Development category: 15312 books
ICTs for Development
Improving Policy Coherence
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2010
Information communication technologies (ICTs) are crucial to reducing poverty, improving access to health and education services and creating new sources of income and employment for the poor. Being able to access and use ICTs has become a major factor in driving competitiveness, economic growth and...
Development Effectiveness Report 2011
Private Sector Operations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The private sector contributes to economic development by generating jobs and incomes, as well as through investments, new technologies, knowledge transfer, and enhanced productivity. This is particularly true in Asia and the Pacific, where much of the recent success in reducing poverty has been due...
Peripheral Visions of Economic Development
New frontiers in development economics and the history of economic thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book explores peripheral visions on economic development, both in the sense that it deals with specific issues of economic development and underdevelopment in countries at the periphery of the world economy, and in terms of its exploration of the economic thinking developed in those regions,...
Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe
Spatial Development in the European Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Central and Eastern European Countries are undergoing a difficult transition process with consequences for spatial development. Europe needs a more bal anced, polycentric system of cities, a new urban-rural relationship, parity of ac cess to infrastructure and knowledge as well as prudent management...
by Stephen Morse, Dongyong Zhang, Uma Kambhampati
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades. Although it originated in the developed countries of the West, the concept has been embraced and adapted by corporations and policy-making agencies in many developing countries. Not surprisingly, given the...
The Child as Musician
A handbook of musical development
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The new edition of The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development celebrates the richness and diversity of the many different ways in which children can engage in and interact with music. It presents theory - both cutting edge and classic - in an accessible way for readers by surveying research...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Although China is now the ‘factory of the world’, there is no reason to expect that it will always be content with manufacturing labor-intensive goods for foreign corporations. Scholars must now ask: What is the current level of innovation in China? And how can we face this challenge and renovate...
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...
Asian Development Review
Volume 28, Number 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The Asian Development Review is a professional journal for disseminating the results of economic and development research carried out by staff and resource persons of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Review seeks high-quality papers with relevance to policy issues and operational matters done...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book outlines the development, implementation and evaluation of a project entitled “P.A.T.H.S. to Adulthood: A Jockey Club Youth Enhancement Scheme," with P.A.T.H.S. denoting Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social programmes.
This pioneer project was conducted in Hong...
Laboratory of Socialist Development
Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Artemy Kalinovsky’s Laboratory of Socialist Development investigates the Soviet effort to make promises of decolonization a reality by looking at the politics and practices of economic development in central Asia between World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Focusing on the Tajik Soviet...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Written in honour of Kaushik Basu, Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development is a celebration of over forty years of contributions to development economics. Written by Professor Basu's past and present collaborators and research students it offers original insights...
Agile Software Development in the Large
Diving Into the Deep
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
by Antonio Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
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