Development category: 15312 books
Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment
The Case of India
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the...
Capitalist Modernization
LEADISM, #1
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book is the first part of a trilogy in the genres of the Social sciences, management, leadership, education, and inspirational studies, where the author addresses issues in the political economy of capitalism. Set in a historical and developmental context, the work reviews Ashton’s “the industrial...
Health Technology Development and Use
From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses,...
Malaysia@50
Economic Development, Distribution, Disparities
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963. It was then seen as an unlikely nation hastily put together as a federation of British controlled territories in the region. Brunei's refusal to join at the eleventh hour and Singapore's secession before its second...
Sustainability Indicators
Measuring the Immeasurable?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers...
Law and Development
An Institutional Critique
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This book draws on the analytical framework of New Institutional Economics (NIE) to critically examine the role which law and the legal system play in economic development. Analytical concepts from NIE are used to assess policies which have been supported by multilateral development organisations...
Innovation, Product Development and Commercialization
Case Studies and Key Practices for Market Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
To succeed in the 21st century, firms must integrate their business, market, technology and resource strategies into a holistic product approach, and match technological innovation to market opportunities. Unlike other books on product development that limit their scope to the product development process,...
Beyond Aid
The Integration of Sustainable Development in a Coherent International Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
In September 2015, world leaders adopted a new post-2015 development agenda, centered on 17 Sustainable Development Goals intended to transform the world. This report provides basic information about the new agenda—its content, aspirations, and global partnership approach. It describes the complex...
Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development 2017
Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, all nations committed to a set of universal, integrated and transformational goals and targets, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Translating the new vision of the SDGs into action is a major challenge. This year, Ministers...
The Political Economy of Low Carbon Resilient Development
Planning and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have been implemented across several regions. Some governments are steered by international frameworks, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change...
CAREC 2030
Connecting the Region for Shared and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program, now 16 years in operation, has recorded impressive achievements in regional economic cooperation, particularly in the areas of transport, energy, trade facilitation, and trade policy. From 2001 to end September 2017, investments in member...
by Daria Taglioni, Deborah Winkler
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Economic, technological, and political shifts as well as changing business strategies have driven firms to unbundle production processes and disperse them across countries. Thanks to these changes, developing countries can now increase their participation in global value chains (GVCs) and thus become...
Foreign Aid for Development
Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big...
Asian and Pacific Cities
Development Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally distinctive, and economically powerful region in the world. 16 major cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Santiago, located...