Tabla de Contenidos: “…Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth -- Challenges for lagging regions -- Regional disparities in well-being are more pronounced than disparities in income -- Regional dispersion in labour market outcomes is high -- Low skills can be a barrier to growth in lagging regions -- Low productivity growth also contributes to regional disparities -- Barriers to economies of scale can hold back productivity growth of regions and firms -- Lack of an environment conducive to productivity growth in lagging regions -- Addressing regional disparities in labour market outcomes Improving the employability of low-skilled unemployed -- Boosting labour mobility -- Better integrating labour market and social policies -- Making housing more flexible and affordable -- Lowering regional disparities in education outcomes -- Improving the adaptability of workers through lifelong learning -- Ensuring a better matching of skills with labour market needs -- Training vouchers -- Vocational education and training -- Boosting digital skills -- Raising the overall level of basic skills and increasing equality of opportunity -- Boosting productivity and firm dynamism across regions Reducing regulatory differences -- Raising the ability of regions to benefit from spillovers -- Improving allocation of resources -- Enhancing innovation performance -- Boosting international spillovers -- Getting the most out of decentralisation -- Improving evaluation, coordination and sharing of best practices -- Strengthening the fiscal framework and rules -- High degree of fiscal decentralisation -- Reforming the regional financing system -- Improving fiscal rules --…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Financial and enterprise affairsInvestment Committee; Insurance and Private Pensions Committee; Committee on Financial Markets; Competition Committee; Corporate Governance Committee; Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions; Tax policy and administration; Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA); OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government; Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes; Science, Technology and Industry; Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Making reform happen and mainstreaming green growth; Encourage policy coherence across sectors; Maximise policy synergies; Work in partnerships; Gear up international co-operation; Improve our knowledge…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Education Policy Outlook policy levers; Students: Raising outcomes for all; Enhancing quality in institutions; Systems: Governance and funding effectively; An overview of selected policies and reforms introduced across OECD; Box 1.2. The Education Policy Outlook data on policies and reforms; Figure 1.4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Humanitarian assistance -Progress on the 2007 peer review recommendations -A strong policy framework, but challenges remain in countries emerging from crisis -More than a traditional donor – delivering programmes, not just funds -Promoting humanitarian issues across the Commission, with Member States, and in the field -The need to reduce cumbersome procedures to improve programming -Future considerations -Bibliography Annex A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The regulatory burden is high across the economy""…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Preface -- Foreword -- Note -- Acknowledgements -- Country expert team -- Reader's guide -- Indicators -- Data collection -- Cross-country comparability -- Methodological advances and recommendations for data improvements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Executive summary -- 1 Recent trends in SME and entrepreneurship financing -- Business environment and macroeconomic context -- Trade and business investment -- Financial conditions -- Lending to SMEs -- New SME loans -- Outstanding stock of SME loans -- SME loan shares -- Short-term versus long-term lending Credit conditions for SMEs -- Interest rates -- Collateral requirements -- SME loan applications -- Rejection rates -- Additional evidence on credit conditions from survey data -- Euro area -- United States -- Japan -- United Kingdom -- Asset-based finance -- Leasing and hire purchases -- Factoring -- Equity instruments -- Venture capital -- Online alternative finance -- Payment delays, bankruptcies and non-performing loans -- Payment delays -- Bankruptcies -- Non-performing loans (NPLs) -- Government policy responses in 2019-20 In the run-up to the crisis, governments continued to make use of credit guarantee schemes and increasingly supported alternative finance instruments for SMEs -- Credit guarantees have remained the dominant form of support for SME access to finance through the COVID pandemic -- Direct lending was also ramped up to support the SME crisis response -- Governments made significant use of temporary crisis measures, such as deferred payments and grants, to support the urgent liquidity needs of SMEs Public support for equity financing in 2020 was strong, but not as strong as the support provided through other instruments -- Fintech firms played a role in channelling support, but have further potential to support SME access to finance -- The post-COVID policy landscape will be shaped by the recovery agenda and the need to increase SME resilience, including through continued financial diversification -- References -- Notes -- 2 SME finance in COVID-19 recovery packages: Assessment and implications -- Overview -- Introduction -- The SME orientation of recovery packages Many countries have launched recovery packages -- The packages share common overarching objectives but differ in focus -- The format, types of support and size of packages differ across countries -- Rescue packages had a strong focus on SMEs -- However, recovery packages have a less explicit focus on SMEs -- Recovery packages also saw a shift in the types of SMEs targeted -- SME financing instruments in recovery packages -- Debt instruments continue to be an integral part of recovery packages, with a shift in design and focus…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Education attainment -- Incentives to invest in education -- Educational expenditure per student -- Private expenditure in tertiary education -- Education expenditure -- Public finance -- Government expenditure, revenues and deficits -- Government debt -- Distribution of expenditures across levels of government -- General government expenditures and revenues per capita -- General government production costs -- Transparency in government decision making -- Social expenditure -- Pension expenditure -- Law, order and defence expenditure -- Government support for agriculture -- Government support for fishing -- Official development assistance -- Total tax revenue -- Taxes on the average worker -- Health -- Life expectancy -- Infant mortality -- Suicides -- Smoking -- Alcohol consumption -- Overweight and obesity -- Doctors -- Nurses -- Health expenditure…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: Working with People Not Like You: How to Build Relationships and Foster Connections across Different Cultures and Values -- CHAPTER 1: "I Used to Just Be Able to Do My Job-Now I Have to Be Politically Correct" -- DIVERSITY FATIGUE-WHY PEOPLE ROLL THEIR EYES WHEN THEY HEAR THE WORD "DIVERSITY" -- THE NEW DEMOGRAPHICS -- WORKING WITH PEOPLE NOT LIKE YOU IS THE NEW NORMAL -- WE'RE NOT GOING BACK TO THE WAY THINGS USED TO BE -- RESENTMENT IS A CHOICE -- CHAPTER 2: How to Break the Ice, Show Respect, and Build Trust with People Not Like You -- STEP 1: BREAK THE ICE BY STARTING A CONVERSATION -- STEP 2: FOCUS ON THE PERSON, NOT THEIR DIFFERENCES -- STEP 3: FIND COMMON GROUND-IT'S THERE SOMEWHERE -- CHAPTER 3: How Do We Talk about Real Differences in People and Groups That Create Conflict or Hurt Productivity-Without Stereotyping or Offending? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Elements and Models of TrustThe Trust Environment; Collaboration Frameworks; Co-learning and Organizational Learning; Perspective Taking; Social Capital; Strategic Human Behavior Aspects; Managing People Across RBP Forms; Project Manager and Alliance Manager Capabilities; Selecting, Inducting and Redeploying Team Members; Employee Rewards; Performance Management and Review Processes; Concluding Comments; Competency Classification; PMI Competency Framework; Alliancing Association of Australasia (AAA) Profiling Professional Excellence; Innovation Competencies; Chapter 4 Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Realizing the design through appropriate media -- Explanation of media -- Choosing appropriate media -- The difference between print and digital -- Designing for different digital platforms -- Computer data visualization -- Exhibition design and design for the environment -- Hints and Tips: Knowing the possibilities of media -- Case study: Maintaining a brand's visual identity across different media -- 6. Experimentation and inspiration for the design process…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Improved password handling with hybrid attributesAPI authentication; Authentication protocols; Getting users; Creating new users; API testing; Interlude - Werkzeug middlewares; Back to Shutterbug - uploading photos; Testing the photo uploads; Fetching the user's photos; Summary; Chapter 6: Hublot - Flask CLI Tools; Starting off; The manage.py file; The built-in default commands; The Flask-Script commands across Blueprints; Submanagers; The required and optional arguments; Flask extensions - the basics; When should an extension be used?