National level goods and services tax (GST) is India’s most ambitious indirect tax reform. Its objective is to levy a single uniform tax across Ind...

This book provides people who want to work systemically with a set of practical tools. It is above all a reference book full of specific and helpfu...

Human development is a relative concept and it needs to be understood from an interdisciplinary perspective. It includes widening of choices, expan...

"India is probably in the middle of the most reform-friendly phase in its history—open to conceptions that can help transform the nation faster, pu...

Transformation of a nation -- that too, with the size and complexity of India -- won’t happen in months. At the same time, if it took decades, it w...

Dr. Zvi Feine served the Jewish communities of Romania and Poland as country director for the Joint Distribution Community during those two countri...

In addition to their jobs, workers have obligations (civic, familial, and personal) to fulfil that sometimes requires them to be absent from the wo...

Multifunctional agriculture first received wide attention in 1998, when Japan, South Korea, and the European Union used the term to describe the mu...

The accelerating pace of world urbanisation has been one of the most significant developments of the twentieth century. This development has had gr...

The nations of Scandinavia and Finland, or Nordic Europe, continue to provide living proof that economic prosperity can be combined with social equ...

The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, or AMWU, today a large and complex organisation, can trace its origins to the earliest years of Austral...

Policy Process & Super-Optimum Solutions

The Post-Soviet period is of crucial importance to the remainder of the world. The military, political, economic and social changes unfolding in Ru...

Governments are big and important in modern times. People depend on their government to protect themselves against external aggression, internal di...

After the break-up of the USSR, the former Soviet countries took different paths. While many of them face severe economic problems or have become o...

In any society, governmental entities enact laws, make policies, and allocate resources. This is true at all levels. Public policy can be generally...

In this book, a number of concepts and understandings about ‘development' intertwine. Scales, times and human activities are projected onto territo...

This book examines the practices, psychology and health-related issues issues relating to rehabilitation. The authors present topical research incl...

This book examines the Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Resolution proposed by Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and the House Committee on the Budget. The Co...

Transition from one millennium to another is not just a calendar date, but rather a complex historical process of qualitative changes in the develo...

This is the first book-length bibliographic profile that addresses the literature about the Russian and Chinese place in the world, the past, prese...

This book explores the contested concept and theorisation of care and its relationship to ageing. The book analyses the different and complex ways ...

U.S. farmers grow over 350 types of fruit, vegetable, tree nut, flower, nursery, and other horticultural crops in addition to the major bulk commod...