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Tabla de Contenidos: “…and housing support schemes extend well beyond assistance to low-income households""""Box 3. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Changing Competitive Landscape -- Concept Formation -- Competition in the 90s and Beyond 2000 -- Implications for the Sales Function -- Other Strategic Initiatives -- Strategic Impact -- Basic Learning -- Business-Related Cycles in the 21st Century -- Competitive Advantage: Staying Close to the Customer -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Collaboration to enhance a product experience -- We-commerce -- To infinity and beyond -- Cutting out the corporation -- There's no 'I' in 'we' -- Collective good -- Open source drives collaboration -- The smartest brains are often outside of your organisation -- A problem shared is a problem solved -- The new collaborative world -- Summary: the power of many -- A new idea for a new era: the Social Business Idea -- MAC: Viva Glam, featuring Lady Gaga -- Levi's: Water<Less -- Marks & Spencer: Plan A -- Nike: Better World -- American Express: Members Project -- Unilever: Dove Campaign for Real Beauty -- Pepsi: Refresh -- The Body Shop -- Groupe Danone: Grameen Danone -- General Electric: Ecomagination -- WWF: Earth Hour -- RED -- Starbucks: Shared planet -- Whole Foods Market: Whole Foods - Whole people - Whole planet -- Sydney Water: Tap -- Summary: Social Business Ideas -- The future: making a decent profit -- The people are revolting -- Past performance is no guarantee of future success -- The biggest barrier…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Key findings -- Key recommendations -- Beyond the RDAs - Key recommendations to higher-level bodies -- 1 Recommendations for Romania and considerations for regional planning and innovation -- Key insights -- The ability of Romanian RDAs to implement regional development and innovation policy could be further reinforced -- A wide range of resources can be mobilised to implement regional plans -- Innovation remains undeveloped and widely misunderstood in Romania -- The Association of Regional Development Agencies of Romania (ROREG) could play a greater role in co-ordinating and speaking for Romania's RDAs -- Recommendations for Romanian RDAs -- Recommendations for ROREG -- Recommendations for Romania's national government -- Governance considerations for RDAs and policy makers -- Reference -- 2 Overview of regional development and innovation in Romania -- Romania faces significant and growing regional disparities -- Economic disparities between regions are large and growing larger -- Disparities are visible in other regional development areas -- Innovation is concentrated in Bucharest-Ilfov -- Subnational governments are key players in delivering regional development policy -- Setting the scene: The important role of Romanian RDAs in regional development -- Romanian RDAs are key actors in advancing regional development -- RDAs can leverage strategic planning and innovation to advance regional development -- New opportunities and challenges: Becoming Managing Authorities in the 2021-27 programming period -- Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- 3 Strategic planning in Romanian Regional Development Agencies -- Strategy, planning and performance measurement -- The RDAs' longstanding experience can help them deliver as regional Managing Authorities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Transnational aspects of the Burmese democracy movement -- Fault line 5: class, elites and grassroots -- The professionalization of civil society -- The rise of the 'Third Force' -- 4 Room to Manoeuvre under Authoritarian Rule -- Civil society under authoritarian rule -- Restrictions on public speech -- Dealing with surveillance -- 'Contingent symbiosis' between state and civil society -- The contested notion of 'space' for civil society in the run-up to the 2010 elections -- Civil society beyond the overtly political -- Testing the waters during the transition -- 5 Transnational Advocacy Strategies and Pathways to Change -- Framing and marketing in transnational advocacy campaigns -- Strategic framing efforts -- Encounters between civil society from exile and from inside the country -- Post- Nargis counter- voices to the democracy movement -- 6 Competing Frames around the 2010 Elections -- The elections-as-opportunity counterframe -- Lobbying abroad for the election boycott campaign -- Adversarial framing -- Evaluating campaign success -- A strategic shift to international justice campaigns -- 7 Foreign Aid and the (De)politicization of Civil Society Assistance -- Expansion and contraction of foreign aid duringmilitary rule -- Politicization of the aid debate -- Western democracy promotion -- Changing donor priorities during the political transition -- Foreign aid reinforcing societal divisions -- International justice initiatives -- Inequalities in donor relationships -- 8 Interrupted Transition and Post-coup Resistance -- Popular resistance and military repression since the 2021 coup -- Escalation of armed conflict and resistance -- New forms of protest and solidarity -- Political opposition to military rule -- Armed opposition after the 2021 coup -- Contested representation within the opposition -- Contested international legitimacy…”