Subnational Government Bailouts in OECD Countries: Four Case Studies

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen von Hagen ◽  
Massimo Bordignon ◽  
Matz Dahlberg ◽  
Bhajan S. Grewal ◽  
Per Peterson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Subnational Government ◽  
Government Bailouts

scholarly journals Towards Mathematical Literacy in the 21st Century: Perspectives from Indonesia

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Wanty Widjaja
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Real World ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Partner Country ◽  
Mathematical Literacy ◽  
Real World Problems

The notion of mathematical literacy advocated by PISA (OECD, 2006) offers a broader conception for assessing mathematical competences and processes with the main focus on the relevant use of mathematics in life. This notion of mathematical literacy is closely connected to the notion of mathematical modelling whereby mathematics is put to solving real world problems. Indonesia has participated as a partner country in PISA since 2000. The PISA trends in mathematics from 2003 to 2009 revealed unsatisfactory mathematical literacy among 15-year-old students from Indonesia who lagged behind the average of OECD countries. In this paper, exemplary cases will be discussed to examine and to promote mathematical literacy at teacher education level. Lesson ideas and instruments were adapted from PISA released items 2006. The potential of such tasks will be discussed based on case studies of implementing these instruments with samples of pre-service teachers in Yogyakarta.

Lone parents and activation – towards a typology of approaches

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Haux
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Lone Parents ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Activation ◽  
Common Criterion ◽  
No Activation

There has been an international trend towards activating lone parents, with the United Kingdom being the most recent example. It has been argued that the most common criterion for deciding which lone parents should have to be available for work is the age of the youngest child. However, by examining the activation policies in the OECD countries more closely, a number of criteria used in conjunction with age of the child have been identified, such as the availability of childcare and the employability of lone parents. It is therefore argued that a typology can be developed consisting of three main approaches: general activation, age of child and no activation, with three sub-categories for the age of child approach. The different (sub-)categories will be illustrated using country case studies as examples.

Moving to a Circular Economy in China: Transforming Industrial Parks into Eco-industrial Parks

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Mathews ◽  
Hao Tan ◽  
Mei-Chih Hu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Resource Productivity ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Instructive Case ◽  
Management Issues

China’s moves to introduce a Circular Economy have attracted wide attention as a solution to severe problems of resource inefficiency and lack of resource productivity. This article highlights the distinctive strategy of focusing such efforts on existing industrial parks, turning them into eco-industrial parks. It provides three case studies and highlights the management issues involved as overcoming reverse salients and capturing network advantages. China is an especially instructive case because it starts well behind the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and thereby has much to gain by adopting comprehensive policies.

Corporate Sustainability: Challenge to Managerial Orthodoxies

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dexter Dunphy
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Sustainability Management

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the issue of corporate sustainability. It examines why achieving sustainability is becoming an increasingly vital issue for society and organisations, defines sustainability and then outlines a set of phases through which organisations can move to achieve increasing levels of sustainability. Case studies are presented of organisations at various phases indicating the benefits, for the organisation and its stakeholders, which can be made at each phase. Finally the paper argues that there is a marked contrast between the two competing philosophies of neo-conservatism (economic rationalism) and the emerging philosophy of sustainability. Management schools have been strongly influenced by economic rationalism, which underpins the traditional orthodoxies presented in such schools. Sustainability represents an urgent challenge for management schools to rethink these traditional orthodoxies and give sustainability a central place in the curriculum.

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