Thailand's sucess with economic development in recent decades is due mainly to is commitment to an outward-looking, market-based economy, a development strategy centered on the private sector, and cautious financial policies. This papers dicusses recent economic strains and how the authorities...

The role and function of social housing in England are being recast. A radical programme of reform is being pursued in response to the apparent failure of the sector to serve as an effective welfare service, promoting dependency rather than social mobility. This paper examines the underlying...

Action learning is being increasingly utilised as a strategy to underpin practitioner focused development and research projects in healthcare generally and nursing in particular. Whilst facilitators of and participants in action learning have a variety of resource materials to guide their...

Since the early 1990s global migration flows have become larger in scale and more varied in form. In the UK, controversy has surrounded this new phase of migration and it has often been assumed to be having a detrimental affect on the well-being of settled residents. Yet, there is dearth of...

Retailer and banker have a common interest in satisfying their mutual customers, reflected in the English and Scottish Clearing Bankers' and the Retail Consortium's joint support of the EFT‐POS system. Within the UK several EFT‐POS experiments are either operational or planned, in particular...

1992 will present logisticians and distributors with some of the most far‐reaching challenges for decades, as an observer explains.

Intermodalism is becoming a vital tool for US industry.