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  Global Employment Trends for Women 2012

  March 2013

  Part of the Global Employment Trends series, this publication delivers the most current information on emerging trends and key challenges facing women in labor markets around the world.

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  Perspectives on Labour Economics for Development

  Sandrine Cazes and Sher Verick, eds., March 2013

  This book seeks to provide comprehensive but nontechnical coverage of labor market issues in a developing country context to help policymakers improve their understanding of these topics and develop effective policy responses.

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  Immigrants in a Changing Labor Market: Responding to Economic Needs

  March 2013

  The book traces the powerful economic forces at play in today's globalized world and includes policy prescriptions for making the American immigration system more responsive to labor market needs.

• Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers

  Caroline Lambert , Stephanie Majerowicz and Todd Moss , eds., February 2013

  What should a country do if it suddenly discovers oil and gas? Oil to Cash explores one option that may help avoid the so-called resource curse: just give the money directly to citizens.

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  A Versatile American Institution: The Changing Ideals and Realities of Philanthropic Foundations

  Helmut K. Anheier and David C. Hammack , February 2013

  Today’s grantmaking foundations and their constituents, potential grantees, analysts, and observers all can learn a great deal from the past, but they must consider past experience in the context of present realities. This book will inform and facilitate that critically important process.

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  Environmental Goverance for Sustainable Development: East Asian Perspectives

  Akihisa Mori, ed., February 2013

  This volume focuses on the evolution of multilevel environmental governance in the East Asian region, including both Northeast and Southeast Asia. It examines how effective emerging environmental governance and policy have been and addresses the underlying causes of local, national, regional, and global environmental challenges.

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  Regional Integration in East Asia: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

  Satoshi Amako, Shunji Matsuoka and Kenji Horiuchi, eds., February 2013

  Regional Integration in East Asia is the culmination of five years of intensive research on Asian regional integration by Waseda University. It reexamines theoretical approaches to comprehending the actual state of integration in the region and presents the most compelling ones.

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  Greenprint: A New Approach to Cooperation on Climate Change

  Aaditya Mattoo and Arvind Subramanian, February 2013

  International cooperation on climate change has floundered. In Greenprint, the authors argue that any chance of progress must address three key problems in a radically different way.

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  Avoiding Armageddon

  America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

  Bruce Riedel, February 2013

  In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel explains the challenge and the importance of managing America’s affairs with India and Pakistan and their toxic relationship.

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  Mr. Putin

  Operative in the Kremlin

  Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy, February 2013

  In Mr. Putin, Russia experts Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy reveal Vladimir Putin as a man of many and complex identities...a man more intricate and multifaceted than he wants the world to believe he is.

• The World's Changing Industrial Landscape (REPORT)

  Donald Hepburn , January 2013

  This report is the culmination of a research project that explores how the global industrial landscape might change between now and 2020, the outlook for key global industries over the next decade, and the role of emerging “global champions.”

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  The Need for Speed

  A New Framework for Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century

  Robert E. Litan and Hal J. Singer, January 2013

  The Need for Speed presents the kind of fundamental rethinking needed to bring communications policy in line with technological advances.

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  Uncharted Strait

  The Future of China-Taiwan Relations

  Richard C. Bush III, January 2013

  In Uncharted Strait, Richard Bush, who specialized in Taiwan issues during almost twenty years in the U.S. government, explains the current state of relations between China and Taiwan.

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  Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century

  Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform

  Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn, eds., January 2013

  Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century comprehensively assesses the strengths and weaknesses of what remains of the old in education governance, scrutinizes how traditional governance forms are changing, and suggests how governing arrangements might be further altered to produce better educational outcomes for children.

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  The Politics and Civics of National Service: Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps

  Melissa Bass , January 2013

  In Politics and Civics of National Service, Melissa Bass focuses on the history, current relevance, and impact of domestic national service. She argues that only by examining programs over time can we understand national service’s successes and limitations, both in terms of its political support and its civic lessons.

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  Building Sustainable Job-Rich Recovery

  ILO, December 2012

  Building a Sustainable Job-Rich Recovery examines the origins of the deep financial and economic crisis that hit the world economy in 2008 and that continues to shape labor market performance across the globe.

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  Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migration

  The Transatlantic Council on Migration

  December 2012

  Rethinking National Identity in the Age of Migration examines the lessons that can be drawn from various approaches to immigrant integration and managing diversity in North America and Europe.

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  Towards a Greener Economy

  The Social Dimensions

  ILO, December 2012

  In reaction to the 2008 global financial crisis, the European Commission and the ILO combined efforts to examine policies that will lead not only to a quicker recovery but also to a more sustainable, environmentally friendly, and equitable global economy.

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  Northern Nigeria's Boko Haram

  The Prize in al-Qaeda's Africa Strategy

  Jacob Zenn , December 2012

  This report addresses the regional ramifications of the rise of Boko Haram and evaluates the jihadist terrorist organization as something more than a domestic Nigerian movement. The report discusses Boko Haram’s regional connections and the possibility of it expanding throughout West Africa.

• Beijing Ponders NATO Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan

  Richard Weitz, December 2012

  This report provides an overview and analysis of the vigorous debate over Afghanistan in Chinese foreign policy circles.

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  Protecting the Poor

  A Microinsurance Compendium: Volume 2

  Craig Churchill and Michal Matul, eds., December 2012

  This volume provides a synthesis of new trends and practices in the growing market of microinsurance.

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  International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08)

  Volume 1

  ILO, December 2012

  This volume presents the structure and definitions of all groups in the International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO–08) and their correspondence with ISCO–88.

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  Guide to the European Parliament 2012-2014

  American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, December 2012

  The Guide to the European Parliament 2012–2014 is an easy-to-use guide to the workings and structure of the European Parliament.

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  New Paradigms for Financial Regulation: Emerging Market Perspectives

  Masahiro Kawai and Eswar Prasad, eds., December 2012

  New Paradigms for Financial Regulation presents medium- and long-term strategies for strengthening the regulatory frameworks that facilitate and broaden financial development while also helping to manage and mitigate the risks involved.

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  Friend or Foe? Dominant Party Systems in Southern Africa, Insights from the Developing World

  Nicola de Jager and Pierre de Toit, eds., December 2012

  The salient question posed by this book is: Which route are Botswana, Namibia and South Africa taking? It answers by drawing conclusions to determine whether these countries are moving toward liberal democracy, authoritarianism, or a road in between.