Development category: 15312 books
by Samuel Dauzon, Aidas Bendoraitis, Arun Ravindran
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
From an idea to a prototype – a complete guide for web development with the Django frameworkAbout This BookExplore the best practices to develop applications of a superior quality with Django frameworkUnravel the common problems of web development in DjangoThis course teaches you major Django...
Beyond Developmentality
Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
History tells us that industrial development with all of its pollution, inequity and exploitation is the inevitable destiny of human societies. Yet is this really the case or are we trapped in a prevailing 'develop-mentality' that demands an endless cycle of inputs, outputs, consumption and waste...
The Political Economy of Development
The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Any student, academic or practitioner wanting to succeed in development studies, radical or mainstream, must understand the World Bank's role and the evolution of its thinking and activities. The Political Economy of Development provides tools for gaining this understanding and applies them across...
Development Discourse and Global History
From colonialism to the sustainable development goals
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The manner in which people have been talking and writing about ‘development’ and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time.
Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development...
by Neeraj Kumar, Edward Crompton, Samuel Keen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Develop your programming skills by creating engaging websites using Drupal 8
About This Book
Explore the new features of Drupal 8 through practical and interesting examples while building a fully functional recipe sharing website
Learn about web content management, multi-media integration, and...
Singapore's Economic Development
Retrospection and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a variety of policies put into place over the past 50 years since its independence. Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections provides a retrospective analysis of independent...
Technological Development in Industry
A Business-Economic Survey and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Technological Development in Industry: A Business-Economic Survey and Analysis
This is a detailed research-based study of technological change in manufacturing firms and industries. It covers processes of invention and innovation; how industrial technological developments affect jobs, firms,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
At the turn of the millennium, the unanimous adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United Nations General Assembly marked a new chapter in international development. However, voices from the Global South were noticeably absent in shaping the agenda. Fifteen years later, the global...
Financing Regional Growth and the Inter-American Development Bank
The Case of Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The crisis of the current global financial order is challenging us to critically reflect on how this order has been driven, and the development outcomes produced by its central political and economic actors. There is a great deal of academic knowledge about the role of the international financial...
Evaluating Communication for Development
A Framework for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and evaluation...
Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies
Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a view, innovation is a key source of...
Globalizing Rural Development
Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Ever since rural development emerged as an independent field of inquiry in the 1950s, it has been subjected to many changes in emphasis and ideology. These changing perspectives have resulted in shifts in policies and programmes and have influenced the international discourse on rural development....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Whilst education has been widely recognised as a key tool for development, this has tended to be limited to the incremental changes that education can bring about within a given development paradigm, as opposed to its role in challenging dominant conceptions and practices of development and creating...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
More than twenty years after the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, both national and international actors in governmental and nongovernmental fields are still searching for insights into how sustainable development can be advanced and environmental concerns incorporated into the development...