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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “united nations development programme”
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  • Human Development Report 2023/2024

    Breaking the Gridlock - Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World

    by United Nations Development Programme ...
    Series series Human Development Report
    Today, collective action on challenges ranging from climate change mitigation to peace and security is frustratingly slow or stymied altogether. Lack of trust and polarization--both associated with insecurity--exacerbate the gridlock. Shared, interlinked global challenges, like the pandemic and its recovery, are outpacing our willingness and our institutions’ capacities to respond to them. Why, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Development Report 2025

    A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI

    by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ...
    Series series Human Development Report
    Artificial intelligence (AI) has broken into a dizzying gallop. While AI feats grab headlines, they privilege technology in a make-believe vacuum, obscuring what really matters: people’s choices. The choices that people have and can realize, within ever expanding freedoms, are essential to human development, whose goal is for people to live lives they value and have reason to value. A world with ... Read more

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    Trust but Verify

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty

    Edited by David Brady, Linda M. Burton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Despite remarkable economic advances in many societies during the latter half of the twentieth century, poverty remains a global issue of enduring concern. Poverty is present in some form in every society in the world, and has serious implications for everything from health and well-being to identity and behavior. Nevertheless, the study of poverty has remained disconnected across disciplines. The ... Read more

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  • Development Economics Through The Decades: A Critical Look At Thirty Years Of The World Development Report

    by Yusuf. Shahid ...
    Since 1978, the World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) has provided in-depth analysis and policy recommendations on a specific and important aspect of international development from agriculture, the role of the state, economic growth, and labor to infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. In the process, it has become a highly influential publication that is consulted by ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Educating Children in Conflict Zones

    Research, Policy, and Practice for Systemic Change--A Tribute to Jackie Kirk

    by Karen Mundy, Sarah Dryden-Peterson ...
    Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by leading researchers on education in war and other conflict zones, the volume provides a comprehensive and critical ... Read more

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  • Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

    by Dirk-Jan Koch ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them.The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds of ... Read more

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  • Our Shrinking Planet

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    by Massimo Livi-Bacci ...
    In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little growth, populations in poor countries will double or even triple, having a much higher percentage of young people.Against this ... Read more

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  • Inclusion Matters

    The Foundation for Shared Prosperity

    by World Bank ...
    Series series New Frontiers of Social Policy
    This report tries to put boundaries around the abstraction that is "social inclusion". It is intended for policy makers, academics, activists and development partners – indeed anyone who is curious about how to address inclusion in a world that is witness to intense demographic, spatial, economic and technological transitions. Placing the discussion of social inclusion within such global ... Read more

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  • Energy Poverty

    (Dis)Assembling Europe's Infrastructural Divide

    by Stefan Bouzarovski ...
    This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on European and global energy poverty by exploring the political and infrastructural drivers and implications of the condition across a variety of spatial scales. It highlights the need for a geographical conceptualization of the different ways in which household-level energy deprivation both influences and is contingent upon ... Read more

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  • World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development

    by World Bank ...
    The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace of development. Improvements in gender equality can generate gains in economic efficiency and improvements in ... Read more

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  • Limits to Globalization

    North-South Divergence

    by William R. Thompson, Rafael Reuveny ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures. Yet the liberal assumption is that if the market does its job, the poor will catch up to the rich via trade-driven growth and the economies of developed and less developed countries will ... Read more

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