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China, Surpassing the "Middle Income Trap"
This open access book explores one of the most fiercely debated issues in China: if and how China will surpass the middle income trap that has plagued many developing countries for years. This book gives readers a clear picture of China today and acts as a reference for other developing countries. China is facing many setbacks and experiencing an economic slowdown in recent years due to some…
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- 9789811565403
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- xix, 218p. : ill.
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- -
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- 330.0095 ZHO c
Community empowerment through research, innovation and Open Access : proceedi…
ICHSS is an international seminar that is held every two years organized by the Research and Community Service Institute of the State University of Malang. The meeting aims to discuss the theoretical and practical developments of Social Sciences and Humanities in Indonesia and other countries with a view to build academic networks by gathering academics from various research institutes and univ…
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- 9781003189206
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- XV, 163 p.
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- 307.14 COM c
Cultural sovereignty beyond the modern state : space, objects, and media
In the past 25 years or more, political observers have diagnosed a crisis of the sovereign nation state and the erosion of state sovereignty through supranational institutions and the global mobility of capital, goods, information and labour. This edition of the European History Yearbook seeks to use "cultural sovereignty" as a heuristic concept to provide new views on these developments since …
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- 9783110679151
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- II, 181 p.
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- Jahrbuch für Europäische Geschichte / European History Yearbook, Band 21
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- 320.15 CUL c
Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation: Re-thinking Spatial …
Despite the emphasis of the European Regional Policy on territorial cohesion, regional disparities have been increasing within Europe in the past years. The metropolitan areas in almost all countries are considerably growing while regions outside of agglomerations are stagnating or even declining. Against this background this book aims to provide an understanding of the underlying processes of …
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- 1st ed. 2019.
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- 9789811311901
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- XXIV, 382 p
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- 304.2 REG r
Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and M…
This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are used in local, national and transnational settings, in and outside conventional forms of doing politics. It expands on po…
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- 9783030416942
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- xiii, 239 p
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- 304.84 NOS n
The state of peacebuilding in Africa : lessons learned for policymakers and p…
This open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and…
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- 9783030466350
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- xix, 431 p.; ill
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- 327.172096 THE t
The palgrave handbook of development cooperation for achieving the 2030 agend…
This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of developme…
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- 9783030579371
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- xxxii, 730 p.; ill
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- 338.927 CHA t
Frontiers of real estate science in Japan
This Open Access book presents recent research and hot topics in the field of real estate science in Japan. It features carefully selected English translations of peer-reviewed papers and excellent articles published in the Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences, as well as papers presented at the Japan Association of Real Estate Sciences (JARES) annual conference. The topics covered incl…
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- 9789811588488
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- ix, 337p. : ill.
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- 346.52043 FRO f
One hundred years of social protection : the changing social question in Braz…
While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesio…
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- 9783030549596
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- xxiv, 437p. : ill.
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- 361.61 ONE o
Coronavirus politics : the comparative politics and policy of Covid-19
COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for schola…
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- 9780472902460
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- VIII, 654 p.
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- -
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- 362.1962414 COR c
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