India as a Diverse Society - The Development Pathways of South Asia -- Economic Growth and Structural Change: The Case of India -- On the Social Environment and Economic Growth in India -- Happiness and Social Capital in India -- What affects women’s happiness in India -- Happiness and...

Chapter 1:Confronting Our Shattered Society -- Chapter 2: Embracing the Circle of Wholeness -- Chapter 3: Polyphony as a System for Delivering Co-creation, Empowerment, Sustainability and Trust -- Chapter 4: Creating an Economy of Care -- Chapter 5: Universal Care – Including the Excluded --...

The purposes of this paper are to describe the behaviors of consumers and producers in the knowledge creation process and derive the optimal strategy for increasing the value of creativity in the market. This paper mathematically models the incentives that consumers have to contribute to...

Deterioration of public capital in the US has been reported to be in crisis since the mid 1970s. There is an argument which insists that the deterioration is caused by the shortage of expenditure on the maintenance of public capital. The budget allocation for maintenance is not a technological...

This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing population, changes in family structure and continued recession...