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Philosophic values and world citizenship Locke to Obama and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Value -- Moral imperatives for world order / Alain Locke -- Unity through diversity : a Bah�a'�i principle / Alain Locke -- Culture and the Kalos : inquiry, justice, and value in Locke and Aristotle / Rose Cherubin -- Aesthetic evaluations of realist drama / Erin Kealey -- The axiological turn in early twentieth century American philosophy : Alain Locke and Jos�e Vasconcelos on epistemology, value, and the emotions / Grant Silva -- Conundrum of cosmopolitanism and race : the great debate between Alain Locke and William James / Leonard Harris -- Pt. 2. …”
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Microfinance and public policy outreach, performance and efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Positive mechanisms -- Negative mechanisms -- A capability perspective -- Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz -- Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives -- Trade-offs -- Managing trade-offs -- Conclusions -- Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch -- Introduction Subsidies and microfinance -- Valuing subsidies -- "Crowding in" and "crowding out" -- Conclusions -- Empirical analysis -- Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves Flickiger, Anatoli Vassiliev -- Introduction -- Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation -- Performance analysis methodology -- Data sources and variable construction -- Efficiency analysis with the DEA model -- Conclusions -- Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck -- Introduction -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence -- Decomposing spreads -- Explaining spreads -- Conclusions and policy lessons -- Efficiency drivers and constraints: Empirical findings / Yousra Hamed -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The data -- MFI clusters -- Performance drivers and constraints -- Conclusions -- Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber -- Introduction -- The data -- Factor analysis: theory and practice -- Cluster analysis -- Assessing what determines performance -- Conclusions -- Selected country studies -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti, and Milasoa Cherel-Robson-- Introduction -- Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets -- External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / Said Filali Meknassi -- Introduction -- Institutional context -- Support by banks -- Subsidies -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Jusyna Pytkovwsa -- Introduction -- Access to resources -- Financial performance -- Social performance -- Auctioning subsidies: Chile's "Access to Credit Program" / Vito Sciaraffia Merino -- Introduction -- Micro-enterprises in Chile -- Has the PAC achieved its goals? …”
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Career development, employment, and disability in rehabilitation : from theory to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Strauser, Fong Chan, and Ming-Yi Wu -- Vocational evaluation in rehabilitation / David R. Strauser, Fong Chan, Ming-Hung Wan, Ming-Yi Wu, and Maryam Rahimi -- Work values : understanding and assessing motivation to work / Chris Murdock and James Rounds -- Vocational interests / Rong Su and James Rounds -- Occupational and labor market information / Mary Barros-Bailey -- Computer-based vocational guidance systems and job matching / Jeffrey Truthan and Timothy F. …”
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Microfinance and public policy outreach, performance and efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Positive mechanisms -- Negative mechanisms -- A capability perspective -- Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz -- Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives -- Trade-offs -- Managing trade-offs -- Conclusions -- Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch -- Introduction Subsidies and microfinance -- Valuing subsidies -- "Crowding in" and "crowding out" -- Conclusions -- Empirical analysis -- Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves Flickiger, Anatoli Vassiliev -- Introduction -- Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation -- Performance analysis methodology -- Data sources and variable construction -- Efficiency analysis with the DEA model -- Conclusions -- Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck -- Introduction -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence -- Decomposing spreads -- Explaining spreads -- Conclusions and policy lessons -- Efficiency drivers and constraints: Empirical findings / Yousra Hamed -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The data -- MFI clusters -- Performance drivers and constraints -- Conclusions -- Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber -- Introduction -- The data -- Factor analysis: theory and practice -- Cluster analysis -- Assessing what determines performance -- Conclusions -- Selected country studies -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti, and Milasoa Cherel-Robson-- Introduction -- Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets -- External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / Said Filali Meknassi -- Introduction -- Institutional context -- Support by banks -- Subsidies -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Jusyna Pytkovwsa -- Introduction -- Access to resources -- Financial performance -- Social performance -- Auctioning subsidies: Chile's "Access to Credit Program" / Vito Sciaraffia Merino -- Introduction -- Micro-enterprises in Chile -- Has the PAC achieved its goals? …”
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Career development, employment, and disability in rehabilitation : from theory to practice /

Table of Contents: “…Strauser, Fong Chan, and Ming-Yi Wu -- Vocational evaluation in rehabilitation / David R. Strauser, Fong Chan, Ming-Hung Wan, Ming-Yi Wu, and Maryam Rahimi -- Work values : understanding and assessing motivation to work / Chris Murdock and James Rounds -- Vocational interests / Rong Su and James Rounds -- Occupational and labor market information / Mary Barros-Bailey -- Computer-based vocational guidance systems and job matching / Jeffrey Truthan and Timothy F. …”
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India -- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India -- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions -- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach -- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India -- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? …”
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Atopological Trilogy: Deleuze and Guattari / by Aracagok, Zafer

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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Housing Poverty and Inequality in Urban India -- Part Four: Rural Poverty Reduction Policies -- Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Policy of Crop Diversification as a Strategy for Reduction of Rural Poverty in India -- Chapter 8: Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh -- Part Five: Dimensions of Poverty and its Reductions -- Chapter 9: Decomposing Spatial Inequality in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach -- Chapter 10: Non-Income Dimensions, Prevalence, Depth and Severity of Poverty: Spatial Estimation with Household Level Data in India -- Chapter 11: Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States? …”
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Atopological Trilogy: Deleuze and Guattari / by Aracagok, Zafer

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Interpretation and method empirical research methods and the interpretive turn /

Table of Contents: “…interroating criteria for knowledge claims in interpretive science / Dvora Yanow -- Judging quality : evaluative criteria and epistemic communities / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea -- Talking our way to meaningful explanations : a practice-centered view of interviewing for interpretive research / Joe Soss -- Ordinary language interviewing / Frederic Charles Schaffer -- Seeing with an ethnographic sensibility : explorations beneath the surface of public policies / Ellen Pader -- High politics and low data : globalization discourses and popular culture / Jutta Weldes -- The numeration of events : studying political protest in India / Dean E. …”
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Multi-stakeholder platforms for integrated water management

Table of Contents: “…/ Leo Santbergen -- Participating in watershed management : policy and practice in the Trahunco watershed, Argentinean Patagonia / Alejandra Moreyra and Jeroen Warner -- 'Yakunchik' : coming to agreement after violence in Perú / María Teresa Oré -- Multi-stakeholder platforms for surface and groundwater management in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester, Jaime Hoogesteger van Dijk and Hans Paters -- Less tension, limited decision : a multi-stakeholder platform to review a contested sanitation project in Tiquipaya, Bolivia / Nicolas Faysse, Vladimir Cossío, Franz Quiroz, Raúl Ampuero and Bernardo Paz -- Multi-stakeholder dissonance in the South African water arena / Eliab Simpungwe, Pieter Waalewijn and Bert Raven -- Mekong region water-related MSPs : unfulfilled potential / John Dore -- Against the conventional wisdom : why sector reallocation of water and multi-stakeholder platforms do not take place in Uzbekistan / Kai Wegerich -- Unpacking participatory NRM : distinguishing resource capture from democratic governance / Bruce Currie-Alder -- Towards evaluating MSPs for integrated catchment management -- Annemiek Verhallen, Jeroen Warner and Leo Santbergen.…”
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Handbook of exchange rates

Table of Contents: “…Statistical and Economic Methods for Evaluating Exchange Rate Predictability 9. When Are Pooled Panel-Data Regression Forecasts of Exchange Rates More Accurate than the Time-Series Regression Forecasts? …”
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Deliberation and democracy : innovative processes and institutions /

