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"Like a mole in the garden of our times, velvet, sharp-eyed and half underground, Nora Bateson's Combining undermines our most precious certainties, offers nourishment, unseen circulation, surprises, mounds, chambers and drainage tunnels for our thinking, living and relating. Using multiple artistic and literary forms, resisting always the urgent request for answers, checklists and action points, Nora's work is the embodiment of the Warm Data approach that she teaches. It is the most telling example of what she has named aphanipoiesis: that prolific tendency (characteristic of all living systems) for things to come together or coalesce unseen towards vitality."

"who want to improve their understanding of the role of different educational and communication levels in the frameworks of information and knowledge societies, discussing ideas and thoughts about a distinction to be made on local culture that identifies all factors of the communication theories"--

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France. The distribution of the inflow composition is estimated along with the other parameters. The estimation method deals with differences between the micro and macro unemployment definitions. The results also show to what extent the unemployment duration distributions corresponding to the two definitions can be described by the same model.

Over the past decade there has been an increasingly receptive audience for participatory and qualitative research methods by policy makers, development practitioners and academics working in applied research. At the same time there is an increasing awareness that the value of research can be enhanced through a more systematic combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. While this recent interest has begun to provide useful pointers as to how development research might be improved, it has also given rise to certain problems.This book will draw together lessons about emerging best practice with regard to combining qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches to generate `numbersz from qualitative/participatory methods and to monitor and evaluation development processes. It will build and expand upon innovation and reflection from practice in developing and developed societies, from within development agencies and academia, government departments and civil society organizations.By drawing on current research in many sectors and countries, the book will situate current development research issues squarely within debates about development policy and social research and it will help begin the process of defining best practice in the use of participatory/ qualitative and quantitative methods, and issues of methodological triangulation which are of considerable interest to academics, practitioners and policy-makers.

"Roelof's monograph is the first sustained, book-length defense of "constitutive panpsychism," an increasingly prominent theory of consciousness that argues that consciousness is a general feature inherent in matter. Constitutive panpsychism holds that the consciousness of humans and other complex beings are constituted out of this basic consciousness in the same way that human bodies are constituted out of physical matter. Roelofs defends this view against the 'combination problem', which is widely recognised as the most serious objection to it"--

"Examines the evolution of sectoral system of innovation in industries that are important to India's economic development"--

Executive summary -- Introduction -- Current challenges and opportunities in federal statistics -- Using government administrative and other data for federal statistics -- Protecting privacy and confidentiality while providing access to data for research use -- Advancing the paradigm of combining data sources -- References -- Appendix A: Workshop agendas -- Appendix B: Biographical sketches of Panel members and staff -- Committee on National Statistics

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: in search of economic policies to stabilise democratic transitions / Giacomo Luciani -- Reflections on the arab uprisings / Samir Makdisi -- Rethinking the rentier curse / Adeel Malik -- A brief political economy of energy subsidies in the Middle East and North Africa / Laura El-Katiri and Bassam Fattouh -- The political economy of distribution in the Middle East : is there scope for a new social contract? / Steffen Hertog -- Arab states as shareholders : origins and consequences / Alissa Amico -- Can finance and credit enable economic growth and democracy? / Bassem Snaije -- Agriculture and development in the wake of the Arab spring / Eckart Woertz -- Mass migration and uprisings in Arab countries : an analytical framework / Philippe Fargues