Economic Development category: 2617 books
Perspectives on European Development Cooperation
Policy and Performance of Individual Donor Countries and the EU
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Events of the past twenty years, including the Cold War and the War on Terror, have meant that the environments of international development co-operation have changed extensively, with dramatic consequences for development policies and North-South relations in general.
Perspectives on European...
Communication for Another Development
Listening before Telling
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This lively book argues that in the development process, communication is everything. The authors, world experts in this field as teachers, practitioners and theorists, argue that Communication for Development is a creative and innovative way of thinking that can permeate the overall approach to any...
Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017
From World Development Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2017 uses maps, charts and analysis to illustrate, trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas primarily draws on World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank's compilation of internationally...
Sustainable Development in Amazonia
Paradise in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the...
Dictators, Democrats, and Development in Southeast Asia
Implications for the Rest
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Getting growth going has been rare in the developing world-since 1960 only nine developing countries have succeeded in sustaining high growth. The aim of Dictators, Democrats and Development in Southeast Asia is to examine how dictators and democrats in three of the nine fast growers -Indonesia, Malaysia...
The Reality of Aid 2000
An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating absolute poverty. The report charts some improvements at the level of donor policy and rhetoric. But its...
UN Millennium Development Library: Health Dignity and Development
What Will it Take?
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
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,...
by Tim Magee
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems,...
Development Co-operation Report 2016
The Sustainable Development Goals as Business Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
The face of development has changed, with diverse stakeholders involved – and implicated – in what are more and more seen as global and interlinked concerns. At the same time, there is an urgent need to mobilise unprecedented resources to achieve the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
Emerging Issues in Financial Development
Lessons from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Since the 1990s, the financial systems in developing and developed countries have gained in soundness, depth, and diversity, prompted in part by a series of financial sector and macroeconomic reforms aimed at fostering a market-driven economy in which finance plays a central role. Latin America has been...
by Beth Osnes
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially women living in poverty. Current tools used...
Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture
Putting research into use in low income countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews part of this programme as a case study of a broader issue of technology development...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This report examines the development and barriers to harmonization and integration among the capital markets of members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and enumerate steps to achieving harmonization and integration. The globalization of capital markets has encouraged moves toward...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
World Development Indicators 2015 World Development Indicators 2015 provides a compilation of relevant, highquality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers,...