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Knowledge for Development?: Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 256 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Feb-2004
  • Leidėjas: Zed Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1842773259
  • ISBN-13: 9781842773253
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 256 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Feb-2004
  • Leidėjas: Zed Books Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1842773259
  • ISBN-13: 9781842773253
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In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be "the knowledge bank." This statement marks the beginning in earnest of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyze this new discourse and practice. Through an examination of four agencies--the World Bank, the British Department for International Development, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency--the book explores what this new approach to aid means in both theory and practice. It argues that too much of the emphasis of knowledge-based aid has been on developing capacity within agencies rather than addressing the expressed needs of Southern "partners." Moreover, it questions whether knowledge-based aid leads to greater agency certainty about what constitutes good development.

Recenzijos

'In this excellent book the authors present a detailed analysis and a balanced assessment of the prospects for knowledge-based aid to achieve the goal of improving aid-effectiveness. Based on conceptual framework setting and a close examination of actual experience they reach the conclusion that success depends on reconceptualizing aid itself, in the direction of capacity building in poor countries.' Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University

'Knowledge management is popular. Aid agencies talk easily of sharing stories, communities of practice and double-loop learning. But are they ready to sacrifice a preoccupation with results and a concern to disseminate 'best-practice' - in favour of real partnership and mutual learning across divergent networks? McGrath and King are sceptical. Their case studies and their thesis challenge all of us involved in the production, sharing, and use of knowledge.' Simon Maxwell, Overseas Development Institute, and President of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland

Daugiau informacijos

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be
Acknowledgements vii
List of abbreviations and acronyms ix
1 Researching knowledge-based aid 1(17)
Setting the scene
1(2)
Research questions
3(1)
A new way of researching; a new way of working
3(12)
The structure of the book
15(3)
2 The new aid agenda 18(14)
The changing fashions of development cooperation
18(7)
Aid discourse at the start of the new millennium
25(7)
3 Knowledge for development 32(23)
The origins of knowledge-based aid
32(5)
Knowledge-based aid
37(12)
Alternative accounts of knowledge and development
49(3)
A concluding comment
52(3)
4 The World Bank or the knowledge bank? 55(44)
The discovery of knowledge-based aid in the World Bank
55(1)
The World Bank's older knowledge strategies
56(2)
The World Bank's vision of knowledge for development
58(7)
Revising the strategy: the Ramphele review and a shifting focus for the knowledge bank
65(5)
The new architecture of the knowledge bank
70(20)
The knowledge bank in practice: assessing the extent of transformation
90(9)
5 From information management to knowledge sharing: DFID's unfinished revolution 99(31)
DFID's knowledge discourses
99(10)
DFID's knowledge projects
109(9)
DFID's knowledge products
118(3)
DFID's knowledge practices
121(2)
How should we judge DFID's approach to knowledge and development?
123(7)
6 Knowledge, learning and capacity in the Swedish approach to development cooperation 130(25)
Historical overview
130(3)
Sida's discourses of knowledge, learning and capacity
133(10)
Sida as a generator of development knowledge
143(2)
Sida's initiatives to support knowledge, learning and capacity development
145(2)
Knowledge and learning in practice
147(5)
Conclusion
152(3)
7 Experience, experts and knowledge in Japanese aid policy and practice 155(41)
Japan's own experience of development
156(7)
Japan's multiple external sources of development expertise
163(7)
Sources of policy knowledge in Japanese development assistance
170(3)
Knowledge-sharing initiatives in a culture of valuing experience
173(3)
Knowledge management in JICA: a new approach
176(10)
Other mechanisms for sharing development knowledge
186(3)
Conclusion on sharing expertise for development
189(7)
8 Conclusions and implications for knowledge, aid and development 196(17)
Where does knowledge-based aid come from, and is it just a passing fashion?
196(1)
Does knowledge-based aid work?
197(11)
Knowledge-based aid or learning-led development?
208(1)
Knowledge-based aid and knowledge, aid and development: concluding thoughts
209(4)
Bibliography 213(17)
Index 230
Kenneth King is Professor of International and Comparative Education and Director of the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of several books , including 'Aid and Education' and 'Changing International Aid to Education' (edited with Lene Buchert). Simon McGrath has been a research fellow at the Centre of African Studies, and became Research Director at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa in October 2002. Both authors have published extensively in African Studies and International Comparative Education and have been researching development cooperation for a number of years.