Economic Development category: 2617 books

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Youth-led Development

Harnessing the energy of youth to make poverty history

by David Woollcombe, Kofi Annan
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015

Many strange things are done in the name of ?development?: agencies build concrete boxes with tin roofs, cram 120 children into them and call it ?education?; millions are invested in youth?training? but little in job creation, which means youth move from being unskilled unemployed to skilled unemployed....
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Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth

Industrial Upgrading and Diversification in the Philippines

by Norio Usui
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

This report discusses key policy challenges that need to be addressed if the Philippines were to embark on sustainable and inclusive growth. We take the view that the main reason behind the Philippines' lagging growth and development outcomes in the regional context lies in a sluggish transformation...
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World Development Report 2017

Governance and the Law

by World Bank Group
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017

Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law addresses these fundamental...
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by Musaba D. Chailunga
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012

Traditional theories of development continue to come up short in Africa, and its time to explore different models to achieve success. Author Musaba D. Chailunga, a Zambian living in Canada, calls upon his expertise as a software developer to seek better solutions to Africas problems. He says...
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by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

This publication outlines the five priority areas and three modalities of ADB's approach to climate change: expanding the use of clean energy, encouraging sustainable transport and urban development, managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration, promoting climate-resilient development, and strengthening related policies and institutions.
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Inclusive Aid

Changing Power and Relationships in International Development

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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Rapid and profound changes are taking place in international development. The past two decades have promoted the ideals of participation and partnership, yet key decisions affecting people's lives continue to be made without sufficient attention to the socio-political realities of the countries in...
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by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been working closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea---collectively known as ASEAN+3---to foster the development of local currency bond markets and facilitate regional...
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The Power of Labelling

How People are Categorized and Why It Matters

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Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

�The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life. Striking cases from a range of policy contexts generate eyeopening analyses of labelling�s causes and consequences, uses and abuses, and of alternatives in thinking and relating.� DES GASPER,...
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Ethics of Global Development

Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy

by David A. Crocker
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008

Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local, national, and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing the role of ethics in development...
Cover of UN Millennium Development Library: Toward Universal Primary Education
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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Development Planning in South Africa

Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape

by John Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious...
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Knowledge for Development?

Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid

by Kenneth King, Simon McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse...
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Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City

Hinduism and urbanisation in Jaipur

by Yamini Narayanan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

First published in 1981, this book concerns specifically the Kenyan experience with regards to development planning but, given that the problems of hunger poverty and underdevelopment manifest themselves in slightly different forms across all African countries, this book has considerable relevance...
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