Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Organization Matters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Organization Matters

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1998
  • -
  • Publisher: IDB

Organization Matters shows how improving the institutions that provide those services can make a significant difference in health conditions and student learning. A general framework is developed applying the lessons of institutional economics to the particularities of social services, followed by case studies that assess the impact of organization on education in Brazil, Venezuela and Chile, and on health in Uruguay, Chile and the Dominican Republic.

Ageing Well
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Ageing Well

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2007-03-12
  • -
  • Publisher: CRC Press

Many current public health actions and policies aimed at older people revolve around the often prevailing view that failing health is a consequence of ageing. It is now clear that it is possible to postpone or even prevent much of the age-related decline in health that was once thought inevitable. Future policies must recognise this changing paradi

Chile
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Chile

"The "Chilean model" has been expostulated for some time in the Latin American and Caribbean region and elsewhere because it appeared that the country, despite terrible political and economic turmoil, embodied important lessons about economic management." Over the last 15 years, Chile has been the Latin American country with the most consistent and successful economic record. The success of Chile's economic reforms and the subsequent dramatic increase in real income are well known. To a large extent, Chile's positive fiscal outcomes have been the result of sound policies as well as sound fiscal institutions. However, there is room for improvement in the education and health sectors, and the ...

Development Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Development Policy

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1995
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

Inland Waters - Ecology, Limnology, and Environmental Protection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Inland Waters - Ecology, Limnology, and Environmental Protection

Inland water primarily includes rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands. It also includes ponds, streams, groundwater, reservoirs, springs, cave waters, and floodplains. Most inland water bodies are lakes. Inland waters are unique ecosystems offering services and habitat resources. Food, fiber, medicine, climate management, flood and natural disaster mitigation, nutrient recycling, and drinking water purification are among the services they offer for human progress and poverty reduction. These ecosystems are also necessary for the generation of energy, transportation, leisure, tourism, and providing a home for flora and fauna. This book includes updates and recent research on all aspects of inland waters and the related field ( ecology, limnology, and environment protection). In this book, different chapters are presented with different sections that include water pollution and treatment, the hydromorphological quality of inland water, and the ecology and limnology of inland water. So, in this book, readers and scientists from different scientific fields will obtain updated information on all aspects of inland waters.

School Choice In Chile
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

School Choice In Chile

School Choice in Chile examines the dramatic educational decentralization and privatization of schools in Chile. In the early 1980s, the Pinochet regime decentralized schooling, providing vouchers for parental choice of public or private schools. At the same time, the government supposedly gave the administration of schools to local municipalities. Although the reform has merit and is defended by some as a major achievement, Varun Gauri shows the many ways in which it has not worked.In this process of reform, neither the administration of schools nor school content was really decentralized from the Ministry of Education, nor did students gain equality of educationaly opportunity or better sc...

Back to Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Back to Work

What can be done to create more and better jobs in Europe and Central Asia? And should there be specific policies to help workers access those jobs? The authors of this book examine these questions through the lens of two contextual factors: the legacy of centralized planned economies and the mounting demographic pressures associated with rapid aging in some countries and soaring numbers of youth entering the workforce in others. The authors find the following: Market reforms pay off, albeit with a lag, in terms of jobs and productivity. A small fraction of superstar high-growth firms accounts for most of the new jobs created in the region. Skills gaps hinder employment prospects, especially...

School Choice, Student Performance, and Teacher and School Characteristics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44
East Asia and Pacific Economic Update October 2014
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

East Asia and Pacific Economic Update October 2014

In China, growth will gradually moderate, reflecting intensified policy efforts to address financial vulnerabilities and structural constraints, and place the economy on a more sustainable growth path. In the rest of the region, growth will pick up, as exports firm in line with strengthening global activity, and the impact of domestic adjustment in large ASEAN countries eases. Significant uncertainties remain about the sustainability of the global recovery, and global financial conditions are likely to tighten. The short-term priority in several countries is to address the vulnerabilities and inefficiencies created by an extended period of loose financial conditions and fiscal stimulus. In China, the authorities need to strike a balance between containing growing risks from rising leverage and meeting the indicative growth targets. Over the longer term, the focus in most countries must be on structural reforms to enhance export competitiveness. The report’s special section focuses on education & skills development; international migration; and the policy priorities for the Pacific Island Countries.

Youth Employment in Sierra Leone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Youth Employment in Sierra Leone

Creating job opportunities for a large and growing number of young people is a key development challenge for the government of Sierra Leone. Analyzing the supply and demand sides of the labor market, this book asseses the challenges and options for improving sustainable livelihood opportunities for youth in post-conflict Sierra Leone.