Knowledge for Development: Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid - Couverture rigide

King, Kenneth; McGrath, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1842773240 ISBN 13 : 9781842773246

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Book by King Kenneth McGrath Simon

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'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, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, and President of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland

'This book examines 'knowledge-based aid' at the level of concept and at the level of implementation in a number of agencies, including the World Bank. New information technology has the capacity to revolutionize the delivery of development assistance, but only if accompanied by institutional changes, including among these a move away from the natural tendencies towards centralization and top-down aid processes. 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, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Cornell University.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. A new discourse of knowledge-based aid has since spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse 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 -- it 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 increases agency certainty about what constitutes good development.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1842773240
• ISBN 13: 9781842773246
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256