Central / national / federal government Books

Já alguma vez sentiu a frustração de não conseguir fazer ouvir a sua voz? A dificuldade em encontrar as palavras certas, o desejo de se exprimir de forma assertiva e o medo de perder a sua confiança e...

¿Ha sentido alguna vez la frustración de no poder hacer oír su voz? ¿La dificultad para encontrar las palabras adecuadas, el deseo de expresarse con asertividad y el miedo a perder la confianza y la convicción?...

Haben Sie schon einmal die Frustration gespürt, sich kein Gehör verschaffen zu können? Die Schwierigkeit, die richtigen Worte zu finden, den Wunsch, sich selbstbewusst auszudrücken, und die Angst, Ihr Vertrauen und Ihre...

Avez-vous déjà ressenti la frustration de ne pas pouvoir vous faire entendre ? La difficulté à trouver les mots justes, le désir de vous exprimer avec assurance et la crainte de perdre votre confiance et votre...

This report uses a broad range of indicators to assess the individual and collective development progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).Building on a previous study released in 2014, it assesses 39 indicators that consider...

This guidebook shows how India plans to meet its ambitious rooftop solar energy targets and why identifying new business models, better engaging utilities, and developing new market mechanisms will speed up its adoption. It explains how factors such as...

This guidebook analyzes India's plans to use rooftop solar power to boost its renewable energy, explains the benefits it offers, and details why new business models and market mechanisms would drive greater adoption. It examines India's renewable energy...

This guidance note provides a comprehensive overview of medical oxygen production, distribution, and use in Asia and the Pacific region, and explores how to improve systems over the medium and long term. It explains why surges in medical oxygen demand...

Infrastructure in the region of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (collectively known as ASEAN+3) will continue to be a key driver of economic development as its...

This manual aims to support the implementation of grid-connected rooftop photovoltaic (PV) projects in Maldives.The manual provides information to assist utility engineers and rooftop solar service providers with the installation, operation, and...

This publication shares lessons on reducing integrity risks in projects in the health sector. It draws on reviews of seven projects that were financed by the Asian Development Bank. The publication outlines how to identify and address control weaknesses...

This report analyzes future energy market options for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program members to help facilitate sustainable energy infrastructure investment.The report provides forecasts at individual country and regional...

This publication explores how roads are financed in five Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program countries and outlines lessons and best practices to help build a robust road network throughout the region. The publication details how...

This volume provides data and analysis on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Central and West Asia to help policymakers support the development of these businesses.The development of MSMEs remains key to promoting inclusive growth in...

This report shows how efficient carbon pricing instruments can enable countries in Asia and the Pacific region to accelerate their transition to affordable, secure low-carbon energy systems and help reach their ambitious climate targets. It outlines how...

This report provides an analysis of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises (SOEs), explores their prominent economic and social role, and explains how further reforms can unlock their commercial and developmental potential. Acting as a diagnostic to help...

The lecture, emphasizing the need for national and international scien­ tific cooperation concerned mainly the ways in which in the present era the Unites States are trying to cope with a number of basic problems in conducting...

We are concerned about too many human workers being replaced by machines. We should be. The harm we face goes far beyond the trauma faced by individuals who have lost their jobs to machines over past centuries. We are moving deeper into a condition of...

The Populists of the 1890s transformed the nation's political terrain, and this book tells the story of the hard-pressed farmers who launched that movement. Their call for a widening democracy to counter corporate monopoly and profiteering tapped into a...

In the second book of the From Poverty to Progress series, Michael Magoon shifts from explaining the causes of modern progress to how we can use that knowledge to create a better world. Magoon argues that current government policies are gradually...

How has an archaic, burdensome law been able to persist for a century?Passed in 1920, the Jones Act restricts the waterborne transport of cargo within the United States to vessels that are U.S.-flagged, U.S.-crewed, U.S.-owned, and U.S.-built. Meant to...

HOW CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE?WHY ARE THINGS SO SLOW AROUND HERE?IS THE PUBLIC SECTOR FOR ME?!Every day, new recruits join two million Aussie public servants striving to help our country thrive. But whether you're in local, state or federal government,...

