Development category: 15312 books
Renew Orleans?
Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
Like no other American city, New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina offers powerful insight into issues of political economy in urban development and, in particular, how a city’s character...
Microsoft Dynamics CRM API Development for Online and On-Premise Environments
Covering On-Premise and Online Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Microsoft Dynamics CRM has a robust API that includes web services and an extensive SDK. As you develop CRM Plugins and custom integrations, you will find that there are many complexities and challenges associated with successfully interacting with this API.
In order to ensure that you have...
Catalyzing Green Finance
A Concept for Leveraging Blended Finance for Green Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A large financing need challenges climate-adjusted infrastructure in developing Asia, estimated at $26 trillion till 2030. This necessitates crowding-in private sources to meet financing, efficiency, and technology gaps. However, a lack of bankable projects is a major hurdle. This publication suggests...
Asian Development Outlook 2016 Update
Meeting the Low-Carbon Growth Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Steady growth endures in developing Asia despite external slack. Half-year results prompt this Update to affirm overall growth projections published in March in Asian Development Outlook 2016. External weakness is offset by resilient domestic demand in large regional economies led by the People's...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon inance. With nearly 7,700 projects and 290 Program of Activities registered by the CDM Executive Board, the CDM allows GHG emission reduction projects...
Asian Water Development Outlook 2016
Strengthening Water Security in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The Asian Water Development Outlook charts progress in water security in Asia and the Pacific over the past 5 years. This 2016 edition of the report uses the latest available data to assess water security in five key dimensions: household access to piped potable water and improved sanitation, economic...
ADB Perceptions Survey
Multinational Survey of Stakeholders 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The 2009 ADB Perceptions Survey gauges stakeholders' perceptions of ADB's mission to help reduce poverty and contribute to development in Asia and the Pacific. The survey, the second of its kind since 2006, was carried out among 900 opinion leaders in 31 member countries, drawn from a broad cross...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2001
This new collection of articles puts the very latest issues in economic development under the microscope, exploring them from a variety of perspectives.
Beginning with an assessment of the current state of play in development, the authors move forward to examine neglected issues such as human development,...
Economic Development
The History of an Idea
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Economic development has been for many years the dominant national policy objective of the countries in the Third World, but there has been little consensus on the goals and definitions of development. Focusing on the era since World War II, H. W. Arndt traces the history of thought about economic...
Microfranchising
How Social Entrepreneurs are Building a New Road to Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
It is increasingly clear that fifty years of international development have done little to reduce poverty in Africa. Indeed, more and more academics and practitioners are highlighting the detrimental effect of traditional development – as carried out by international agencies and NGOs – which...
Business Development That Works
Practical Steps to Enhance your Performance in Sales and Business Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Whether you are new to sales and business development or an experienced campaigner looking for new ideas, this book will guide you step by step through the sales and business development process, providing practical advice to help you get the results you need.Business Development That Works...
UN Millennium Development Library: Who's Got the Power
Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
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,...
C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development
Dive into TDD to create flexible, maintainable, and production-ready .NET Core applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Learn how to apply a test-driven development process by building ready C# 7 and .NET Core applications.
Key Features
Create tests to quickly detect and resolve issues when writing portable code
Uncover code integration issues that improve code quality using continuous integration
Set up and use...
Energy, Bio Fuels and Development
Comparing Brazil and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
This collection examines the important and topical issue of the economic, social and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels. The book expertly examines this issue by focussing on the contrasting experiences of two major economies; one developed,...