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Afghanistan Post-2014 Power configurations and evolving trajectories

This book focuses on the developments in post 2014 Afghanistan with external military support from the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. It discusses topical themes such as the withdrawal of US troops and non-traditional security. | Afghanistan Post-2014 Power configurations and evolving trajectories

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Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: • Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade migration and economic processes thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific Atlantic and Indian Oceans; • Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa without a counterflow of “native travel”; •Examines the connections between South Africa South Asia and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; •Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of history especially oceanic history historiography critical theory literature geography and Global South studies. | Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

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Cross-Border Integration of Renewable Energy Systems Experiences Impacts and Drivers

Cross-border energy trade and integration of renewable energy have become significant for countries and regions to meet demands minimize costs and foster socio-economic and climate stability in the dynamic and unstable energy market. This book explores different models of global energy trade between regions and their benefits and challenges with a special focus on India’s Northeast region. Countries in South and Southeast Asia are endowed with abundant renewable energy resources. This book examines the energy mix of the countries such as India Myanmar Thailand Bangladesh and Bhutan among others and their efforts to achieve more integrated markets and renewable energy integration in the region. It highlights the potential of Northeast India given its rich natural resources and strategic location to harness the potential cross-border energy trade with ASEAN countries. The volume provides analytical perspectives on drivers constraints opportunities and barriers as well as measures that countries could take to address institutional financial policy and governance issues to minimize the total costs of energy security and maximize the social-economic benefits for people in these regions. It identifies the necessary conditions – grid flexibility policy market and regulatory solutions for clean energy trade – and contributes to growth of low-carbon development as well as policy making by focusing on renewable energy integration across borders. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of energy and climate studies environmental politics trade and economics and international relations. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Cross-Border Integration of Renewable Energy Systems Experiences Impacts and Drivers

GBP 35.95

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Deciphering India's Services Sector Growth

This book addresses a range of issues relating to the nature and implications of growth of India’s services sector including factors contributing to the rise of services output measurement and heterogeneity growth of services exports and employment in services sectors. From service tax exchange rate and services exports policy interest employment potential and diversity of the sector to challenges in financial inclusion trajectories of ICT services and contribution of education to GDP it brings together diverse themes to highlight major concerns in the wake of the prominent role that services have played in placing India among the fast-growing economies in the world in recent years. The services sector in India accounts for more than 60 per cent of the GDP of the country and 28. 6 per cent of its employed across government private or state corporations and non-government organisations. The volume explores whether the services sector (beyond agriculture and industry) holds the promise of fulfilling the benefits from India’s demographic dividend for its economic transformation through sustainable growth. With key empirical analyses of household enterprise and macroeconomic data for India within both formal and informal sectors this topical book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics Indian economy political economy development economics development studies public policy and South Asian studies and also to development professionals policy makers and industry specialists. | Deciphering India's Services Sector Growth

GBP 38.99

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India Infrastructure Report 2012 Private Sector in Education

Today India�s education sector remains a victim of poor policies restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools children are not learning adequately. Increasingly parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out from secondary school in spite of high financial returns of secondary education and those who do complete it have inferior conceptual knowledge. Higher education is over-regulated and under-governed keeping away serious private providers and reputed global institutes. Graduates from high schools colleges and universities are not readily employable and few are willing to pay for skill development. Ironically the Right to Education Act if strictly enforced will result in closure of thousands of non-state schools and millions of poor children will be left without access to education. Eleventh in the series India Infrastructure Report 2012 discusses challenges in the education sector � elementary secondary higher and vocational � and explores strategies for constructive change and opportunities for the private sector. It suggests that immediate steps are required to reform the sector to reap the benefits from India�s �demographic dividend� due to a rise in the working age population. Result of a collective effort led by the IDFC Foundation this Report brings together a range of perspectives from academics researchers and practitioners committed to enhancing educational practices. It will be an invaluable resource for policymakers researchers and corporates. | India Infrastructure Report 2012 Private Sector in Education

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Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

This volume explores the emergence evolution and definition of the middle class in India. As a class created as the interpreters between the colonial rulers and the millions whom they governed in the pre-Independence era the Indian middle class has existed in congruence with the state occupying vital positions in state administration. Since Independence this middle class underwent major sociological change as they live independent of the state which affected their social economic and political position reaping benefits of liberalisation and globalisation through education and employment. An otherwise internally differentiated and heterogeneous group the new Indian middle class often unifies itself to shape socio-political discourse that affects politics and policymaking from domestic to international affairs. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India – the software professionals emblematic of the 'new India’. It discusses this emerging class as a political category and their engagements with the state democracy political parties issues of gender basic necessities and social justice. Further it discusses their social action and ‘middle class activism’ for issues such as environment cleanliness and corruption particularly highlighting its presence in the private sector and electronic media. A fresh perspective on India’s political milieu this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology modern Indian history political science economics and South Asia studies. | Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals