The Governor's Solution
Todd Moss
Reliance on natural resource revenues, particularly oil, is often associated with bad governance, corruption, and poverty. Worried about the effect of oil on Alaska, Governor Jay Hammond had a simple yet revolutionary idea: let citizens have a direct stake. The Governor's Solution features his firsthand account that describes, with brutal honesty and piercing humor, the birth of the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend, which has been paid to each resident every year since 1982.Thirty years later, Hammond's vision is still influencing oil policies throughout the world. This reader, part of the Center for Global Development's Oil-to-Cash initiative, includes recent scholarly work examining Alaska's experience and how other oil-rich societies, particularly Iraq, might apply some of the lessons. It is as a powerful reminder that the combination of new ideas and determined individuals can make a tremendous differenceeven in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.
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- ISBN: 9781933286709
- Publication Date: Nov 2012
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The Rebirth of Education
Lant Pritchett
Despite great progress around the world in getting more kids into schools, too many leave without even the most basic skills. In India's rural Andhra Pradesh, for instance, only about one in twenty children in fifth grade can perform basic arithmetic.The problem is that schooling is not the same as learning. In The Rebirth of Education, Lant Pritchett uses two metaphors from nature to explain why. The first draws on Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom's book about the difference between centralized and decentralized organizations, The Starfish and the Spider. Schools systems tend be centralized and suffer from the limitations inherent in top-down designs. The second metaphor is the concept of isomorphic mimicry. Pritchett argues that many developing countries superficially imitate systems that were successful in other nations much as a nonpoisonous snake mimics the look of a poisonous one.Pritchett argues that the solution is to allow functional systems to evolve locally out of an environment pressured for success. Such an ecosystem needs to be open to variety and experimentation, locally operated, and flexibly financed. The only main cost is ceding control; the reward would be the rebirth of education suited for today's world.
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- ISBN: 9781933286778
- Publication Date: Oct 2013
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Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229082
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Amalienborg and Frederiksstaden
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229105
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Christian IV
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229129
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Power, Splendour, and Diamonds
Peter Kristiansen
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- ISBN: 9788793229143
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Christian VIII
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229402
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Christian IX and Queen Louise
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229426
- Publication Date: Jun 2016
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Christian X and Queen Alexandrine
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229440
- Publication Date: Jun 2016
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Christian V
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229716
- Publication Date: Jun 2017
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Frederik IV
Jens Gunni Busck
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- ISBN: 9788793229754
- Publication Date: Jun 2017
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The Story of GN
Kurt Jacobsen
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- ISBN: 9788793229938
- Publication Date: Jan 2019
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Una Veritas
Claudio Pierantoni
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- ISBN: 9783868382105
- Publication Date: Apr 2018
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A Manual of Neo-Scholastic Philosophy
Charles Reinhard Baschab
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- ISBN: 9783868382112
- Publication Date: Apr 2018
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Dictionary of Scholastic Philosophy
Bernard Wuellner
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- ISBN: 9783868385014
- Publication Date: Jul 2011
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Ethics
John Elliot Ross
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9783868385106
- Publication Date: May 2012
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The ABC of Scholastic Philosophy
Anthony Charles Cotter
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- ISBN: 9783868385212
- Publication Date: Nov 2012
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The System of Thomas Aquinas
Maurice de Wulf
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- ISBN: 9783868385229
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Philosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages
Maurice de Wulf
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- ISBN: 9783868385236
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A Manual of Modern Scholastic Philosophy, Volume II
Cardinal Mercier
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- ISBN: 9783868385281
- Publication Date: Jun 2013
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