Development category: 15312 books
Toward Sustainable and Balanced Development
Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion North-South Economic Corridor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), one of the priority economic corridors under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program, was designated as a GMS flagship initiative in 2002. Efforts have been taken since then to develop NSEC but these were pursued mainly on a project-by-project...
South Korea in the Fast Lane
Economic Development and Capital Formation
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
After having been a Japanese colony for more than 35 years until 1945, the miraculous economic development in the southern half of the Korean peninsula has multiplied the nation's output nearly 38 times and expanded per capita income by 16 times from $778 to $12,422 (in year 2000 prices) and transformed...
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development 2018
Towards Sustainable and Resilient Societies
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
The 2030 Agenda is a universal, collective responsibility that covers all levels: global, national and territorial. To address global policy challenges in a complex and interconnected world, policy coherence will be key. A more coherent multilateral system will be essential to reconcile and deliver...
The Economic Development of Europe's Regions
A Quantitative History since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This book is the first quantitative description of Europe’s economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth century. Based on a new and comprehensive set of data, it brings together a group of leading economic historians in order to describe and analyze the development of European...
by Kelly S. Mix, Janellen Huttenlocher, Susan Cohen Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
The aim of this book is to define and discuss the key issues raised by new findings in the study of quantitative development. One basic question addressed is how the abilities reported in infants and young children relate to later development. In some accounts, one is left with the impression that...
Understanding Emotional Development
Providing insight into human lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Understanding Emotional Development provides an insightful and comprehensive account of the development and impact of our emotions through infancy, childhood and adolescence. The book covers a number of key topics:
The nature and diversity of emotion and its role in our lives
Differences between...
Gaze-Following
Its Development and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
What does a child’s ability to look where another is looking tell us about his or her early cognitive development? What does this ability—or lack thereof—tell us about a child’s language development, understanding of other’s intentions, and the emergence of autism? This volume assembles...
A Reappraisal of Economic Development
Perspectives for Cooperative Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
What have the social sciences to show for decades of systematic investigation of the problems of economic development? What basic problems have they solved and what remains to be done in the development of viable theoretical approaches to this area of research and policy? In an unusually open discussion,...
Development of Perception in Infancy
The Cradle of Knowledge Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The developing infant can accomplish all important perceptual tasks that an adult can, albeit with less skill or precision. Through infant perception research, infant responses to experiences enable researchers to reveal perceptual competence, test hypotheses about processes, and infer neural mechanisms,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
This edited book discusses lean production as a suitable platform for global development by developing systems and products in a quicker, costless and sustainable way and educate people for a lean consumption. Lean thinking principles are totally and synergistically aligned with a lot of disciplines...
Governance Institutions and Economic Development
Emerging China, India, East Asia and Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
"Roy's book is a rich and detailed study of various facets of economic and social development in ten countries, both democratic and authoritarian. Researchers and students will find here a wealth of information and statistics that can be mined to explore fundamental questions around state interventionism...
Practical API Architecture and Development with Azure and AWS
Design and Implementation of APIs for the Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Learn the business and technical importance of API design and architecture using the available cloud services from Azure and AWS.
This book starts off with an introduction to APIs and the concept of API Economy from a business and organizational perspective. You'll decide on a sustainable API...
Neuroscience of Mathematical Cognitive Development
From Infancy Through Emerging Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book examines the neuroscience of mathematical cognitive development from infancy into emerging adulthood, addressing both biological and environmental influences on brain development and plasticity. It begins by presenting major theoretical frameworks for designing and interpreting neuroscience...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The 1980s were one of the most turbulent decades in Central America’s history, a history that has been marked by more than its share of strife and upheaval. The wars, economic hardship, and political unrest and instability that have dominated news of the region have been years in the making, the...