Reception or Interpretation studies / Audience Theory Books

Book SynopsisEducation and International Development, 2000-2020: A Constructivist Critique of the One-size-fits-all Liberal Model advances the claim that there exists a liberal theory of international education. Ian Wash argues that the assumed harmony of this model is the main source of dispute in the field of education and international development. The liberal thinking behind the aspirations for education, the political levers necessary for its effective governance, and the ideas behind the policies all have contributed towards growing tensions that prevented international education from achieving optimal functionality. Through a qualitative discourse analysis of the key policy documents produced between 2000 and 2020, Wash reveals how the liberal model was discursively constructed as a grand narrative of three acts that chronicles the vision, process and outcomes of international education. Such a rendering brings an understanding of the hidden conflicts essential for finding a resolution to this policy puzzle, thereby improving the prosperity and wellbeing of those in poorer countries.

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Book SynopsisAkietuwopiribie Opuene Hart holds a BSc in Public Administration, an Advanced Diploma in Theology, and two MSc degrees in Environmental Health and Development Studies, along with a PhD in Development Studies.

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Book SynopsisThis Open Access edited volume presents twelve African case studies that systematically reconstruct, document and analyse how national governments and other stakeholders took equity into account in their initial policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Achieveing sustainability in Nigeria: An interplay of media and communication systems.- Chapter 2: Media role in humanizing poverty through ethical storytelling in Nigeria.- Chapter 3: Communication of development strategies rowards sustainable health .- development and poverty reduction intiatives.- Chapter 4: Media roles and effective communication for food security in Nigeria.- Chapter 5: SDG 13: A content analysis of WAEC and SSCE curriculum.- Chapter 6: Use of social media for climate change mitigation and adaptation education in Nigeria.- Chapter 7: Strategies to instill wnvironmental consciousness and commitment in future  .- generation.- Chapter 8: Effectiveness of environmental education and awareness campaigns in.- fostering commitments and behavior change among Nigerians.- Chapter 9: Climate change, content framing and its implication for sustainability in.- Nigeria.- Chapter 10: Demystifying the role of artificial intelligence in the figital communication strategy of Nigeria's economic industry.- Chapter 11: Film, social media violence, govenance and insecurity in Nigeria.- Chapter 12: Evaluation of Nigerian media's development communication agenda in post-COVID era.- Chapter 13: COVID-19 vaccine infodermic among rural dwellers: Implications for sustainable health development in post-COVID-19 era.- Chapter 14: Media and the promotion of sustainable health in Nigeria: The COVID-19 .- experience.- Chapter 15: Communixation effectiveness of media health advisory messages for the .- vulnerables in managing risks associated with diseases.- Chapter 16: Information sources and family planning messages among women in child bearing ages in Lagos,Nigeria.- Chapter 17: The Marrakesh treaty and state of engagement towards inclusive publishing in Nigeria.- Chapter 18: PoPortrayal of violent attacks in Nigeria represented in selected Nollywood films.- Chapter 19: Media framing and public opinion on Chinese funded transportation infrastrucuture in Nigeria.- Chapter 20:Broadband penetration, information seeking behavior and streaming technologies adoption patterns among online viewers in Nigeria.- Chapter 21: #NotTooYoungToRun: Nigerian youth are incapable of winning elections.- Chapter 22: Conceptual vontext and challenges of elearning practices for journalism education in Nigeria higher institutions.- Chapter 23: Online teaching and sustainable learning experience for undergraduates: Ojo,  implications foor post-COVID era.- Chapter 24: Public engagement in social media advocacy and cirizen journalism practice in Nigeria.- Chapter 25: Digital social capital, occupational migration and the Japa syndrome in Nigeria: Impediments for sustainability in the health sector.- Chapter 26: Perception of ARCON's ban on the use of foreign elements in Nigerian advertisement by advertising professionals: Implications for sustainable development.

