Author: O.Anwar Beg
Publisher: Matador
Keywords: science, engineering, giants
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $25.61
ISBN-10: 1899293523
ISBN-13: 9781899293520

Giants of Engineering Science is a biographical monograph examining the life and works of ten of the world’s leading engineering scientists.

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: governance, accountability, sector, public, budgetary, institutions, budgeting
Number of Pages: 588
Published: 2007-05-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821369393
ISBN-13: 9780821369395

Budgeting and budgetary institutions play a critical role in resource allocation, government accountability, and improved fiscal and social outcomes. This volume distills lessons from practices in designing better fiscal institutions, citizen friendly budgets, and open and transparent processes of budget preparation and execution. It also highlights newer concepts of performance budgeting, accrual accounting, activity based costing, and the use of information and communication technology in budgeting. These tools of analysis are supplemented by a review of budgeting in post-conflict countries

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: accountability, governance, sector, public, series, management, fiscal
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821361422
ISBN-13: 9780821361429

Accountability of government to citizens¡Vthe idea that the public sector must answer to the people for its performance¡Vis the foundation for good governance. Under good governance, public expenditures are allocated to maximize welfare, revenues are collected efficiently, and the public at large has access to a number of public services including water and sanitation, infrastructure, education and health. Unfortunately in many developing countries, the people suffer the results of dysfunctional governance systems that fail to provide even minimal levels of vital public services. This happen

Author: Anwar G. Chejne
Publisher: University of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: history, role, language, arabic
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1969-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0816605165
ISBN-13: 9780816605163

The Arabic Language was first published in 1969. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Arabic, with its rich literary heritage, is one of the major languages of the world. It is spoken by about one hundred million people inhabiting a wide and important area of the Middle East. Yet the language and its significant role in history are little known in the English-speaking countries except among specialists. This book will, it is hoped, help to int

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: governance, sector, public, accountability, budgeting, participatory
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2007-04-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821369237
ISBN-13: 9780821369234

This book presents an authoritative guide to the principles and practices of participatory budgeting (PB). PB represents a direct democracy approach to budgeting. The PB offers citizens at large an opportunity to learn about government operations and deliberate, debate and influence the allocation of public resources. It is a tool for citizens education, engagement and empowerment and strengthening demand for good governance. Enhanced transparency and accountability brought about by this tool can help reduce government inefficiency, waste and curb clientele-ism, patronage and corruption. PB a

Author: Anwar Shah
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: public, governance, accountability, sector, series, services, delivery
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2005-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821361406
ISBN-13: 9780821361405

The globalization of information¡Xsatellite TV, internet, phone and fax¡Xserve to enhance citizens¡¦ awareness of their rights, obligations, options and alternatives and strengthens demands for greater accountability from the public sector. However, the power of accountability is significantly reduced if citizens are unable to measure their government¡¦s performance in a meaningful way, which is precisely the topic of this timely book. The abstract concept of ¡§government performance¡¨ can only be an effective tool in public debate when there are concrete statistics measuring perform

Author: Muhammad Anwar
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: asians, lives, change, continuity, cultures
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1998-01-28
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0415046483
ISBN-13: 9780415046480

Between Cultures considers the position of young Asians in Britain in relation to education, employment, housing, the police and the responses they encounter from these institutions. It explores the cultural issues of family, marriage, religion and mother tongue, and the roles of Asian parents and the Asian community are analysed. Muhammad Anwar goes on to compare the situation of young Asians with that of young people generally, and to those in similar circumstances but with different backgrounds and religions.