Advancing Human Development
Advancing Human Development

Author: Frances Stewart

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0198794452

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Human Development has been advocated as the prime development goal since 1990, when the publication of the first UNDP Human Development Report proposed that development should improve the lives people lead in multiple dimensions instead of primarily pursuing economic growth. This approach forms the foundation of Advancing Human Development: Theory and Practice. It traces the evolution of approaches to development, showing how the Human Development approach emerged as a consequence of defects in earlier strategies. Advancing Human Development argues that Human Development is superior to measures of societal happiness. It investigates the determinants of success and failure in Human Development across countries over the past forty years, taking a multidimensional approach to point to the importance of social institutions and social capabilities as essential aspects of change. It analyses political conditions underlying the performance of Human Development, and surveys global progress in multiple dimensions such as life expectancy, infant mortality, and education and outcomes, whilst reflecting on dimensions which have worsened over time, such as rising inequality and declining environmental conditions. These deteriorating conditions inform Advancing Human Development's account of the challenges to the Human Development approach, covering the insufficient attention paid to macroeconomic conditions and the economic structure needed for sustained success.

Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development
Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development

Author: Stephen J. Farenga

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 1472

ISBN-13: 1317471822

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This comprehensive and exhaustive reference work on the subject of education from the primary grades through higher education combines educational theory with practice, making it a unique contribution to the educational reference market. Issues related to human development and learning are examined by individuals whose specializations are in diverse areas including education, psychology, sociology, philosophy, law, and medicine. The book focuses on important themes in education and human development. Authors consider each entry from the perspective of its social and political conditions as well as historical underpinnings. The book also explores the people whose contributions have played a seminal role in the shaping of educational ideas, institutions, and organizations, and includes entries on these institutions and organizations. This work integrates numerous theoretical frameworks with field based applications from many areas in educational research.

CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT
CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Author: Firend Alan Rasch

Publisher: IJBMR

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1977560725

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The quest for Critical Success Factors “CSF” in project management in every industry is the aim of company and project manager around the world. This is primarily because of the cost attached to such large-scale projects, especially those financed by governmental entities, municipalities and provinces. Large-scale construction projects in particular have a critical impact on governmental budgets, economic growth, and ecology. As such, determining what critical success factors that directly contribute to cost reduction, timely delivery, improvements in quality of construction and positive impact on the environment can being mutually beneficial to all participants and stakeholders. The state of Oman like other GCC countries has a particular interest in determining such CSF in the post financial crises, where numerous landmark projects has been frozen due to financial constraints. Therefore, avoiding pitfalls in project management related factors could significantly impact the future role of British and Western construction companies in the Gulf and other parts of the world in post-Brexit U.K. The pressure on British companies is equally higher today than ever before to maximize the effectiveness in implementation of construction related projects internationally, to compete with other European and Chines construction firms. Innovation and cultural forces are found to play a significant role in cross-cultural project success. Such forces then can be viewed in relation to CSF will ultimately affect all participants and beneficiaries, stakeholders and the environment. Therefore, the attempt to explore varying CSF is more important to governments in developing economies, and private sectors involved in future construction projects, as much as it is important to Western firms attempting to compete and expand their market base in such critical part of the world and uncertain outlooks for the U.K. economy particularly.

Resiliency
Resiliency

Author: Bonnie Benard

Publisher: WestEd

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0914409182

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A few years ago, resiliency theory was relatively new to the fields of prevention and education. Today, it is at the heart of hundreds of school and community programs that recognize in all young people the capacity to lead healthy, successful lives. The key, as Benard reports in this synthesis of a decade and more of resiliency research, is the role that families, schools, and communities play in supporting, and not undermining, this biological drive for normal human development. Of special interest is the evidence that resiliency prevails in most cases by far -- even in extreme situations, such as those caused by poverty, troubled families, and violent neighborhoods. An understanding of this developmental wisdom and the supporting research, Benard argues, must be integrated into adults' vision for the youth they work with and communicated to young people themselves. Benard's analysis of how best to incorporate research findings to support young people is both realistic and inspirational. It is an easy-to-read discussion of what the research has found along with descriptions of what application of the research looks like in our most successful efforts to support young people.

Breakthrough Leadership
Breakthrough Leadership

Author: Terry Lee

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1490796304

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This book is an introduction to breakthrough leadership. It is a new frontier in leadership because it is concerned not only with what leaders do but also with the impact they have on the people they lead. It is based on a decade of applied research into three key issues: What is it that leaders do to inspire the people they lead? What are the impediments to the development of potential that these leaders help their people to break through? How can organizations build competitive advantage by unlocking this potential in their workforce? In essence, breakthrough leadership is the process by which leaders inspire their followers to grow, to perform, and to develop more of their potential. They do this by helping them to remove the impediments to that development. A great deal of the limitations that people experience in their work is self-imposed and related to self-limiting thinking. This book identifies the six distinctive behaviors that leaders adopt, which can help their people to break through this self-limiting thinking. Organizations today have moved toward performance cultures in their search for growth. Managers globally have been trained in the skills of performance leadership, and as a consequence, there have been great gains in productivity. The next productivity leaps for organizations will come from realizing the untapped talent that exists in the workforce. This book is the culmination of a decade of work with companies such as CSL, Cisco Systems, Wesfarmers, and Fuji Xerox into change and transformational leadership.

