History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719085772 ISBN 13 : 9780719085772

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2011

Synopsis

If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central development issues of social protection, public health, public education and natural resource management. Where did the policy ideas underpinning these sectors come from? How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries, and indeed within them? Answering these questions requires incorporating historical sensibilities into development policy deliberations in ways that take seriously the importance of context, process, and contestation. Achieving this is not merely a matter of seeking to know more about specific times, places and issues, but recognizing the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously assemble, analyze and interpret diverse forms of evidence. Doing so gives rise to policy conclusions rather different to those emerging from prevailing analytical approaches. This book will appeal to students and scholars in Development Studies, History, International Relations, Politics, Geography as well as policy makers and those working for or studying NGO's.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Vijayendra Rao is Lead Economist in the Development Research Group, World Bank

Simon Szreter is Professor of History and Public Policy, and Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge

Michael Woolcock is Senior Social Scientist in the Development Research Group, World Bank

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719085772
• ISBN 13: 9780719085772
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Bayly C.A., Rao Vijayendra, Szreter Simon, Woolcock Michael
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