Development category: 15312 books
Managing Technological Innovation
Tools and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The management of technological innovation is both an art, as well as a science; the process involves the know-how and technological core skills to deliver the functionality on the one hand, and (with an ear on the ground) the ability to identify changes in technologies to come up with new innovations...
International Handbook on Adolescent Health and Development
The Public Health Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This comprehensive reference uses an ecological perspective to sort out the complex mix of biological, psychological, social, and other factors influencing adolescent health as well as shaping professional responses to the needs of adolescents. Describing critical concerns at the global level and...
The Aid Lab
Understanding Bangladesh's Unexpected Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
From an unpromising start as 'the basket-case' to present day plaudits for its human development achievements, Bangladesh plays an ideological role in the contemporary world order, offering proof that the neo-liberal development model works under the most testing conditions. How were such rapid gains...
Spaces and Places in Central and Eastern Europe
Historical Trends and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia), was defined by these countries differences, rather than their common ideological...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Social enterprises hold the potential to make India's spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. India's rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate extreme poverty, which encompasses nearly half the country's population. Reasons for this situation include inadequate infrastructure,...
Social Regeneration and Local Development
Cooperation, Social Economy and Public Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Social regeneration is about the transformative processes that, through institutional choices that embody cooperation and inclusion, develop opportunities and capabilities for weak categories, and transversally for society. The challenge of social regeneration can be addressed, in part, through organisational...
Development and Underdevelopment
A Profile of the Third World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Initially published in 1987, this work deals with crucial aspects of development, including disparities in global patterns of production and consumption. John Cole examines the exhaustion of non-renewable resources and the destruction of the natural environment and, on the potentially positive side,...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This publication serves to inform those carrying out a project that is financed in whole or in part by a loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), ADB-financed grant, or ADB-administered funds, of the policies that govern the procurement of goods, works and services required for the project.
The Reality of Aid 1997-1998
An independent review of development cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
NOW IN ITS FIFTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid continues to present the most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis available of the aid and development policies of the world's richest nations, and exposes the gaps between rhetoric and reality. Part I presents a consideration of current...
Impact of Rich Countries' Policies on Poor Countries
Towards a Level Playing Field in Development Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"All United Nations heads of state have endorsed the Millennium Development Goals, which aim to reduce the incidence of absolute poverty by half by 2015. To reach those goals, growth in developing countries will have to be twice the levels achieved in the 1990s for the next fifteen years. This...
Community-Based Urban Development
Evolving Urban Paradigms in Singapore and Seoul
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life. Singapore and Seoul are known for their rapid economic...
The History of Development
From Western Origins to Global Faith
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
In this classic text, now in its fourth edition, Gilbert Rist provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. He traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of US hegemony,...
Smart Metropolitan Regional Development
Economic and Spatial Design Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This bookdiscusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development. It highlights how smart metropolitan regional development can energize, reorganize and transform the legacy economy into a smart economy; how it can help...
International Aid and the Making of a Better World
Reflexive Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into...