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The Economics and Regulation of Financial Privacy

An International Comparison of Credit Reporting Systems

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the topic, offering an international comparison of credit reporting systems. Coverage includes competition in information markets, the microeconomics of information and privacy, and economic incentives to disclose or to conceal information. The book examines the history of credit reporting agencies and the regulation of privacy and credit reporting around the world. Finally, it surveys the effects of credit reporting in credit markets worldwide.

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the topic, offering an international comparison of credit reporting systems.

Implementasi Kebijakan Publik : Konsep Pengentasan Kemiskinan Nelayan Tradisional di Indonesia

Public Policy Implementation: The Concept of Poverty Alleviation of Traditional Fishermen in Indonesia

Jika kita berbicara tentang kemiskinan, tentu tak akan ada habisnya karena kemiskinan terus menjadi masalah fenomenal khususnya Indonesia yang merupakan negara berkembang. Masalah kemiskinan yang ada di Indonesia merupakan masalah sosial yang senantiasa relevan untuk dikaji secara terus-menerus. Ini bukan saja karena masalah kemiskinan telah ada sejak lama dan masih hadir ditengah-tengah kita saat ini, tetapi karena ini gejalanya semakin meningkat sejalan dengan krisis multidimensional yang masih dihadapi bangsa Indonesia. Hal ini juga dikarenakan Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara yang tingkat kesejahteraan rakyatnya masih jauh di bawah tingkat kesejahteraan negara-negara maju. Sebagaimana diketahui, nelayan bukanlah suatu entitas tunggal. Mereka terdiri dari beberapa kelompok, yang dilihat dari segi pemilikan alat tangkap dapat dibedakan menjadi tiga kelompok, yaitu: nelayan buruh, nelayan juragan, dan nelayan perorangan. Nelayan buruh adalah nelayan yang bekerja dengan alat tangkap milik orang lain. Sebaliknya nelayan juragan adalah nelayan yang memiliki alat tangkap yang dioperasikan oleh orang lain. Adapun nelayan perorangan adalah nelayan yang memiliki peralatan tangkap sendiri, dan dalam pengoperasiannya tidak melibatkan orang lain. Dari ketiga jenis nelayan tersebut, pada umumnya nelayan juragan tidak miskin. Kemiskinan cenderung dialami oleh nelayan perorangan dan buruh nelayan. Oleh karena kedua jenis kelompok nelayan itu jumlahnya mayoritas, maka citra tentang kemiskinan melekat pada kehidupan nelayan. Citra kemiskinan nelayan itu sesungguhnya suatu ironi, mengingat Indonesia memiliki wilayah laut yang sangat luas, lebih luas daripada wilayah darat. Di dalam wilayah laut juga terdapat berbagai sumberdaya yang memiliki potensi ekonomi tinggi, yang semestinya dapat dimanfaatkan untuk menjamin kesejahteraan hidup nelayan dan keluarganya.

KUR disalurkan oleh 7 bank pelaksana yaitu Mandiri, BRI, BNI, Bukopin, BTN, BRI Syariah dan Bank Syariah Mandiri (BSM). ... Pada dasarnya, KUR merupakan modal kerja dan kredit investasi yang disediakan secara khusus untuk unit usaha ...

Nordic Approaches to Evaluation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education and Care

Final Report

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-512/ Policy makers, educators, and scholars observe with interest how Nordic countries organise services for the education and care of the youngest children. The ‘Nordic model’ of ECEC has become synonymous with a holistic, children’s rights-based approach to pedagogy, grounded in democratic values. But as societies keep changing, what exactly characterises the ‘Nordic model’ today? Given the diversity between and within countries, are there common principles?We investigated the values and principles that underpin the evaluation of early childhood education and care in five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden). We found that a ‘Nordic’ approach to evaluation still exists, although it is changing, not least under the influence of wider international developments. An important aspect of the ‘Nordic’ approach is the central role given to the local and municipal context.

evaluation of learning environment, and clearly rejected the idea of a PISA-test on the ECEC-level. In Finland, there are different views on how good the ECEC-institutions really are. The respondent relates that this is not merely an ...

Public Human Resource Management

A comprehensive introduction to contemporary public human resource management, this text incorporates analysis of the impact of the private sector-oriented reforms over the last few decades that have aimed to bring greater efficiency and productivity to the public sector.

A comprehensive introduction to contemporary public human resource management, this text incorporates analysis of the impact of the private sector-oriented reforms over the last few decades that have aimed to bring greater efficiency and ...

