Development category: 15312 books
by Ian Goldin
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations escape poverty and achieve economic and social progress has been the subject of extensive examination for hundreds of years.The notion of development itself...
The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Development
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in nutrition, health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This modern, non-technical 2005 introduction to development studies explores the dynamics of socio-economic development...
Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
This book is the first comprehensive and systematic English-language treatment of Mexico's economic history to appear in nearly forty years. Drawing on several years of in-depth research, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, two of the foremost experts on the Mexican economy, examine Mexico's current...
Global Governance and Rules for the Post-2015 Era
Addressing Emerging Issues in the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international environment, suggesting that the world emerging from the recent economic and financial crisis will...
Atlas of Global Development
A Visual Guide to the Worlds Greatest Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED INCLUDING SPECIAL eBOOK-ONLY CONTENT Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated fourth edition of the Atlas of Global Development is a comprehensive guide to the most critical issues facing our changing world today. A visual guide to...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
World Development Indicators 2016 provides a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens find and use data related...
by Tony H. Grubesic, Elizabeth A. Mack
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Broadband is one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, yet our understanding of its regional impacts remains somewhat rudimentary. Not only are issues of broadband pricing and speed relevant in this context, but the overall quality of service for broadband can often dictate...
by Lewis F Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Theories of Industrial Modernization and Development: A Review
This is a detailed and wide-ranging study of theory, research, and methods of analyzing industrial-economic modernization and development.
The book covers social, cultural, and behavioural models, enterprise growth, and developments...
by J. Edward Taylor, Travis J. Lybbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today’s development economics research and practice, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development...
The Reality of Aid 1996
An independent review of international aid
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
'Should be on the shelf of any academic, student, NGO activist or politician with an interest in aid issues. It should also be required reading for donor agency officials' Development and Change 'As accessible as it is comprehensive has established itself as a reliable 'watchdog' for anyone interested...
Dinosaurs or Dynamos
The United Nations and the World Bank at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Explores how much and what the World Bank and the United Nations can really be expected to achieve. The text begins with a detailed account of the evolution of the two organizations as multilateral development institutions and then focuses on the functions that the World Bank and the UN carry out,...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
This edition of OECD's annual Development Co-operation Report provides key statistics and analysis on the latest trends in international aid. Eckhard Deutscher, who recently took over as Chairman of the Development Assistance Committee, reports back on the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness...
Foreign Aid and Emerging Powers
Asian Perspectives on Official Development Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Current debates on emerging powers as foreign aid donors often fail to examine the myriad geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural tensions that influence policies of Official Development Assistance (ODA).
This book advocates a regional geopolitical approach to explaining donor-donor relationships...
Jobs For Development
Challenges and Solutions in Different Country Settings
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book is a sequel to the World Bank's World Development Report 2013: Jobs. The central message of that report was that job creation is at the heart of development. Jobs raise living standards and lift people out of poverty, they contribute to gains in aggregate productivity, and they may even...