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by Tim Magee
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems,...
Emerging Issues in Financial Development
Lessons from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Since the 1990s, the financial systems in developing and developed countries have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity, prompted in part by a series of financial sector and macroeconomic reforms aimed at fostering a market-driven economy in which finance plays a central role. Latin America has been...
by Sarah Y Tong, Jing Wan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book examines the recent development and prospect of the Chinese economy as the country adapts to changing domestic and external settings. After more than three decades of near double-digit annual expansion, the country's growth decelerated considerably to enter a new era of the so-called New...
Rethinking Law and Development
The Chinese experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and carefully examines the relationship between law and China’s economic development. Serious inquiries and candid opinions of the contributors have made...
Institutional Innovation and Change in Value Chain Development
Negotiating tradition, power and fragility in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
George Bernard Shaw once said that reasonable people adapt themselves to the world but unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves. In a sense, this book explores how these so-called ‘unreasonable people’ may interact to re-fashion the world around them in fragile economic development. Drawing...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This report examines the development and barriers to harmonization and integration among the capital markets of members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and enumerate steps to achieving harmonization and integration. The globalization of capital markets has encouraged moves toward...
by Lucy Henry
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
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Using the highly influential working memory framework as a guide, this textbook provides a clear comparison of the memory development of typically developing children with that of atypical children. The emphasis on explaining methodology...
Producer Services in China
Economic and Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
In the past three decades, China has experienced an unprecedented pace of economic and urban development. It’s economy is now transforming from one based on manufacturing industries towards the producer services, with the importance of these services in the national and regional economy being recognized...
Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement
New perspectives on persisting problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Every year millions of people are displaced from their homes, livelihoods and communities due to land-based development projects. There is no limit to what can be called a ‘development project’. They can range from small-scale infrastructure or mining projects to mega hydropower plants; can be...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This publication describes further progress of ongoing and recently undertaken initiatives for the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI). It highlights the issues and many of the encouraging outcomes resulting from earlier efforts. It also explores issues expected to emerge in the future,...
by Peter N. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living and the alleviation of poverty. Sustainable development, popularly and concisely defined as ‘meeting the needs of the present generations without compromising the ability...
The Politics of Cultural Development
Trade, cultural policy and the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
There is a growing recognition of the role that culture can play in sustainable development strategies. This development has generally been welcomed, but also raises a number of questions: What are the implications in policy and practice? Who are the most influential voices in promoting a global agenda...
REST API Development with Node.js
Manage and Understand the Full Capabilities of Successful REST Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Manage and understand the full capabilities of successful REST development. REST API development is a hot topic in the programming world, but not many resources exist for developers to really understand how you can leverage the advantages.
This completely updated second edition provides a...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2012
This book is about a significant step forward in software development. It brings state-of-the-art ontology reasoning into mainstream software development and its languages. Ontology Driven Software Development is the essential, comprehensive resource on enabling technologies, consistency checking...