While some argue that trade liberalization has raised incomes and led to environmental protection in developing countries, others claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book demonstrate that neither interpretation is universally correct, given how much depends on specific policies and institutions that determine on-the-ground outcomes. Drawing on research from six countries around the developing world, the book also presents the unique perspectives of researchers at both the world s largest development organization (The World...
While some argue that trade liberalization has raised incomes and led to environmental protection in developing countries, others claim that it genera...
First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition to major Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly the authors discuss writers such as Austen, Hazlitt and Burke, who are usually studied in a different context, and genres such as fiction and political writing, which are often cut off from the central body of poetry.
An original and highly stimulated study, this book will appeal to all those who are dissatisfied with the conventional categories into which...
First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth cent...
Software development presents a unique challenge to the project manager. Software Development is a discipline that is based more on art and craft rather than discrete engineering processes. However, it will be rare indeed for a management team to admit to this. It is nearly universally concluded that software development is an engineering discipline subject to the normal and well defined processes of project management. It is assumed that project managers can apply all of the standard techniques of resource loading, scheduling, teams, work breakdown structure, etc. as they do for non-software...
Software development presents a unique challenge to the project manager. Software Development is a discipline that is based more on art and craft rath...
Let's face it-from a management perspective the only thing that matters is results. All the plans, processes and techniques in play matter little if they do not achieve results The software development process is no different. All that matters to management and the customer/client is a working product, delivered on-time and on-budget. But frankly, this rarely occurs. Projects are constantly late and over budget. No matter what software development method is employed, the results seem to be the same: Poor Are your developers less productive and dispirited? Are your project managers...
Let's face it-from a management perspective the only thing that matters is results. All the plans, processes and techniques in play matter little if t...
The Agile development method promises to improve your project outcomes dramatically. Agile may promise to improve your productivity, reduce your costs, speed your projects to completion, make your staff happy and your customers even happier. Agile may promise to rock your world. However, those promises may not fit the real world. Agile may (or may not) improve your outcomes, but you need to balance possible improved outcomes with unanticipated costs, both financial and, for you and your teams, personal. This report will help you understand and anticipate the costs of Agile that are rarely...
The Agile development method promises to improve your project outcomes dramatically. Agile may promise to improve your productivity, reduce your costs...
In any business money is the bottom line. We may hate to admit it and we may do our best to avoid the reality that money is the fuel that powers and the grease that lubricates the wheels of business. In today's tech savvy businesses the potential benefits of home offices and remote workers to sales, to customer support, to worker satisfaction, and ultimately to the bottom line, cannot be overlooked. But is it right for your business? Does a home office environment, even for just a portion of your business, make sense? The hype is out on the wires, but where do you find the answers based on...
In any business money is the bottom line. We may hate to admit it and we may do our best to avoid the reality that money is the fuel that powers and t...