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Book SynopsisPart I: THE TOOLKIT BLUEPRINT.- Chapter 1: THE OCEAN INCUBATOR NETWORK (OIN) PROJECT and THE TOOLKIT.- Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION TO GENDER, OIN PROJECT, AND OCEAN LITERACY.- Chapter 3: POSITIONALITY Emily Margaret Murray, Alba Hernandez Anta, Ana Maria Montaña Monoga, Sofie Elise Quist.- Chapter 4: INTER-, CROSS- AND TRANS-DISCIPLINARITY.- Chapter 5: CO-CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE.- Part II: IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF OCEAN LITERACY.- Chapter 6: REIMAGINING OCEAN CONNECTIONS: RELATIONALITY AND CARE IN OCEAN LITERACY.- Chapter 7: OCEAN LITERACY ACCESSIBILITY.- Chapter 8: OCEAN LITERACY ACCESSIBILITY.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction:  Constructing Worlds of Labour in the Context of  Social Policy Research Introduction:  Constructing Worlds of Labour in the Context of  Social Policy Research.- Part 1: Legal Segmentation in Regulatory Social Policy: Concept, History, Measurement and Application.- Chapter 2: Legal Segmentation in the Global North and South:Concept, Historical Emergence and  Tentative Theoretical Explanations.- Chapter 3: Using Leximetrics for Coding Legal Segmentation in Employment Law:The Development and  Potential of the Worlds of Labour Dataset.- Chapter 4: Is the Standard Employment Relationship  Undergoing a Revival?  Evidence from the 2023 Update of the CBR Labour  Regulation Index.- Chapter 5: The Leximetric Methodology Applied to the  Analysis of Legal Segmentationin Labour Law:  A Critical Appraisal.- Part 2: Development and Dissemination of Both Social Protecting and Segmenting Functions of Labour Law.- Chapter 6: Legal Segmentation of Work in Latin America. Colonial Origins and Evolution of Segmentation, Precarisation, Protection and Universalisation.- Chapter 7: Genesis and Forms of Standard Employment Relationships in Three European Ex-Colonial Powers and their Former Colonial Territories.- Chapter 8: The Evolution of Standard and Non-Standard Employment Regulation around the World A Sequence Analysis of Regulation Trajectories over Four Decades.- Chapter 9: The Development of Coverage and Generosity of Employment Regulation around the Globe.- Part 3: Towards a Socio-Political Paradigm Shift?.- Chapter 10: Beyond National and Global Labour Policy:  The Future of Work and Employment  Governance.- Chapter 11: Reflections on the Future of Legal  Segmentation: Three Frontiers of Investigation.- Chapter 12: Conclusion and Outlook: Overcoming  Segmentation Within Regulative Social Policy on a Global Scale.

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Book SynopsisPart I: The Framing of Sustainability: Navigating Development Narratives.- Chapter 1: Introduction Intending good or doing good?.- Chapter 2: Media development, an emerging and contested field.- Chapter 3: Sustainability in media action: a catch-all construct.- Chapter 4: Evaluation, a game changer for development.- Chapter 5: What is the sustainability imperative all about?.- Part II: The sustainability paradox: Balancing Future impact and self preservation.- Chapter 6: Exploring 25-year discourse of media action sustainability.- Chapter 7: In future we (don't) trust ambivalence of (un)sustainability.- Chapter 8: Does media action primarily sustain power imbalances?.- Chapter 9: Towards a sustainable media development goal.- Chapter 10: Conclusion The necessary shift between sustainability and social impact.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part 1 Interdependencies in the Age of Permacrisis – Common Challenges—Divisive Inequalities—Collaborative Solutions.- Part 2 Challenges to the Rule of Law and Parliamentarism by Changing Power Relations.- Part 3 Secession as a Challenge for Multi-Level Systems.- Part 4 Development Cooperation in Challenging Times.- Part 5 Energy Transition and Inclusive Economic Growth.- Part 6 Public and Global Health Strategies.- Part 7 Managing Climate Change Challenges in Cities.- Part 8 Public Management Challenges and Opportunities.- Part 9 The Importance of Culture in International Relations.- Part 10 Future Perspectives.

