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World Bank Group Impact Evaluations: Relevance and Effectiveness

by The World Bank

Impact evaluation has grown more popular as a method for identifying the causal links between interventions and outcomes. These kind of evaluations assess changes that can be attributed to a particular intervention....


Public Capital, Growth and Welfare: Analytical Foundations for Public Policy

by Pierre-Richard Agénor

In the past three decades, developing countries have made significant economic and social progress, from improved infant mortality rates to higher life expectancy. Yet, 1.3 billion people continue to live in...


Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

by Charles Kenny

An expert on the developing world reflects--with optimism--on the past fifty years of aid interventions.


Spatial-Economic Metamorphosis of a Nebula City: Schiphol and the Schiphol Region During the 20th Century

by Abderrahman El Makhloufi

This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It...


Evaluating Communication for Development: A Framework for Social Change

by June Lennie & Jo Tacchi

Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways....


Post-Kyoto Climate Governance: Confronting the Politics of Scale, Ideology and Knowledge

by Asim Zia

In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Even if we arrive at a Hubbert's peak for...


Climate Economics: The State of the Art

by Frank Ackerman & Elizabeth A. Stanton

Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial...


Balancing Act: Cutting Energy Subsidies while Protecting Affordability

by Anne Olivier

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia there are significant pressures for residential energy tariffs to rise, as government budgets are increasingly stretched and cannot afford to pay large energy subsidies. Further...


Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives

by Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase & Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

This book explores the multitude of interconnected factors causing displacements that compel people to move within their homelands or traverse various borders It brings together historical and contemporary accounts...


Africa: Continent of Economic Opportunity

by David Fick

Divided into geographic regions and representing every African nation, this comprehensive collection of case studies explores how successful business enterprises of varying size, along with community projects,...


The Business of Scaleup

by Gary Benjamin, Dr. Tatterson

The book, The Business of Scaleup, is made up of three parts. The first is a review of engineering scaleup procedures, similar to those published in Process Scaleup and Design. Additional stories have been added....


Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth

by Ian W. McLean

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of...


Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed

by Roberto De Vogli

Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on the horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision...


Valuable Content Marketing: How to make quality content the key to your business success

by Sonja Jefferson & Sharon Tanton

Unthink what you've learned about sales and marketing communication. If you want to engage potential customers and help your business stand out from the crowd, you need to start doing things differently. From...


Behavior Space: Play, Pleasure and Discovery as a Model for Business Value

by Alexander Manu

Behavior Space proposes that corporations do not design products or services anymore: they design behavior spaces. Facebook is not a product, not a technology, but a behaviour space. Innovation is the creation...


Understanding Creative Business: Values, Networks and Innovation

by Shorthose & Maycroft

Understanding Creative Business bridges the gap between creative practice and mainstream business organisation, entrepreneurship and management. It discusses the effective positioning of creative practice within...


The Big Flatline

by Jeff Rubin

In an urgent follow-up to his best-selling Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller, Jeff Rubin argues that the end of cheap oil means the end of growth. What it will be like to live in a world where...


Infrastructure and Employment Creation in the Middle East and North Africa

by Antonio Estache

This study assesses the potential for job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has experience in making the most of infrastructure investments, but maintaining...


Institutional Reform in Central Asia: Politico-Economic Challenges

by Joachim Ahrens & Herman W. Hoen

The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced...


The Role of Science for Conservation

by Matthias Wolff & Mark Gardener

The book integrates the knowledge and reflections of 30 scientists, of which many have dedicated a substantial part of their professional life to the Galapagos archipelago, to the conservation of its biodiversity...