Development category: 15312 books
What is Sustainable Technology?
Perceptions, Paradoxes and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Designers of technology have a major responsibility in the current age. Their designs can have tremendous effects on society, in both the short and the long term. In fact, sustainable development itself has all the characteristics of a design project, albeit a vast one. But a failed product design...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Asian Development Bank promotes the economic growth and social development of its developing member countries by means of a wide range of activities and initiatives. ADB's annual financial profile provides the facts and figures behind ADB's lending activities and describes ADB as a borrower.
Building Intelligent Information Systems Software
Introducing the Unit Modeler Development Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Building Intelligent Information Systems Software shows scientists and engineers how to build applications that model complex information, data, and knowledge without the need for coding. Traditional software development takes time and leads to inflexible, complicated applications that almost, but...
by Khee Giap Tan, Trieu Duong Luu Nguyen, Hui Yin Chuah;Duy Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
This book titled 2017 Annual Competitiveness Analysis and Impact of Exchange Rates on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to ASEAN Economies recount the development experience of ASEAN over the past 50 years, describe the long-term mega-trends which will shape ASEAN's development trajectory, and propose...
Balanced, Sustainable and Competitiveness Enhancement Study for Vietnam
A Critical Evaluation with Development Potentials
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Drawing on the studies by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS), this book titled Balanced, Sustainable and Competitiveness Enhancement Study for Vietnam: A Critical Evaluation with Development Potentials,...
by Sammis B. White, Zenia Z. Kotval
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The fully revised new edition of this textbook presents a well-balanced set of economic development financing tools and techniques focused on our current times of economic austerity. While traditional public sector techniques are evaluated and refocused, this volume emphasizes the role of the private...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
This volume is first and foremost about people and the processes needed to facilitate sharing of knowledge in order to effect positive developmental change. It is contextual and based on dialogue necessary to promote stakeholder’s participation, which is essential for the understanding of their...
Catching Up
The Limits of Rapid Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Disparities between the economic development of nations have widened throughout the twentieth century, and they show no sign of closing. In the nineteenth century, the economic potential of developed countries was three times that of the rest of the world. Today the gap is twenty times greater, and...
Development, Power, and the Environment
Neoliberal Paradox in the Age of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Unmasking the neoliberal paradox, this book provides a robust conceptual and theoretical synthesis of development, power and the environment. With seven case studies on global challenges such as under-development, food regime, climate change, dam building, identity politics, and security vulnerability,...
UN Millennium Development Library: Environment and Human Well-being
A Practical Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
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,...
Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future
The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed,...
Changing Paths
International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. This new concern with...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
One of the most widely used assessments of infants and toddlers, the BAYLEY-III measures the major areas of development including cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional, and adaptive functioning. This book provides an introduction into use of the BAYLEY-III in each of these five areas. For each...
Introduction to JavaScript
Learn how to create scripts in JavaScript for your website
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Learn how to program with JavaScript. After reading this guide, you will know how to create a program in JavaScript, how to define functions and objects, and how to read and modify an HTML document dynamically.
Table of Contents
JAVASCRIPT
Introduction to JavaScript
Implementing JavaScript
Variables
Strings
Booleans
Arrays
Conditionals...