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Book SynopsisDie deutsche Entwicklungspolitik im internationalen Kontext: Eine Einführung.- Die Rolle des BMZ in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Akteure und Strategien im Überblick.- Aufbauphase 1961 bis 1974 – Entwicklungspolitik im Lichte der Außen- und Wirtschaftspolitik, sowie Phase der Innovation.- Phase des Pragmatismus 1974 bis 1982 - Entwicklungspolitik im Primat der Erdölkrise, Frauenförderung und Friedenspolitik.- Phase der Konsolidierung 1982 bis 1991 - Entwicklungspolitik zwischen liberaler Wirtschaftsphilosophie und konservativem Politikverständnis.- Reformphase 1991 bis 2009 - Entwicklungspolitik in gesamtdeutscher Verantwortung globaler Struktur- und Friedenspolitik.- Seit 2009 - Institutionelle Reformen, Nachhaltigkeit und globale Krisen: Strategien für eine zukunftsfähige Entwicklungspolitik.- Die Handlungslogik der deutschen staatlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Beweggründe und Perspektiven im Blick.- Die Entwicklung der deutschen staatlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Eine Phasenanalyse.- Beginn (west-)deutscher Entwicklungspolitik zwischen Kontinuität und Konzentration.- Deutsch-deutsche staatliche Entwicklungshilfepolitik im Vergleich.- Entwicklungspolitik im wiedervereinten Deutschland zwischen 1990 und 2015.- Der Ukraine-Konflikt und seine Implikationen für die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.- Perspektiven zukünftiger staatlicher deutscher Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.- Einführung in die Zahlen und Fakten der deutschen staatlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.- Öffentliche Entwicklungsausgaben Deutschlands (ODA).- Haushalt des BMZ.- Planstellen und Stellen des BMZ.- Die Minister*innen des BMZ im Überblick.- Die Parlamentarischen Staatssekretär*innen des BMZ.- Die beamteten Staatssekretäre des BMZ.- Ausschuss für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (AwZ) des Deutschen Bundestages. Ausgewählte staatliche Institutionen der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.- Einführung in die Schlüsselbegriffe und Meilensteine der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.- Motive, Handlungsbedingungen, Strategieansätze und Perspektiven.- Zeittafel: Deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im internationalen Kontext.- Begriffsverzeichnis der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.- Literatur zur Entwicklungszusammenarbeit – eine zeithistorische Auswahl.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Reaching out to the Diaspora for Development: Some Reflections on the Indian Approach.- The Diaspora Engagement: Role of Fiji-Indian Diaspora in Development of Fiji.- Key Role of Indian Diaspora in Reunion Island Development.- Complicating the Narrative of Hindu American Activism: The Case of Hindu American Foundation.- Diaspora and Development: The Indian Community’s Contribution to the Gulf’s Economy and Society.- Diaspora and Development: A Study of Indian Diaspora in South Africa.- Malagasy Diaspora: Translucent but Palpable in its Engagement.- The Private Sector, Diaspora Engagement and the Migration- Development Nexus: Comparative Cases from the Philippines.- The Mexican Diaspora in the USA and the 3X1 Program as Transnational Community Development: Lessons and Challenges.- Ethiopia and Role of its Diaspora in Development.- Index.

