This theme-based book review considers four recent titles related to reform: They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria, by Daniel E. Agbiboa; Assessing Public Management Reforms, Patrick Gibert Jean-Claude Thoenig; Combating Money Laundering Africa: Dealing with the Problem of PEPs, John Hatchard; The Effects Technology Institutions on E-Participati...

This chapter presents seven unifying themes of tasks used in mathematics teacher education. These themes reflect broad goals for mathematics teacher education, and are closely related to the knowledge required for teaching mathematics. The challenges that teacher-educators face in having to design and implement productive tasks for teachers are discussed and illustrated through a specific task....

The USA National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care—organised by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (Boston USA)—attracts many people from outside North America. At the 1999 meeting 20 countries were represented. A session on “Quality improvement around the world” was included in the pre-conference programme to bring together people working in many countries to explore and compare...

Terms like leadership and entrepreneurship have reached great importance and popularity. A lot of information has appeared related with these topics and searching for it has become a bit complicated for people interested in leadership and entrepreneurship. With so much information, it is difficult to identify a topic among the huge quantity of concepts involved in these themes. This work presen...