicians to remove direct quantitative controls on industrial production, imports and access to capital. These reforms remained, however, partial and did not fundamentally change the politico–economic equation. Systemic opposition to reform remained strong enough to capture or neutralise some of the gains of liberalisation. Thus, the reform movement faltered and eventually ceased ...
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  • 97
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: PEB Exchange, Programme on Educational Building no.1999/15
    Parallel Title: Parallelausg. Le point sur les projets de gestion des actifs au Royaume-Uni
    Keywords: Education ; United Kingdom
    Abstract: Government, because of its commitment to education, is making significant additional capital funding available to the schools sector. Over the next three years, through various policy initiatives, about GBP 6 billion will be available to clear the maintenance backlog and improve school buildings. It is important that this money is used efficiently and as effectively as possible. Local Education Authorities (LEAs) will be responsible for preparing the Asset Management Plans, which will cover all types of state-funded schools in their boundaries. An AMP will provide an agreed basis for local decisions on spending priorities.
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  • 98
    ISBN: 9789264072619
    Language: Multiple languages
    Pages: Online-Ressource (100 p.) , ill.
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: This report provides detailed information on individual commitments, i.e. intended disbursements, of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to African countries for the years 1997 and 1998. This Special Africa Edition of the Gazette records the commitments which have been reported by Member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee and by multilateral organisations, and which have been entered into the Creditor Reporting System (CRS) database up until now (September 1998).
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  • 99
    ISBN: 9264172580
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Bd. 1 - 3
    Series Statement: SourceOECD
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. u.d.T. Environmental requirements for industrial permitting
    Keywords: OECD ; Industrie ; Konzession ; Umwelt
    Note: Erschienen Bd. 1 - 3
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  • 100
    Language: English
    Pages: 36 p. , 21 x 29.7cm
    Series Statement: OECD Development Centre Working Papers no.150
    Keywords: Development
    Abstract: In this study, we analyse extended periods of growth in Africa based on panel estimations from 27 African countries during the 1960-1996 period. Only a dozen of such rapid growth episodes are observable in Africa since 1960, and several of them eventually came to an end. We use all existing information on macroeconomic performance in Africa in a comparative manner, in order to assess the sustainability of current growth episodes. Our main conclusion is that sustainable growth needs to be based on a balanced mix of capital accumulation, macroeconomic adjustment and structural change. In addition to more commonly used determinants of Total Factor Productivity, we construct a measure for the effect of labour reallocation as well as an index of economic diversification and estimate the impact of the latter on long-term growth. We also build an analysis of investment behaviour, which is influenced by Total Factor Productivity gains, while influencing economic growth directly through ...
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