Development category: 15312 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Doing Development Research is a comprehensive introduction to research in development studies, that provides thorough training for anyone carrying out research in developing countries. It brings together experts with extensive experience of overseas research, presenting an interdisciplinary guide...
Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development
Exploring the nexus of private and public interests
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Interrelations between Public Policies, Migration and Development in Costa Rica is the result of a project carried out by the Centro Centroamericano de Población (CCP) at the University of Costa Rica and the OECD Development Centre, in collaboration with the Dirección General de Migración y Extranjeria...
Enhancing Connectivity through Transport Infrastructure
The Role of Official Development Finance and Private Investment
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Transport infrastructure is crucial to connect developing countries and help them to boost trade, growth and regional integration. This is because cross-border or long-distance roads and railways as well as international ports and airports are needed to move products and people around in a globalised...
Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development
Supply Chain Models and Financial Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Trends in green and sustainable development have and will continue to influence all major economies. Identifying the risks and opportunities associated with sustainable economic development and green analysis for sustainability warrants the use and study of advanced analytics. Advanced Analytics for...
Development Finance
Debates, Dogmas and New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
This book examines the subject of Development Finance, or more specifically how financial systems can help or hinder the process of human development. As an expert in this field, Stephen Spratt reviews the components of the domestic and international financial systems, and considers reform options...
Sustainable Development for Engineers
A Handbook and Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
It is crucial that engineers – from students to those already practising – have a deep understanding of the environmental threats facing the world, if they are to become part of the solution and not the problem. Is there a way to reconcile modern lifestyles with the compelling need for change?...
World Development Report 2014
Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had...
A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development
How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Today, even the largest development organizations are turning to agile methodologies, seeking major productivity and quality improvements. However, large-scale agile development is difficult, and publicly available case studies have been scarce. Now, three agile pioneers at Hewlett-Packard present...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
After thirty years of economic reform, China has reached a crossroads in its development process, and faces many challenges in the use of natural resources, the living environment, and the economic, social and political systems. The sustainability of China’s reform and development is even more salient...
A Survey of Sustainable Development
Social And Economic Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Perpetual economic growth is physically impossible on a planet with finite resources. Many concerned with humanity's future have focused on the concept of "sustainable development" as an alternative. Sustainable developmbrings together elements of economics, public policy, sociology, ecology, resource...
Economic Development
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
There is much discussion about global poverty and the billions of people living with almost nothing. Why is it that governments, development banks, think-tanks, academics, NGOs and many others can't just fix the problem? Why is it that seemingly obvious reforms never happen? Why are prosperity and...
by Ahmad Ahsan, Manolo Abella, Andrew Beath
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has an international emigrant population of more than 21 million people who remitted US$112 billion to their home countries in 2013. The region also hosts more than 7 million migrant workers, mostly from other Asian countries. These migrant workers account for...
Integrating Human Rights into Development, Second Edition
Donor Approaches, Experiences, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The past two decades have witnessed a convergence between human rights and development, particularly at the level of international political statements and policy commitments. This phenomenon is captured in milestones such as the 2007 OECD DAC Action Oriented Policy Paper on Human Rights and Development...