Development Growth category: 1653 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Agriculture, mining and related rural industries have been central to the development of Australia’s economy. This book details the role that the Australian Government has played in the making of rural and regionalAustralia, particularly since World War II. The book reviews these policies and evaluates...
Approaches to Economic Geography
Towards a geographical political economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously been excluded. Beginning with a grounding in Marxian political economy, this book explores a range of new ideas as to...
by Maimbo Samuel Munzele; Adams Richard ; Passas Nikos ; Aggarwal Reena
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
According to a recent World Bank study of remittances, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are all among the top 20 receivers of remittances, with estimated receipts of US3.2 billion, US8.4 billion and U.S 1.5 billion respectively. Migrant Labor Remittances in South Asia identifies and discusses...
Transformation of Resource Towns and Peripheries
Political economy perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Most developed economies, including single-industry and resource dependent rural or small town regions, are transforming rapidly as a result of social, political, and economic change. Collectively, they face a number of challenges as well as new opportunities. This international collaboration describes...
Managing Value in Organisations
New Learning, Management, and Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The song of organisational change goes: 'Ready or not, here I come. You can’t hide...' But is change collapsonomics - everything - or have some things not changed? Managing Value in Organisations argues that traditional business thinking has produced low trust with high cost in increased disengagement:...
Strategic Tendering for Professional Services
Win More, Lose Less
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Competitive bidding for work is a long-established aspect of business within the professional services and consulting sector. For many markets, pitching has become a critical element of both attracting and retaining business. Combating clients' demands and intense competition, firms that want to win...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness. There is a widespread recognition that territories need to construct strategies...
Tourist Clusters, Destinations and Competitiveness
Theoretical issues and empirical evidences
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy. Increasingly, research on tourism destinations has been at the centre of debates concerning destination competitiveness, governance, policies and destination management and marketing.
This book investigates...
Urban Recycling Cooperatives
Building resilient communities
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Solid waste is a major urban challenge worldwide and decisions over which technologies or methods to apply can have beneficial or detrimental long-term consequences. Inappropriate management of solid waste can lead to damaging environmental impacts, particularly in the megacities of the Global South.
Urban...
The Customer-Driven Playbook
Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That’s where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will...
Working Regions
Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ‘working regions’ — regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities — the book argues...
by Robert Huggins, Hiro Izushi, Daniel Prokop
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured. With this in mind, the book has three specific objectives: first, to place the concept of regional competitiveness...
Driving Eureka!
Problem-Solving with Data-Driven Methods & the Innovation Engineering System
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Transform the art of innovation into a reliable system!
System Driven Innovation enables you and everyone on your team to use innovation to work smarter, faster, and more creatively. It transforms innovation from a random act to a reliable science. This new mindset ignites confidence in the...
Quality of Life in Cities
Equity, Sustainable Development and Happiness from a Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers.
This...