Development Growth category: 1653 books
Value Innovation Portfolio Management
Achieving Double-Digit Growth Through Customer Value
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
The quest for successful products — and a simple, predictable way to determine in advance which products will be successful — is a core concern of all companies. Most firms use financial projections to select the best portfolio of products in which to invest their limited human and capital resources...
Managing Development
Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to external...
by Geoff Hudson-Searle
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
A holistic overview of the essential leading methods of techniques and a hands-on guide for business professionals and those in higher education. Communications, strategy and business development and growth are essential for success and profitability in the business process and are all topics that...
Industrialization in the Gulf
A Socioeconomic Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In recent years, we have witnessed huge economic and socio-political change in the Gulf. This book examines the rapid industrialization of the region and how local economies are starting to diversify away from petroleum, exploring how this transformative process is starting to impact on the region’s...
Chicago
An economic history
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Chicago went from nothing in 1830 to become the second-largest city in the nation in 1900, while the Midwest developed to become one of the world’s foremost urban areas. This book is an economic history of the Chicago metropolitan area from the 1820s to the present. It examines the city in its Midwestern...
by Henry J. Bruton
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
This book takes on one of the great questions of the day: Why are some countries enormously rich and others so heartbreakingly poor?
Henry J. Bruton organizes the discussion around three basic ideas. The first is that well-being reflects not only the availability and distribution of goods and...
Guide to Managing Growth
Turning successes into even bigger successes
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The how-to guide to tackling business growth problems head on
Responding effectively to the demands of a growing company, regardless of size, is one of the great challenges facing businesses in this increasingly competitive climate. Successful growth requires careful attention to the robustness of...
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,...
Structural Change, Competitiveness and Industrial Policy
Painful Lessons from the European Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. The specific case of countries located in the southern periphery region has come to the centre stage, due to the harsh economic conditions that all these...
From Individual to Community
Issues in Development Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
From Individual to Community brings together a set of papers that provides critical commentaries on various facets of the ongoing process of development. The book addresses issues that concern developing countries—such as globalization, economic growth, rural transformation, gender equality, educational...
Technology and the City
Systems, applications and implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively uncharted territory. Technology and the City aims to fill that gap, exploring the growing importance of smart technologies and systems in contemporary cities, and providing an in-depth understanding of both theoretical...
Growth IQ
Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
**A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Do you know the best way to drive your company's growth? If not, it's time to boost your Growth IQ.**
Trying to find the one right move that will improve your business's performance can feel overwhelming. But, as you'll discover in Growth IQ, there...
by Ann Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Business is increasingly being called upon to demonstrate 'what more' it does for society. In a climate in which companies are frequently painted as social outlaws who need fundamentally to change their ways, this determined if ill-founded attack has been met for the most part by appeasement in corporate...
by Melvin Ayogu, Don Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
It is widely believed that economic development in much of the world is not happening quickly enough. Indeed, the standard of living in some parts of the world has actually been declining. Many experts now doubt that the solution can be purely technical and economic; it must also be political and...