This pandemic is not a once in 100 year event but closer to a once in 30 year event. The hysteria is grossly overdone.  There were WHO guidelines in 2019 about flu-type pandemics and none involved lockdowns. Australian governments including...

In the years between the two world wars of the twentieth century leaders in Western countries worried about a food surplus. The hardships of the Great Depression were intensified by a glut of wheat and consequent low prices on the world market. Yet at...

'Consultation' has become something of a mantra in contemporary governance. Governments well understand that policy occurs in a highly contestable environment in which there are multiple, and often competing interests. They well recognise the political...

Andrew Podger's monograph, The Role of Departmental Secretaries, Personal reflections on the breadth of responsibilities today, is an important contribution to the broader public policy discourse in Australia. Andrew has been, at times, an unflinching...

The papers in this collection reflect on the various social effects of native title. In particular, the authors consider the ways in which the implementation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), and the native title process for which this Act...

This collection of papers is concerned with issues of policy development, practice, implementation and performance. It represents a range of views about diverse subjects by individuals who are, for the most part, in the public eye and who have the...

Consumers rely on food labels for all kinds of economic, ethical, and lifesaving information. What are the ingredients in this product? Does it conform to kosher or halal standards? Is it organic or free of genetically modified ingredients? Has it been...

Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal, and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be...

Our behaviour in our own homes - our recycling habits, consumer choices and transport preferences - all have a huge impact on the environment locally and globally. Governments across the world are trying to formulate and implement policies to encourage...

For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country's political leaders, revenue...

The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states-Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of...

This collection of essays had its origins in a one-day workshop held in August 2015 at The Australian National University. Jointly convened by Dr John Butcher (ANZSOG) and Professor David Gilchrist (Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative) the purpose of the...

AMERICA, WAKE UP! We may be on the verge of a civil war or World War III. Take off your blinders and examine how we are losing our freedoms and democracy. US Fractured is an in-depth study of the sociological events, political uprisings, Supreme Court...

An Urgent Call-to-ActionEugene E. Jones, Jr. has the formula, passion and expertise to revamp and strengthen our nation's housing policy and unequal access to affordable housing. The author is an experienced housing practitioner who has successfully led...

Amerika -Christlicher Gottesstaat oder säkulare Gesellschaft?Raubtier-Kapitalismus oder soziale Marktwirtschaft? Zwei grundsätzliche Spannungsfelder prägen die amerikanische Gesellschaft und Politik. Einerseits wird behauptet, dass die USA als...

Globalization and the High-Tech Policy Response makes the case that U.S. economic growth policy has not responded to the growing competitive pressures from globalization. Specifically, the federal government has placed excessive reliance on...

In Freedom's Anchor, famed legal commentator Judge Andrew P. Napolitano makes the case for using natural law principles to restrain government. Going back to Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, Judge Napolitano identifies the origins of Natural Law Theory...

"Take care of Russia," Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin specifically picked Putin as his predecessor to prevent the takeover of Russia...

Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race,...

“The general object of war is to procure the complete submission of the enemy at the earliest possible period, with the least expenditure of life and property.” —Article 1, The Laws and Usages of War at Sea—A Naval War CodeThe...

“Of course in the Andrew Johnson drama the spectacular act is the impeachment. Americans who so lately had been holding their breath as they watched the great strugglewaged by Grant and Sherman against Robert E. Lee, now had to watch with more...

“Wanting a man from New England, Lincoln took an ex-Democrat, trained in public business,who had manifested his courage and the earnestness of his conviction by casting loose from his old associates on the question of slavery; and who also had...

“In this point of view, this Diary of Mr. Welles is among the most valuable documents within reach of our historical writers. As between the two, a diary should be accorded greater value than letters, for it is apt to be more ingenuous, more honest...

A Genre Analysis of Social Change contributes to current scholarship in rhetorical genre studies and discourse analysis in contexts of social change. Diana Wegner explores the ways that historical genre systems can be transformed through the process of...