Author : Economic and Social Research Institute
Publisher : ESRI
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Economic development projects
ISBN : 0707002214
Provides an analysis of the Operational Programmes relating to the NDP and the CSF plans. Covers issues of major investments and expenditures.
Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 929257924X
The 1997 Asian financial crisis hit the region and became a defining moment for Asia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). As ADB participated in coordinated crisis responses, Asian policy makers used this opportunity to reassess their economic policies in a fundamental way. This volume presents how ADB met the challenges during the fourth decade of designing strategies to respond to rapid changes in the region following the Asian financial crisis, and responding to the changes in international development thinking. Several important policies and strategies were approved, including ADB's Poverty Reduction Strategy as well as ADB's first Long-Term Strategic Framework to 2015. ADB embarked on two major reorganizations (in 2002 and 2006) and committed to an internal reform agenda to be a more responsive, relevant, and results-oriented organization. ADB also took a proactive role in postconflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, and Timor-Leste. ADB also needed to respond to a series of external shocks such as the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic in 2003, the Asian tsunami in 2004, and the Pakistan earthquake in 2005.
Author : GK Hall
Publisher : Thorndike Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2002-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780783896526
Author : IBP, Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1438726988
Kiribati Economic & Development Strategy Handbook
Author : Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521001342
Corporate loggers have damaged much of the tropical forest throughout the Asia-Pacific over the last four decades. Despite a steady rise in global and local concern, few firms have changed their practices. Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific examines why and how loggers have resisted and ignored calls for environmental reforms. Concentrating on the period after 1990, the book explains what is happening on the ground and highlights the structures within which firms and governments operate. Within this broader context the author considers a range of factors including: the science of tropical forest management, the capacity of states to regulate and enforce rules, the relative power of environmental reformers, and the 1997-9 Asian financial crisis. This is a constructive, insightful approach to a depressing, yet urgent, problem. It will be accessible to academic and student readers as well as those in corporations, government and NGOs.
Author : Doris Schmied
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1351143069
Instigated by technological and political change, Europe's rural areas have undergone profound and all-pervasive restructuring processes. Although the impact of these processes has often been depicted negatively, this is not always the case. Bringing together a range of comparative case studies from France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Portugal, the UK and other countries, this book provides a comprehensive and balanced picture of rural change over the past five decades. It explores which aspects of the European countryside have benefited and which have suffered as a consequence of the often contradictory forces of restructuring. The book looks into economic aspects as well as into the social impact of rural change. The final part examines regional issues and illustrates how different rural areas have responded to the transformative pressures.
Author : Jesse C. Ribot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136869514
This volume queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The case studies presented here use a comparative framework to characterize the degree to which natural resource decentralizations can be said to be taking place and, where possible, to measure their social and environmental consequences. In general, the cases show that threats to national-level interests are producing resistance that is fettering the struggle for reform.
Author : Olivier Serrat
Publisher : ADB Knowledge Solutions
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Knowledge management
ISBN : 9290920483
Learning in Development tells the story of independent evaluation in ADB from its early years to the expansion of activities under a broader mandate points up the application of knowledge management to sense making, and brings to light the contribution that knowledge audits can make to organizational learning. It identifies the 10 challenges that ADB must overcome to develop as a learning organization and specifies practicable next steps to conquer each. The messages of Learning in Development will echo outside ADB and appeal to the development community and people having interest in knowledge and learning.
Author : Ryan Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136060502
A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi, and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies, and politics of the postcolonial city.
Author : Guillaume Burghouwt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780754645061
Guillaume Burghouwt explores airline network development and airport planning in the deregulated EU air transport market. The study provides airports with information about ways of dealing with increasing uncertainty resulting from changing airline network behaviour.