Nature Worship

An Account of Phallic Faiths and Practices, Ancient and Modern; Including the Adoration of the Male and Female Powers in Various Nations and the Sacti Puja of Indian Gnosticism (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Nature Worship: An Account of Phallic Faiths and Practices, Ancient and Modern; Including the Adoration of the Male and Female Powers in Various Nations and the Sacti Puja of Indian Gnosticism Mr. Gerald Massey in his Natural Genesis, speaking Of the origin of the phallic cult, says: According to Theal, the African historian and collector of folk tales, the Kafiirs have no Sabbath, and keep none of the sacred seasons of periodic recurrence, com mouly celebrated by a festival. But from time immemorial, they have preserved the primitive custom of rejoicing at the first appearance of the menstrual period of the female. This they celebrate in what is their sole festival. At that time of a girl's life, all the young women in her neighbourhood meet for rejoicing, at which they celebrate the festival of pubescence. These young women are then distributed among the men who are selected to lie with them, but who are prohibited from sexual intercourse; and if the trespass be committed the men are fined - a primitive mode Of paying a price which was afterwards continued in the compensation enforced at the time of marriage. We still keep the birthday and celebrate the coming of age at a fixed period of life; but the festival Of puberty is extant to show that the earliest birthday ever memorialized was not the day on which the child was born into the world, but the time of rebirth into womanhood and manhood. When applied to the male, this period Of pubescence suggested the birthday of the boy who was at this time admitted as a young man into the totemic tribe 3 hence the typical 'second birth' celebrated in the mysteries when the first had also been acknowledged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

Hindu Images and their Worship with special reference to Vaisnavism

A philosophical-theological inquiry

Hinduism comprises perhaps the major cluster of religio-cultural traditions of India, and it can play a valuable role in helping us understand the nature of religion and human responses to life. Hindu image-worship lies at the core of what counts for Hinduism – up-front and subject to much curiosity and misunderstanding, yet it is a defining feature of this phenomenon. This book focuses on Hindu images and their worship with special reference to Vaiṣṇavism, a major strand of Hinduism. Concentrating largely, but not exclusively, on Sanskritic source material, the author shows in the course of the book that Hindu image-worship may be understood via three levels of interpretation: the metaphysical/theological, the narratival or mythic, and the performative or ritual. Analysing the chief philosophical paradigm underlying Hindu image-worship and its implications, the book exemplifies its widespread application and tackles, among other topics such as the origins of image-worship in Hinduism, the transition from Vedic to image worship, a distinguishing feature of Hindu images: their multiple heads and limbs. Finally, with a view to laying the grounds for a more positive dialogic relationship between Hinduism and the "Abrahamic" faiths, which tend to condemn Hindu image-worship as "idolatry", the author examines the theological explanation and justification for embodiment of the Deity in Hinduism and discusses how Hinduism might justify itself against such a charge. Rich in Indological detail, and with an impressive grasp of the philosophical and theological issues underlying Hindu material culture, and image-worship, this book will be of interest to academics and others studying theology, Indian philosophy and Hinduism.

This book focuses on Hindu images and their worship with special reference to Vaiṣṇavism, a major strand of Hinduism.

Modernity and Spirit Worship in India

An Anthropology of the Umwelt

This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift-exchanges together with the Gestaltkreis theory of Viktor von Weizsäcker. First, it examines the relations between būta worship and land tenure, matriliny, and hierarchy in the society. It then explores the reflexive relationship between modern law and current practices based on conventional law, before examining new developments in būta worship with the rise of mega-industries and environmental movements. Furthermore, this book sheds light on the struggles and endeavours of the people who create and recreate their relations with the realm of sacred wildness, as well as the formations and transformations of the umwelt in perpetual social-political transition. Modernity and Spirit Worship in India will be of interest to academics in the field of anthropology, religious studies and the dynamics of religion, and South Asian Culture and Society.

practices,. modernity,. and. beings. As seen in Chapter 1, magical-religious practice in non-Western societies has been an important theme in anthropology, and scholars have produced various studies on them.

