Economic Development category: 2617 books

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Forcibly Displaced

Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts

by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

The Syrian refugee crisis has galvanized attention to one of the world’s foremost challenges: forced displacement. The total number of refugees and internally displaced persons, now at over 65 million, continues to grow as violent conflict spikes.This report, Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development...
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by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012

With some six billion mobile subscriptions now in use worldwide, around three-quarters of the world's inhabitants now have access to a mobile phone. Mobiles are arguably the most ubiquitous modern technology – in some developing countries, more people have access to a mobile phone than to clean water,...
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by Asirra Eguma
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

This book is the first part of a trilogy in the genres of the Social sciences, management, leadership, education, and inspirational studies, where the author addresses issues in the political economy of capitalism. Set in a historical and developmental context, the work reviews Ashton’s “the industrial...
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Sustainability Indicators

Measuring the Immeasurable?

by Simon Bell, Stephen Morse
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012

Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers...
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Beyond Aid

The Integration of Sustainable Development in a Coherent International Agenda

by James Michel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016

In September 2015, world leaders adopted a new post-2015 development agenda, centered on 17 Sustainable Development Goals intended to transform the world. This report provides basic information about the new agenda—its content, aspirations, and global partnership approach. It describes the complex...
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Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development 2017

Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity

by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017

With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, all nations committed to a set of universal, integrated and transformational goals and targets, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Translating the new vision of the SDGs into action is a major challenge. This year, Ministers...
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by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon inance. With nearly 7,700 projects and 290 Program of Activities registered by the CDM Executive Board, the CDM allows GHG emission reduction projects...
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UN Millennium Development Library: Who's Got the Power

Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children

by UN Millennium Project
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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25 Years on the Ground

ADB-Nepal Partnership for Inclusive Development

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

This publication commemorates the 25 years of the opening of the Nepal resident mission, and provides an overview of how ADB's operation in Nepal has evolved over the years. ADB has provided assistance in several sectors, including agriculture and natural resources, transport and information and communication...
Cover of UN Millennium Development Library: Halving Hunger
by UN Millennium Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 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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Development Finance

Challenges and Opportunities

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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017

This book provides an in-depth overview of the most salient aspects of development finance. It critically reviews the current state of relevant literature on this topic and assesses both the challenges and the opportunities presented by the various forms of finance for development. Chapters...
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Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective

Populism, Nationalism and Industrialisation

by Gavin Kitching
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012

How do the intellectual origins and historical background of western and other theories of development affect their relevance to contemporary Third-World conditions? This is the central question behind Gavin Kitching’s examination of ‘development studies’, first published in 1982, from its origins...
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Together We Deliver

10 Stories from ADB-Supported Projects with Clear Development Impacts

by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

The book highlights successful projects that demonstrated development impacts, best practice, and innovation. They were implemented through the hard work of ADB's developing member countries, with support from ADB project teams and other partners. The results of the projects have changed and will...
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The Bubble Theory

Towards a Framework of Enlightened Needs and Fair Development

by Min Ding
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013

​The term sustainable development (SD) has now become a ubiquitous idea, philosophy, and guiding principle in our society. Governments, business, NGOs and individuals have embraced the mindset, and even the education institutions talk about graduating young people with sustainability in their DNA....
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