Development category: 15312 books
Small Enterprise Development in South-East Europe
Policies for Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999, increasing attention has been paid to the problems of economic development and reconstruction in South-East Europe. In a context of limited resources, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have a key role to play in creating jobs and building a dynamic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This book describes and analyzes the new problems and challenges faced by China's non-governmental enterprises. In the post-WTO era, which has been particularly affected by the international financial crisis, there will be many problems and challenges that need to be faced in the development of non-governmental...
Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective
Populism, Nationalism and Industrialisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
How do the intellectual origins and historical background of western and other theories of development affect their relevance to contemporary Third-World conditions? This is the central question behind Gavin Kitching’s examination of ‘development studies’, first published in 1982, from its origins...
Together We Deliver
10 Stories from ADB-Supported Projects with Clear Development Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The book highlights successful projects that demonstrated development impacts, best practice, and innovation. They were implemented through the hard work of ADB's developing member countries, with support from ADB project teams and other partners. The results of the projects have changed and will...
Innovation and Inclusion for a Prosperous Asia
Highlights of the 1st ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Innovation and Inclusion for a Prosperous Asia was the theme of the 1st ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum held on 30-31 October 2013 at the Tangla Hotel in Beijing. The forum was organized by ADB in partnership with the Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Center Beijing Office, a think tank...
Urban Complexity and Planning
Theories and Computer Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban...
The Bubble Theory
Towards a Framework of Enlightened Needs and Fair Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
The term sustainable development (SD) has now become a ubiquitous idea, philosophy, and guiding principle in our society. Governments, business, NGOs and individuals have embraced the mindset, and even the education institutions talk about graduating young people with sustainability in their DNA....
Development Dialogue
Thoughts on Socio Economic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This collection of articles presents short reflections on various dimensions of development. Development is a broad concept and can mean anything to anybody. But in this book, it is all about development of human beings, of the land and the mother earth and all about how we interact with each other...
Youth-led Development
Harnessing the energy of youth to make poverty history
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Many strange things are done in the name of ?development?: agencies build concrete boxes with tin roofs, cram 120 children into them and call it ?education?; millions are invested in youth?training? but little in job creation, which means youth move from being unskilled unemployed to skilled unemployed....
Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth
Industrial Upgrading and Diversification in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This report discusses key policy challenges that need to be addressed if the Philippines were to embark on sustainable and inclusive growth. We take the view that the main reason behind the Philippines' lagging growth and development outcomes in the regional context lies in a sluggish transformation...
Economics of the Middle East
Development Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This lecture note volume aims to introduce economic concepts and analysis to undergraduate level students, in the context of contemporary development challenges in the economics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Contents:
Growth in the MENA Region
Oil Markets, OPEC, and the MENA...
by John Tilston
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Times have changed for regional economic development. Back in the not-so-far-ff good old days, announcements of a new factory setting up in town of the approval granted for a new large apartment block would have been widely accepted and even applauded by communities.
Now mostly they are not.
NIMBY...
World Development Report 2017
Governance and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law addresses these fundamental...
by Musaba D. Chailunga
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Traditional theories of development continue to come up short in Africa, and its time to explore different models to achieve success.
Author Musaba D. Chailunga, a Zambian living in Canada, calls upon his expertise as a software developer to seek better solutions to Africas problems. He says...