Product Description: The development discourse has long been dominated by best practices prescriptions for reform, but these are not a useful way of responding to the governance ambiguities of the early 21st century. Working with the Grain draws on both innovative scholarship and Brian Levy's quarter century of experience at the World Bank to lay out an alternative-a practical, analytically grounded, "with-the-grain" approach to reducing poverty and addressing weaknesses in governance...read more

Product Description: Fulfilling the Export Potential of Small and Medium Firms addresses the question, `How can economic policy contribute to a strong export performance by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries?' In today's increasingly integrated world economy, such a performance can make a significant difference to the growth, employment creation and income distribution of many developing countries...read more

Product Description: Developing-country governance and its monitoring have risen to the top of the development agenda. This mounting interest is in response to compelling evidence that links governance to development performance-policy quality, public service provision, the investment climate, and the extent of corruption...read more

The aim of the International Reynard Society is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic, and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable, and fabliau), including the study of sources, influences, and later developments into the modern period. This yearbook offers wide-ranging critical interpretations and the methods applied are diverse: discussion and the coexistence of conflicting views are considered more important than the defence of one specific methodological point of view. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The aim of Reinardus is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic satirical, didactic and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Currently, privatization and regulatory reform are often viewed as the solution to the problem of poor performance by telecommunications and other public utilities. This volume argues that these high expectations may not always be met because of the way a country's institutions and systems interact...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reinardus aims at the promoting of comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical didactic, and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable, and fablau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period...read more

Product Description: This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Sixth Beast Epic, Fable & Fabliau Colloquium (Spa, Belgium, 1985).

The aim of Reinardus is to promote comparative research in the fields of medieval comic, satirical, didactic and allegorical literature (with emphasis on beast epic, fable and fabliau), including sources, influences and later developments into the modern period. The methods and critical interpretation that it offers are as wide-ranging as is its subject matter, since it considers discussion and the coexistence of conflicting views as more important than the defence of a specific methodological point of view. This volume contains contributions by: Jean-Marie Boivin; Massimo Bonafin; Paola Cifarelli; L. Evdokimova; Jane Geddes; Luca Giachino; Christopher Lucken; Gianni Mombello; Jean-Claude Mühlethaler; Jean-Marc Pastré; Elizabeth Porges Watson; Giuseppe Porta; Richard Trachsler; Gert-Jan van Dijk; Corinne Zemmour. (view table of contents)