Collectif: 4517 books
Atlas of Jordan
History, Territories and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This atlas aims to provide the reader with key pointers for a spatial analysis of the social, economic and political dynamics at work in Jordan, an exemplary country of the Middle East complexities. Being a product of seven years of scientific cooperation between Ifpo, the Royal Jordanian Geographic...
Education, Economy and Identity
Ten years of Educational Reform in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Modern education in Thailand started at the end of the nineteenth century under the impulse of King Chulalongkorn. Many scholars tracing back the evolution from traditional education to a modern education system emphasized the feeling of necessity that motivated this transformation. Wyatt (1969),...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Trust, both interpersonal trust, and trust in institutions, is a key ingredient of growth, societal well-being and governance. As a first step to improving existing measures of trust, the OECD Guidelines on Measuring Trust provide international recommendations on collecting, publishing, and analysing...
Hà Nội, a Metropolis in the Making
The Breakdown in Urban Integration of Villages
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Built on 'the bend in the Red River', Hà Nội is among Southeast Asia's most ancient capitals. Over the centuries, it took shape in part from a dense substratum of villages. With the economic liberalisation of the 1980s, it encountered several obstacles to its expansion: absence of a real land market,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Like many OECD countries, Latvia is taking an innovative, user-centred approach to improving legal and justice services by strengthening the judicial sector and law enforcement authorities This report reviews the commercial, legal and regulatory framework in Latvia, highlighting its impact on businesses...
Netherlands 2016
Foundations for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
How can the Netherlands move its school system “from good to great”? This report draws on international experience to look at ways in which the strong Dutch school system might go further still on the path to excellence. Clearly the Dutch school system is one of the best in the OECD, as measured...
Grass-roots Justice in Ethiopia
The Contribution of Customary Dispute Resolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book presents a timely review of the relations between the formal and customary justice systems in Ethiopia, and offers recommendations for legal reform. The book provides cases studies from all the Region of Ethiopia based on field research on the working of customary dispute resolution (CDR)...
OECD Integrity Review of Thailand
Towards Coherent and Effective Integrity Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This review analyses Thailand’s integrity system. It takes stock of the country's recent efforts to tackle corruption, such as the creation of anti-corruption commissions and legislation. Based on the 2017 OECD Recommendation on Public Integrity, the review makes concrete policy recommendations...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Agriculture in Korea is under increasing pressure to meet changing domestic demand, improve its productivity to keep up with the country's competitive manufacturing sector, and become more competitive at the international level. To date, the government has offered extensive support to farm income...
The Future of Social Protection
What Works for Non-standard Workers?
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Social protection systems are often still designed for the archetypical full-time dependent employee. Work patterns deviating from this model – be it self-employment or online "gig work" – can lead to gaps in social protection coverage. Globalisation and digitalisation are likely to...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Lisbon Recognition Convention, developed by the Council of Europe and UNESCO, is the main international legal text on the international recognition of qualifications and has been ratified by more than 50 countries. Few Council of Europe conventions have achieved a greater number of ratifications,...
Anti-modernism
Radical revisions of Collective Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
The last volume of the series presents 46 texts under the heading of “anti-modernism”. Formed in a dynamic relationship with modernism, from the 1880s to the 1940s, and especially during the interwar period, the anti-modernist ideological constructions of national identification had a considerable...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The conference on which the present volume is based took place in Oxford in the summer of 2006. It brought together linguists, archaologists, epigraphists, numismatists and historians and allowed them to exchange ideas about a period of major transition in Karian history: the fourth century and the...
Second Public Procurement Review of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS)
Reshaping Strategies for Better Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This review highlights achievements of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS) in a number of areas – human resources, technological capacities and relations with suppliers – which were previously identified by the OECD as pivotal for the successful...