Development Growth category: 1653 books
by Mattoo Aaditya ; Payton Lucy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant...
Services Trade and Development
The Experience of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2007
Some see trade in services as irrelevant to the development agenda for least developed countries (LDCs). Others see few benefits from past market openings by LDCs. This book debunks both views. It finds that serious imperfections in Zambia's reform of services trade deprived the country of significant...
Confronting Reality
Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary...
Foresight in Organizations
Methods and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Foresight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other. This innovative volume offers the reader the ability to carry out a study of the future by him-...
by Naazneen Barma, Kai Kaiser, Tuan Minh Le
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
This volume focuses on the political economy surrounding the detailed decisions that governments make at each step of the value chain for natural resource management. From the perspective of public interest or good governance, many resource-dependent developing countries pursue apparently short-sighted...
The Challenges of Doing Business in Papua New Guinea
An Analytical Summary of the 2007 Business Environment Survey by the Institute of National Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
This report summarizes the results of an extensive survey of the business community on the challenges of doing business in Papua New Guinea. It finds that despite some improvement in the business environment following a similar survey conducted in 2002, progress has been disappointing. Many of the...
Social Media in Business
Succeeding in the new Internet Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Product Description:……..Social Media in Business provides an overview of the opportunities social media offers to a business and a concrete plan to help managers and decision-makers, effectively, integrate social media platforms into their current organizational structure. What are the key aims of...
Foreign Direct Investment
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) studies have evolved as one of the mainstreams in business strategy. This book presents a comprehensive perspective on the motivations behind the studies, the effects of FDI, and how it can be utilized and extended to other areas of studies. Written with a global perspective,...
by Schiff Maurice; Ozden Caglar
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
International migration has become a central element of international relations and global integration due to its rapidly increasing economic, social, and cultural impact in both source and destination countries. This book provides new evidence on the impact of migration and remittances on several development...
Value
How to talk about what you do so people want to buy it
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Why is it so hard to win new business? That’s a good question and this book is designed to help you answer it. Value is for people who work in services industries and in services-based professions like human services, professional services, and complex technical services. In order to use your expertise...
by Robinson Marguerite S.
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2001
This book focuses on how the demand for microfinance can be met on a global scale. It documents the contributions of institutions and of people who have led the development of commercial finance for the poor, and it analyzes the principles on which the microfinance revolution is based. In sum, this work...
by G. C. Allen, Donnithorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development charts the activities of Western firms in China and Japan from the middle of the nineteenth century, when those countries were opened to foreign trade, until recently.
The organization of the Western business undertakings, the types of firms concerned...
Sustainable Management Development in Africa
Building Capabilities to Serve African Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Sustainable Management Development in Africa examines how African management and business scholarship can serve African and multinational management and organizations operating in Africa. In a broader sense, this book, within an African context, explores how human capital and intellectual capabilities...
by Ocampo Jose Antonio; Martin Juan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
Customers in the US and Canada please order from Stanford University Press at (800) 621-2736 or visit their website at www.sup.org. In this book, ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) draws upon the Latin American and Caribbean region's experience in order to formulate a historical...