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

King, Kenneth; McGrath, Simon

 
9781842773253: Knowledge for Development: Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1842773259 ISBN 13 : 9781842773253
Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. This marked the beginning of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse this new discourse.

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 concludes that too much emphasis has been on developing capacity within agencies rather than addressing the expressed needs of Southern 'partners'. It also questions whether knowledge-based aid leads to greater agency certainty about what constitutes good development.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Zed Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1842773259
ISBN 13 
9781842773253
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781842773246: Knowledge for Development: Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid

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ISBN 10 :  1842773240 ISBN 13 :  9781842773246
Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2004
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