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Book SynopsisForeword.- Introduction: JOCV as a State-managed international voluntary service.- Transitions in the 56 years of JOCV: Needs, service and cooperation.- Part I: Contributions of State-Managed International Voluntary Service.- JOCV's contribution to capacity development: Insights from case studies.- The Water Security Action Team (W-SAT) in Africa.- Revisiting the JOCV post in Cameroon.- Hearts, Minds, and Sentiments: The Volunteers Program in the Immunization Program in Bangladesh and the Chagas Diseases Control Project of Honduras.- Shocked and angry volunteers.- Giving Back to Society by Former JOCV.- Sports and Development(tentative).- What Do Volunteers Receive? Interpreting the Reciprocal Feelings of JOCV through Gift Theory.- Part II: Advantages and Disadvantages of State-Managed International Voluntary Service.- Strengths and Weaknesses of the State-Managed International Voluntary Services: The Case of JOCV.- The Long Journey of Development Cooperation across Four Continents.- Country Office as Part of the JICA Volunteer Program: Background and Its Implementation in Bhutan.- Winter Camp for Highland Schoolchildren in Bhutan.- International Volunteering under the Spread of the Covid-19: Insights from Evacuated JOCV.- Roles of JOCVs in School Health Education Program in Ghana: From the Perspective of Host Organizations.- Japanese volunteers in the Philippines: A story of friendship and human connection.- From my experience of working with JOCV in Cameroon.- Delegation of Agriculture and Rural Development of Bangangte, Cameroon.- Part III: Conclusions.- Breaking the iron cage: Understanding legitimacy claims for international development volunteering.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book gives an in-depth analysis of the role of faith in the work of Tearfund, a leading evangelical relief and development NGO that works in over 50 countries worldwide.The study traces the changing ways that faith has shaped and influenced Tearfund's work over the organisation's 50-year history. It shows how Tearfund has consciously grappled with the role of faith in its work and has invested considerable time and energy in developing an intentionally faith-based approach t relief and development that in several ways is quite different to the approaches of secular relief and development NGOs. The book charts the different perspectives and possibilities that were not taken and the internal discussions about theology, development practices, and humanitarian standards that took place as Tearfund worked out for itself what it meant to be a faith-based relief and development organisation. There is a growing academic literature about religion and development, as well as increTrade Review"This highly significant book explores the work of Tearfund over its first 50 years, emerging in the 1960s as a ‘new kind of missionary organisation’, becoming a major development NGO during the 1990s and then reorienting itself as a faith-based development organisation (FBDO) from the mid-2000s onwards. The insightful analysis unpacks the story of where ‘faith’ sits in this history, telling us as much about shifting social attitudes towards the role of religion in the public sphere as the internal dynamics of this important evangelical relief and development organisation. Skilfully researched and highly readable, this book presents an essential addition to the growing literature on religion, development and humanitarianism, and is especially significant as it is one of the very first in-depth studies of an FBDO." -- Emma Tomalin, Professor of Religion and Public Life, University of Leeds, UK."Dena Freeman’s book about Tearfund, the UK’s largest evangelical development organization, is a path-breaking and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of global development studies and the prominent role religion plays in development today. Freeman’s privileged access enabled her to write a unique account, at once honest and empathetic, of Tearfund’s institutional history and the fierce debates that preoccupy staff as they seek to reconcile the antinomy of faith and secularism. More than just the history of an evangelical development organization, this book offers a window onto a history of the contemporary." -- Charles Piot, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA."This is a gripping story of ‘development’ and its relationship to mission and evangelism. Through detailed interviews and in-depth archive research, Freeman critically analyses how a Non-Governmental Organisation has come to new understandings of ‘doing development’ over the course of its history, from giving grants to missionaries to carrying out development projects in the 1970s, to campaigning for structural policy change to address poverty and climate change today. The book’s historico-conceptual analysis is peppered with interesting anecdotes about why things happened the way they did, such as how the Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign started and how the Evangelical Alliance embraced social action and care for