Understanding Human Development
Understanding Human Development

Author: Ursula M. Staudinger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-01-31

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9781402071980

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K. Warner Schaie I am pleased to write a foreword for this interesting volume, particularly as over many years, I have had the privilege of interacting with the editors and a majority of the con tributors in various professional roles as a colleague, mentor, or research collaborator. The editors begin their introduction by asking why one would want to read yet another book on human development. They immediately answer their question by pointing out that many developmentally oriented texts and other treatises neglect the theoretical foundations of human development and fail to embed psychological constructs within the multidisciplinary context so essential to understanding development. This volume provides a positive remedy to past deficiencies in volumes on hu man development with a well-organized structure that leads the reader from a general introduction through the basic processes to methodological issues and the relation of developmental constructs to social context and biological infrastructure. This approach does not surprise. After all, the editors and most of the contributors at one time or an other had a connection to the Max Planck Institute of Human Development in Berlin, whether as students, junior scientists, or senior visitors. That institute, under the leader ship of Paul Baltes, has been instrumental in pursuing a systematic lifespan approach to the study of cognition and personality. Over the past two decades, it has influenced the careers of a generation of scientists who have advocated long-term studies of human development in an interdisciplinary context.

Xam Success Economics Class - 11 According To NEP 2020
Xam Success Economics Class - 11 According To NEP 2020

Author: Dr. Anupam Agrawal,

Publisher: Xam Success

Published: 2023-06-13

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13:

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Part - A Statistics For Economics UNIT - I Introduction 1.What id Economics, 2. Statistics Meaning, Scope and Importance, UNIT - II Collection, Organisation and Presentation of Data 3. Collection of Data : Primary and Secomdary Data, 4. Methods of Data Collection : Census and Sampling Methods, 5. Some Inportant Sources of Secondary Data : Census and N.S.S.O., 6. Organization of Data Classfication, 7. Pressentation of Data : Tables, 8. Diagrammatic Presentation of Data, 9.Graphic (Time Series and Frequency Distribution) Presentation of Data, UNIT _ III Statistical Tools And Interpretation 10. Measures of Contral Tendancy : Arithmatics Average, 11. Measures of Central Tendancy : Median and Mode, 12.Measures of Dispersion, 13. Correlation, 14. Index Number, 15. Some Mathematical Tools Used in Economics : Slole of a Line, Slope of a Curve and Equation of a Line, UNIT - IV Developing Projects in Economics 16. Formation of Project in Economics, Part B : Indian Economic Development UNIT - V Development Experience , (1947-90) and Economic Reform Since 1991 1. State of Indain Economy on The Eve of Independence, 2. Common Goal of Five Year Plans in India, 3. Agriculture - Feature, Problems and Policies, 4. Industries : Features, Problems & Policies (Industrial Licensing etc), 5. Foreign Trade of India - feature, Problems and Policies, UNIT - VI Economic Reforms Since 1991 6. Economic Reforms in India - Liberalisation, Privatisayion and Globalisation (L.P.G.) Policies, UNIT - VII Current Challenges Facing Indain Economy, 7. Proverty and Main Programmers of Poverty Alleviation, 8. Rural Development Key Issues, 9. Human Capital Formation, 10.Emloyment Growth Informalisation and Other Issue, 11. Inflation Problems and Policies, 12. Infrastructure Meaning and Type (Case Studies :Energy and Health), 13. Sustainable Economic Development and Environment, UNIT VIII - Developmemnt Experience of India 14. Development Experience of India : A Comparison with Pakistan & China. Log and Antilog Table.

Human Rights, Public Values, and Leadership in Healthcare Policy
Human Rights, Public Values, and Leadership in Healthcare Policy

Author: Eneanya, Augustine Nduka

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-11-23

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 152256134X

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The legitimacy of any national health system depends on how it serves the interest of the poorest and most vulnerable people. As such, a commitment to equity should be at the heart of human rights discussions regarding universal health coverage. Human Rights, Public Values, and Leadership in Healthcare Policy is an essential reference source on the importance of access to timely, quality, and affordable healthcare, and how overt or implicit discrimination in the delivery of health services violates fundamental human rights and can have serious health consequences. This publication covers current health-policy debates and reforms that focus on extending universal health coverage, decreasing the growth of costs through improved efficiency, and expanding prevention and wellness of programs. While highlighting topics such as authority hierarchy, HIV/AIDS experiences, and veterans’ mental health, this publication is ideally designed for health practitioners/professionals, scholars, researchers, institutions, students, consultants, and policymakers.

Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development
Sociobiological Perspectives on Human Development

Author: Kevin B. MacDonald

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1461237602

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Examines the importance of evolutionary biology for key issues in human development. Illustrates the power of socio- biological approaches in understanding developmental pheno- mena and their importance in generating new, empirically verifiable predictions.

Pathways of Human Development
Pathways of Human Development

Author: Jay A. Mancini

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2009-08-20

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 0739136887

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Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human development, including its antecedents, processes, and consequences, the chapters examine a range of topics such as health and adaptation; social anxiety disorder; protective factors and risk behaviors; parent-child relationships; adolescent sexuality; intergenerational relationships; family stress and adaptation; and community resilience. By extending human development theorizing across these pivotal life-changing issues, this volume offers a comprehensive map of the trajectories of development among individuals, families, and communities.