Economic Development category: 2617 books
The Reality of Aid 1997-1998
An independent review of development cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
NOW IN ITS FIFTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid continues to present the most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis available of the aid and development policies of the world's richest nations, and exposes the gaps between rhetoric and reality. Part I presents a consideration of current...
2011 China's Trade Performance Report
World Economy Restructuring and China's Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Since its accession to the WTO, China had been enjoying a rapid growth in foreign trade, which has become the major driving force behind its surging economic development. However, the outbreak of the financial crisis at the end of 2008 left China with a fragile international market. Although there...
International Aid and the Making of a Better World
Reflexive Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into...
Research for the Developing World
Public Funding from Australia, Canada, and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Research for the developing world can generate evidence on the effectiveness of foreign aid, invent new technologies that serve poor people, and strengthen research capabilities in poor countries. How do countries determine which of these policy goals to pursue? Examining the United Kingdom, Canada,...
Formal Peace and Informal War
Security and Development in Congo
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns, bolstered by claims of shared returns and reinforcing processes of development and security. As global security and human security became prominent in development policy, Congo was wracked by violent rule, pillage,...
by Nguyen Manh Hung, Nguyen Thi Hong Nhung, Bui Quang Tuan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This series features the scholarly works supported by the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management, a region-wide capacity building program of the Asian Development Bank that supports knowledge products and services. It seeks to disseminate research results to a wider audience so that policy makers,...
The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia
Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in order for change to take place, and Ringmar concludes that for sustained development to be possible,...
Targeting Development
Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
The Millennium Development Goals accepted by the UN in 2000 are, along with the targets set by the OECD in 1996 the subject of this expertly written book. Is development achievable in the time frames given? How useful were the goals in the first place? How far have we come in solving the aching problems of the developing world? These questions and
HIV and East Africa
Thirty Years in the Shadow of an Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people’s lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred...
Environment, Development, Agriculture
Integrated Policy Through Human Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes. Part One deals with theory, including a comprehensive introduction to the field and an...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society; to...
by Sheldon Annis
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Since the late 1970s, Protestantism has emerged as a major force in the political and economic life of rural Guatemala. Indeed, as Sheldon Annis argues in this book, Protestantism may have helped tip Guatemala's guerrilla war in behalf of the army during the early 1980s.But what is it about Protestantism—and...
Central Asia
Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Based on first-hand research conducted by the Moscow Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies, this book documents the findings of one of the first authoritative studies on the newly independent states of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirgizia and Tadjikistan. Focusing...
by María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2003
In The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo boldly argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resist—and in fact have been constitutively related to—the...