While Asia has the world's fastest-growing economy, 29 of 48 countries assessed by the Asian Water Development Outlook are water-insecure, posing a threat to the region's continued growth.
Good corporate governance practices reduce vulnerability to financial crises, reinforce property rights, reduce the cost of capital, and lead to greater capital market development.
This energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map documents the status and strategic priorities of the Government of the Philippines in the energy sector.
The book focuses on Indonesia's most pressing labor market challenges and associated policy options to achieve higher and more inclusive economic growth.
The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds, of which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a major partner in Asia and the Pacific, delivering investments through six country programs (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, and Tonga) and one regional program for the Pacific.
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon inance.
Die Invasion Norwegens durch Nazi-Deutschland, die sogenannte "Weserübung Nord", und der darauf folgende Versuch der Befreiung Norwegens durch die Alliierten fand vom 9.
The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe.
Any consideration of the 20th century would be incomplete without a discussion of Nazi Germany, an extraordinary regime which dominated European history for 12 years, and left a legacy that still echoes with us today.
The purpose of putting this book in your hands is to communicate to you the value and strength that must sustain you through this period of transition in which we find ourselves, as well as to reveal something of the solid and healthy foundation on which it is built the future of the Incoming Age.
"Tanto los psicólogos como los historiadores han demostrado que el recuerdo de acontecimientos pasados no es estable, sino cambiante, y está sujeto a la influencia de las circunstancias actuales y los proyectos futuros de los individuos o los grupos sociales.
Die Atlantikschlacht war der längste durchgehende militärische Feldzug im Zweiten Weltkrieg, dauerte von 1939 bis zur Niederlage Nazi-Deutschlands 1945 und ist ein wichtiger Teil der Marinegeschichte des Zweiten Weltkriegs.
The powerful, disturbing history of Nazi Europe by Mark Mazower, one of Britain's leading historians and bestselling author of Dark Continent and Governing the World Hitler's Empire charts the landscape of the Nazi imperial imagination - from those economists who dreamed of turning Europe into a huge market for German business, to Hitler's own plans for new transcontinental motorways passing over the ethnically cleansed Russian steppe, and earnest internal SS discussions of political theory, dictatorship and the rule of law.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented.
Die Invasion Norwegens durch Nazi-Deutschland, die sogenannte "Weserübung Nord", und der darauf folgende Versuch der Befreiung Norwegens durch die Alliierten fand vom 9.
Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity.
A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World.
Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horrors of this devastating war.
Im Mai 1940 beginnt die 51-jährige Anna Haag ein schonungslos offenes und regimekritisches Tagebuch zu führen, das sie über Jahre im Kohlenkeller versteckt.
