"Economic production indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI) fail to reflect the state of natural resources or ecological conditions and both focus exclusively on the short term. The Inclusive Wealth Report 2014 is the second book in an important biennial series that provides a new framework for measuring the inclusive wealth of nations. It provides an overview of how the capital asset compon ..."
Inclusive Wealth Report 2014 Measuring Progress Towards Sustainability by UnitedNationsUniversity Paperback, 362 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-52400-2, ISBN: 1-107-52400-8
"Economic production indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) and the Human Development Index (HDI) fail to reflect the state of natural resources or ecological conditions and both focus exclusively on the short term. The Inclusive Wealth Report 2014 is the second book in an important biennial series that provides a new framework for measuring the inclusive wealth of nations. It provides an overview of how the capital asset compon ..."
"I. Dobozi, Soviet and Eastern European Foreign Trade, vol. 21, no. 1-2-3, 1985, p
. 271 and UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, various years. 31. M. Lavigne, I'
Economie Internationale des pays socialistes, Paris 1986, p. 96. 32. See C. Wolfe
, Jr, ..."
African Agriculture The Critical Choices (Unu Studies in African Political Economy, Vol 6) by Hamid Ait Amara, Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua Paperback, 227 Pages, Published 1990 by Zed Books ISBN-13: 978-0-86232-799-6, ISBN: 0-86232-799-7
Latin America Peace, Democratization & Economic Crisis (The UnitedNationsUniversity Studies on Peace and Regional Security) by Jose Silva-Michelena Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1988 by Zed Books ISBN-13: 978-0-86232-723-1, ISBN: 0-86232-723-7
"Fault Lines of International Legitimacy deals with the following questions: What are the features and functions of legitimacy in the international realm? How does international legitimacy, as exemplified in particular by multilateral norms, organizations, and policies, change over time? What role does the international distribution of power and its evolution have in the establishment and transformation of legitimacy paradigms? To what e ..."
"Foreign finance for private sector development (PSD) has become popular with the donor community and in multilateral development policy fora, seen as an antidote for recipient economies' aid dependency and a way of accomplishing growth, poverty reduction and empowerment. This book analyzes the pattern of foreign finance for PSD and examines multilateral and bilateral donors' practices in PSD financing, giving special attention to microf ..."
"The United Nations University project on People, Land Management and Environmental Change (PLEC) has used the traditional skills of smallholder farmers -- for cultivating their crops, managing the soil, water and vegetation and maintaining their livelihoods in difficult circumstances - to produce this book. Arguably, these farmers have conserved and even created more biological diversity and more economically important species than all ..."
"In spite of widespread expectations of improvements in living standards and health conditions, in most of the countries of the former Soviet bloc the transition to the market economy was accompanied by a sharp increase in (already high) death rates. Such an increase provoked an 'excess mortality' of some three million people over the period 1989-96 alone, an unprecedented phenomenon in peacetime. Such a crisis remains poorly explained, ..."
Peacekeeping Incore Conference on the Training and Preparation of Military and Civilian Peacekeepers - Summary of Proceedings (Occasional Papers) by Roger Macginty, Tom Macginty, UnitedNationsUniversity, University Of Ulster Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Ulster ISBN-13: 978-1-85923-053-4, ISBN: 1-85923-053-9
Ocean Governance Sustainable Development of the Seas by UnitedNationsUniversity Paperback, 414 Pages, Published 1995 by UnitedNationsUniversity Import ISBN-13: 978-0-11-984100-8, ISBN: 0-11-984100-2
"This book focuses on South-East Asian and Pacific regions richly endowed with natural resources in international demand to examine patterns of extraction and use and analyse subsequent conflicts. Attempting to find ways of preventing such conflicts, the study addresses the role of the state and its development policies, militarization, the impact of the world economic crises, the role of modern science and technology, human rights, and ..."