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Understanding Human Well...
by Mark McGilli... and Matthew Clarke
With more than a billion people living on less than one dollar per day, human well-being is a core issue for both researchers and policy-makers. The Millennium Development Goals are a powerful reminder of this point. We now know more about human well-being and the related conc...
(2006)
34 Reads
Innovative communities
Community-centred Environmental Management in Asia
by Jerry Velasquez, Makiko Yashiro, Susan Yoshimura, and Izumi Ono
This book introduces the concept of community innovation and illustrates its role and impact in promoting sustainability. It includes nine case studies from the Asia-Pacific region where communities are adopting innovative methods to address complex and unpredictable environme...
(2005)
17 Reads
Financing for Developmen...
by rés Franco
Since the early 1990s, the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have joined other developing countries in an effort to bring the issue of financing for development to the agenda of the United Nations. Although the discussion had begun earlier in the 1980s in the co...
(2001)
15 Reads
Developments in Steelmak...
This publication, produced every two years,reports on trends in the steelmaking capacity in economies that are not members of the OECD.It examines the current steelmaking capacity of these economies and likely changesprojected up to the year 2010. Developments in Steelmaking ...
(2009)
8 Reads
Perspectives on Growth a...
by Rolph van de... and Anthony Shor...
The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress th...
(2003)
1 Read
Developments in Steelmak...
Published every two years, this publication reports on steelmaking capacity of non-OECD countries on a company-by-company basis, and within company, by plant. It opens with a summary of major trends by region which also makes projections for 2008. It then presents detailed tab...
(2006)
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Development Co-operation...
The OECD Development Assistance Committee's annual report on international aid. This year's edition includes an overview by the DACChairmanreviewing recent trends in aid volume, allocation, and effectiveness. Special chapters on Effective AidManagement and Aid Effectiveness ex...
(2008)
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Development Co-operation...
Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee
The authoritative source of information on the foreign aid policies and programmes of donor countries, the annual Development Co-operation Report by the Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) presents detailed statistics and analysis, this yearproviding an in...
(2006)
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Development Co-operation...
Efforts and Policies of the Members of the Development Assistance Committee
The OECD Development Assistance Committee's annual report on international aid.This year's edition includes an overview reviewing recent trends in aid volume, allocation, and effectiveness.A special chapter looks at how aid for trade can be made more effective. Preliminary fin...
(2007)
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Development Co-operation...
The Development Assistance Committee peer review of Japan's development co-operaton policies and programmes for 1996.
(2006)
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Public-Private Dialogue ...
Opportunities and Risks
Putting aside the euphoria of supporters of public-private dialogue (PPD) and the doom prophecies of its detractors, this analysis identifies the advantages that it can bring, while cautioning against the very real dangers it can present to fragile states and relatively recent...
(2007)
13 Reads
The East Asian Experienc...
Response in a Rapidly Developing Region
by Zafar Adeel
The East Asian region has seen considerable growth in its economy, industrial base, and population in the last two decades. Interestingly, all three of these factors are often linked to over-exploitation and degradation of environmental resources. East Asian Experience in Envi...
(2003)
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Old Sins
Industrial Metabolism, Heavy Metal Pollution, and Environmental Transition in Central Europe
by Stefan, erberg, Sylvia Prieler, Krzysztof Ol..., S, and er de Bruyn
Sustainable development presents important challenges to environmental research, such as developing perspectives and methods that clarify the links between societal activities, resource use, and pollution. With this challenge in mind, this book presents examples of the industr...
(2000)
6 Reads
Asia's Emerging Regional...
Reconciling Traditional and Human Security
by William T. Tow, Ramesh Thakur, and In Taek Hyun
The concept of 'human security' has captured the attention of both national policy-makers and independent analysts throughout Asia. Its most compelling feature is an emphasis on the social, economic and political well being of individuals, linking international security to the...
(2000)
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The Llano Estacado of th...
Environmental Transformation and the Prospect for Sustainability
by Elizabeth Br..., Jacque Emel ..., and Paul Robbins
This volume presents an environmental, social, and economic history of the Llano Estacado region of the US Southern High Plains. The authors illustrate the tremendous changes in environment that occurred with the European settlement of the Plains. They detail the development o...
(2000)
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Development Cooperation ...
The United Nations Volunteers in Nepal
While the role of the United Nations in world affairs is the subject of much debate and research, little empirical evidence exists regarding the effectiveness of the work of the United Nations in the economic and social fields. The purpose of Development Cooperation in Practic...
(1999)
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