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Who Benefits from India's Public Services?

A People's Audit of Five Basic Services

By: Samuel Paul

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Who Benefits from India's Public Services?

A People's Audit of Five Basic Services

By: Samuel Paul

This pioneering independent effort to assess the state of India's public services from a user's perspective brings together the responses of citizens from 37,000 rural and urban households on the delivery, quality, and responsiveness of public services. While the state's monitoring of service delivery seldom goes beyond tracking public expenditure and physical outputs, this study fills that gap and provides unique benchmarks with respect to five basic services: drinking water, primary health care, primary education, public distribution of food, and public transportation across the major states.

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306

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Academic Foundation

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8171885276

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9788171885275

No One at the Wheel

Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

By: Samuel I Schwartz

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No One at the Wheel

Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

By: Samuel I Schwartz

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than cars that pilot themselves. Is this an impossible future, or a revolution just around the corner? Sam Schwartz, America's most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? It will further erode our privacy, since the vehicle can relay our location at any moment. And, like every other computer-controlled device, it can be vulnerable to hacking. Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll and nothing will ever be the same, and this book shows us what the future has in store.

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266

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PublicAffairs

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1541724046

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9781541724044

The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer

By: Samuel Smiles

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The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer

By: Samuel Smiles

This 1867 biography combines a history of roads with Thomas Telford's career as a builder of roads, bridges and canals.

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369

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Cambridge University Press

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1108067891

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9781108067898

Restorations of Empire in Africa

Ancient Rome and Modern Italy's African Colonies

By: Samuel Agbamu

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Restorations of Empire in Africa

Ancient Rome and Modern Italy's African Colonies

By: Samuel Agbamu

The histories of Europe and Africa are closely intertwined. At times, this closeness has been emphasized, at other times, suppressed and denied. Since the nineteenth century, European imperial powers have carved up the continent of Africa among themselves, drawing borders and charting shorelines; in the process, inventing Africa. This was a project anchored in ancient Greek and Roman representations of Africa. For Italy, colonialism in Africa was a matter of consolidating its project of national unification, nominally completed in 1870 with the capture of Rome. By asserting its position as an imperial power, the young nation of Italy hoped to join the club of European nation-states and, in so doing, be rid of the perception that it was a country somewhere in between Europe and Africa. Yet, Italy's colonial endeavour in Africa was also a project with deep historical meaning. Italy posed its imperial project in Africa as a national return to territory which was rightfully Italian. Italian ideologues of imperialism based this claim on the history of Roman history on the continent. When Italian soldiers disembarked on the beaches of Libya during Italy's invasion of 1911-1912, and came across the ruins of Roman imperialism, they were, according to prominent cultural and political figures in Italy, rediscovering the traces of their ancestors. Yet, when Italian imperial ambitions set their sights on East Africa, regions that had not been conquered by Rome, how could Italy nevertheless shape its imperial project in the image of ancient Rome? This book charts this story. Beginning with Italy's first imperial endeavours on the African continent in the last decades of the nineteenth century and continuing right through to Italy's current attitudes towards Africa, this book argues that empire in Africa was a central aspect of Italian nation-building, and that this was a project which anchored itself in memories of ancient Rome in Africa. Although Fascism's invasion of Ethiopia (1935-1936) is the best-known moment of Italian imperialism in Africa, this book shows that Italian imperialism, modelled on ancient Rome, has a history which long predates Mussolini's movement, and has a legacy which continues to be acutely felt.

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Oxford University Press

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0192664603

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Who Benefits from India's Public Services?

Who Benefits from India's Public Services?

No One at the Wheel

No One at the Wheel

The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer

The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer

Restorations of Empire in Africa

Restorations of Empire in Africa

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