Just after the close of World War II, America's political and scientific leaders reached an informal consensus on how science could best serve the nation and how government might best support science.
The microenterprise strategyhelping people start small businesseshas generated attention among policymakers and the media as a way to create jobs and help lift people out of poverty.
This landmark volume presents the results of a comprehensive and coherent in-depth assessment of Ethiopian agriculture and draws lessons from it to generate actionable recommendations that will inform policy decisions and priority setting for agricultural transformation across Africa.
The breakup of the Soviet Union and the attempted transformation of Russia into a democracy and a market economy constitute one of the most significant events of our time.
Drawing on years of research and direct experience in Bangladesh, Stiles pulls together theoretical strands from economics, sociology, and anthropology to help explain an emerging social structure in the Third World.
Taking a forward-looking approach, this book critically examines the issues and dynamics central to Africa's problematic development and situates these issues within the contents unique cultural, political, economic, and social milieu.
The word village has the evocative power of ancient shared social values based on solidarity, equality, and common expectations for the betterment of life.
Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors.
Placing the controversial globalization process in historical context, DeWitt brings this increasingly important topic to life through the experiences of the two most populous states of the Western Hemisphere-Brazil and the United States.
In 1989 the post-Communist countries of Eastern Europe opened their economies by establishing more open exchange rate policies and exchange controls and eliminating prohibitive tariffs and quotas.
The term capacity building refers to enabling the indigenous people of developing countries to carry out development processes successfully by empowering them through strengthened domestic institutions, provision of domestic markets, and improvement of local government efforts to sustain infrastructures, social institutions, and commercial institutions.
This tool kit offers a step-by-step guide for economies in Asia and the Pacific looking to design, build, and implement emission trading systems (ETS) to help speed up their transition to a greener, more inclusive future.
The new Asian Development Bank (ADB) Energy Policy, approved in October 2021, guides ADB's energy sector operations to support energy access improvement and low-carbon transition in Asia and the Pacific.
For tackling complex global challenges such as climate change, this publication advises how a Gateway Process (GP) can help the Asian Development Bank's developing member countries channel scarce public resources into viable, sustainable, and efficient infrastructure investments.
In the flush of enthusiasm to make government work better, reformers from both left and right have urged government to turn as many functions as possible over to the private sector and to allow market competition instill efficiency and choice.
A Brookings Institution Press and Inter-American Development Bank publicationThe poor in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to adverse shocks.
Against the current historical context that, the United States is in the process of forging and implementing a grand Indo-Pacific strategy, and that the U.
This unique book investigates the history and future of American Indian economic activities and explains why tribal governments and reservation communities must focus on creating sustainable privately and tribally owned businesses if reservation communities and tribal cultures are to continue to exist.
This report uses a broad range of indicators to assess the individual and collective development progress made by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines need to bolster cooperation in their special economic zones (SEZ) to spur sustainable growth.
This publication provides an overview of institutional investors' interest in green bonds issued in Malaysia, along with an assessment of the perspectives of local arrangers and underwriters on their clients' interest in green bond issuances.
Die chemische Nanotechnologie ist die gezielte Herstellung von Systemen, Materialien oder Komponenten mit nanoskaligen Abmessungen durch chemische Synthese.
Eamonn Kelly invita en este libro a reflexionar sobre las radicales transformaciones tecnológicas, políticas y sociales que ha presenciado el mundo en las últimas décadas.
Para toda organización, la innovación no sólo es sinónimo de supervivencia y crecimiento, sino que además supone una oportunidad para dirigir los designios del mercado.
La tesis que inspira este libro es la necesidad de dejar a un lado la competencia destructiva entre las empresas si se quiere ser un ganador en el futuro, ampliando los horizontes del mercado y generando valor a través de la innovación.
