Persoalan kemiskinan bukan hal baru di Indonesia. Berbagai upaya telah dilakukan pemerintah untuk menanggulangi kemiskinan di Indonesia. Sebagai gambaran, di era pemerintahan SBY serangkaian kebijakan untuk menanggulangi kemiskinan dilakukan serentak di Indonesia, di antaranya Bantuan Langsung Tunai (BLT) dan Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (PNPM). Akan tetapi, bukannya melakukan inova…
Sejak tahun 2014, Pemerintah Indonesia telah menggelontorkan dana sebesar kurang lebih satu miliar rupiah bagi desa di seluruh pelosok negeri. Semangatnya adalah agar desa dapat melakukan perubahan dan pembangunan demi meningkatkan kesejahteraan warganya. Sekian tahun telah berjalan, ternyata dampak yang dihasilkan dari pengimplementasian dana desa masih belum merata. Sebagian desa telah berhas…
This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising migrants’ own reflections and experiences. It asks whether and in which ways different welfare concerns are part of migrants…
" Is reduced tillage in arable fields beneficial for farmland biodiversity? Is prescribed burning in grasslands beneficial for bird conservation? Does livestock exclusion from degraded peatlands benefit peatland conservation? Is the provision of artificial shelters effective for subtidal benthic invertebrate conservation? Do wind turbine modifications reduce bat fatalities? Does adding topsoil …
COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for schola…
Traditional studies on actors in international investment law have tended to concentrate on arbitrators, claimant investors and respondent states. Yet this focus on the “principal” players in investment dispute settlement has allowed a number of other seminal actors to be neglected. This book seeks to redress this imbalance by turning the spotlight on the latter. From the investor’s home …
This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This …
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