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Migrant Conversions
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in large numbers in the mid 1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants come to see Korea as an ideal destination. Some even see it as part of their divine destiny. Faced with looming departures, Peruvians develop cosmopolitan plans to transform themselves from economic migrants into pastors, lovers, and leaders. Set against the backdrop of 2008’s global financial crisis, Vogel explores the intersections of three types o...
When Colombia Bled
This book focuses on the Colombian Violencia, the undeclared civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties that raged from the late 1940s to early 1960s. It presents the information as a narrative history. There is also an array of appendixes, maps, and photographs.
Global Corruption Report: Education
Corruption and poor governance are acknowledged as major impediments to realizing the right to education and to reaching the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. Corruption not only distorts access to education, but affects the quality of education and the reliability of research findings. From corruption in the procurement of school resources and nepotism in the hiring of teachers, to the buying and selling of academic titles and the skewing of research results, major corruption risks can be identified at every level of the education and research systems. Conversely, education serves as a means to strengthen personal integrity and is a critical tool to address...
Smarter Crowdsourcing for Anti-Corruption
Corruption presents a fundamental threat to the stability and prosperity of Mexico and combating it demands approaches that are both principled and practical. In 2017, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved project ME-T1351 to support Mexico in its fight against corruption using Open Innovation. Thus, the IDB partnered with the Governance Lab at NYU to support Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Service (Secretaría de la Función Pública) to identify innovative solutions for the measurement, detection, and prevention of corruption in Mexico using the GovLab’s open innovation methodology named Smarter Crowdsourcing. The purpose of Smarter Crowdsourcing was to identify concrete so...
Rags to Riches
Accompanying the touring exhibition Rags To Riches, this publication is the first book published in the United States to focus on the development of hand papermaking as a fine art medium. The 112-page book includes an historical survey by independent curator Trudy Hansen highlighting the growth of hand papermaking as an art medium, essay by guest curator Donna Stein, a Dieu Donné history by Founder Susan Gosin, interview with Artistic Director Paul Wong on the collaborative process, photographs of the exhibition works, a checklist of the exhibit, a chronology of Dieu Donné, a listing of 25 years of publications, artists and collaborations, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index.
Mexico Business Law Handbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Basic Laws
Mexico Business Law Handbook - Strategic Information and Basic Laws
OECD Public Governance Reviews Public Procurement Review of the State's Employees' Social Security and Social Services Institute in Mexico
Building on the 2008 OECD Principles for Enhancing Integrity in Public Procurement and good practices of similar organisations in other OECD countries, the review provides a comprehensive assessment of ISSSTE's procurement strategies, systems and processes.
