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 difference—even in issues as seemingly complex and intractable as fighting the oil curse.

• Format: Paperback
• 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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What's In, What's Out

Amanda Glassman

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• ISBN: 9781933286891
• Publication Date: Oct 2017
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Jacques Lacan: An Introduction To His Psychoanalysis

Eleni Boliaki

• Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
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• ISBN: 9789603995128
• Publication Date: Jan 2007
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Reinterventions in Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

George Geroulakos

• Imprint: Paschalidis Medical Publications
• Format: Hardback
• ISBN: 9789603995401
• Publication Date: Oct 2007
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Chemical Communication

Shailesh K. Jain

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• ISBN: 9789387486362
• Publication Date: Sep 2018
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The Fascinating World of Mathematics

Chander Mohan

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• ISBN: 9789387486379
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Application of Soft Computing Techniques in Civil Engineering

S.M. Yadav

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• ISBN: 9789387692817
• Publication Date: Sep 2018
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Principles of Physical Chemistry

Abhijit Mallick

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• ISBN: 9789387692831
• Publication Date: Sep 2018
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Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability

Gangadhar Banerjee

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• ISBN: 9789387692855
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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
• Publication Date: Aug 2015
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Principles of Organic Chemistry

Rakesh K. Parashar

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• ISBN: 9788130929736
• Publication Date: Aug 2015
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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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