http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/34934 2013-05-24T02:12:45Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/47212 Title: Harvesting feminist knowledge for public policy : rebuilding progress Editors: Jain, Devaki; Elson, Diane Abstract: This volume brings together 14 essays by feminist thinkers from different parts of the world, reflecting on problems of current patterns of development and arguing for political, economic, and social changes to promote equality and sustainability. The essays are written in the context of the “triple crises” of food, fuel, and finance, and the underlying deep-seated problems of growing inequality, squeeze on time to provide unpaid care to family and friends, and environmentally unsustainable patterns of economic growth. The authors argue that the very approach being taken to understand and measure progress, and plan for and evaluate development, needs rethinking in ways that draw on the experiences and knowledge of women. These influential feminist thinkers, activists, and academics have drawn upon their vast experience to identify new understandings, emerging issues and an asset of recommendations that help address the key issues of today. All the essays, in diverse ways, offer proposals for alternative strategies to address the limitations and contradictions of currently dominant ideas and practices in development, and move towards the creation of a socially just and egalitarian world. Description: Co-published with SAGE Publications India; FEMINIST KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC POLICY 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/47092 Title: Population aging and the generational economy : a global perspective Authors: Lee, Ronald; Mason, Andrew Description: Co-published with Edward Elgar Publishing 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/45977 Title: Private sector and enterprise development : fostering growth in the Middle East and North Africa Authors: Stevenson, Lois Abstract: This important and well-researched book examines the challenges to private sector growth in 12 Middle East and North African countries, assessing comparative performance against a number of indicators and focusing on the special role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurial activity. Author Lois Stevenson highlights the variation among countries in private sector dynamism and performance, the major government policy initiatives supporting private sector and SME activity in each country, and the perspectives of government officials, researchers, and other stakeholders on research, policy, and institutional capacity needs. She concludes with a framework for guiding a comprehensive set of policies and strategies to unleash the potential of entrepreneurship as a platform for future private sector growth. Private Sector and Enterprise Development will be an invaluable resource for the policymaking, research, and donor communities, for stakeholders involved in building capacity in private sector and SME policy development, and for scholars interested in entrepreneurship and development in the Middle East and North Africa. Description: Co-published with Edward Elgar Publishing; Library has French version: Développement du secteur privé et des entreprises : favoriser la croissance au moyen-orient et en Afrique du Nord 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/44956 Title: Child welfare in developing countries Editors: Cockburn, John; Kabubo-Mariara, Jane Abstract: What factors affect child welfare? How can policy improve child welfare? In developing countries, there has been relatively little empirical work on the analysis and measurement of child poverty. Further, poverty has many dimensions, including mortality, morbidity, hunger, illiteracy, lack of fixed housing, and lack of resources, and cannot be assessed with a single measurement method. Based on original research in Africa and South America and using a multidimensional poverty indicator approach, this book identifies the existence of inequalities in child welfare, analyzes their sources, and evaluates the impacts of policy responses to those inequalities. Topics considered include monetary poverty, asset poverty, nutrition, mortality, access to education and school attendance, child labor, and access to health services. The book’s findings demonstrate that while current government programs offering financial assistance, supplementary food, and free or subsidized education and health care have a positive impact on child welfare, these outcomes can still improve, and proposes policy prescriptions toward this end. The book will be of use to poverty and policy researchers, professionals in international development, and graduate students interested in poverty and inequality. Description: Co-published with the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network and Springer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/44851 Title: Innovation strategies for a global economy : development implementation, measurement and management Authors: Gault, Fred Abstract: This book is about innovation strategies for a global economy, their development, implementation, measurement and management. Following the global economic crisis, people are asking: what went wrong? Here, Fred Gault illustrates that a part of the problem was innovation in financial services, which resulted in the release of attractive new products to the market that diffused rapidly and then lost value. This book considers innovation and how policies are developed and implemented to support it. In so doing, framework conditions such as market regulation and the cost of doing business are examined to discover how future problems could be avoided. A better understanding of innovation and innovation policy may result in improved economic and social outcomes from these activities. The book therefore begins with an exploration of the language and system framework used to discuss innovation, and the statistical indicators needed to describe it. The author provides a critical assessment of innovation policy development, monitoring and evaluation, and considers innovation strategies, their components and management. He concludes by prescribing directions for new work in developed and developing countries. Academics engaged in the study of innovation policy, its monitoring and evaluation, will find this book to be of great interest, as will graduate students in the fields of business and management, and sociology. It will also strongly appeal to governmental policymakers and statisticians responsible for innovation statistics. Description: Co-published with Edward Elgar Publishing 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z