This article offers empirical evidence of the utilization of evaluation findings of the World Bank Institute’s (WBI) efforts to help reduce corruption in Tanzania and Uganda. These initiatives are part of the World Bank-WBI program to curb corruption in developing countries. This analysis focuses on the mid-term evaluation of the WBI’s anti-corruption activities in those countries. The study sh...

In this paper I address myself to two issues concerning Polanyi’s epistemology. The first is that notwithstanding his critique of objectivism and his post-critical perspective, Polanyi remains firmly rooted in the tradition of the Enlightenment. To put this somewhat differently, I think that although he may be regarded as an early postmodernist, he may be seen also as someone who tried to do a ...

It might be supposed that the most enlightened areas in the country would be the freest from these diseases and that the places where no enlightenment had been undertaken would be hotbeds of disease. He had examined in this respect sixteen counties which had not undertaken any propaganda for ten years; they comprised about one-thrd of the country. Actually the number of service infections in th...

With different nuances, the Stoics’ influence on Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment is generally taken for granted. The many references to the Stoics, mainly in Smith’s TMS, and the importance of this classical tradition within the Scottish Enlightenment, have led scholars to acknowledge this apparently obvious influence. However, this influence is at times more elusive than obvious. If ...

In this paper, I will explore Kierkegaard's life and philosophy, regarding his theory of stages and what it means to be an authentic religious person, compared and contrasted with the Bodhisattva path and series of perfections leading to enlightenment found in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism. An endeavor will be made to show how Kierkegaard's religious person is similar in some ways to the B...

The "dual system" of Germany is an internationally successful vocational education pattern at present. This paper introduces the content and features of the German "dual system" vocational education, and discusses how to use the essence of the "dual system" as a reference for the practical reform of our higher vocational education.