Development

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch...

This book examines driving factors and the effects of globalisation on economic development through firm and product-level data.The book is organised into four themes, i.e., productivity, innovation, wage and income gap, and within-firm reallocation of...

This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more...

This book offers guidance on the principles, methods, and practice of impact evaluation. It contains material for a range of audiences, from those who may use or manage impact evaluations to applied researchers.Impact evaluation is an empirical approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812933055Author Ram CharanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 270gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Anders Aslund is known to make bold predictions that initially arouse controversy but soon become common wisdom. In Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989), he foresaw the collapse of the Soviet political and economic system. After Russia's...

Strategic foresight is discipline that organizations adopt to gather, interpret, manage information about the future environment they plan to operate in. This book introduces the concept of strategic foresight and advocates a holistic and systemic...

Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632650603Author James C. CrimminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Essays on the theme of economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe.About the AuthorLeszek Balcerowicz is Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Poland.Reviews"In this book Prof Balcerowicz...

Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability adopts a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes in order to examine the contributions of the arts in promoting sustainable development and culture at a grassroots level and...

A chronological account of industrial policy This book surveys governmental industrial policy in Britain from 1900 to the early 1990s, exploring the perennial concern of governments to improve the efficiency and the competitiveness of British industry...

Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989823326Author Jeremiah OwyangFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Social MeditatePublisher Social MeditateWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and "green urbanism," both the ecological and equity impacts of these developments are often overlooked. One result is what has been called environmental gentrification, a...

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation,...

This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578268603Author Sandra Ann HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S.

An easy-to-use guide for local leaders working to engage their community in growing a more equitable, healthy, and sustainable future Building Community is the easy-to-use guide that distills the success of healthy thriving communities from around the...

Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number crunchers - an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or good governance. Yet it is exactly these issues that pervade conversations...

Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross Domestic Product...

When Wisconsin governor Scott Walker stood shoulder-to-shoulder with President Trump and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan at the White House in July 2017, they painted a glorious picture of his state's future. Foxconn, the enormous China-based electronics...

In our changing consumer landscape, it's not enough to produce an outstanding product or service. To grow valuable relationships with customers, organisations must successfully bridge the gap between data and customer experience. This accessible book...

Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical collection to combine geographical and political ecological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881321111Author Edward GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Peterson Institute for International EconomicsPublisher The Peterson Institute for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994584793Author Deanna ShantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Katrina RuthPublisher Katrina RuthWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 8mm

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are...

Joan Robinson shows how the economic mechanisms that produce wealth in the midst of growing misery can be understood. For this purpose she uses the classical theory of accumulation and the modern theory of international trade and finance. Her simple but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492004949Author Matthijs GerritsFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Warden PressPublisher Warden PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Offers a surprising and sobering view of war and violence in the developing worldAbout the AuthorChristopher Cramer is Professor in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.Reviews"There is a growing preoccupation... of...

Antoine van Agtmael coined the term "emerging markets" and built a career and a multibillion-dollar investing firm centered on these surging economies that would, over time, supplant the West as engines of wealth and prosperity. The trend held for...

Communicating Sustainability is a book of evidence-based strategies for making sustainability vivid, accessible, and comprehensible. To do this, it brings together research from a range of specialties including cognitive psychology, visual perception,...

What is the role of trade to both expedite growth and to provide the transformative innovations needed in our post-Pandemic, post-Brexit, unstable world? Using historical examples to demonstrate how complex forces interplay into virtuous or vicious...

Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts. He selects defining moments in Thailand's history to convey key economic ideas worthy of classroom discussion...

In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment,...

The current approach to resolving sovereign debt crises does not work: sovereign debt restructurings come too late and address too little. Though unresolved debt crises impose enormous costs on societies, many recent restructurings have not been deep...

How do political institutions help promote prosperity in some countries and poverty in others? What can be done to encourage leaders to govern not for patronage but for economic growth? In this book, such distinguished political economists as Douglass...

As managers find that they must grapple with increasingly complex social and environmental problems as an integral part of business strategy and operations, they require different knowledge, skills and competencies than in the past. Mainstreaming...

Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This non-technical introduction to development studies explores the dynamics of...