Development Growth category: 1653 books
Global Economic Storms
Their Causes, Similarities & Impact on Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The Great Depression, like the Great Recession of 2008-2009, has been incorrectly framed as the result of a failure of our banking and investment institutions. This narrow focus on our financial institutions as the key causes of this type of crisis, while ignoring the rest of the economy, has dominated...
EU Cohesion Policy (Open Access)
Reassessing performance and direction
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional...
The Business Plan Workbook
A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating and Developing a Successful Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
One of the most important steps in launching or expanding a venture is the creation of a business plan. The absence of a written business plan can lead to failure for new businesses, and inhibit growth and development. Based on methodology developed at Cranfield School of Management, ***The Business...
Lessons from the Poor
Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
An important contribution to the literature of economic development, this book presents case studies of productive entrepreneurship in contemporary Africa and Latin America. It looks at the growth of Kenya's chain stores and one-person kiosks, the rise of barter clubs in Argentina, and Nigeria's clothing-design...
Winning at New Products
Creating Value Through Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A fully updated edition of the classic business reference book on product development from a world renowned innovation management scholar
For more than two decades, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. Robert G. Cooper demonstrates why consistent...
Extraordinary Leadership
Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
From The Center on Creative Leadership, comes an important that book helps to deepen the understanding of the subtle yet powerful gaps that separate successful managers from extraordinary leaders. Filled with tools, frameworks and processes that guide aspiring leaders (and those who mentor and support...
by Connor Skye Riley
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
A strong engineering team is the backbone of any technical company, and smart managers are always looking to hire top talent. Recruiting and interviewing engineers in a smart way is essential to the growth of your team and your company. In this saturated hiring market, your positions must stand out...
by Raja J Chelliah
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
This book brings together three essays of Dr Chelliah on reforms and poverty alleviation. Together they unravel the working of the Indian political economy and explain the causes behind persistent poverty in the country despite economic growth. The essays address the issues of effective means of poverty...
by Richard Brookfield
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Strategy & Positioning is a practical guide to the early stages of the competitive tendering process. This critical period is often overlooked, but offers contractors a unique opportunity to optimize their competitive position in advance of proposal preparation.
Successive chapters cover...
Smart Transitions in City Regionalism
Territory, Politics and the Quest for Competitiveness and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In recent years "smartness" has risen as a buzzword to characterize novel urban policy and development patterns. As a result of this, debates around what "smart" actually means, both theoretically and empirically, have emerged within the interdisciplinary arenas of urban and regional...
Innovative Experiences in Access to Finance
Market-Friendly Roles for the Visible Hand?
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Interest in access to finance and awareness of its importance have increased significantly since the early 2000s. Growing evidence suggests that lack of access to credit prevents many households and firms from financing high-return investment projects, which has an adverse effect on growth and poverty...
Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC)
A Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC): A Manual provides a comprehensive summary of the EKC, summarizing work on this economic tool that can analyze environmental pollution problems. By enabling users to reconcile environmental and economic development policies, Environmental Kuznets Curve studies lend...
by Jane Stevenson, Bilal Kaafarani
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
The blueprint for achieving growth and driving shareholder value by embedding support for innovation into every facet of your business
Breaking Away is one of the first books to bridge the gap between leadership and innovation by revealing what it takes to create both breakthrough ideas and the leaders...
by Russell Streeter
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
How to double the size of your business in 12 months or less AND grow it to an 8-figure valuation!So, you have successfully started your own company, proven to your friends, family and the bank that it is a viable business, won some loyal and happy customers or clients and maybe even started...