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This comparative study provides an overview of the textbook production chain, starting with its origins in the curriculum, and suggests ways in which policymakers can make improvements at every point in the chain. With evidence from a range of countries, mainly in Asia, the study is intended as a resource for policymakers and as a reference and benchmark for education systems. Although the study focuses on textbooks, which are the priority for governments and teachers and represent the greatest item of expenditure on teaching and learning materials, it also includes other teaching and learning materials including digital resources.

Introduction : the perpetual preoccupation with power / David Brown -- US-China / Michael Beckley -- US-India / Daniel Twining -- US-Russia / Robert Singh -- US-EU / Stefan Fröhlich -- China-Russia / Simon Saradzhyan and Ali Wyne -- China-India / Shashank Joshi -- China-EU / Andrew Cottey -- Russia-India / Natasha Kuhrt and Yulia Kiseleva -- Russia-EU / Kevork Oskanian -- EU-India / David Brown -- Conclusion : brave new world / Donette Murray

This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments delay or halt convergence. The period from 1945 to 1960, infamously labelled the Great Gloom (Grande Noirceur), was in fact a breaking point where the previous decades of relative decline were overturned? Geloso argues that this era should be considered the Great Convergence (Grand Rattrapage). In opposition, the Quiet Revolution that followed after 1960 did not accelerate these trends. In fact, there are signs of slowing down and relative decline that appear after the 1970s. The author posits that the Quiet Revolution sowed the seeds for a growth slowdown by crowding-out social capital and inciting rent-seeking behaviour on the part of interest groups.

"After providing a brief overview of relations between India, Brazil and South Africa after the end of the Cold War, this chapter recounts the intellectual origins of IBSA, the motivations that led the three countries to create the grouping, and two instances of successful cooperation, one immediately before and one after IBSA's birth in June 2003"--

"The present volume is intended to trace the processes through which minorities perform as minorities, their discursive formation, narrativization and representation. It is thus evident that the book moves away from an uncritical understanding of the term minority as a container of some unchanging core ideals, and leads to a framework where minority comes into existence in the very act of representation"--Provided by publisher

Voices from Bangladesh -- Early histories -- Colonial encounters -- Partition and Pakistan -- War and independence -- Dilemmas of nationhood -- Contemporary culture -- The development gaze -- Bangladesh beyond borders