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This issue of Development Asia discusses the post-2015 development agenda and its implications for Asia and the Pacific. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have served humanity well. They galvanized global attention for helping the world's poor and vulnerable. In less than 3 years, a new development agenda will take up the challenge of delivering a sustainable future for humanity. The successor goals will benefit from the MDG's focus. But they...
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The study contains analyses and recommendations on the approaches to capacity development that work best and the conditions that have been conducive to their success, the unique challenges faced by Pacific developing member countries in addressing capacity constraints, and the implications for future interventions at both the strategic and operational levels.
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En un mundo volátil y desafiante, la transición global hacia un sistema energético que minimice las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero constituye una de las principales herramientas para acotar el calentamiento global −cuyo avance constituye un serio riesgo a los ecosistemas, a la vida humana y a las actividades económicas que le dan sustento.
En ese marco, Argentina debe definir una estrategia propia de transición energética consistente...
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Este libro ofrece elementos para contestar a varios interrogantes sobre la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo, trazando un recorrido de su evolución basado en el análisis crítico de los diversos contextos políticos, económicos y sociales de la historia reciente, así como de los principales paradigmas y los actores que los han caracterizado. Además, esta investigación intenta perfilar la coyuntura en la que se encuentra la cooperación...
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This report presents the results of a stocktake of national responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15, and selected environment-related targets that have a direct relationship with responsible consumption and production, and sustainable marine and terrestrial ecosystems management, by 15 developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. The report was completed under the first phase of a technical assistance project by the Asian Development...
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Las economías capitalistas de mercado contemporáneas afrontan dos grandes problemas al iniciarse el presente siglo: la insatisfacción creciente de las familias en sociedades de la abundancia, la que se viene dando en paralelo a la destrucción medioambiental y a la exagerada explotación de nuestro planeta finito. De ahí que el autor intente, de una parte, desentrañar las causas del decreciente bienestar subjetivo de las familias, especialmente...
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This memoir describes the impact of a life changing revelational spiritual experience by the author. The author had a high power immerse him in pure love and white light and it temporarily removed his self-doubt and fears for about 10 weeks. He learnt about practical miracles, synchronicity and coincidences and could channel energy. A practical person, he decided to remain in business and was later appointed General Manager of a derelict and loss-making...
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This study provides an overview of the water security situation in the People's Republic of China. It assesses the policy and institutional requirements for addressing issues and recommends strategic areas for strengthening and reform. The five dimensions of water security covered in the research are domestic water security, economic production water security, environmental water security, ecological water security, and resilience to water-related...
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This book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership. It explores the key success factors for digital transformation of organizations in the highly disruptive, increasingly VUCA-driven era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Disruption is happening everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. It is happening at a scale and speed that is unprecedented in modern history, impacting diverse industries, from financial services to...
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The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives
In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better"-indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. McKibben puts...
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Ahora contaminamos nosotros utiliza como título un argumento oído a menudo en las negociaciones sobre el cambio climático, donde las naciones menos desarrolladas sugieren que dado que las naciones desarrolladas generaron la mayor parte de la contaminación del pasado, ahora tienen la obligación histórica de satisfacer los costes asociados con la atenuación del cambio climático o la adaptación al mismo. Simultáneamente, argumentan que dado...
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The Star Mountain Investment Holding Limited (SMIHL) is a Papua New Guinean (PNG) landowner holding company operating in Western Province, in the shadows of the huge Ok Tedi mine. The initiative drew on a Future Generation Fund and was, for the community, a response to years of frustration with wasted opportunities for economic development which were attributed to a lack of organizational and economic development capacity, capture of benefits by local...
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Existe un nuevo enfoque económico en el mundo. El crecimiento económico sustentable, la innovación, el cuidado del medio ambiente y la inclusión social son las fuerzas impulsoras de la Economía Verde. México se debe constituir en actor clave en la formación de una nueva visión global.
Este libro presenta las bases de una economía verde y describe los pasos necesarios para diseñar e implementar un sistema intrínsecamente equilibrado de tecnologías,...
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The essential business guide for using reverse logistics to drive profits, growth, and sustainability.
Long considered a "necessary evil" of doing business, reverse logistics is quickly becoming the key to staying competitive in today's dynamic marketplace. In Going Circular, RecirQ Global CEO Rich Bulger reveals its potential for boosting revenue, enhancing customer experience, and supporting the circular economy.
Urging a strategic shift,...
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We all have activities that irritate us, bore us, and drain our energy. The problem is thinking that this is just a necessary part of life and business. In this book, I show you a simple process to shed those unwanted activities to not only free yourself up to concentrate on what fascinates and motivates you but to strengthen your team as well. Imagine spending your workdays doing only what you find endlessly fascinating. This is a reality for entrepreneurs...
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The People's Republic of China (PRC) has experienced stellar economic performance over the last 3 decades. Gross domestic product growth has averaged 10% per year. Per capita income has increased by a factor of 13. Life expectancy at birth increased from 67 to 73 years. Rapid growth, however, has posed eight challenges for the PRC: industrial transformation, balanced rural-urban development, human resource transformation, environmental protection,...
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This book is based on an in-dept, remotely filmed follow-up conversation between Howard Burton and Andy Hoffman, Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability. They discuss Andy Hoffman's research and scholarly insights which are extremely relevant to today's society. Andy Hoffman is passionately committed to encouraging fellow academics to play a much...
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The second edition of the Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment again champions the environment of this unique part of Asia, an area straddled by rivers great and small, with bountiful watersheds, wetlands, and forests. The Atlas celebrates the peoples of the subregion, and presents the environmental and development challenges they face and their responses. It reminds us that the subregion's peoples and communities are key to maintaining...
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India's rural BPO guru Pradeep Nevatia joins with New York-based hedge fund investor Rahul Nevatia to present the until-now abstract concept of abundance through an innovative managing by ethics (MBE) framework that uncompromisingly connects individual self to collective self in self-sustained abundance beyond the hocus-pocus of scarcity. As against the card-carrying management by objectives (MBO) acquirement, the pioneering MBE paradigm sets human-nature...
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Moyen de transport pratique et confortable, l'automobile est omniprésente dans notre quotidien au point d'en affecter notre mode de vie. Or, ce choix n'est pas sans conséquences individuelles et collectives, surtout dans le contexte de l'accroissement constant du nombre de véhicules sur nos routes. Ses impacts les plus médiatisés sont sans doute ceux qui ont trait à l'environnement, mais le choix de l'automobile entraîne aussi, directement...