creation as part of its mission. Freeman shows in a captivating narrative style the creative tension between evangelism and social action. Both are intimately connected but, she argues, have an ‘almost entropic tendency to come apart’. This book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners alike to better understand the connections between faith and development, and the role that faith plays in the work of a major faith-based development NGO." -- Séverine Deneulin, Associate Professor of International Development, University of Bath, UK."This book opens up fascinating insights about ‘development’ in the 20th century: the emergence of ‘faith-based’ approaches, the plural continuities of missionary interventions, and the mainstreaming of development values and processes in the religious and secular sectors alike. Tracing the story of Tearfund, and the many twists and turns in the understanding of its mandate, Freeman adds a brilliant chapter to the story of how the dividing line between religion and secularity has been negotiated within and through Christianity all along. As such, the book pioneers a much-needed connection between the study of World Christianity and the burgeoning field of religion and development." -- Jörg Haustein, Lecturer in World Christianities, Cambridge University, UK."Freeman has written one of the first books in what will hopefully become a trend - deep histories of faith-based humanitarian and development organizations that examine the role of faith in organizational culture. Faith-based organizations are not a neatly defined category and histories of this sort can demonstrate the internal debates and external pressures that lead organizations to define their own parameters. This book is significant not only for those interested in religion and development research (for whom it is a crucial read), but also for those wishing to understand more about non-profit organizations in general." -- Olivia Wilkinson, Director of Research, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities, Washington DC, USA."By carefully tracing the history of Tearfund and attending to its internal struggles to define what makes Evangelical Christian development interventions different from their secular counterparts, Freeman provides a rich account of the difference Evangelical identity makes for those invested in its meanings and worldviews. Perhaps most significantly, she shows through careful historical and ethnographic research that Evangelical identity does not just happen, but is actively constructed, often through processes of contestation. This is an important work for those wishing to understand how religious identity affects, or doesn’t, international development processes." -- Jill DeTemple, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Religious and Secular Actors in the Emergence of Humanitarianism and Development Part 1. A New Kind of Missionary Organisation 3. Tearfund’s First Twenty-Five Years, 1968 – 1993 Part 2. Emerging as a Development NGO 4. Tearfund Joins the Mainstream, 1990-2005 5. The Religious Revitalists and the Quest for Transformation 6. The Globalists and the Localists: The Start of Campaigning and Advocacy Part 3. Becoming an FBO 7. Trying to Institutionalise Faith-Based Approaches, 2005 – 2015 8. Mainstreaming Faith-Based Development, 2015 Onwards Part 4. Paradoxes of Faith-Based Development 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the joys and occasional frustrations of a development economist working for the United Nations.From 1982 to 2000 Richard Jolly worked in senior positions in UNICEF and UNDP on assignments that were innovative, for the UN, the countries concerned and for development. The book analyses his experiences as Deputy Director of UNICEF, Principal Coordinator and co-author of UNDP's widely acclaimed Human Development Report and a community development officer in Kenya, as well as his involvement in the UN and country mission to Zambia and ILO employment missions to Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya. It shows what the UN can achieve when there is strong leadership at central and field levels, together with decentralized approaches. Jolly's experiences lead him to conclude there are in fact three UNs: the formal UN of governments; the second UN comprising UN staff members, often the source of initiatives and action; and the third UN of NGOs, experts, conTable of ContentsIntroduction 1.UN development- more pioneering and professional than generally realized 2.Early Life, One Life-Changing Event and Four People 3.Discovering development -Baringo, Kenya 4.Cuba – close-up to the revolution and the Cuban missile crisis 5.Education, UNESCO and ECA 6.Zambia – My first UN mission in the heady days of African Independence 7.Applied Economics in Cambridge and in oil-rich Abu Dhabi 8.ILO and the IDS- employment policy in Colombia, Sri Lanka and Kenya 9.UNICEF -global goals and lessons of successful implementation 10.UNICEF Economists and children 11.UNDP and Human Development 12.UN Ideas that Changed the World 13.The Third UN and the North-South Roundtable 14.Final Words

