Author: Simeon Maile
Publisher: HSRC Press
Keywords: strategies, reduction, poverty, education
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-01-02
ISBN-10: 0796922225
ISBN-13: 9780796922229

The connection between poverty and lack of education seems entirely self-evident, yet real progress in overcoming the obstacles to education and economic affluence has eluded governments and social activists worldwide for decades. This book interrogates the link between education and poverty reduction and highlights the role of cross-sectoral co-ordination and policy coherence in breaking the poverty trap.The book has four sections. Section 1 examines various conceptual and theoretical frameworks in the discourse on policy coherence and looks at how research can impact on policy. Section 2 dea

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: public, governance, accountability, sector, series, services, delivery
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2005-06-01
ISBN-10: 0821361406
ISBN-13: 9780821361405

The globalization of information¡Xsatellite TV, internet, phone and fax¡Xserve to enhance citizens¡¦ awareness of their rights, obligations, options and alternatives and strengthens demands for greater accountability from the public sector. However, the power of accountability is significantly reduced if citizens are unable to measure their government¡¦s performance in a meaningful way, which is precisely the topic of this timely book. The abstract concept of ¡§government performance¡¨ can only be an effective tool in public debate whe

Author: Leonard E. Read
Publisher: Foundation for Economic Educatio
Keywords: right, accent
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 1968-06-01
ISBN-10: 0910614350
ISBN-13: 9780910614351

ALL ASPECTS of life are in flux; nothing stays put. There is progress in some sectors, accompanied by regress in others. For instance, there is economic progress, only to be followed by a decline of material wellbeing. And there is moral, social, political, scientific, technological, intellectual, as well as spiritual progress -and regress.ContentsTHE DEDICATION 1To Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850), who sought fortruth rather than outcome and never witnessedthe fruits his labor bore. Obedience to consciencewas his first rule; we witness the results.1. THE SOURCE OF PROGRESS 6Leadership is a ma