Policy Horizons: Mapping the Global Nexus, Vol-II extends the exploration of global policy challenges begun in Volume I, focusing on how interconnected forces are reshaping our world. While Volume I established the groundwork by examining economic policies, human rights, and environmental sustainability, Volume II delves into health, education, culture, migration, energy, urbanization, digital governance, and international cooperation. This volume builds on previous insights, providing a deep understanding of how these domains interact with global dynamics. Each chapter offers theoretical perspectives and practical solutions. The health policy section addresses pandemic preparedness, mental health, and non-communicable diseases, emphasizing universal healthcare and global health governance. Education policy highlights the importance of quality education for all, especially in crises, and the role of lifelong learning and global initiatives in sustainable development. Cultural policy discusses preserving cultural heritage, promoting diversity, and supporting creative industries, focusing on indigenous rights and challenges of cultural globalization. Migration policy examines balancing security and human rights, including refugee resettlement, migrant integration, and anti-trafficking efforts, while considering the impact on social cohesion and economic development. Energy policy is assessed through the lens of sustainability, discussing renewable energy strategies, energy efficiency, and the transition from fossil fuels, with a focus on achieving Sustainable Development Goals and climate mitigation. Urbanization is explored in terms of sustainable development, affordable housing, public health, and governance challenges in megacities. Digital governance addresses regulatory challenges posed by AI and blockchain, focusing on data privacy, cybersecurity, and the digital divide, with case studies of successful initiatives. The volume concludes with an examination of international cooperation and multilateralism, analyzing the roles of multilateral organizations, diplomatic negotiations, and regional integration in global governance. Arindam Bhattacharya, author and seasoned advocate, is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly in West Bengal, India, and founder of the Advocacy Unified Network (AUN), based in The Hague with offices in New York, Durban, and Kathmandu. His career spans global public policy research and advocacy. Policy Horizons: Mapping the Global Nexus, Vol-II is a crucial resource for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, offering a roadmap for responsive and resilient policies in an era of rapid change.
Globality primarily involves large western corporations expanding their operations and moving aggressively into new overseas markets. GLOBALITY radically defines a 'post-globalization' world, where companies from India, China, Russia, eastern Europe, Brazil and Mexico are expanding beyond their home base, entering and building new markets, creating whole industries, and competing for customers, resources, market share and attention. In short, the tide has turned. As a result, western companies need to understand these emerging new businesses and the economies they come from in order to stay ahead and stay alive.
Great is no longer good enough. Beyond Great delivers a powerful new playbook of 9 core strategies to thrive in a post-COVID world where all the rules of the game are being re-written. Beyond Great answers to two fundamental questions which face business leaders today in a world shaped by daunting and disruptive technological, economic, and social change. First, what is outstanding performance in this new volatile era? Second, how do we build competitive advantage in a world with new and often uncertain rules? Supported by years of research and hands-on consulting practice, this book presents a comprehensive framework for building a high performing, resilient, adaptive, and socially responsible global company. The book begins by taking an incisive look at these disruptive forces transforming globalization, including economic nationalism; the boom in data flows and digital commerce; the rise of China; heightened public concerns about capitalism and the environment; and the emergence of borderless communities of digitally connected consumers. Distilled from the study of hundreds of companies and interviews with dozens of business leaders, the authors have distilled nine core strategies – the new winning playbook of the 21st century. Beyond Great argues that business leaders today must lead with a new kind of openness, flexibility and light-footedness, constantly layering in new strategies and operational norms atop existing ones to allow for "always-on" transformation. Leaders must master a whole new set of rules about what it takes to be "global," becoming shapeshifters adept at handling contradiction, multiplicity, and nuance. This book will show them how.
