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Forging Subregional Links in Transportation and Logistics in South Asia

By: Uma Subramanian,John Arnold

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Forging Subregional Links in Transportation and Logistics in South Asia

By: Uma Subramanian,John Arnold

Written for public and private sector professionals in South Asia, the book presents policy options that would enable the subregion to compete in a rapidly changing global environment. While the book is designed to stimulate informed dialogue among key stakeholders, the unique approach and lessons learned have broad applications of interest to a wider audience."--BOOK JACKET.

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146

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World Bank Publications

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ISBN 10

082134885X

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9780821348857

Inspirations

Legends Leave...Legacies Live On...

By: Uma Balu

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Inspirations

Legends Leave...Legacies Live On...

By: Uma Balu

The key to motivate someone in becoming who you are is Inspiration. Without inspiration, one cannot attain the very goal of life. And behind every inspiration, there comes those individual who has their own share of getting you inspired with. Influencing me in every step of the life in becoming who I am now, are some of those inspirational people who potrayed their own sucess in me. This book is all about have those wonderful people acknowledged as a token of appreciation from me. This is all about getting inspired and be who you are always destined to be. Through Inspiration...

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124

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Partridge Publishing

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1543704727

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9781543704723

Food for All

International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture

By: Uma Lele,Manmohan Agarwal,Brian C. Baldwin,Sambuddha Goswami

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Food for All

International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture

By: Uma Lele,Manmohan Agarwal,Brian C. Baldwin,Sambuddha Goswami

This book is a historical review of international food and agriculture since the founding of the international organizations following the Second World War, including the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and into the 1970s, when CGIAR was established and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) was created to recycle petrodollars. Despite numerous international consultations and an increased number of actors, there has been no real growth in international assistance, except for the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The book concurrently focuses on the structural transformation of developing countries in Asia and Africa, with some making great strides in small farmer development and in achieving structural transformation of their economies. Some have also achieved Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG2, but most have not. Not only are some countries, particularly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, lagging behind, but they face new challenges of climate change, competition from emerging countries, population pressure, urbanization, environmental decay, and dietary transition. Lagging developing countries need huge investments in human capital, and physical and institutional infrastructure, to take advantage of rapid change in technologies, but the role of international assistance in financial transfers has diminished. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only set many poorer countries back but starkly revealed the weaknesses of past strategies. Transformative changes are needed in developing countries with international cooperation to achieve better outcomes. Will change in the United States bring new opportunities for multilateral cooperation?"--

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Oxford University Press

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0198755171

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9780198755173

GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT

ISSUES AND STRATEGIES

By: PARDEEP SAHNI,UMA MEDURY

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GOVERNANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT

ISSUES AND STRATEGIES

By: PARDEEP SAHNI,UMA MEDURY

This well-presented collection with contributions from academics and administrators reflects the growing concern towards the present-day practice of governance. It focuses on the need for Governance for Sustainable Human Development to manage the country's social as well as economic resources leading to better development-founded on four pillars of Accountability, Transparency, Predictability, and Participation. It thus calls for unfolding various issues and devising suitable strategies towards humane governance through appropriate political, bureaucratic, economic, and legal reforms. Highlighting its theme in the initial chapters in the New Public Management perspective, the book goes on to unravel the major administrative loopholes in Indian administration, such as lack of transparency and accountability, and the stranglehold of corruption, all of which lead to human deprivation. Later chapters give a synoptic overview of administrative reforms so far undertaken in India, and emphasize the effectiveness of governance in establishing appropriate balance in relative roles of public, private and civil society organizations, rights and responsibilities of politicians, bureaucrats and community, and economic and social justice. The book closes on a positive note strongly reiterating administrative re-engineering to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century for ensuring a holistic development of the country. Recent and real life happenings infused in the text to substantiate arguments, make it an interesting reading. The book will be of immense use to the students and teachers of public administration, social science, political science, and those who practise public administration. It will also be useful to a large number of government departments-both at the union and the state levels.

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175

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PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

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8120322045

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9788120322042

Primary and Stem Cells

Gene Transfer Technologies and Applications

By: Uma Lakshmipathy,Bhaskar Thyagarajan

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Primary and Stem Cells

Gene Transfer Technologies and Applications

By: Uma Lakshmipathy,Bhaskar Thyagarajan

This book describes basic cell engineering methods, emphasizing stem cell applications, and use of the genetically modified stem cells in cell therapy and drug discovery. Together, the chapters introduce and offer insights on new techniques for engineering of stem cells and the delivery of transgenes into stem cells via various viral and non-viral systems. The book offers a guide to the types of manipulations currently available to create genetically engineered stem cells that suit any investigator's purpose, whether it's basic science investigation, creation of disease models and screens, or cells for therapeutic applications.

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314

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118147162

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9781118147160

Riding High with Krishna and a Baseball Bat & Other Stories

By: Uma Parameswaran

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Riding High with Krishna and a Baseball Bat & Other Stories

By: Uma Parameswaran

Uma Parameswaran's earlier works have earned her praise and awards. What was Always Hers won the Jubilee Award for the best collection of short stories published in 1999. Of the title story, that appeared earlier as The Sweet Smell of Mother's Milk-Wet Bodice, reviewers had this to say: "A deftly wrought novella possessing the quiet elegance born of outrage."(The Globe and Mail) "Uma Parameswaran has written with the insight and lyricism of the fine poet she is." June Callwood "It is activist literature, woman-empowering fiction, and it has a political edge." (Herizons) Of her novel, Mangoes on the Maple Tree, Andreas Schroeder has said, "A hymn to the joys and sorrows of family, in the best, most inclusive sense of the word.

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