Development Growth category: 1653 books
Beyond Relocation
The Imperative of Sustainable Resettlement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
This collection addresses critical issues of development-induced displacement and resettlement by offering empirical evidence from various countries, mainly in Asia and Africa. By presenting a comparative approach, it helps the reader understand and theorise about the nature and characteristics of...
Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific
Driving Private Sector Participation in Global Value Chains
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The formation of a Regional Technical Group (RTG) on Aid for Trade for Asia and the Pacific was a key recommendation to emerge from the Aid for Trade Regional Review Meeting at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila in 2007 and the Global Aid for Trade Review Meetings at the World...
Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships in Cambodia
Constraints and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This report is a diagnostic assessment of the readiness of Cambodia to develop and manage public-private partnerships (PPPs). It was prepared jointly with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and it is part of a series of studies being prepared by the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian...
by Gallup John Luke; Gaviria Alejandro; Lora Eduardo
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2003
Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. For decades, the prevailing sentiment was that since geography is unchangeable, there is no reason why public policies should take it into account. In fact, charges that...
Competing Against Luck
The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services customers not only want to buy, but are willing to pay premium prices for.
How do companies know...
Slack
Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2001
To most companies, efficiency means profits and growth. But what if your “efficient” company—the one with the reduced headcount and the “stretch” goals—is actually slowing down and losing money? What if your employees are burning out doing the work of two or more people, leaving them no...
The Innovator's Manifesto
Deliberate Disruption for Transformational Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
In this compelling new book, Michael E. Raynor, coauthor of the national bestseller The Innovator’s Solution, shows that Disruption, Clayton M. Christensen’s landmark theory that explains how fringe ideas come to redefine entire markets, not only explains why new businesses emerge and mature companies...
by George Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Part 1 of The Executive Summary shows you a technique that will have you smashing targets like an adrenalin fueled downhill ride and not an uphill struggle. You're an owner/manager or senior exec in a corporation and flat out making your business a success. You've got snatched moments for inspiration...
100 Tips to Small Business Results
Tips and Case Studies to Grow Business Owners and Propel Revenue
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2012
"100 Tips to Small Business Results" is a compilation of ideas pulled from SBR's 6 Steps to Small Business Results framework. This framework helps small business owners overcome three of the main issues they face: a sense of isolation, the burden of feeling overwhelmed, and lack of a revenue-generating...
Peasants and Globalization
Political Economy, Agrarian Transformation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world’s population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in the field of rural development and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a solo but a multi-agent and -level activity...
by Bruce Eley
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Manual sets out the values, principles and activities for Leadership and Business Development. The idea is to encourage individuals to realise their personal goals and company vision. The Manual is designed to give a practical guide to the skills, attitude, and activities for developing and leading successful business development.
Agile Innovation
The Revolutionary Approach to Accelerate Success, Inspire Engagement, and Ignite Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Find your company's unique innovation style, and nurture it into a powerful competitive advantage
Praised by business leaders worldwide, Agile Innovation is the authoritative guide to survival and success in today's "innovate-or-die" business world. This revolutionary approach combines...
Clientelligence
How Superior Client Relationships Fuel Growth and Profits
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Behind every great rainmaker, mover and shaker, and leader are great relationships. In fact, replace great with superior. People who make things happen make superior relationships first. Relationships are the power source, if not the very soul, of doing good business-the kind of business where clients...