Investing in Development

Investing in Development

Author: Warren C. Baum

Publisher: New York : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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Exploring projects as a vital way of enabling developing countries to invest their resources more effectively for the task of improving the living standards of their people, this book discusses methods of selecting the most promising projects, how to prepare them, how to carry them through to completion, and how to operate and maintain them once they are started.


Investing in Development

Investing in Development

Author: Theodore Harvey Moran

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published:

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781412826631

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"Excellent and exceptionally timely." --Foreign AffairsThis volume surveys current views in the debate about the impact of foreign direct investment on Third World development--on growth, employment, exports, technology, and distribution of income. It examines whether the efforts of less developed countries to attract and control multinational corporations have constituted a serious "distortion" of trade that threatens jobs in the home nations. It provides new studies of foreign investment in agriculture and in the least developed states. It looks at the threat of transmitting environmental pollution. And it analyzes the link between international companies and the "umbrella" of World Bank cofinancing as a mechanism to reduce risk. Finally, it attempts to estimate how much of the "gap" in commercial bank lending might plausibly be filled by direct corporate investment over the next decade.


UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development

UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development

Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1317705408

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The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical strategies and approaches to financing the,, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.


How to Be a Successful Developer

How to Be a Successful Developer

Author: Ralph Pisani

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1497632013

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In today’s world of investment hype and unpredictable stock market fluctuations, there is still one asset you can count on: land. Ralph Pisani and Robert Pisani were both adjunct faculty members of the Wharton School of Business, where they taught real estate development. Now, with this easy to understand and informative guide, anyone can begin to invest in the development of valuable real estate. How to Be a Successful Developer is a complete sourcebook for all your questions about how to succeed in land development, from the factors you should consider when looking at properties, to financing, zoning procedures, and much more—all in clear concise terms which anyone can understand.


Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth

Investing in Climate, Investing in Growth

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9264273522

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This report provides an assessment of how governments can generate inclusive economic growth in the short term, while making progress towards climate goals to secure sustainable long-term growth. It describes the development pathways required to meet the Paris Agreement objectives.


Investing for Development

Investing for Development

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780215529862

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CDC Group Plc, formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation, is the United Kingdom's Development Finance Institution. Wholly owned by the Department for International Development (DFID), it aims to help reduce poverty by supporting private sector development. CDC invests equity in private enterprises in developing countries in order to demonstrate to other investors that it is possible to make money in such countries, while at the same time creating sustainable jobs, paying taxes and following good social and environmental policies. DFID restructured CDC in 2004 in order to invest indirectly, through private fund managers. CDC invests largely in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asian enterprises in sectors as diverse as retail, financial, agricultural and manufacturing. Since 2004, CDC has grown rapidly, more than doubling the value of its assets to £2.7 billion by mid-2008. DFID's oversight of certain elements of business efficiency needs to be improved. CDC invests over 70 per cent of its resources in poor countries, but has limited influence where its fund managers invest. Only 4 per cent of its resources are invested in small and medium enterprises, which suffer a shortage of finance. For DFID, financial performance is the principal indicator of CDC's development impact, but this information is not sufficient to assess CDC's effect on poverty reduction and not enough is done to measure compliance with ethical investment principles. The level and nature of CDC executive remuneration are also relevant to business efficiency and management incentives. The Chief Executive's remuneration increased from £383,000 in 2003 to £970,000 in 2007, reflecting in part CDC's exceptional financial performance but pay arrangements place too much emphasis on financial performance and too little on success in reducing poverty.


Investing in Development

Investing in Development

Author: Jeffrey Sachs

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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Transmits the overview of the Millennium Project's final report, entitled "Investing in development: a practical plan to achieve the Millennium Development Goals". Contained chapters are: 1) Why the Goals are important and why we're falling short; 2) Country-level processes to achieve the Goals; 3) Recommendations for the international system to support country-level processes; and 4) The costs and benefits of achieving the Millennium Development Goals.


Security and Development

Security and Development

Author: Robert Picciotto

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780415353649

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In this book, previously published as a special issue of the journal Conflict, Security and Development, experts discuss the prevention and resolution of conflict in the developing world, and the delivery of development aid under fire.


UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development

UN Millennium Development Library: Investing in Development

Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1317705416

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This book describes the importance of the millennium development goals and gives an explanation of the progress toward the goals. It provides recommendations to be implemented at the country level and presents a guide for the international system's support for the country-level processes.