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The nature of coaching in the United States and CanadaWorking in a multicultural and diverse United States and Canada; Looking forward in the United States and Canada; Summary; 04 Coaching in Australasia; Introduction; The nature of coaching in Australasia; Current state of coaching in Australia; Working in a multicultural Australasia; Taking coaching forward in Australasia; Summary; Part Two Developing coaching practices across the globe; 05 Coaching in South Africa; Introduction; Heritage traditions - the future isn't what it used to be…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction; Building on earlier work; A depth-and-breadth approach to change; Establishing an implementation team; Developing a detailed roadmap; Guide and toolkit; Understanding the baseline; Embedding the foundations across the organisation; One-page profiles; Monitoring progress; Embedding quality systems and approaches; Changing systems and process; Dimensions' learning; Conclusion -- Chapter 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Woodford, robbie routenberg, and Duane Breijak -- Faciliatating dialogue across differences: use of sociodrama in the classroom / Patti A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Minimizing technical and corporate language that excludes and disables conversationBringing background issues into the foreground of conversation; The value of discourse across multiple fora and platforms; The opportunity offered by everyday conversational tools and techniques; Key questions to help develop your Freedom to Speak (F2S); Notes; 6 The third freedom: The freedom to actualize; Benefits of the Freedom to Actualize; Considering ways 'to be': Self-expression; Considering ways 'to be': Fit and alignment; Considering ways 'to be': Keeping in flow…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Staying on at School, Building on School; Economic change; Cultural change; How Scotland's people are placed to respond to economic change; The use of formal education and the balance across sectors; The use of school; The qualification levels of school leavers; From school to further study or training; From school to work; Under-achievement and unemployment…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Organization : Contemporary Principles and Practice; Contents; Preface to Second Edition; Preface from the First Edition; Part I: The Broad Picture; Chapter 1: Organization and Its Importance; Purpose and Scope of This Book; Organizing, Organization, and Organizations; Components of Organization; Organizational Choices; Hierarchy; Specialization; Hierarchy and specialization; Rules and schedules; Systems; Integration; Control; Reward systems; Boundary-crossing and networking; Outsourcing; Alliances; Organizing across borders; Consequences of Deficiencies in Organization; Motivation and morale…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Metonymies of lead: bullets, type and print culture in South African missionary colonialism / Leon de Kock ; "Spread far and wide over the surface of the Earth": Evangelical reading formations and the rise of a transnational public sphere: the case of the Cape Town Ladies' Bible Association / Isabel Hofmeyer ; Textual circuits and intimate relations: a community of letters across the Indian Ocean / Meg Samuelson -- Local/global: South African writing and global imaginaries. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Digital Age Needs for Transformative Learning -- TL Research and Theory for the Digital Age -- Transformative Learning Experience Strategies -- Conclusion -- Part 3: New Vistas in a Digital World -- Chapter 11: Mind, Body, and Spirit Connections -- Digital Age Needs for MBS Awareness -- Mindfulness and Learning -- MBS Theories and Models to Consider -- Strategies to Incorporate MBS Awareness in Adult Learning -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12: e‐Learning Models: Distance, Mobile, Virtual, and Informal Learning -- Innovation Sweeps Across Adult Learning Sectors -- Innovation and Adoption -- e‐Learning -- e‐Learning Theories and Models for the Digital Age -- Strategies for Using e-Learning in the Digital Age -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13: Psychology of Technology Use and Adoption -- Psychology of Technology -- Theories and Models -- Strategic Applications -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14: Conclusion: Emergent Research Opportunities -- Adult Learning: New Vistas of Possibilities -- Types of Learning Needed -- Contexts of Adult Learning -- Adult Learning Research: Opportunities -- The Model of Researching Adult Learning and Innovation (MoRALI) -- Strategy 14.1: Technology‐Assisted Research Inquiry -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- EULA…”