Table of Contents: “…Steenbergen, André Bächtiger, Seraina Pedrini, Thomas Gautschi -- Group processes in deliberative setting : qualitative analysis / Elzbieta Wesolowska -- Assessing deliberative potential : evaluative dimensions of discursive interaction in contemporary democracy / Marcin Zgiep -- Deliberative democracy : reflexive perspectives -- Under construction : the field of online deliberation research / Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss -- Random selection, republican self-government, and deliberative democracy / Yves Sintomer -- Crisis and innovation of liberal democracy : can deliberation be institutionalized? …”
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Handbook of exchange rates

Table of Contents: “…Statistical and Economic Methods for Evaluating Exchange Rate Predictability 9. When Are Pooled Panel-Data Regression Forecasts of Exchange Rates More Accurate than the Time-Series Regression Forecasts? …”
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Deliberation and democracy : innovative processes and institutions /

Table of Contents: “…Steenbergen, André Bächtiger, Seraina Pedrini, Thomas Gautschi -- Group processes in deliberative setting : qualitative analysis / Elzbieta Wesolowska -- Assessing deliberative potential : evaluative dimensions of discursive interaction in contemporary democracy / Marcin Zgiep -- Deliberative democracy : reflexive perspectives -- Under construction : the field of online deliberation research / Stephen Coleman, Giles Moss -- Random selection, republican self-government, and deliberative democracy / Yves Sintomer -- Crisis and innovation of liberal democracy : can deliberation be institutionalized? …”
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A creature of our own making reflections on contemporary academic life / by Olson, Gary A., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- The ethics of technology -- E-mails are forever -- Keeping your emeriti close -- What deans expect of department heads -- How not to evaluate your department head -- Investigate me, please -- Safety first.…”
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Towards a People-Driven African Union : Current Obstacles and New Opportunities / by Kane, Ibrahima

Table of Contents: “…THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL COUNCIL; Legal framework; ECOSOCC interim national chapters; Evaluation.…”
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Interpretation and method empirical research methods and the interpretive turn /

Table of Contents: “…interroating criteria for knowledge claims in interpretive science / Dvora Yanow -- Judging quality : evaluative criteria and epistemic communities / Peregrine Schwartz-Shea -- Talking our way to meaningful explanations : a practice-centered view of interviewing for interpretive research / Joe Soss -- Ordinary language interviewing / Frederic Charles Schaffer -- Seeing with an ethnographic sensibility : explorations beneath the surface of public policies / Ellen Pader -- High politics and low data : globalization discourses and popular culture / Jutta Weldes -- The numeration of events : studying political protest in India / Dean E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Multi-stakeholder platforms for integrated water management

Table of Contents: “…/ Leo Santbergen -- Participating in watershed management : policy and practice in the Trahunco watershed, Argentinean Patagonia / Alejandra Moreyra and Jeroen Warner -- 'Yakunchik' : coming to agreement after violence in Perú / María Teresa Oré -- Multi-stakeholder platforms for surface and groundwater management in the Lerma-Chapala basin, Mexico / Philippus Wester, Jaime Hoogesteger van Dijk and Hans Paters -- Less tension, limited decision : a multi-stakeholder platform to review a contested sanitation project in Tiquipaya, Bolivia / Nicolas Faysse, Vladimir Cossío, Franz Quiroz, Raúl Ampuero and Bernardo Paz -- Multi-stakeholder dissonance in the South African water arena / Eliab Simpungwe, Pieter Waalewijn and Bert Raven -- Mekong region water-related MSPs : unfulfilled potential / John Dore -- Against the conventional wisdom : why sector reallocation of water and multi-stakeholder platforms do not take place in Uzbekistan / Kai Wegerich -- Unpacking participatory NRM : distinguishing resource capture from democratic governance / Bruce Currie-Alder -- Towards evaluating MSPs for integrated catchment management -- Annemiek Verhallen, Jeroen Warner and Leo Santbergen.…”
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A creature of our own making reflections on contemporary academic life / by Olson, Gary A., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…-- The ethics of technology -- E-mails are forever -- Keeping your emeriti close -- What deans expect of department heads -- How not to evaluate your department head -- Investigate me, please -- Safety first.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view