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Learning as Development

Rethinking International Education in a Changing World

by Daniel A. Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017

Learning is the foundation of the human experience. It begins at birth and never stops, a continuous and malleable link across life stages of human development. Disparities in learning access and outcomes around the world have deep consequences for income, social mobility, health, and well-being....
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Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development

The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared

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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013

Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses...
Cover of Carbon Efficiency, Carbon Reduction Potential, and Economic Development in the People's Republic of China
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

”Carbon intensity” is the traditional measure of an economy’s carbon performance. However, it is incapable of capturing the multidimensional features of an economy’s carbon performance, particularly when increased emissions have causes other than poor emitting technology, such as changes in...
Cover of Arab Human Development in the Twenty-first Century
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

With its emphasis on the primacy of change, this study arrives at a particularly auspicious moment, as the Middle East continues to be convulsed by the greatest upheavals in generations, which have come to be known as the Arab Spring. Originally prepared as the tenth-anniversary volume of the UNDP's...
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by Hans J. Markowitsch, Harald Welzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009

Autobiographical memory constitutes an essential part of our personality, giving us the ability to distinguish ourselves as an individual with a past, present and future. This book reveals how the development of a conscious self, an integrated personality and an autobiographical memory are all intertwined,...
Cover of UN Millennium Development Library: Coming to Grips with Malaria in the New Millennium
by UN Millennium Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education,...
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Taking Social Development Seriously

The Experience of Sri Lanka

by Laksiri Jayasuriya
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010

This work presents a systematic historical and analytical understanding of Sri Lanka's social development. Instead of merely focussing on economic yardsticks, it studies the country's development in the conceptual framework of social policy, with an emphasis on the way current institutions reflect...
Cover of The Right to Development in International Law
by Khurshid Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009

The Right to Development in International Law rigorously explores the right to development (RTD) from the perspectives of international law as well as the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights and the Islamic concept of social justice in Pakistan. The volume draws on a wide range of relevant...
Cover of Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016
by The World Bank The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015

Global Financial Development Report 2015/2016 focuses on the ability of financial systems to sustainably extend the maturity of financial contracts for private agents. The challenges of extending the maturity structure of finance are often considered to be at the core of effective, sustainable financial...
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Adaptive Software Development

A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems

by Jim Highsmith
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013

This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2000).   Winner of the 2001 Software Development Jolt Product Excellence Award   This innovative text offers a practical, realistic approach to managing high-speed, high-change software development projects....
Cover of The Future of National Development Banks
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018

For a long time the topic of national development banks was limited to a debate between admirers and detractors of these institutions, often inserted into a more general debate of state versus markets. Since the 2007/8 North Atlantic financial crisis however, interest and support for these institutions...
Cover of Unfinished Reforms in the Chinese Economy
by Jun Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013

China has quickly moved into a critical point in the sense that its past performance in economic growth and development has created so many unsolved problems, and for such problems to be addressed, a better understanding of these problems and a clear policy framework are required for policy makers...
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by Yanrui Wu
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013

China has enjoyed unprecedented high economic growth for three decades. This growth has however been unbalanced and has led to some serious consequences which Chinese policy makers are now trying to rectify. One of the consequences is the deterioration of regional disparity which is threatening the...
Cover of An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009

Aimed at undergraduates and post-graduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new perspectives...
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