Economic Development category: 2617 books
The Transition to Sustainability
The Politics of Agenda 21 in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Transition to Sustainability 'details how all nations are repositioning their economies, their societies and their collective purpose to maintain all life on Earth, peacefully, healthily, equitably and with sufficient wealth to ensure that all are content in their survival.' From the Preface The...
World Development Report 2016
Digital Dividends
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Digital technologies are spreading rapidly, but digital dividends--the broader benefits of faster growth, more jobs, and better services--are not. If more than 40 percent of adults in East Africa pay their utility bills using a mobile phone, why can’t others around the world do the same? If 8 million...
Another Way Forward
Grassroots Solutions from New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Another Way Forward: Grassroots Solutions from New Mexico offers hope to anyone discouraged by the nation’s inability to tackle problems like poverty and health care. Award-winning author and former Senator Dede Feldman profiles innovative organizations and inspiring local leaders who are changing...
Australia's Competitiveness
From Lucky Country to Competitive Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
In this in-depth overview of Australia's economy, Michael Enright and Richard Petty — leading scholars on international competition—look at the data behind the news reports to offer a complete view of Australia's stable and wealthy economy. The book compares Australia with other similarly sized...
Development Theory
Four Critical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
The studies in this book, first published in 1979, offer an all-encompassing contemporary critique of the sociology, politics and economics of development as they are ‘conventionally’ taught and disseminated.
They also seek to outline the beginnings of a new approach, while not sparing...
Together We Deliver 2015
Partnerships against Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The publication highlights successful projects that demonstrate development impact, best practices, and innovation. They were implemented through the hard work of ADB’s developing member countries in partnership with ADB project teams and other partners. The results of these projects have changed...
by Peter Warr
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Thailand Beyond the Crisis includes recent research to give an accurate and up to date picture of the status of Thailand's economic recovery. The Asian economic crisis began in Thailand and ended a decade of sustained economic boom. This book identifies the role of policy errors involving both the...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Climate change is a major threat to improving prosperity in Asia and the Pacific. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has an important role to play in responding to the threats---and opportunities---presented by climate change in the region. To better align its investments and associated policy and institutional...
Strengthening Pacific Fragile States
The Marshall Islands Example
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The Republic of the Marshall Islands joined the Asian Development Bank in 1990. Since then it has received 12 loans for 11 projects, totaling $78.1 million, and 49 technical assistance programs and projects totaling $18.8 million. The publication tells the story of how a country strategy was formulated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Social protection is an increasingly important part of the social policy dialogue in Africa, and yet because of its relatively new place in a rapidly evolving agenda, evidence on critical design choices such as targeting, and on impacts of social protection interventions, is mostly limited to case...
Agriculture and Food in the 21 st Century
Economic, Environmental and Social Challenges- Festschrift on the Occasion of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. P. Michael Schmitz 65 th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This Festschrift in honour of Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. P. Michael Schmitz covers theoretical as well as empirical works on challenges prevailing in the food and agricultural sector. Discussions of conflicts between social and ecological requests of citizens and market outcomes are provided. The contributors...
Interrogating Development
State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
This book, the first in a series on the North-East, focuses on development-induced displacement of population in the region in the post-colonial period. Despite state-sponsored development initiatives, the North East still remains highly underdeveloped and politically disturbed. Various development...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1969 brings together structural and analytical studies of seven single African countries, together with two studies of groups of countries which, although politically separate, have in the past had close economic links. These countries are Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana,...