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Book SynopsisSince its inception, the field of political ecology has served as a critical hub for inclusive and transformative environmental inquiry. Doing Political Ecology offers a distinctive entry point into this ever-growing field and argues that our scholarly foundations, today more than ever, comprise a cross-cutting latticework of research approaches and concepts.This volume brings together 28 leading scholars from a range of backgrounds and geographies, with contributions organized into 18 analytical lenses that highlight different approaches to critical environmental research and ways of seeing nature-society interactions. The book''s contributors engage the breadth and depth of the field, recognizing a variety of roots and genealogies, and give ample voice to these rich and complementary lineages. This inclusive presentation of the field allows diverse theoretical and empirical approaches to intermingle in novel ways. Readers will emerge with a wide-ranging understanding

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Book SynopsisIn recent years China has achieved impressive economic growth, and also made remarkable progress in human development. However, contemporary China is still faced with the great challenge of widespread poverty. This not only constitutes a barrier against China's pursuit of sustainable economic growth, but also poses a potential threat to China's attempts to construct a harmonious society in the future. This book, written by three renowned poverty-reduction experts under the aegis of the China Development Research Foundation - one of China's leading think-tanks - and drawing on the research of over twenty of China's top scholars in this field, examines China's efforts to eliminate poverty through development. It analyses all of the key issues, providing a review of China's past record in poverty alleviation, comparing this with the experiences of other countries, identifying the new characteristics and trends in poverty in recent years, and discussing the factors responsible. It assesTable of Contents1. Preface 1.1 A review of China’s Poverty and Anti-poverty Efforts 2.1 Socioeconomic Development and Poverty Reduction 3.1 Evolution of Poverty Concepts and other Countries’ Experiences 2. New Characteristics of Poverty in China today 2.1 The Absolute Poverty Line in China 2.2 Poor Populations in Rural Areas of China 2.3 Size and Geographical Distribution of Poor Populations in Urban Areas 3. Analysis of the Causes of Poverty 3.1 Agricultural Dependence and Natural Environmental Constraints 3.2 Human Capital Constraints 3.3 Public Services Constraints 3.4 Causes of Urban Poverty 3.5 A Brief Summary of the Causes of Poverty 4. China’s Poverty Alleviation Policies: Goals and Impacts 4.1 Main Poverty Alleviation Policies and their Characteristics 4.2 The Effects of Poverty Alleviation Policies in Rural Areas 4.3 The Poverty Alleviation Effects of Anti-poverty Policies in Urban Areas 4.4 Conclusive Evaluation of China’s Anti-poverty Policies 5. Governance and Poverty Alleviation 5.1 The Organization of China’s Poverty Alleviation Forces and their Functions 5.2 The Chinese Government’s Primary Experiences in Poverty Alleviation 5.3 The Main Problems with the Chinese Government’s Administrative Practices for Poverty Alleviation 6. Suggestions for Poverty Alleviation Policies

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Book SynopsisThis series addresses the relation of education to knowledge-based growth and broader measures of development beyond growth, central features of the modern world in which education has a central role. This role includes the effects of education on pure economic growth including itâs effects on the creation, adaptation, and dissemination of new ideas. Beyond this, the series presents pivotal research on the contribution of education to the many non-market private and social benefits beyond earnings. These non-market benefits largely define individualsâ life chances and are, for a society, standard indicators of development.Education readers will be able to easily access the most recent and key research defining educationâs role in earnings, in growth, and in the flow of new ideas, all in volume one. The contributions of education to development outcomes beyond earnings, both private and social, are addressed in volume two. The introductions to the series and to each volume place this in a coherent framework. Education dynamics and short and long term âendogenous developmentâ are defined and explored in volume three, and finance and policy in volume four. The views of skeptics about educationâs effects are considered. It is also explained how the controls they use can eliminate educationâs effects through technical change, on broader development beyond GDP, and can focus only on smaller short term education outcomes. Economists in development, growth, and in the economics of education should be especially interested in this series, which is cross listed in economics, because of the new insights into âeducation dynamicsâ in volume three. This includes the short term dynamics of endogenous development involving estimates of difference equations and of five to thrirty-five year education outcomes that build up with time. Volume three also addresses the long run dynamics of optimal growth and optimal development. Other new aspects include the contributions of education to new ideas improving non-market development outcomes and through indirect effects that feed back and enhance growth. This chips away at the mystery of unexplained âtechnical changeâ and also helps explain why static models do not always find education significant to growth, external benefits, or development.For policy, financing criteria need to consider educationâs effects on earnings but also on non-market development outcomes beyond earnings, or overall efficiency and equity. The pivotal articles addressing these important issues are presented in this series together with explanatory transition articles and introductions that put them in a readable and coherent context.

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