Development economics and emerging economies

This desk review explores the links between infrastructure development and women's time poverty in Asia and the Pacific by drawing on time-use data and reviewing existing research and evidence from impact evaluations.

Climate change is a global concern of special relevance to Southeast Asia, a region that is both vulnerable to the effects of climate change and a rapidly increasing emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs).

This report aims to demonstrate the compelling need to increase investments in natural capital in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and identifies actions now being taken regionally and nationally to manage natural capital.

The ADB Cooperation Fund for Fighting HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific benefitted from a $19.

This publication is part of a series of six country reports on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and higher education in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

The Journal of GMS Development Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed publication that seeks to promote a better understanding of a broad range of development issues of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS).

This report critically analyzes the complex environment for private sector development in Papua New Guinea, showing the country's potential to capitalize on its vast wealth well into the coming decades.

A 2001 report by the Australian Agency for International Development and the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade marked the beginning of efforts by both governments to increase their emphasis on aid harmonization in the Pacific.

This progress report developed by the Cross-Border Settlement Infrastructure Forum (CSIF), composed of the central banks and central securities depositories in 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, is an important step for the establishment of Central Securities Depository-Real-Time Gross Settlement (CSD-RTGS) Linkages as a regional settlement intermediary in the region.

Two projects in Sri Lanka employed participatory approaches, bringing key stakeholders together and facilitating women's involvement---the North East Coastal Community Development Project which was aimed to improve sustainable livelihood and natural resource management in poor coastal communities, and Component B of the Tsunami-Affected Areas Rebuilding Project, which was designed to provide an emergency response to urgent post-tsunami reconstruction challenges.

London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolized by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the old docks.

London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolized by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the old docks.

The difficult economic climate in Europe and the United States since the financial crisis is set to continue as the New Normal, despite frantic efforts to stimulate growth.

The difficult economic climate in Europe and the United States since the financial crisis is set to continue as the New Normal, despite frantic efforts to stimulate growth.

En México, el modelo de turismo sostenible fue propuesto por la Secretaría de Turismo en el Programa Sectorial de Turismo 2020-2024, en respuesta a los compromisos internacionales con la Agenda 2030 y los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

What if fourteen individuals, working for change in their own communities around the world, came together to tell their stories?

Sie hassen Ihren Job und suchen nach Strategien, um zu überleben.

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John Taylor is one of the foremost economists of our generation.

John Taylor is one of the foremost economists of our generation.

Este libro muestra las estrategias en las organizaciones productivas de la economía popular y solidaria (EPS) de la Zona 1, contemplando la problemática del sector asociativo y la relación de la Ley Orgánica de Desarrollo Fronterizo (LODF) con la asociatividad.

En Argentina, la república posible, el autor nos ofrece una inmersión cautivadora en la rica historia de una nación de contrastes y diversidad inigualable.

Kozulj propone una idea audaz y vital: si las actividades vinculadas al desarrollo urbano se reorientaran hacia la construcción y reconstrucción de ciudades sustentables, se tendería a resolver gran parte del problema del desempleo estructural.

La participación del sector privado en la agenda del desarrollo es un tema que ha venido cobrando mayor interés desde el lanzamiento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio (odm) a principios del presente siglo.

Kozulj proposes a bold and vital idea: if the activities linked to urban development were reoriented towards the construction and reconstruction of sustainable cities, this would tend to solve a large part of the problem of structural unemployment.

The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people and the division of labour, which are social institutions of the feudal period (9th15th c.

Cada epoca reinterpreta la historia del pensamiento economico a la luz de sus propias interrogantes.

El mundo pospandemia, y en particular en Latinoamérica y Argentina, presentará serios desafíos para el logro de un "desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible".

Este libro nos entrega cinco resultados de investigaciones sobre los pilares básicos de nuestra sociedad: el ambiente, la virtualización, los derechos, la educación y la empresa.

Este libro es resultado del III Congreso Internacional de Ciencias Sociales y Económicas realizado por la UPEC en abril del 2018.

Ahora contaminamos nosotros utiliza como título un argumento oído a menudo en las negociaciones sobre el cambio climático, donde las naciones menos desarrolladas sugieren que dado que las naciones desarrolladas generaron la mayor parte de la contaminación del pasado, ahora tienen la obligación histórica de satisfacer los costes asociados con la atenuación del cambio climático o la adaptación al mismo.

Este e-book foi elaborado com base em pesquisas realizadas ao longo de cerca de 2 anos, e é destinado a qualquer indivíduo existente na sociedade, visto que todos nós ambicionamos alcançar riqueza financeira.

Este e-book foi elaborado com base em pesquisas realizadas ao longo de cerca de 2 anos, e é destinado a qualquer indivíduo existente na sociedade, visto que todos nós ambicionamos alcançar riqueza financeira.

For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks.