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Can photovoltaic technologies help attain sustainable rural development in Bangladesh?

Diesendorf, M. O; Bryce, P.; Biswas, W. K (Elsevier Science, 2001)

The paper explores a model of sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh, based on the creation of village businesses that sell solar electricity generated from the photovoltaic (PV) technologies. ...
The Cemetery, the State and the Exiles: A Study of Cementerio Colón, Havana, and Woodlawn Cemetery, Miami

Wyndham Marivic; Read Peter (UTS ePress, 2011)

Cementerio Colón, Havana, is one of the great historical cemeteries of the world, and is generally held to be the second most important in Latin America¿in historical and architectural terms¿after La Recoleta in Buenos ...
Challenges in addressing cultural diversity: Approaches in Sydney schools

Burridge Nina; Chodkiewicz Andrew (Common Ground Publishing, 2010)

An essential challenge for school educators continues to be how to better represent and negotiate the complexities of classrooms and school communities that are increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. Schools ...
Changes to the Australian Public Service: some deleterious effects upon political accountability and VET policy formation and implementation

Cornford, I. R (Australian Association for Research in Education, 2004)

The introduction of contracts for senior managers in the Australian public service, in both state and federal spheres, in place of permanency has substantially changed the nature of the Westminster system of government ...
Changing Concepts of Power, Changing Concepts of Politics

Clegg Stewart (Public Administration Theory Network, 2001)

Two central debates about power converged in debate around the work of Laclau and Mouffe. On the one hand, they were key figures in Western Marxism. responsible for reconceptualizing its central concept - hegemony. On ...
Changing Relations between Government and Citizen: Administrative Law and the Work of the Australian Commonwealth Ombudsman

Stuhmcke Anita (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008)

This article examines the individual complaint-taking role of the Australian Commonwealth Ombudsman over a 28 year period between 1977¿2005. This study was conceived through a curiosity to determine how a 30 year old ...
Characterising Best-Worst Voting Systems In The Scoring Context

Garcia-Lapresta Jl; Marley Anthony; Martinez-Panero M (Springer, 2010)

An increasing body of theoretical and empirical work on discrete choice considers a choice design in which a person is asked to select both the best and the worst alternative in an available set of alternatives, in contrast ...
Children of the 21st Century: Are they skilled in the art of negotiation?

Evers Maxine (Lawbook Co, 2005)

Children negotiate on a daily basis with parents, teachers and their peers. Their need and ability to learn negotiation skills has increased in acceptance. Programs, such as anti-bullying and peer mediation, are provided ...
China Engages Global Governance: A new world order in the making?

Chan Gerald; Lee Pak; Chan Lai-Ha (Routledge, 2012)

This book focuses on China¿s increasing involvement in global governance as a result of the phenomenal rise of its economy and global power. It examines whether and in what ways China is capable of participating in ...
China Engages Global Health Governance: Processes and Dilemmas

Chan Lai-Ha; Lee Pak; Chan Gerald (Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, 2009)

Using HIV/AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and avian influenza as case studies, this paper discusses the processes and dilemmas of China's participation in health governance, both at the domestic level and ...
China in Darfur: humanitarian rule-maker or rule-taker?

Chan Lai-Ha (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Most people hold that in its quest for natural resources abroad, China shields rogue states with egregious human-rights record from international opprobrium and sanctions. Its political support for Sudan is a case in point. ...
China in the International Human Rights Regime

Young Graham; Guo Yingjie (City University of Hong Kong Press, 2003)
China in the WTO: The Impact of Global Integration on Local Governance

Guo Yingjie (Centre for WTO Studies - College of International Affairs, Chengchi University, 2007)
China's Contentious Journalists: Reconceptualizing the Media

Hassid Jonathan (M.E. Sharpe, 2008)

Despite government attacks, China's newspaper journalists have become increasingly unruly.
China's Engagement with Global Health Democracy: Was SARS a Watershed

Chan Lai-Ha (World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2012)

Growing interest in a wide range of global health issues makes China an increasingly important actor in the international health arena. This case study provides a closer look at the transitions in China's health policy ...
China's Environmental Governance: The Domestic-International Nexus

Chan Lai-Ha; Chan Gerald; Lee Pak (Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, 2008)

This paper examines the connection between China's domestic governance and its involvement in global governance in environmental protection by studying the major actors and issues involved in the interaction between the ...
China's Fiscal Decentralization: consequences for the promotion of local development

Carrillo Garcia Beatriz (Universidad de Guadalajara, 2008)

Fiscal decentralization has been an integral part of China's decentralization process, which successfully promoted local government entrepreneurialism. But while fiscal reform gave governments increasing authority overlocal ...
China's "Realpolitik" Engagement with Myanmar

Lee Pak; Chan Gerald; Chan Lai-Ha (World Security Institute, 2009)

This paper asks why China engages with the reclusive military regime of Myanmar and shields it from international opprobrium over its dismal human rights record. Conventional wisdom has it that China wishes to gain a ...
China's Trade Unions in Corporatist Transition

Chan Anita (M.E. Sharpe, 2008)

One issue in studies of trade unions is a union¿s relationship with the state, ideologically and strategically. At one end of the spectrum is a system where the trade union has a weak relationship with the government. ...
The Chinese Liberal Camp in Post-June 4th China

Feng Chongyi (French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, 2009)

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