Policy Horizons: Mapping the Global Nexus, Vol-II extends the exploration of global policy challenges begun in Volume I, focusing on how interconnected forces are reshaping our world. While Volume I established the groundwork by examining economic policies, human rights, and environmental sustainability, Volume II delves into health, education, culture, migration, energy, urbanization, digital governance, and international cooperation. This volume builds on previous insights, providing a deep understanding of how these domains interact with global dynamics. Each chapter offers theoretical perspectives and practical solutions. The health policy section addresses pandemic preparedness, mental health, and non-communicable diseases, emphasizing universal healthcare and global health governance. Education policy highlights the importance of quality education for all, especially in crises, and the role of lifelong learning and global initiatives in sustainable development. Cultural policy discusses preserving cultural heritage, promoting diversity, and supporting creative industries, focusing on indigenous rights and challenges of cultural globalization. Migration policy examines balancing security and human rights, including refugee resettlement, migrant integration, and anti-trafficking efforts, while considering the impact on social cohesion and economic development. Energy policy is assessed through the lens of sustainability, discussing renewable energy strategies, energy efficiency, and the transition from fossil fuels, with a focus on achieving Sustainable Development Goals and climate mitigation. Urbanization is explored in terms of sustainable development, affordable housing, public health, and governance challenges in megacities. Digital governance addresses regulatory challenges posed by AI and blockchain, focusing on data privacy, cybersecurity, and the digital divide, with case studies of successful initiatives. The volume concludes with an examination of international cooperation and multilateralism, analyzing the roles of multilateral organizations, diplomatic negotiations, and regional integration in global governance. Arindam Bhattacharya, author and seasoned advocate, is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly in West Bengal, India, and founder of the Advocacy Unified Network (AUN), based in The Hague with offices in New York, Durban, and Kathmandu. His career spans global public policy research and advocacy. Policy Horizons: Mapping the Global Nexus, Vol-II is a crucial resource for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, offering a roadmap for responsive and resilient policies in an era of rapid change.
Great is no longer good enough. Beyond Great delivers a powerful new playbook of 9 core strategies to thrive in a post-COVID world where all the rules of the game are being re-written. Beyond Great answers to two fundamental questions which face business leaders today in a world shaped by daunting and disruptive technological, economic, and social change. First, what is outstanding performance in this new volatile era? Second, how do we build competitive advantage in a world with new and often uncertain rules? Supported by years of research and hands-on consulting practice, this book presents a comprehensive framework for building a high performing, resilient, adaptive, and socially responsible global company. The book begins by taking an incisive look at these disruptive forces transforming globalization, including economic nationalism; the boom in data flows and digital commerce; the rise of China; heightened public concerns about capitalism and the environment; and the emergence of borderless communities of digitally connected consumers. Distilled from the study of hundreds of companies and interviews with dozens of business leaders, the authors have distilled nine core strategies – the new winning playbook of the 21st century. Beyond Great argues that business leaders today must lead with a new kind of openness, flexibility and light-footedness, constantly layering in new strategies and operational norms atop existing ones to allow for "always-on" transformation. Leaders must master a whole new set of rules about what it takes to be "global," becoming shapeshifters adept at handling contradiction, multiplicity, and nuance. This book will show them how.
This book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti's original research in philosophy on issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. Organized under the three basic concepts of a thing out there in the world, the self who perceives it, and other subjects or selves, his work revolves around a set of realism links. Examining connections between metaphysical stances toward the world, selves, and universals, Chakrabarti engages with classical Indian and modern Western philosophical approaches to a number of live topics including the refutation of idealism; the question of the definability of truth, and the possibility of truths existing unknown to anyone; the existence of non-conceptual perception; and our knowledge of other minds. He additionally makes forays into fundamental questions regarding death, darkness, absence, and nothingness. Along with conceptual clarification and progress towards alternative solutions to these substantial philosophical problems, Chakrabarti demonstrates the advantage of doing philosophy in a cosmopolitan fashion. Beginning with an analysis of the concept of a thing, and ending with an analysis of the concept of nothing, Realisms Interlinked offers a preview of a future metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind without borders.
