informality in Beirut is due to the ways that the state being involved on such areas and its affect on shaping the urban fabric … areas would enable the state and housing professionals to provide a clear policy strategy to tackle urban informality. Each …Urban informality has become the dominant feature of urban growth on Beirut City and its periphery. Beirut context, as …

How can the idea of 'community', and the energies and ambitions invested in 'community', be harnessed in the service of … state, government, civil society and market, underpins the discussion here, leading into a rich array of country examples in …

underlying the modern economy are under threat by a resurgence of traditional, corporatist values that put the community and … state over the individual. The ultimate fate of modern values is now the most pressing question for the West: will Western …

underlying the modern economy are under threat by a resurgence of traditional, corporatist values that put the community and … state over the individual. The ultimate fate of modern values is now the most pressing question for the West: will Western …

How can the idea of 'community', and the energies and ambitions invested in 'community', be harnessed in the service of … state, government, civil society and market, underpins the discussion here, leading into a rich array of country examples in …

We expect effective state institutions to matter in a country's ability to respond to crises. Yet notably in the first … relationships in the cross-country data, drawing on measures of the state, COVID's health impact, and pandemic policy response. In … between state effectiveness and pandemic health outcomes does in fact pertain. Our findings also offer insight into how …

The goal of the chapter is to discuss the ways of state action in Brazil since Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) to Dilma … role reserved to the State and the instruments of action of the public sector. The Cardoso government adopted the liberal …, based on the reduction of the state's role, control of the finances of subnational governments and the subordination of …