Development category: 15312 books
A Study on Globalizing Cities
Theoretical Frameworks and China's Modes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.
With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this...
Moving Up the Ladder
Development Challenges for Low and Middle-Income Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Besides export expansion, a growing middle class in Asia has contributed to the area's economic expansion, providing Asian countries with a window of opportunity to leap from low/middle income levels to high income levels. It may sound easy for these countries to run up the ladder of economic growth,...
Development and Structural Change in Asia-Pacific
Globalising Miracles or the end of a Model?
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The authors consider how the Asia-Pacific economies have developed since the financial crises and highlight two inter-related themes: the effect of global forces on the national Asian economies and the different development paths of these economies as they jointly enter this new phase. Questions raised...
Ethics of Global Development
Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local, national, and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing the role of ethics in development...
UN Millennium Development Library: Toward Universal Primary Education
Investments, Incentives and Institutions
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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way.
Gender Equality and Sustainable Development calls for policies, investments and initiatives...
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
Child Development for Child Care and Protection Workers is a classic text for students and practitioners in the child care and protection field which summarises important current thinking on child development and applies it directly to practice.
The book covers key issues such as resilience...
A World of Three Cultures
Honor, Achievement and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In this book, Miguel Basáñez presents a provocative look at the impact of culture on global development. Drawing on data from governments, NGOs, the World Values Survey and more addressing over one hundred countries, he argues that values, as the "building blocks" of culture, are directly related...
Identification Revolution
Can Digital ID be Harnessed for Development?
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, they-and unregistered adults-could face serious difficulties in proving their identity, whether to open a bank account, purchase a SIM card, or cast a vote. Lack of identification is a barrier to full economic...
Build It and They Will Come
Lessons from the Northern Economic Corridor: Mitigating HIV and Other Diseases
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Infrastructure development brings immediate and obvious benefits to communities. What isn't as immediately obvious is that such development can also open the way for negative changes---such as the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. This report examines the impact on the local people of an important...
Development Planning in South Africa
Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious...
Wealth through Integration
Regional Integration and Poverty-Reduction Strategies in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Could regional integration be a first step toward joining the global market? In a context where liberalizing trade has not produced the expected gains in developing countries and growth in global trade has not led to the expected economic growth, an alternative solution has emerged. This new paradigm...
Sustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. This volume gives a wide ranging introduction...
Knowledge for Development?
Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse...