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Title Human development and capacity building : Asia Pacific trends, challenges and prospects for the future / edited by Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen and John Burgess
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages)
Series Routledge studies in the modern world economy
Routledge studies in the modern world economy.
Contents 1. Capacity building in the Asia Pacific : an introduction / Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen and John Burgess -- 2. Enhancing women's capacities in agricultural research and development in Asia and Africa / Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen [and others] -- 3. Women's work motivation and the influence on human capital development in Bhutan / Kantha Dayaram and Yue Liu -- 4. "Scarcity in plenty" : skills shortages and HRM competencies in Vietnam / Alan Nankervis, Prikshat Verma and Alan Montague -- 5. Gender development in Myanmar : an exploration of women's leadership trajectory / Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen, Kantha Dayaram and John Burgess -- 6. The political economy of capacity building in the French Pacific territories / Stéphane Le Queux and Stéphanie Graff -- 7. Using targeted jobs programmes to support local communities : the case of Indonesia / Emma Allen and John Burgess -- 8. A participatory model of corruption resistance : the case of NGOs in India / Sten Langmann and David Pick -- 9. A chronicle of indigenous entrepreneurship, human development and capacity building in East Arnhem land of Australia / Cecil Arthur Leonard Pearson and Yi Liu -- 10. Breaking the poverty cycle through linking farmers to markets in Timor Leste : the world vision income generation project / Vicente de Paulo Correia and Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen -- 11. Harnessing community capacity to coordinate and integrate natural and behavioural science perspectives : a groundwater management case study from rural India / Basant Maheshwari [and others] -- 12. Labour participation and women empowerment : implications for capacity building of women in potato production in Pakistan / Amjad Khan, Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen and Kantha Dayaram -- 13. Can maize (Zea mays L) uplift farm economy? A case study / Kalyan Kanti Das, S. Barman and Laxmi Thingbaijam -- 14. Concluding thoughts / Maria Fay Rola-Rubzen, John Burgess and Yue Liu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human capital -- Pacific Area
Sustainable development -- Pacific Area
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Economic history
Human capital
Sustainable development
SUBJECT Pacific Area -- Economic conditions
Subject Pacific Area
Form Electronic book
Author Rola-Rubzen, Maria Fay, author
Burgess, John, author
ISBN 9781317268161
1317268164
1317268172
9781317268178
9781317268154
1317268156