part 1. Development management : concepts and theories -- part 2. Development management : capacity building and performance management -- part 3. Development management : actors, practices and lessons.

This chapter surveys the literature on the political-economy of oil and gas governance by focusing on the exploration, production and revenue sharing in the hydrocarbon sector. Emphasis is placed on the extent to which oil and gas governance is shaped by geopolitics and interpartyparty politics....

1. Success factors of microcredit : what can we learn for international development? / Farhad Hossain, Christopher Rees and Tonya Knight Millar -- 2. A short history of the Grameen Bank : from subsidized microcredit to market-based microfinance / David Hulme -- 3. Microcredit as a...

Investigates (through interviews) the link between business needs and staff development policies within the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan. Analyses the Bank′s corporate planning cycle with a view to suggesting improvements that focus more clearly on staff performance eeds. The...

Civil service reform in developing countries may be inhibited unless a more culturally appropriate concept of management is developed. An Institutional Development Framework (IDF) may assist in the identification of possible reform strategies. A strategy is defined by a series of inter‐linked...

This book presents Human Resource Management (HRM) as a tool for improving the performance of organizations in developing and transitional countries. It does this through the presentation of an integrated model of human resource management, informed by the practical realities of applying such a...