Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Acronyms Relating to International Development
Author: Acronyms Relating to International Development
Author: Acronyms Relating to International Development
Author: Margaret CarrollPublisher: Centre de recherches pour le développement international
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309457637
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.
Guide to International Development
Author: Development Resource Centre StaffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780958287333
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The world of international development is awash with terms and acronyms mysterious to the uninitiated and impossible to keep abreast of for the most deeply submerged. This guide gives you the tools you need to navigate all those complex terms and jargon. Over 1200 terms covered! This guide not only defines and explains terms in readable language, but also provides you with brief summaries of the critiques surrounding controversial terms. Some of the subject areas the guide covers include: agriculture, aid, conflict and security, cultural survival, disaster relief and management, economy, education, environmental issues, food security, gender, globalisation, governance, health, human rights, indigenous rights, land use, migration and refuge, NGOs/civil society, peace, poverty, privatisation, trade and water rights. The Guide is an invaluable resource for all who are passionate about international development and global issues. The easy-to-read format and concise explanations and critiques give you the key to the language of development at your fingertips, empowering practitioners, activists, academics and students to be more effective at meetings, workshops, during field and secondary research and in class. This Guide offers: easy-to-read colour format with concise, accessible explanations and critiques; wide coverage of general and specialised terms in all areas of development, relevant for everyone from the interested public and undergraduate students to academics and those working in development; a comprehensive guide to the UN and other major global players, as well as regional organisations, key political movements, strategies and trends in the Pacific; quick access to the meanings of acronyms and terms used now in written and spoken debate, including the latest terms from the official reports and the hallways of key regional and global meetings; Pacific reference maps and reference lists for key regional organizations.
International Lexicon of Selected Terms and Acronyms
Author: Acronyms List
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Author: United States. Joint Chiefs of StaffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Acronyms List 1976
Author: Carroll, MargaretPublisher: Bibliothèque, Centre de recherches pour le développement international
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography
Author: Dariusz WójcikPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191072176
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1145
Book Description
The first fifteen years of the 21st century have thrown into sharp relief the challenges of growth, equity, stability, and sustainability facing the world economy. In addition, they have exposed the inadequacies of mainstream economics in providing answers to these challenges. This volume gathers over 50 leading scholars from around the world to offer a forward-looking perspective of economic geography to understanding the various building blocks, relationships, and trajectories in the world economy. The perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the book should be an essential reference for students, researchers, as well as strategists and policy makers. Building on the success of the first edition, this volume offers a radically revised, updated, and broader approach to economic geography. With the backdrop of the global financial crisis, finance is investigated in chapters on financial stability, financial innovation, global financial networks, the global map of savings and investments, and financialization. Environmental challenges are addressed in chapters on resource economies, vulnerability of regions to climate change, carbon markets, and energy transitions. Distribution and consumption feature alongside more established topics on the firm, innovation, and work. The handbook also captures the theoretical and conceptual innovations of the last fifteen years, including evolutionary economic geography and the global production networks approach. Addressing the dangers of inequality, instability, and environmental crisis head-on, the volume concludes with strategies for growth and new ways of envisioning the spatiality of economy for the future.