Achieving an AIDS Transition
Mead Over
Five million people in poor countries are receiving AIDS treatment, but international AIDS policy is still in crisis. Donors are giving less than they had been, even though infections continue unabated, and the number of people dependent on treatment rises each year.This book proposes a feasible medium-term objective for AIDS policy: achieving an "AIDS transition," that is, keeping AIDS deaths down by sustaining treatment while pushing new infections even lower, so that the total number of people living with HIV/AIDS begins to decline. How? Through a new, incentive-driven strategy to improve HIV prevention and a sustained effort to get the most from AIDS treatment.
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- ISBN: 9781933286389
- Publication Date: Aug 2011
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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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Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms
Patricia Adams
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- ISBN: 9780940017146
- Publication Date: Dec 2017
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A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teachers of Adults
Donald Greive
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- ISBN: 9780940017368
- Publication Date: May 2015
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Composite Materials and Structural Analysis
N.G.R. Iyengar
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- ISBN: 9788130928081
- Publication Date: Dec 2015
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Biochemical Tests
Anil Kumar
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- ISBN: 9788130929576
- Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Chemistry for Engineers
Abhijit Mallick
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- ISBN: 9788130929675
- Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Practical Physical Chemistry
B. Viswanathan
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- ISBN: 9788130929699
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Principles of Organic Chemistry
Rakesh K. Parashar
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- ISBN: 9788130929736
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Albert Einstein
Ajoy Ghatak
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- ISBN: 9788130929750
- Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Electronic Devices and Circuits
S.L. Kakani
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- ISBN: 9788130929811
- Publication Date: Dec 2015
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Fiber Optics through Experiments
M.R. Shenoy
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- ISBN: 9788130929835
- Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Nuclear and Particle Physics
S.L. Kakani
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- ISBN: 9788130929897
- Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Animal Adaptations
R.K. Saxena
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- ISBN: 9788130930121
- Publication Date: Jun 2015
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Experiments with Light
Ajoy Ghatak
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- ISBN: 9788130931661
- Publication Date: Apr 2015
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Biological Diversity
Arun Kumar Sharma
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- ISBN: 9788130931760
- Publication Date: Feb 2017
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Experimental Process Biotechnology Protocols
Satya Narayan Mukhopadhyay
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- ISBN: 9788130932125
- Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Light and its Many Wonders
Ajoy Ghatak
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- ISBN: 9788130934563
- Publication Date: Dec 2015
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Comprehensive HVAC System Design
N.C. Gupta
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- ISBN: 9789385919312
- Publication Date: Mar 2016
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