Development category: 15312 books
Sustainable Development in the Process Industries
Cases and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The complete, hands-on guide to sustainable development
Today's process industries must develop natural resources within an eco-friendly framework that balances current demand with future need. Realizing this goal necessitates global vigilance of three key areas—people, planet, and prosperity—known...
Credit Guarantees
Challenging Their Role in Improving Access to Finance in the Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative---a regional technical assistance facility cofinanced by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Government of Australia, and the Government of New Zealand---has undertaken landmark secured transaction reforms in eight Pacific Island countries. These...
by Pleskovic Boris ; Lin Justin Yifu
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
This book presents selected papers from the ABCDE Meetings, held May 17 -18, 2007 in Bled, Slovenia. Hosted by the World Bank and Government if Slovenia, more than 400 experts from countries around the world met to deliberate the theme: Private Sector and Development. This volume presents papers on financial...
Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development
How Trade Can Promote Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2005
How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today. They put forward...
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012
Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Use Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server 2012 and Agile Methods to Deliver Higher Value Software Faster This is the definitive guide to applying agile development and modern software engineering practices with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012—Microsoft’s complementary Application...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Whereas there is plenty of work looking at macroeconomic effect of public spending on growth and poverty in Africa as well as studies of the impact of spending or investment in one economic sector on outcomes in that sector or on broader welfare measures, this book fills a much needed gap in the research...
Spirituality and Sustainability
New Horizons and Exemplary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
This book aims to examine sustainability and spirituality philosophically with ethics as the balancing force. The goal is to reveal the important intersection between sustainability and spirituality by using spirituality as the invisible guiding hand in the quest for sustainability. The editors and...
Understanding Customer Needs (Digital Short Cut)
Software QFD and the Voice of the Customer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
This is the eBook version of the printed book. Leading companies around the world, including Toyota and General Electric, have practiced Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for decades. Developed in Japan by Dr. Yoji Akao and Dr. Shigeru Mizuno, QFD has two aims: to ensure that true customer needs are...
Development Without Aid
The Decline of Development Aid and the Rise of the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
“Development Without Aid” opens up perspectives about foreign aid to the world’s poorest countries. Growing up in Malawi the author developed a sense of the limitations of foreign assistance and from this evolves a critique of foreign aid as an alien resource unable to provide the dynamism that...
Managing Development Resources
The Use of Country Systems in Public Financial Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Successful development depends in large part on the efficiency, integrity and effectiveness with which the state raises, manages and expends public resources. Improving the rules and institutions governing these activities should be a major component, therefore, of any development approach. Given...
The Challenge of Economic Development
A Survey of Issues and Constraints Facing Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
This book provides a general overview of the challenges of economic development for the five billion people living in developing countries. While they constitute over 80 percent of the world's population, they account for only 40% of the world's output, and are home to 2.6 billion people living on...
U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World
New Challenges and New Priorities for a New Demographic Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling...
Sustainability in the Public Sector
An Essential Briefing for Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sustainability in the Public Sector provides a quick-start guide for a wide variety of public sector stakeholders, equipping them with knowledge of both the sustainable development challenges and the political backdrop to this agenda.This guide: uncovers the history of the term "sustainable development"...
Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America
The Case of Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed...