Development category: 15312 books
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)....
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by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
With a rapidly growing commercial economy that requires a sound financial system to sustain growth, Cambodia is committed to the long-term development of the financial sector, channeling financial resources to productive investments, and managing the inherent risks to achieve sustainable economic growth...
Inclusive Growth and Development in the 21st Century
A Structural and Institutional Analysis of China and India
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Using case studies of both China and India, this book reinforces the fact that the processes of economic growth and development are dynamic and organic in the sense that structural and institutional elements are not only interrelated, but also constantly changing in their patterns of interactions...
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...
by Marcin Moskala, Igor Wojda
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Learn how to make Android development much faster using a variety of Kotlin features, from basics to advanced, to write better quality code.
About This Book
Leverage specific features of Kotlin to ease Android application development
Write code based on both object oriented and functional programming...
by Viktor Farcic, Alex Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Invoke TDD principles for end-to-end application development with JavaAbout This BookExplore the most popular TDD tools and frameworks and become more proficient in building applicationsCreate applications with better code design, fewer bugs, and higher test coverage, enabling you to get them...
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...
2014 Regional Competitiveness Analysis and a Master Plan on Regional Development Strategies for India
Annual Competitiveness Update and Evidence on Economic Development Model for Selected States of India
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) presents the inaugural regional competitiveness analysis for the five regions of India as a basis for the Master Plan on Strategic Regional Economic Development using regional classifications as defined by the Confederation of Indian Industry....
Growing Jobs: Transforming the Way We Approach Economic Development
Transforming the Way We Approach Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Each year, U.S. cities and states spend billions of dollars on incentives intended to create jobs. Are the strategies being implemented outdated? Is there a better way to create jobs? Rather than focusing on individual aspects of economic development such as entrepreneurship and start-up companies...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy...
China's Logic
The Balance Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The law of balance is not just a motivating power but also serves the purpose of development. How did human society develop in a balanced manner in history? How is China's Modernization impacted by the law of equilibrium? How does the law of balance affect China's economic and trade relations with...
Local Economic Development in the Changing World
The Experience of Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Over the last two decades the concept and practice of Local Economic Development (LED) has gained widespread acceptance around the world as a locally-based response to the challenges posed by globalization, devolution, local-level opportunities, and economic crises. Support for local economic development...
World Development and Economic Systems
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with marginal variations. This book extends the scope of theory and applications by asserting that other distinct behaviors evolve and dominate in other economic...
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,...