Central / national / federal government policies

This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Advanced Materials for Sustainable Innovation (IC-AMSI 2024) held on Aug 28–30 in New Delhi, India.

This third edition of Health at a Glance: Europe presents a set of key indicators related to health status, determinants of health, health care resources and activities, quality of care, access to care, and health expenditure and financing in 35 European countries, including the 28 European Union member states, four candidate countries and three EFTA countries.

This second edition of Understanding National Accounts, that provides a comprehensive explanation of how national accounts are compiled, contains new data and new chapters, and is adapted to the new systems of national accounts, SNA 2008 and ESA 2010, that came into effect in September 2014.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is a relatively new nation, with half of its population under the age of 18 years.

This guidebook helps ensure that community training investments are optimized and yield the desired results.

The Allied Powers and the Central Powers were fighting tooth and nail during the World War 1.

This case study report describes the comprehensive approach to gender inclusiveness resettlement in the Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in a remote mountainous region of Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam.

This publication helps guide investment planning and financing across key urban infrastructure sectors of Azerbaijan to improve the performance of cities---with a focus on economy, equity, and environment.

Asia's population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge.

The poor and vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately from the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters, which result in loss of life, damage to household and community assets, disruption of livelihoods, and loss of income.

In Nepal, deeply embedded structural conditions determined by gender, caste or ethnicity, religion, language, and even geography have made access to and benefits from energy resources highly uneven.

Reliable supply of 24-hour electricity in the State of Madhya Pradesh since 2014 has transformed the lives of many, including women from low-income households.

This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall.

This publication is the annual report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration.

Climate and disaster risk is increasing in the Asia and Pacific region, exacerbating existing vulnerabilities and creating new ones.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to developing and updating a comprehensive set of comparable and accessible data to help measure performance of social protection programs in Asia and the Pacific.

The adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly was a major breakthrough in the fight against poverty.

This publication explains the evaluation and strategic investment priorities of the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the agriculture, natural resources, and rural development sector.

This publication launches the Inclusive Green Growth Index, a new comprehensive metric that captures the key dimensions of economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability.

In Highway Robbery Peter Kinzler delivers a fast-paced behind-the-scenes account of two federal legislative efforts twenty years apartone from the political left and one from the rightto reform Americas auto insurance system to make it fairer and more affordable.

An eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attackGun sellers sell more than just guns.

Public-sector employees enjoy much more generous pay and benefit packages than private-sector workers, including guaranteed pensions and retiree health benefits whose long-term costs threaten to break the backs of state and local taxpayers.

The power of unions in workers' lives and in the American political system has declined dramatically since the 1970s.

The growth of global urbanization places great strains on energy, transportation, housing and public spaces needs.

Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation offers every stakeholder involved in international transactions the tools needed to assess the essential risks, threats and vulnerabilities within the global supply chain.

Handbook of Commercial Policy explores three main topics that permeate the study of commercial policy.

Inclusive growth needs to be achieved to reduce poverty and other disparities and raise economic growth.

To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok.

This OECD Economic Survey of China examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects.

Development Asia looks at the lessons learned from a decade of dealing with natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific and at how the region's economic growth could suffer unless it acts collectively on disaster risk.

Research indicates that up to 28% of crashes are due to the road environment.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of peace ecology to the understanding and practice of environmental and conventional peacebuilding.

This book stems from the joint effort of 25 research teams across Europe, representing a dozen disciplines from the social sciences and humanities, resulting in a radically novel perspective to the challenges of multilingualism in Europe.

Understand how the healthcare system works - and how you can succeed in itA Doody's Core Title for 2019!

This book is a slightly revised version of the Thesis titled 'Post Globalisation Politics of Language in Maharashtra' submitted to the University of Mumbai for Ph.

Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary.

A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surprises like the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being fired have caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades.

This knowledge based edited book titled 'Khap Panchayat, Women and Honour Killing' is collection of 20 chapters categorised in to 04 sections A) Understanding the Khap Panchayats, B) Khap Panchayats and Discrimination against Women, C) Khap Panchayats, Honour Crime and Laws, D) Khap and other Non State Agencies.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

This volume addresses important questions related to the well-being and quality of life of emerging adults during crisis periods.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday AmericansThe National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations-even despite widespread public support for stricter laws and the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related deaths.

Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development.

Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent-and limits-of presidential powerOne of the most vexing questions for the framers of the Constitution was how to create a vigorous and independent executive without making him king.

The bestselling author of Beyond Greed and Fear puts behavioral concepts into corporate practicePsychologically smart companies manage both the pluses and minuses of human psychology through well-structured systems and processes.

Encyclopaedia of Indian Government: Programmes and Policies imparts authoritative information on about fifty departmental policies and their future developmental programmes.

A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything-and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing.

How access to resources and policymaking powers determines the balance of power between the legislative and executive branchesThe specter of unbridled executive power looms large in the American political imagination.

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens.

Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector?