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Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement - A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Concepts and Methods -- Methods -- Institutional Framework of Taking Action Against Land Degradation -- Part II: Global -- Global Extent Of Land Degradation -- Ground-Truthing of Land Degradation Mapping -- The Global Cost of Land Degradation -- Global Drivers of Land Degradation -- ELD in Global Rangelands -- Part III: Regional -- ELD in Sub-Saharan Africa -- ELD in Central Asia -- Part IV: Country Case Studies: Cost, Drivers and Action Against of Land Degradation -- Argentina -- Bhutan -- China -- Ethiopia -- India -- Kenya -- Niger -- Russia -- Senegal -- Tanzania and Malawi.…”
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Tajik Persian Readings in History, Culture and Society by Ahmad, Razi

Table of Contents: “…-- муҷассамаҳои буддоӣ -- Chapter 3: Abu Abdullah Rudaki -- Абӯабдулло Рӯдакӣ -- Chapter 4: Russian Occupation of Central Asia? -- Забти Oсиёи Миёна аз тарафи Русия -- Chapter 5: Mirzo Tursunzoda -- Мирзо Турсунзода -- Chapter 6: Tajik Civil War -- Ҷанги Шаҳрвандии Тоҷикистон -- Chapter 7: Military College -- Донишкадаи ҳарбӣ -- Chapter 8: Religious Education in Today's Tajikistan -- Маорифи динӣ дар Тоҷикистони имрӯза -- Chapter 9: Entrepreneurship: The Driving Force of Market Economy -- Coҳибкорӣ фишанги иқтисоди бозорист -- Chapter 10: Blood Pressure and Health -- Фишори Хун Ва Тандурустӣ -- Chapter 11: Can an Old Maid Be Lucky? …”
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Addressing Racism and Its Deeply Entrenched Dynamics: A 21st Century Imperative

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Managing Elevated Risk Global Liquidity, Capital Flows, and Macroprudential Policy-An Asian Perspective / by Azis, Iwan J., Shin, Hyun Song

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2: The Three Phases of Global Liquidity -- 2.1: Conceptual and Measurement Issues -- 2.2: First Phase of Global Liquidity -- 2.2.1: Round-trip Bank Flows to the US -- 2.2.2: Banking Sector Flows to the Rest of the World -- 2.2.3: Exchange Rates and Leverage -- 2.3: Second Phase of Global Liquidity -- 2.4: The Case of Emerging Asia -- 2.5: Third Phase and Onward -- 2.6: References -- Chapter 3: Early Warning Indicators for Financial Vulnerabilities -- 3.1: Principles for Selection of Early Warning Indicators -- 3.2: Core and Noncore Liabilities -- 3.3: References -- Chapter 4: Emerging Asia's Noncore Liabilities and Policy Effectiveness -- 4.1: Bank-led Flows, Noncore Liabilities, and Credit Growth -- 4.2: Reassessing Monetary Policy -- 4.3: Appendix -- 4.4: References -- Chapter 5: Capital Flows and Income Distribution -- 5.1: National Policy Remains Key -- 5.2: How Capital Flows Affect Income Inequality -- 5.3: Prioritization for a Multi-Objective Goal -- 5.4: Appendix -- 5.5: References -- Chapter 6: Policy Implications -- 6.1 Tailoring Policies to Vulnerabilities -- 6.2 Macroprudential Tools -- 6.2.1 Bank Capital-Oriented Tools -- 6.2.1.1 Capital Requirements that Adjust Over the Cycle -- 6.2.1.2 Forward-Looking Provisioning -- 6.2.1.3: Leverage caps -- 6.2.1.4: Loan-To-Value and Debt-Service-To-Income Caps -- 6.2.1.5: Loan-to-Deposit caps -- 6.2.1.6: Levy on Noncore Liabilities -- 6.2.1.7: Unremunerated Reserve Requirements -- 6.2.2: Relative Merits of URR versus Levies/Taxes -- 6.2.3: Relationship with other Stabilization Policies -- 6.3: Financial Integration and Institutional Design -- 6.4: Policy Choices -- 6.5: References.…”
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Evaluating the effectiveness and calculating the rate of return on investment of training courses using Kirk Patrick and Phillips models by Hossein Ashofteh, Elaheh Orangian

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Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships

Table of Contents: “…Patterns and Trends of Urbanization and Urban Growth in Asia -- 2. Examining the interdependencies between urbanization, internal migration, urban poverty and inequality: Evidence from Indonesia -- 3. …”
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Modern Japan's Place in World History From Meiji to Reiwa /

Table of Contents: “…The First Sino-Japanese War and East Asia -- Chapter 3. The Russo-Japanese War and Modern International Society -- Chapter 4. …”
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Future Trends in Education Post COVID-19 Teaching, Learning and Skills Driven Curriculum /

Table of Contents: “…Improving Learning Environment using Artificial Intelligence: Automated Assessment of Arabic Short-Answers' Questions -- 5. An interdisciplinary outlook on History and Heritage in Higher Education -- 6. …”
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Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality A Global Perspective /

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to the global segregation book -- Residential segregation between income groups in international perspective -- Part 2: Africa -- Income inequality, socio-economic status and residential segregation in Greater Cairo: 1986-2006 -- Social inequality and spatial segregation in Cape Town -- Income inequality and socio-economic segregation in the city of Johannesburg -- Part 3: Asia -- Dual land regime, income inequalities and multifaceted socio-economic and spatial segregation in Hong Kong -- Income inequality and socioeconomic segregation in Jakarta -- Socio-spatial segregation and exclusion in Mumbai -- Social polarisation and socio-economic segregation in Shanghai, China: Evidence from 2000 and 2010 censuses -- Increasing inequality and the changing spatial distribution of income in Tel-Aviv -- Changes in occupational structure and residential segregation in Tokyo -- Part 4: Australia -- The land ofthe 'fair go'? …”
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Equity Policies in Global Higher Education Reducing Inequality and Increasing Participation and Attainment /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter 2 Equity in Higher Education - theoretical background - Alberto Amaral -- Chapter 3. Access and Inequality in US Higher Education: Policy Issues - David Dill -- Chapter 4. …”
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Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion Agroecology and Endogenous Development /

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction: Thinking about seeds -- 2 Reclaiming diverse seed commons through food sovereignty, agroecology and economies of care -- 3 Integration of endogenous development theory into the study of seed governance -- 4 Indigenous seed systems, biocultural heritage: the Andean Potato Park's approach to seed governance -- 5 The diversity of seed-saving governance and sharing systems in contemporary Japan -- 6 Seed system dynamics and crop diversity of Chinbaung in Myanmar -- 7 Organizations and functions for seed management in East Asia: Korea, Japan and Taiwan -- 8 Evolutionary populations for sustainable food security and food sovereignty -- 9 Adding value to a Scottish rye landrace: collaborative research into new artisanal products -- 10 Inside the Japanese seed industry: its characteristics and implications for agroecology -- 11 Bhutan's 'middle way': diversification, mainstreaming, commodification and impacts in the context of food security -- 12 The third way of seed governance: the potential of the seed commoning in Japan -- 13 Agroecology, sovereignty and the endogenous development perspective in seed governance and management.…”
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Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Structural and Individual Accounts on Being Asian in Sweden -- Loyalty and Integration among Young Adults with Minority Backgrounds in Norway -- Immigrant Integration and Vaccine Hesitancy among Somali Immigrants in Stockholm -- Conclusion to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World.…”
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Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century

Table of Contents: “…Water Governance Futures in South Asia and Southern Africa: Déjà vu all Over Again?.…”
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Introducing Foreign Models for Development Japanese Experience and Cooperation in the Age of New Technology /

Table of Contents: “…Case Studies from Japan, Asia, Latin America, and Africa -- 3. Japan's State Learning in the Meiji Period from the Vision Perspective -- 4. …”
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International Relations Theory

Table of Contents: “…Stivachtis) -- Constructivism (Sarina Theys) -- Marxism (Maïa Pal) -- Critical Theory (Marcos Farias Ferreira) -- Poststructuralism (Aishling Mc Morrow) -- Feminism (Sarah Smith) -- Postcolonialism (Sheila Nair) -- Towards A Global Ir? …”
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World History, Volume 2 From 1400 by Kordas, Ann, Lynch, Ryan J., Nelson, Brooke

Table of Contents: “…Understanding the Past -- Chapter 2. Exchange in East Asia and the Indian Ocean -- Chapter 3. Early Modern Africa and the Wider World -- Chapter 4. …”
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The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Contested Collaboration /

Table of Contents: “…Polycentricity and coordination in governance -- 3.Development finance and the 2030 goals -- 4.Transnational science cooperation for sustainable development -- 5.An evolving shared concept of development cooperation: Perspectives on the 2030 Agenda -- 6.The globalisation of foreign aid: Global influences and the diffusion of aid priorities -- 7.The untapped functions of international cooperation in the age of sustainable development -- 8.The difficulties of diffusing the 2030 Agenda: Situated norm engagement and development organisations -- 9.Diffusion, fusion, and confusion: Development cooperation in a multiplex world order -- 10.Conceptualising ideational convergence of China and OECD donors: Coalition magnets in development cooperation -- 11.Measuring development cooperation and the quality of aid -- 12.Interest-based development cooperation: Moving providers from parochial convergence to principled collaboration -- 13.Monitoring and evaluation in South-South cooperation: The case of CPEC in Pakistan -- 14.The implementation of the SDGs: The feasibility of using the GPEDC monitoring framework -- 15.Counting the invisible: The challenges and opportunities of the SDG indicator framework for statistical capacity development -- 16.Building a global development cooperation regime: Necessary but failed efforts -- 17.Failing to share the burden: Traditional donors, Southern providers, and the twilight of the GPEDC and the post-war aid system -- 18.Should China join the GPEDC? …”
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Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond

Table of Contents: “…Self-care and COVID-19 in Africa and Asia (Priti Dave) -- Chapter 6. COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Administration in India (Ms. …”
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Energy Justice Across Borders

Table of Contents: “…justice and energy transitions -- Chapter 2-Ethics without borders-world ethics, comparative philosophy, intercultural ethics for energy transitions -- Section 2-African Philosophy -- Chapter 3-Exploring marginalisation and exclusion in renewable energy development in Africa -- Chapter 4-South Africa's renewable energy independent power producer procurement programme -- Chapter 5-The role of energy technology in quality of life and well being in North Africa -- Section 3-Asian philosophy -- Chapter 6-Chinese energy evaluations -- Chapter 7-Energy ethics and Indian philosophical traditions -- Chapter 8-A question of energy ethics-the creative orthodoxy of Buddhist monks in Mongolia -- Section 4-European ethics -- Chapter 9-Contemporary European approaches to energy ethics -- Chapter 10-Energy ethics in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands -- Section 5-South America -- Chapter 11-Latin American principles and environmental ethics -- Chapter 12-Native Americans and energy development -- Section 6-Theistic traditions -- Chapter 13-(Energy) justice in theistic traditions -- Section 7-Conclusion.…”
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Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era Contexts, Companies, Connections /

Table of Contents: “…'Containerization in Globalization': A Case Study of How Maersk Line Became a Transnational Company -- Henrik Sornn-Friese -- 6. East Asiatic Company's difficult experiences with containerization -- Martin Jes Iversen -- 7. …”
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