Ancestor Worship and Korean Society

The study of ancestor worship has an eminent pedigree in two disciplines: social anthropology and folklore (Goody 1962: 14-25; Newell 1976; Fortes 1976; Takeda 1976). Despite obvious differences in geographical specialization and intellectual orientation, researchers in both fields have shared a common approach to this subject: both have tried to relate the ancestor cult of a given society to its family and kin-group organization. Such a method is to be expected of social anthropologists, given the nature of their discipline; but even the Japanese folklorist Yanagita Kunio, whose approach to folk culture stems from historical and nationalist concerns, began his work on ancestors with a discussion of Japan's descent system and family structure (Yanagita 1946). Indeed, connections between ancestor cults and social relations are obvious. As we pursue this line of analysis, we shall see that rural Koreans themselves are quite sophisticated about such matters. Many studies of ancestor cults employ a combination of social and psychological approaches to explain the personality traits attributed to the dead by their living kin. Particular attention has long been given to explaining the hostile or punitive character of the deceased in many societies (Freud 1950; Opler 1936; Gough 1958; Fortes 1965). Only recently, however, has the popularity of such beliefs been recognized in China, Korea, and Japan (Ahern 1973; A. Wolf 1974b; Kendall 1977; 1979; Yoshida 1967; Kerner 1976; Lebra 1976). The earliest and most influential studies of ancestor cults in East Asia, produced by native scholars (Hozumi 1913; Yanagita 1946; Hsu 1948), overemphasize the benign and protective qualities of ancestors. Some regional variations notwithstanding, this earlier bias appears to reflect a general East Asian reluctance to acknowledge instances of ancestral affliction. Such reticence is not found in all societies with ancestor cults, however; nor, in Korea, China, and Japan, is it equally prevalent among men and women. Therefore, we seek not only to identify the social experiences that give rise to beliefs in ancestral hostility, but to explain the concomitant reluctance to acknowledge these beliefs and its varying intensity throughout East Asia. In view of the limited amount of ethnographic data available from Korea, we have not attempted a comprehensive assessment of the ancestor cult in Korean society; instead we have kept our focus on a single kin group. We have drawn on data from other communities, however, in order to separate what is apparently true of Korea in general from what may be peculiar to communities like Twisongdwi, a village of about three hundred persons that was the site of our fieldwork. In this task, we benefited substantially from three excellent studies of Korean ancestor worship and lineage organization (Lee Kwang-Kyu 1977a; Choi Jai-seuk 1966a; Kim Taik-Kyoo 1964) and from two recent accounts of Korean folk religion and ideology (Dix 1977; Kendall 1979). Yet we are still a long way from a comprehensive understanding of how Korean beliefs and practices have changed over time, correlate with different levels of class status, or are affected by regional variations in Korean culture and social organization. Because we want to provide a monograph accessible to a rather diverse readership, we avoid using Korean words and disciplinary terminology whenever possible. Where a Korean term is particularly important, we give it in parentheses immediately after its English translation. Korean-alphabet orthographies for these words appear in the Character List, with Chinese-character equivalents for terms of Chinese derivation. As for disciplinary terminology, we have adopted only the anthropological term "lineage," which is of central importance to our study. We use "lineage" to denote an organized group of persons linked through exclusively male ties (agnatically) to an ancestor who lived at least four generations ago

joyed supremacy for centuries, but similar practices are occasionally reported. Taoist priests and other deities are sometimes found in place of Buddhist accouterments (Hsu 1948: 52, 183-84; Day 1940: 29-31; Jordan 1972: 94; ...

Daoist Rituals, State Religion, and Popular Practices

Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644)

Zhenwu, or the Perfected Warrior, is one of the few Chinese Deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion. Religious specialists, lay devotees, the state machine, and the cultural industry all participated, both collaboratively and competitively, in the evolution of this devotional movement. This book centres on the development and transformation of the godhead of Zhenwu, as well as the devotional movement focused on him. Organised chronologically on the development of the Zhenwu worship in Daoist rituals, state religion, and popular practices, it looks at the changes in the way Zhenwu was perceived, and the historical context in which those changes took place. The author investigates the complicated means by which various social and political groups contested with each other in appropriating cultural-religious symbols. The question at the core of the book is how, in a given historical context, human agents and social institutions shape the religious world to which they profess devotion. The work offers a holistic approach to religion in a period of Chinese history when central, local, official, clerical and popular power are constantly negotiating and reshaping established values.

This book focuses on one of the few Chinese deities that can rightfully claim a countrywide devotion, Zhenwu or the Perfected Warrior.

Social Work Practice : Work And Worship

Selected Papers And Essays

If one goes through these, one will find that Late Sri Chakraborty not only possessed the novel ideas and ideals in the field of rural development but also translated them into practice. There is no branch of rural reconstruction programme which was not enlightened by his thoughts. During his tenure of office, the Lokashiksha Parishad with the blessings of the Headquarters took up one after another numerous projects like Rural Development Programme, Urban Development Scheme, specially Slum Dwellers’ Rehabilitation, Child Care, Mothers’ Health Care, Adult Education, Eradication of illiteracy, Rural Afforestation, Family planning, Rural Banking, Panchayeti Raj and what not? His innovative ideas in these fields drew attention of different state Governments and the Central Government. They invited him as an expert or resource person for successful implementation of their programme. Even a few foreign countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Israel, Srilanka and other countries invited him and sought his assistance in their endeavour of rural development. It may be noted in this connection that Sri Chakraborty never imposed his decision on others. He always motivated the field workers so as to act and understand things on their own initiative and thus developed leadership from the grass-root level. Sri Chakraborty also made valuable contributions to the National Planning Programme. His achievements in various fields of rural and urban development received appreciation from different international organisations like unesco, unicef, who, etc. It will not be an exaggeration to say that if his thoughts and ideas referred to various treatises published in this book would have been implemented on state and national level, then swamiji’s dream of a ‘New India’ might have been a reality. This book will certainly be a source of inspiration to all social workers and research scholars who have been working in this field. This will also be a rich collection for all rural and urban libraries and a guideline for all project officers working in different fields of rural and urban developement programme.

To bring development on a sustainable level we have also initiated such agricultural practices as are environment friendly. Thus farmers are trained to cultivate their land in such a way as they may have better crops without the use of ...