Development list 51

Technology, Sustainability, and Rural Development in Africa

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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013

The emerging use of information and communication technologies has expanded the opportunities for rural development in Africa. Technology, Sustainability, and Rural Development in Africa provides research, analytical methods, techniques, and development policies in ICT adoption and diffusion in Africa...

Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects: Indonesia Country Report

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

This publication outlines the five priority areas and three modalities of ADB's approach to climate change: expanding the use of clean energy, encouraging sustainable transport and urban development, managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration, promoting climate-resilient development, and strengthening related policies and institutions.

Building a Dynamic Pacific Economy

Strengthening the Private Sector in Papua New Guinea

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

This report critically analyzes the complex environment for private sector development in Papua New Guinea, showing the country's potential to capitalize on its vast wealth well into the coming decades. However, to ensure sustainable and inclusive growth, Papua New Guinea needs ongoing reform so that...

Regional Growth and Sustainable Development in Asia

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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

This book addresses two general questions that have arisen as a result of the uneven rise of the various Asian economies in contemporary times. First, to lift people out of poverty and to improve the quality of their lives, how do we institute policies that will ensure economic growth in the different...

Inclusive Aid

Changing Power and Relationships in International Development

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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Rapid and profound changes are taking place in international development. The past two decades have promoted the ideals of participation and partnership, yet key decisions affecting people's lives continue to be made without sufficient attention to the socio-political realities of the countries in...

Asian Economic Integration Report 2018

Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public Goods in Asia and the Pacific

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

This publication is the annual report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Asia's progress in regional cooperation and integration. It covers ADB's 48 regional members and analyzes regional and global economic linkages. This year's special chapter, "Toward Optimal Provision of Regional Public...

Facilitating Foreign Exchange Risk Management for Bond Investments in ASEAN+3

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been working closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea---collectively known as ASEAN+3---to foster the development of local currency bond markets and facilitate regional...

Water Development and Poverty Reduction

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

In the book's four Parts, the interdisciplinary approach to many issues contributes to the relationship between water and poverty. Part I includes articles on the conceptual and methodological issues concerning poverty reduction through water resources development. It also offers analysis of...

Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion North-South Economic Corridor

by Asian Development Bank
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...

Reducing Disaster Risk by Managing Urban Land Use

Guidance Notes for Planners

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

This publication provides guidance for urban planners on how to use land use management-related tools they have at their disposal---land use planning, development control instruments, greenfield development, and urban redevelopment---to reduce disaster risk and contribute to strengthening urban resilience...

A Tale of Two CDs

Capacity Development and Community Development in the Waste, Water, and Sanitation Sector in Kiribati

by Uentabo Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008

A 1993 Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)-funded study reported that water and sanitation problems in South Tarawa, Kiribati had become critical and needed to be addressed in "as comprehensive a manner as possible." This led to a series of interventions including several...

The Power of Labelling

How People are Categorized and Why It Matters

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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

�The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life. Striking cases from a range of policy contexts generate eyeopening analyses of labelling�s causes and consequences, uses and abuses, and of alternatives in thinking and relating.� DES GASPER,...

Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience

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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

This volume in the JPS Series is intended to help crystallize the emergence of a new field, "Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience," aimed at elucidating the neural correlates of the development of socio-emotional experience and behavior. No one any longer doubts that infants are born with a...

Web Design and Development: Website Technologies Fundamentals

by Steven Bright
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018