The concepts of the Electron Statistics (ES) and the ES dependent electronic properties are basic pillars in semiconductor electronics and this first-of-its-kind book deals with the said concepts in doping superlattices (SLs), quantum well, quantum wire and quantum dot SLs, effective mass SLs, SLs with graded interfaces and Fibonacci SLs under different physical conditions respectively. The influences of intense radiation and strong electric fields under said concepts have been considered together with the heavily doped SLs in this context on the basis of newly formulated the electron energy spectra in all the cases. We have suggested experimental determinations of the Einstein relation for the Diffusivity-Mobility ratio, the Debye screening length, Elastic Constants and the content of this book finds 25 different applications in the arena of nanoscience and nanotechnology.This book contains hundred open research problems which form the integral part of the text and are useful for both PhD aspirants and researchers. It is written for post graduate students of various departments of different academic organizations, engineers and professionals in the fields of solid state electronics, materials science, solid state sciences, nano-science, nanotechnology and nano materials in general.
This book highlights the importance of Electron Statistics (ES), which occupies a singular position in the arena of solid state sciences, in heavily doped (HD) nanostructures by applying Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle directly without using the complicated Density-of-States function approach as given in the literature. The materials considered are HD quantum confined nonlinear optical, III-V, II-VI, IV-VI, GaP, Ge, PtSb2, stressed materials, GaSb, Te, II-V, Bi2Te3, lead germanium telluride, zinc and cadmium diphosphides, and quantum confined III-V, IV-VI, II-VI and HgTe/CdTe super-lattices with graded interfaces and effective mass super-lattices. The presence of intense light waves in optoelectronics and strong electric field in nano-devices change the band structure of materials in fundamental ways, which have also been incorporated in the study of ES in HD quantized structures of optoelectronic compounds that control the studies of the HD quantum effect devices under strong fields. The influence of magnetic quantization, magneto size quantization, quantum wells, wires and dots, crossed electric and quantizing fields, intense electric field, and light waves on the ES in HD quantized structures and superlattices are discussed. The content of this book finds six different applications in the arena of nano-science and nanotechnology and the various ES dependent electronic quantities, namely the effective mass, the screening length, the Einstein relation and the elastic constants have been investigated. This book is useful for researchers, engineers and professionals in the fields of Applied Sciences, solid state and materials science, nano-science and technology, condensed matter physics, and allied fields, including courses in semiconductor nanostructures. ​
Credit risk is the risk resulting from the uncertainty that a borrower or a group of borrowers may be unwilling or unable to meet their contractual obligations as per the agreed terms. It is the largest element of risk faced by most banks and financial institutions. Potential losses due to high credit risk can threaten a bank's solvency. After the global financial crisis of 2008, the importance of adopting prudent risk management practices has increased manifold. This book attempts to demystify various standard mathematical and statistical techniques that can be applied to measuring and managing portfolio credit risk in the emerging market in India. It also provides deep insights into various nuances of credit risk management practices derived from the best practices adopted globally, with case studies and data from Indian banks.
The book outlines the importance of Indian manufacturing sector and its growth under alternative policy regimes. The authors highlight the significance of various firm-specific and macroeconomic factors on the level of efficiency and profitability of the firms operating in the diverse manufacturing sector during the post-liberalization era. The book also examines the dynamic relationship between the select manufacturing sector-specific stock market indices and the various macroeconomic variables.
Power Quality Enhancement Using Custom Power Devices considers the structure, control and performance of series compensating DVR, the shunt DSTATCOM and the shunt with series UPQC for power quality improvement in electricity distribution. Also addressed are other power electronic devices for improving power quality in Solid State Transfer Switches and Fault Current Limiters. Applications for these technologies as they relate to compensating busses supplied by a weak line and for distributed generation connections in rural networks, are included. In depth treatment of inverters to achieve voltage support, voltage balancing, harmonic suppression and transient suppression in realistic network environments are also covered. New material on the potential for shunt and series compensation which emphasizes the importance of control design has been introduced.
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