This volume makes a comprehensive assessment of the status and quality of early educational experiences at preschool and early primary grades in India.
This volume provides comparative perspectives on issues related to education, culture, sustainable development and nation-building in India and Canada.
The book critically examines the high growth trajectory in India, particularly since the late 1980s, a period which is characterized by increasing inequality.
This book addresses the relationship between high school students' HIV and AIDS knowledge and their stigma-related attitudes/perceptions of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Caribbean and South Pacific, with a view to designing effective stigma-reduction combined intervention programs.
This book is the first-ever volume which provides comprehensive information on demographic, health and development at the level of 640 districts in India.
This book investigates the socioeconomic factors that triggered Tunisia's "e;revolution for dignity"e; and the current issues and challenges facing its economy while suggesting mechanisms and instruments for their resolution.
This book analyzes the interplay between development and the environment, focusing on how to forge social consensus and practices in the international community.
This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa.
This book honors the memory of Tony Atkinson, who made significant contributions to the rigorous study of income inequality, poverty, and redistribution.
This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.
This book highlights how the human security aspect has been affected by the global pandemic, based on the specific case study, field data, and evidence.
This book applies interactive perspectives, which have historically mainly been discussed in the context of Western European countries, to case studies on water governance in Asia.
This book comprises chapters by leading international authors analysing the interface between intellectual property and foreign direct investment, development, and free trade.
This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the protection and preservation of cultural diversity.
This book addresses issues of how the cultures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia have been Englishized in postcolonial and globcalized contexts, not just in terms of language, but also in writers'/people's subjectivity.
This book applies interactive perspectives, which have historically mainly been discussed in the context of Western European countries, to case studies on water governance in Asia.
This book provides a rare integrative interpretation of government-enterprise relations in China, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic.
This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.
In this edited volume, academics and practitioners from various disciplines investigate the challenges, opportunities and frameworks in the implementation of Smart Cities in the Gulf.
This book explains in simple language the change of perspective and the transition of the systems for poverty alleviation, based on the fifteen-year development of China's poverty alleviation policy.
This book provides the solid and detailed evidence for some debated theories in Chinese studies, based on quantitative-qualitative analysis or mixed methods, which is quite novel compared with the extant work through qualitative or quantitative research alone.
This book highlights a number of social sustainability issues at different stages of the supply chain, and demonstrates how these issues can be addressed by adopting social sustainability practices in the manufacturing supply chain.
Addressing the unprecedented international interest in China's high-speed railways, this book adopts a global perspective to examine the success of the system and probes into its going-global strategy in the context of the "e;Belt and Road"e; initiative, providing readers around the world a better understanding of infrastructure construction under the "e;Belt and Road"e; plan, as well as the global vision of communication and mutual exchange and prosperity among the countries along the Belt and Road route.
This book examines various aspects of changes to business behavior through the lenses of the "e;twin pillars"e; of sustainability - responsibility and governance.
This book figures out that network security and informatization have entered a development stage of greater permeation and deeper integration into all aspects of the economy and society.
This book examines suitable approaches to and makes policy suggestions on China's industrial upgrading according to the requirements of the transformation of economic growth.
This book discusses critical policy issues that need to be addressed if India wishes to achieve the SDG 1 based elusive goal of ending poverty in the country.
This book gathers together invited presentations from the 12th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS2017) held in Beijing, China, August 20-23, 2017.
This book discusses the experiences of cooperative enterprises in India that have been operated by or influenced to a significant extent by trade unions.
This book features papers addressing a broad range of topics including psychology, religious studies, natural heritage, accounting, business, communication, education and sustainable development.
Through the lens of the Asian tsunami, this book problematizes concepts that are normally taken for granted in disaster discourse, including relief, recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation.
