Development category: 15312 books
Learn Java for Web Development
Modern Java Web Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Web development is still one of today's most popular, active, and important programming and development activities. From a single web page to an e-commerce-enabled web site to a fully-fledged web application, the Java programming language and its frameworks allow you great flexibility and productivity...
by Kyle Mew
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Unleash the power of Android Studio 3 to develop mobile applications faster and efficiently.
About This Book
Use Android Studio not just as an IDE but as a complete testing and build solution
Produce customized APKs with Gradle to suit various versions of an app, such as test versions and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Cognitive Development in Digital Contexts investigates the impact of screen media on key aspects of children and adolescents’ cognitive development. Highlighting how screen media impact cognitive development, the book addresses a topic often neglected amid societal concerns about pathological media...
Conflict, Peace, Security and Development
Theories and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological...
Promoting Innovation and Inclusion for a Prosperous Asia
Proceedings of the ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Partnering with the Korea Development Institute, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the forum on 20-21 November 2014 at Seoul, Republic of Korea. The forum featured research papers that tackled issues on globalization and regional integration, innovation, middle-income trap, inclusive growth and...
Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
Stocktake of National Responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This report presents the results of a stocktake of national responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15, and selected environment-related targets that have a direct relationship with responsible consumption and production, and sustainable marine and terrestrial ecosystems management,...
Building Capacity through Participation
Nauru National Sustainable Development Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
For years, Nauru, a small Pacific island nation (population 10,000), benefited from the considerable wealth generated from its only major natural resource, phosphate. However, when that resource was almost exhausted and national assets held under the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust had been reduced...
Regional Development in Rural Areas
Analytical Tools and Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
This book intends to provide analytical and policy tools for investigating the question of the development of rural and peri-urban areas. The aim is to shed some light on this topic and in particular to contribute to a better understanding of the link between issues of regional or territorial development...
by UN Millennium Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education,...
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018
From World Development Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 is a visual guide to the trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas features maps and data visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank’s...
by Måns Söderbom, Francis Teal, Markus Eberhardt
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Understanding why so many people across the world are so poor is one of the central intellectual challenges of our time. This book provides the tools and data that will enable students, researchers and professionals to address that issue.
Empirical Development Economics has been designed as...
Philippines: Urban Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
Urban Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This publication documents the current assessment and strategic investment priorities of the Government of the Philippines and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the country's urban sector. It highlights sector performance, priority development constraints, government plans and strategies, past ADB...
Papua New Guinea: Critical Development Constraints
Critical Development Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Papua New Guinea's economic growth has outpaced the majority of economies in Southeast Asia and the Pacific since 2007. Its development challenges, however, remain daunting, and it lags behind other countries in the region in terms of per capita income and achievement of the Millennium Development...
Asian Development Bank Sustainability Report 2018
Investing for an Asia and the Pacific Free of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been issuing its Sustainability Report since 2007. The Sustainability Report allows stakeholders to assess ADB's operational and organizational sustainability performance, providing them with a single point of reference to understand ADB's commitment to sustainable...