A Road To Development
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| Author | : Richard Robinson |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 539 |
| Release | : 2018-10-09 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1482288206 |
Developing countries in the tropics have different natural conditions and different institutional and financial situations to industrialized countries. However, most textbooks on highway engineering are based on experience from industrialized countries with temperate climates, and deal only with specific problems. Road Engineering for Development (published as Highway and Traffic Engineering in Developing Countries in its first edition) provides a comprehensive description of the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads in developing countries. It covers a wide range of technical and non-technical problems that may confront road engineers working in this area. The technical content of the book has been fully updated and current development issues are focused on. Designed as a fundamental text for civil engineering students this book also offers a broad, practical view of the subject for practising engineers. It has been written with the assistance of a number of world-renowned specialist professional engineers with many years experience in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Central America.
| Author | : Adebayo O. Olukoshi |
| Publisher | : Nordic Africa Institute |
| Total Pages | : 90 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Africa |
| ISBN | : 9789171063601 |
States that the emerging vision in Africa is toward the development of an adaptive and diversified economy, with an increased role for the private sector and a reduced role for the state in directly productive economic activities. This vision must incorporate : a growing, diversified and flexible economy; incorporation of poverty alleviation in any strategy to improve conditions; a competitive private sector; and, a low profile for the state in production. Stresses that appropriate structural adjustme.
| Author | : Edward R. Carr |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2011-02-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0230117260 |
In Delivering Development, author Edward Carr calls into question the very universal, unquestioned assumptions about globalization, development, and environmental change that undergird much of development and economic policy. Here he demonstrates how commonly held beliefs about globalization and development have failed the global poor. Over his 13 years of working along what he calls "globalization's shoreline," a world region buffeted by the economic, political, and environmental decisions of those living in wealthier places, Carr has concluded that most experts misunderstand what they are trying to fix, and cannot tell if they are fixing it. Delivering Development is an eye opening, you-are-there book that compels the reader to question conventional wisdom, redefines what assistance to the developing world really means, and explores alternative ways of achieving meaningful, enduring improvements to human well-being.
| Author | : Bjørn Olav Utvik |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Islamism is often portrayed as a reaction against, or at best a belated accommodation to, modernization. Refuting this dismissive opinion, Bjorn Utvik explores the movement through the lens of its engagement with social and economic change in Egypt. Utvik provides a comprehensive picture of debates within mainstream Islamist groups that are grappling with concrete economic issues. He also marshals powerful empirical evidence of the modernizing tendencies of these groups. The economic discourse of the Egyptian Islamists, he argues, echoes that of radical nationalism in its support for justice, development, and independence, tempered by advocacy of a moral economy as a platform from which to combat not only the injustices of the current order, but also the archaic social practices and attitudes that are hindering development."
| Author | : Linda G. Morra-Imas |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 611 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0821379119 |
'The Road to Results: Designing and Conducting Effective Development Evaluations' presents concepts and procedures for evaluation in a development context. It provides procedures and examples on how to set up a monitoring and evaluation system, how to conduct participatory evaluations and do social mapping, and how to construct a "rigorous" quasi-experimental design to answer an impact question. The text begins with the context of development evaluation and how it arrived where it is today. It then discusses current issues driving development evaluation, such as the Millennium Development Goals and the move from simple project evaluations to the broader understandings of complex evaluations. The topics of implementing 'Results-based Measurement and Evaluation' and constructing a 'Theory of Change' are emphasized throughout the text. Next, the authors take the reader down 'the road to results, ' presenting procedures for evaluating projects, programs, and policies by using a 'Design Matrix' to help map the process. This road includes: determining the overall approach, formulating questions, selecting designs, developing data collection instruments, choosing a sampling strategy, and planning data analysis for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed method evaluations. The book also includes discussions on conducting complex evaluations, how to manage evaluations, how to present results, and ethical behavior--including principles, standards, and guidelines. The final chapter discusses the future of development evaluation. This comprehensive text is an essential tool for those involved in development evaluation.
| Author | : Simelane, Thokozani |
| Publisher | : Africa Institute of South Africa |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2018-11-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0798305266 |
China’s emphasis on infrastructure development has received support from African leaders. Its focus on infrastructure development in Africa was endorsed by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between China and the African Union on 27 January 2015. The agreement outline plans for connecting African countries through transportation infrastructure projects, including modern highways, airports, and high speed railways. At the heart of Belt and Road Initiative lies the creation of an economic land belt that includes countries on the original Silk Road through Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe, as well as a maritime “road” that links China’s port facilities with the African coast, pushing up through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean. China has from the outset emphasised that the Belt and Road Initiative will be developed within the framework of the five principles. These entails mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty; non-aggression; non-interference in each other’s internal affairs; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful coexistence. This volume provides an analysis of this stance by both African and Chinese scholars. Africa through its Agenda 2063 has been driving, among others, the re-industrialisation of its economies, improved connectivity and infrastructure development, diversification of energy sources, technology transfer and skills development. The Belt and Road Initiative provides an alternative path for Africa to realise some of these milestones.
| Author | : OECD |
| Publisher | : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Infrastructure (Economics) |
| ISBN | : 9789264255500 |
This report combines empirical research on the relationship between road infrastructure, inclusive economic development and traffic safety with an assessment of policies and governance structures to help governments find ways to create effective, safe and inclusive transport infrastructures.
| Author | : Stanley C. Ross |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 157 |
| Release | : 2015-11-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1785607022 |
The primary purpose of The Road to Self Leadership Development is to provide individuals who want to become a leader with a systematic approach for learning how to first learn to become a self-leader. Readers learn that to lead others involves learning how to lead the self and self-leadership is all about improving feelings of self-worth.
| Author | : Shenggen Fan |
| Publisher | : Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
| Total Pages | : 60 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0896291413 |
Since 1985, the Chinese government has given high priority to building roads, particularly high-quality roads that connect industrial centers. This report evaluates the contribution roads have made to poverty reduction and economic growth in China over the last two decades. It disaggregates road infrastructure into different classes to account for differences in their quality, and then estimates the impact of road investments on overall economic growth, agricultural growth, urban growth, urban poverty reduction, and rural poverty reduction. The report makes the case for a greater focus on low-quality and rural roads in future infrastructure investment strategies in China. It does so by showing how investing in low-quality and rural roads will generate larger marginal returns, raise more people out of poverty per yuan invested, and reduce regional development disparity more sharply than investing in high-quality roads. The study's findings will have considerable implications for China's infrastructure policy
| Author | : Justin Yifu Lin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2017-01-20 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1316943216 |
Developing countries have for decades been trying to catch up with the industrialized high-income countries, but only a few have succeeded. Historically, structural transformation has been a powerful engine of growth and job creation. Traditional development aid is inadequate to address the bottlenecks for structural transformation, and is hence ineffective. In this book, Justin Yifu Lin and Yan Wang use the theoretical foundations of New Structural Economics to examine South-South development aid and cooperation from the angle of structural transformation. By studying the successful economic transformation of countries such as China and South Korea through 'multiple win' solutions based on comparative advantages and economy of scale, and by presenting new ideas and different perspectives from emerging market economies such as Brazil, India and other BRICS countries, they bring a new narrative to broaden the ongoing discussions of post-2015 development aid and cooperation as well as the definitions of aid and cooperation.
