Economic Development category: 2617 books
Youth-led Development
Harnessing the energy of youth to make poverty history
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Many strange things are done in the name of ?development?: agencies build concrete boxes with tin roofs, cram 120 children into them and call it ?education?; millions are invested in youth?training? but little in job creation, which means youth move from being unskilled unemployed to skilled unemployed....
Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth
Industrial Upgrading and Diversification in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This report discusses key policy challenges that need to be addressed if the Philippines were to embark on sustainable and inclusive growth. We take the view that the main reason behind the Philippines' lagging growth and development outcomes in the regional context lies in a sluggish transformation...
World Development Report 2017
Governance and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Why are carefully designed, sensible policies too often not adopted or implemented? When they are, why do they often fail to generate development outcomes such as security, growth, and equity? And why do some bad policies endure? World Development Report 2017: Governance and the Law addresses these fundamental...
by Musaba D. Chailunga
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Traditional theories of development continue to come up short in Africa, and its time to explore different models to achieve success.
Author Musaba D. Chailunga, a Zambian living in Canada, calls upon his expertise as a software developer to seek better solutions to Africas problems. He says...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This publication outlines the five priority areas and three modalities of ADB's approach to climate change: expanding the use of clean energy, encouraging sustainable transport and urban development, managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration, promoting climate-resilient development, and strengthening related policies and institutions.
Inclusive Aid
Changing Power and Relationships in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Rapid and profound changes are taking place in international development. The past two decades have promoted the ideals of participation and partnership, yet key decisions affecting people's lives continue to be made without sufficient attention to the socio-political realities of the countries in...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been working closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea---collectively known as ASEAN+3---to foster the development of local currency bond markets and facilitate regional...
The Power of Labelling
How People are Categorized and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
�The Power of Labelling illuminates a fundamental and intriguing dimension of social and political life. Striking cases from a range of policy contexts generate eyeopening analyses of labelling�s causes and consequences, uses and abuses, and of alternatives in thinking and relating.� DES GASPER,...
Ethics of Global Development
Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local, national, and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing the role of ethics in development...
UN Millennium Development Library: Toward Universal Primary Education
Investments, Incentives and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
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,...
Development Planning in South Africa
Provincial Policy and State Power in the Eastern Cape
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious...
Knowledge for Development?
Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse...
Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City
Hinduism and urbanisation in Jaipur
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
First published in 1981, this book concerns specifically the Kenyan experience with regards to development planning but, given that the problems of hunger poverty and underdevelopment manifest themselves in slightly different forms across all African countries, this book has considerable relevance...