This theme-based book review considers four recent titles related to reform: They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria, by Daniel E. Agbiboa; Assessing Public Management Reforms, Patrick Gibert Jean-Claude Thoenig; Combating Money Laundering Africa: Dealing with the Problem of PEPs, John Hatchard; The Effects Technology Institutions on E-Participati...

This chapter presents seven unifying themes of tasks used in mathematics teacher education. These themes reflect broad goals for mathematics teacher education, and are closely related to the knowledge required for teaching mathematics. The challenges that teacher-educators face in having to design and implement productive tasks for teachers are discussed and illustrated through a specific task....

The USA National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care—organised by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (Boston USA)—attracts many people from outside North America. At the 1999 meeting 20 countries were represented. A session on “Quality improvement around the world” was included in the pre-conference programme to bring together people working in many countries to explore and compare...

Terms like leadership and entrepreneurship have reached great importance and popularity. A lot of information has appeared related with these topics and searching for it has become a bit complicated for people interested in leadership and entrepreneurship. With so much information, it is difficult to identify a topic among the huge quantity of concepts involved in these themes. This work presen...

JULY 1, 1976, marks the tenth annwersary of the start of Medicare Enacted Into law m 1965 as title XVIII of the Soaal Security ActHealth Insurance for the Aged-the new program went Into effect on July 1, 1966, and began to provide basic health msursnce coverage for persons aged 65 and over-the age group with the highest mmdence of dlness and dlsnblhty, the lowest mcome, and the least adequate p...

A diverse group of researchers working on both plant and animal systems met at a Company of Biologists workshop to discuss ‘Coordinating Cell Polarity’. The meeting included considerable free discussion as well as presentations exploring the ways that groups of cells in these various systems achieve coordinated cell polarity. Here, we discuss commonalities, differences and themes that emerged f...

This paper offers a framework for contemplating both past and future research on the relationship between innovation and economic growth in a Canadian context. The discussion is presented in three parts. First, the theoretical relationship between innovation and growth is briefly summarized and augmented with a review of current empirical research on the related topics of knowledge spillovers a...