The Challenge Of Development

Author : Norman L. Hicks
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1456766317
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Economic Development written by Norman L. Hicks and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a general overview of the challenges of economic development for the five billion people living in developing countries. While they constitute over 80 percent of the world's population, they account for only 40% of the world's output, and are home to 2.6 billion people living on less than $2.00 per day. Thinking on economic development has shifted over time. Early theories that stressed capital formation and a heavy reliance on the public sector proved inadequate. Gradually, economists began to see that development was a complex, multifaceted problem that combined economic issues with problems of poverty and income distribution, insititution building and governance. While there have been many failures, there have also been many successes. Countries such as China, Chile, Ghana, and Korea demonstrate that good policies and strong institutions can result in remarkable progress. However, many poor countries, particularly those in Africa continue to lag behind. Closing this gap remains a major challenge for the world, particularly as the growing population and output of developing countries accelerate tensions in such areas as trade, immigration and financial flows.

Author : Bob Moon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415600715
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development written by Bob Moon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In developing countries across the world, qualified teachers are a rarity, with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development is co-written by experts working across a wide range of developing country situations. It provides a unique overview of the crisis surrounding the provision of high-quality teachers in the developing world, and how these teachers are crucial to the alleviation of poverty. The book explores existing policy structures and identifies the global pressures on teaching, which are particularly acute in developing economies.

Author : Howard Handelman
Publisher : Pearson Educacion
ISBN 13 : 9780205870943
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Third World Development written by Howard Handelman and published by Pearson Educacion. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exploration of the political, economic and social issues that face diverse Third World countries, Howard Handelman examines the nature of underdevelopment and discusses explanatory theories of redevelopment.

Author : Anthony J. Bebbington
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848136218
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can NGOs Make a Difference? written by Anthony J. Bebbington and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of critical new directions to thinking and acting around the challenge of development alternatives. The book's originality comes from the wide-range of new case-study material it presents, the conceptual approaches it offers for thinking about development alternatives, and the practical suggestions for NGOs. At the heart of this book is the argument that NGOs can and must re-engage with the project of seeking alternative development futures for the world's poorest and more marginal. This will require clearer analysis of the contemporary problems of uneven development, and a clear understanding of the types of alliances NGOs need to construct with other actors in civil society if they are to mount a credible challenge to disempowering processes of economic, social and political development.

Author : Adebayo Adedeji
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135185018
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of African Economic Recovery and Development written by Adebayo Adedeji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special session of the UN General Assembly was held in Abuja, the new Nigerian capital in May 1988. This volume reproduces the major papers, lines of discussion and conclusions of the conference.

Author : Howard Handelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Third World Development written by Howard Handelman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prentice Hall's Research Navigator helps your students make the most of their research time. From finding the right articles and journals, to citing sources, drafting and writing effective papers, and completing research assignments, Research Navigator simplifies and streamlines the entire process.

Author : Richard J. Ward
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 020236464X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Development written by Richard J. Ward and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of the theoretical and practical problems of economic development, The Challenge of Development demonstrates how effective development theory, planning and programming derive from and are tested in firsthand field experience. Covering all aspects of development, Richard J. Ward presents chapters by leading authorities who have combined academic teaching and research with years of effort in underdeveloped countries or in the administration of foreign aid programs. The materials in The Challenge of Development are divided into six sections, providing logical, coherent coverage of each major segment of development programs: methodology, strategy and decision-making criteria in development; manpower needs and projections; the intrinsic value of land, including its agricultural potential; promoting the industrial sector; the development of infrastructure power, transportation and communications; and the social problems created by modern growth trends. In this way, it provides a balanced, practical approach to studying development problems and to working successfully in development programs. Encompassing a broad spectrum of material and illustrating the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of development, The Challenge of Development is essential reading for all students of development at every level, is a useful sourcebook for the practitioner's library and an excellent handbook for business and political officials concerned with development. Richard J. Ward has been Director of Programming, United States Agency for International Development, and Professor and Chairman of the Economics Department, Long Island University, and Chief, Planning Division in the Bureau for Near East and South Asia of the Agency for International Development. He has also worked in a number of development programs, for both government and industry, and has received the Citation for Distinguished Service of the United States Agency for International Development.

Author : Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351485377
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Development written by Jean-Pierre Changeux and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of the theoretical and practical problems of economic development, The Challenge of Development demonstrates how effective development theory, planning and programming derive from and are tested in firsthand field experience. Covering all aspects of development, Richard J. Ward presents chapters by leading authorities who have combined academic teaching and research with years of effort in underdeveloped countries or in the administration of foreign aid programs. The materials in The Challenge of Development are divided into six sections, providing logical, coherent coverage of each major segment of development programs: methodology, strategy and decision-making criteria in development; manpower needs and projections; the intrinsic value of land, including its agricultural potential; promoting the industrial sector; the development of infrastructure power, transportation and communications; and the social problems created by modern growth trends. In this way, it provides a balanced, practical approach to studying development problems and to working successfully in development programs. Encompassing a broad spectrum of material and illustrating the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the problems of development, The Challenge of Development is essential reading for all students of development at every level, is a useful sourcebook for the practitioner's library and an excellent handbook for business and political officials concerned with development.

Author : Anthony Jennings
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483161706
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Development in the Eighties Our Response written by Anthony Jennings and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Development in the Eighties: Our Response attempts to understand the demands of developing countries in order to render the present world order more equitable and habitable for all. The mosaic of contributions collectively expresses various perspectives and potential support from developed countries to the most challenging and significant human challenge for the remainder of the twentieth century: creating the conditions that will provide for the accelerated and sustained economic development of the vast majority of the human population living in developing countries. The volume contains seven chapters in which representatives of different interest groups assess their own perspectives and motivations as well as their possible contributions to the range of development problems. Key topics discussed include the circumstances in which developing and developed countries have launched upon the negotiation, and implementation, of the text to guide governments during the 1980s; EC policy toward the developing countries; and the contribution of Christians in developed countries. This volume will be useful not only to professionals in education or government concerned with development, but also to the general public in their capacities as citizens, trade-unionists, business-persons and church-goers. This text—and reactions to it—thus provide a forum in which representatives of different interest groups assess their contribution to the development effort in the eighties.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Challenge of Development written by United States. Congress. House. Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: