Development Growth category: 1653 books
Capitalism and Commerce
Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2002
In Capitalism and Commerce, Edward Younkins provides a clear and accessible introduction to the best moral and economic arguments for capitalism. Drawn from over a decade of business school teaching, Younkins's work offers the student of political economy and the educated layperson a clear, systematic...
A Change for Good
Temperatism; in pursuit of a People Centred Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Temperatism is a new ideology, invented by Carrie, that is basically a political manifesto; economic treaty and social call to arms.
Change For Good asks the childlike, innocent question “What if Organizations pursued something other than an economic agenda?” As an Organizational...
Reanimating Regions
Culture, Politics, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From...
Competitiveness and Knowledge
An International Comparison of Traditional Firms
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The ‘traditional firm’ has a need for innovation and depends on efficient knowledge management to improve productivity.
This book examines five firms that produce the same commodity,...
Success as a Coach
Start and Build a Successful Coaching Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
What does it take to be a successful coach? Assuming that you already possess the right skills, characteristics and training then success simply lies in finding and winning clients that you can coach successfully. Personal fulfilment and profitable fee revenue will be direct results. Unfortunately...
Gender, Asset Accumulation and Just Cities
Pathways to transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
With more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century. However, despite increasing recognition of the critical relationship between economic and social development in cities, gender issues are often...
Knowledge, Networks and Policy
Regional Studies in Postwar Britain and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
‘The region’ has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century – the nation state. Its influence can be seen in multiple social science disciplines and in public policy across the globe. But how was this knowledge...
Explorations in Urban and Regional Dynamics
A case study in complexity science
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation provide new insights. Models of non-linear...
Saving the Future
Economic Development & Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Saving the Future is an urgent wake-up call to a new generation of leaders to rise to the historic challenge to save Nigeria and to retreat from the wasteful, destructive trajectory we have stumbled along over the decades. It is filled with golden nuggets of insights from the world of business, high...
Paving the Road to Sustainable Transport
Governance and innovation in low-carbon vehicles
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book is about how societies around the world can accelerate innovation in sustainable transport. It examines the relationship between policy change and the development of technological innovations in low carbon vehicle technologies, including biofuels, hybrid-electric vehicles, electric vehicles...
by Robert Bruce Kelsey PhD
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Software Project Management: Measures for Improving Performance focuses on more than the mechanics of project execution. By showing the reader how to identify and solve real world problems that put schedule, cost, and quality at risk, this guide gets to the heart of improving project control and...
by Jose Ayala
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
The book tells the story of three cavemen that found an apple tree and their struggle to overcome the challenges imposed by nature to convert it into a reliable source of food for their tribe. This tale is a compulsory read for the modern day business development manager.
by Dan Boudreau
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
When I vaulted into my first business in 1980, I hoped to be a successful, positive force for those around me, and an asset to my community. Seven years later, the day I declared bankruptcy, I felt crushed, enslaved, and worthless. Not the glory I’d envisioned.
Those closest to me were shocked...
by Nicoli Marco; Corazza Carlo
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
This publication presents the outcomes of a survey conducted by the World Bank Payment System Development Group at the request of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic as a follow up to the World Bank-led mission that visited the country in 2008 to assess the market for remittances. The survey...