"The research papers in this volume were initially presented at a conference, entitled "Cutting Edge Theories and Recent Developments in Conflict Resolution", which celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflict (PARC). The volume explo…
The 6th edition of Evaluation includes the most up-to-date techniques and approaches available in the field of implementing and appraising social programmes. The 6th edition has more of a focus on diagnostic procedures in evaluation.
"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
"From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a revelatory look at the power and potential of social context. As psychologists have long understood, social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, but often for the wor…
Handbook of social policy and development
The Handbook of Social Policy and Development makes a groundbreaking, coherent case for enhancing collaboration between social policy and development. With wide ranging chapters, it discusses a myriad of ways in which this can be done, exploring both academic and practical activ…
At a time when the development community is grappling with the challenge of raising the required investment--estimated in the trillions of dollars--for attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), countries' mobilization of their own fiscal revenues is receiving incre…
