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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

Table of Contents: “…Cuevas -- Gone but not departed : the dead among the living in contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt -- Mulian in the land of snows and King Gesar in hell : a Chinese tale of parental death in its Tibetan transformations / Matthew T. …”
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The Buddhist dead practices, discourses, representations /

Table of Contents: “…Cuevas -- Gone but not departed : the dead among the living in contemporary Buddhist Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt -- Mulian in the land of snows and King Gesar in hell : a Chinese tale of parental death in its Tibetan transformations / Matthew T. …”
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Women's labor in the global economy speaking in multiple voices /

Table of Contents: “…Darkwah -- Gendering sugar: women's disempowerment in Sri Lankan sugar production / Nandini Gunewardena -- List of contributors -- Index.…”
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India and South Asia economic developments in the age of globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Basu -- Human capital investment and development in South Asia / Anjum Siddiqui -- Poverty in South Asia : concept, measurement and analysis / Umer Khalid -- South Asia's trade and commercial relations with Canada / Ann Weston -- Regional economic cooperation under SAARC : possibilities and constraints / Dushni Weerakoon -- Repositioning SAFTA in the regionalism debate / Saman Kelegama and Ratnakar Adhikari -- Market-oriented policy reforms and export-led industrialization : the Sri Lankan experience / Premachandra Athukorala -- Globalization and economic development / Sajid Anwar and Bob Catley -- Decentralization of governance and development / Pranab Bardhan -- Governance issues in India / Desh Gupta and Bhagwan Dahiya -- Corruption in South Asia : causes and consequences / Johann Graf Lambsdorff -- Military expenditure in South Asia : a case study of economic irrationality / Geoff Harris.…”
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Influencing change building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance /

Table of Contents: “…Leading the change process -- Working towards development results : the case of Sri Lanka / Dhara Wijayatilake -- Capacity building and the evaluation of institutions : the core analytical framework / Eduardo Wiesner -- From project evaluations towards assessing institutional performance / Todor Dimitrov -- Evaluation systems as strategy management tools : building Dubai's institutional learning capacity / Mohammad Jaljouli -- Good practice and lessons learned -- Conceptual framework for developing evaluation capacities : building on good practice and capacity development / Caroline Heider -- Supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development / Rob van der Berg -- Capacity building : the Indian experience / Rashmi Agrawal and BVLN Rao -- Environmental/rural development and food security program in Madagascar / Bali Andriantseheno -- Recognizing "helping" as an evaluation capacity development strategy in South Africa / Stephen Porter -- Capacity building in M&E through the design and implementation of results-based M&E systems : lessons learnt from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Gilles Clotteau, Marie-Helene Boily, Sana Darboe, and Frederic Martin -- Postscript : perspectives on the future -- Where is development evaluation going? …”
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Integral polity : integrating nature, culture, technology and economy / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…About author -- Prologue: an introduction to integral polity : nature, culture, society, economy -- In pursuit of integrity -- Disintegrated to integral polity -- The origins of political order -- Natural and communal orientation : southern polity -- Natural grounding : constituting Africa -- Natural emergence : tradition and modernity -- Communal navigation: development and auto/centricity -- Natural Rapoko effect : food security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika -- Cultural and spiritual orientation : Eastern polity -- Spiritual grounding : India's human cycle -- Cultural and spiritual emergence : spiral dynamics -- Cultural, political and economic navigation : three/folding -- Conscious, powerful, economic effect : Sri Lanka's sarvodaya -- Technological and societal orientation : northern polity -- Social and political grounding : Europe living in truth -- Emergent innovation : technology, management, aesthetics -- Navigation : self management/cooperative association -- Social and technical effect : integral green Slovenia -- Economic and environmental orientation : western polity -- Environmental and economic grounding : the American soul -- Natural, cultural, social, economic emergence : future primal -- Political and environmental navigation : politics of nature -- Economic and environmental effect : Brazil's curitiba -- Nature, culture, society and economy : centering polity -- Integral ground : Holy Quaran : start sustainable development -- Emergent integral : harmony : sustainable development anew -- Integral navigation : the potential of the Arab spring -- Integral effect : sekem : integral sustainable development -- Epilogue.…”
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Influencing change building evaluation capacity to strengthen governance /

Table of Contents: “…Leading the change process -- Working towards development results : the case of Sri Lanka / Dhara Wijayatilake -- Capacity building and the evaluation of institutions : the core analytical framework / Eduardo Wiesner -- From project evaluations towards assessing institutional performance / Todor Dimitrov -- Evaluation systems as strategy management tools : building Dubai's institutional learning capacity / Mohammad Jaljouli -- Good practice and lessons learned -- Conceptual framework for developing evaluation capacities : building on good practice and capacity development / Caroline Heider -- Supporting evaluation capacity on environment and development / Rob van der Berg -- Capacity building : the Indian experience / Rashmi Agrawal and BVLN Rao -- Environmental/rural development and food security program in Madagascar / Bali Andriantseheno -- Recognizing "helping" as an evaluation capacity development strategy in South Africa / Stephen Porter -- Capacity building in M&E through the design and implementation of results-based M&E systems : lessons learnt from Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Gilles Clotteau, Marie-Helene Boily, Sana Darboe, and Frederic Martin -- Postscript : perspectives on the future -- Where is development evaluation going? …”
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Integral polity : integrating nature, culture, technology and economy / by Lessem, Ronnie

Table of Contents: “…About author -- Prologue: an introduction to integral polity : nature, culture, society, economy -- In pursuit of integrity -- Disintegrated to integral polity -- The origins of political order -- Natural and communal orientation : southern polity -- Natural grounding : constituting Africa -- Natural emergence : tradition and modernity -- Communal navigation: development and auto/centricity -- Natural Rapoko effect : food security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika -- Cultural and spiritual orientation : Eastern polity -- Spiritual grounding : India's human cycle -- Cultural and spiritual emergence : spiral dynamics -- Cultural, political and economic navigation : three/folding -- Conscious, powerful, economic effect : Sri Lanka's sarvodaya -- Technological and societal orientation : northern polity -- Social and political grounding : Europe living in truth -- Emergent innovation : technology, management, aesthetics -- Navigation : self management/cooperative association -- Social and technical effect : integral green Slovenia -- Economic and environmental orientation : western polity -- Environmental and economic grounding : the American soul -- Natural, cultural, social, economic emergence : future primal -- Political and environmental navigation : politics of nature -- Economic and environmental effect : Brazil's curitiba -- Nature, culture, society and economy : centering polity -- Integral ground : Holy Quaran : start sustainable development -- Emergent integral : harmony : sustainable development anew -- Integral navigation : the potential of the Arab spring -- Integral effect : sekem : integral sustainable development -- Epilogue.…”
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India and South Asia economic developments in the age of globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Basu -- Human capital investment and development in South Asia / Anjum Siddiqui -- Poverty in South Asia : concept, measurement and analysis / Umer Khalid -- South Asia's trade and commercial relations with Canada / Ann Weston -- Regional economic cooperation under SAARC : possibilities and constraints / Dushni Weerakoon -- Repositioning SAFTA in the regionalism debate / Saman Kelegama and Ratnakar Adhikari -- Market-oriented policy reforms and export-led industrialization : the Sri Lankan experience / Premachandra Athukorala -- Globalization and economic development / Sajid Anwar and Bob Catley -- Decentralization of governance and development / Pranab Bardhan -- Governance issues in India / Desh Gupta and Bhagwan Dahiya -- Corruption in South Asia : causes and consequences / Johann Graf Lambsdorff -- Military expenditure in South Asia : a case study of economic irrationality / Geoff Harris.…”
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Women's economic empowerment : insights from Africa and South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Njeri -- Paid work and unpaid care work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda : a bi-directional relationship / Deepta Chopra -- Women's labour force participation in Sri Lanka's north / Ramani Gunatilaka and Ranmini Vithanagama -- The school-to-work transition for young females in sub-Saharan Africa : comparative qualitative evidence from six countries / Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Adalbertus Kamanzi, and Andy Mckay -- Conclusion : programming and policy lessons and future research priorities for women's economic empowerment / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, and Kate Grantham.…”

Women's economic empowerment : insights from Africa and South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Hani Sadati, Claudia Mitchell, Stella Muthuri, and Milka Njeri -- Paid work and unpaid care work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda : a bi-directional relationship / Deepta Chopra -- Women's labour force participation in Sri Lanka's north / Ramani Gunatilaka and Ranmini Vithanagama -- The school-to-work transition for young females in sub-Saharan Africa : comparative qualitative evidence from six countries / Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Adalbertus Kamanzi, and Andy Mckay -- Conclusion : programming and policy lessons and future research priorities for women's economic empowerment / Gillian Dowie, Arjan De Haan, and Kate Grantham.…”

Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /

Table of Contents: “…Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. …”
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Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /

Table of Contents: “…Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. …”
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Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South /

Table of Contents: “…Impact of integrating OER in teacher education at the Open University of Sri Lanka -- 14. Teacher professional learning communities : a collaborative OER adoption approach in Karnataka, India -- 15. …”
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Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South /

Table of Contents: “…Impact of integrating OER in teacher education at the Open University of Sri Lanka -- 14. Teacher professional learning communities : a collaborative OER adoption approach in Karnataka, India -- 15. …”
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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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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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Achieving Health for All : Primary Health Care in Action /

Table of Contents: “…Binka, John Koku Awoonor Williams, and Ayaga A. Bawah -- Sri Lanka's health improvements as an example of the implementation of the Alma-Ata Declaration / Vinya Ariyaratne -- How Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms achieved rapid gains in health with comprehensive primary health care / Nguyen Thanh Huong and Hoang Khanh Chi -- Cuba's progress on PHC since the Alma-Ata Conference / Sasmira Matta, David Bishai, and Pedro Mas Bemejo -- Health for All in the twenty-first century / Meike Schleiff and David Bishai.…”
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Achieving Health for All : Primary Health Care in Action /

Table of Contents: “…Binka, John Koku Awoonor Williams, and Ayaga A. Bawah -- Sri Lanka's health improvements as an example of the implementation of the Alma-Ata Declaration / Vinya Ariyaratne -- How Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms achieved rapid gains in health with comprehensive primary health care / Nguyen Thanh Huong and Hoang Khanh Chi -- Cuba's progress on PHC since the Alma-Ata Conference / Sasmira Matta, David Bishai, and Pedro Mas Bemejo -- Health for All in the twenty-first century / Meike Schleiff and David Bishai.…”
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Orangutans geographic variation in behavioral ecology and conservation /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Male-male relationships in orangutans / Sri Suci Utami Atmoko ... [et al.] -- Orangutan mating behavior and strategies / S. …”
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