Development Growth category: 1653 books
by Heike Mayer, Fritz Sager, David Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’ (SCCs) – tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the political, economic, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development. This has led to a feeling that transnational learning strategies are more and more desirable.
In practice, the field of transnational learning has been dominated by various...
Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization
Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
A host of internationally eminent scholars are brought together here to explore the structural causes of rural poverty and income inequality, as well as the processes of social exclusion and political subordination encountered by the peasantry and rural workers across a wide range of countries.
This...
Privatisation and Development
Theory, Policy and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The book interrogates privatisation in terms of its effectiveness vis-à-vis its stated goals and more fundamentally in terms of its success in delivering economic development. It investigates why privatisation was successful in the UK and other OECD countries and why it has not met with equal success...
by Khee Giap Tan, Mulya Amri, Nursyahida Ahmad;Diamanta Vania Lavi
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Indonesia's diverse economic landscape and growing importance in the global and regional stages warrant deeper understanding of the economy at sub-national levels. This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) is an update of ACI's annual study of the competitiveness landscape of 34 Indonesian...
by Dr Charu Jain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Corporations are slowly realizing the impact of their business on the environment and society. They are also facing increasing pressure from their stakeholders to follow responsible business practices. Many companies are looking to incorporate and manage a sustainable business. However, they are unaware...
Innovation in China
The Chinese Software Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A key question for China, which has for some time been a leading global manufacturing base, is whether China can progress from being a traditional centre of manufacturing to becoming a centre for innovation. In this book, Shang-Ling Jui focuses on China’s software industry and examines the complete...
Place-making and Urban Development
New challenges for contemporary planning and design
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles. Recently, new expertise maintains that place-making...
Post-Metropolitan Territories
Looking for a New Urbanity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly distinguishable from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries due to the shifting concepts of both the city and the metropolis. International literature highlights how what we have historically...
Co-Creation, Innovation and New Service Development
The Case of Videogames Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Involving customers in the development and production of new services becomes a powerful force across many creative industries. Customers can directly supply the firm with innovative ideas, provide skilled labour, and act as a powerful force in marketing. Firms across the world, as they seek to innovate...
Learning From China?
Development and Environment in Third World Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples’ Republic of China. It covers industrialisation, food production, energy use and landscape and settlement planning.
The...
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...
Crisis Spaces
Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe – Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece – has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations.
This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship...
Running Lean
Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
We live in an age of unparalleled opportunity for innovation. We’re building more products than ever before, but most of them fail—not because we can’t complete what we set out to build, but because we waste time, money, and effort building the wrong product.
What we need is a systematic...