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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. 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? Achieving this is not merely a matter of
seeking to 'know more' about specific times, places and issues, but
recognising the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously
assemble, analyse and interpret diverse forms of evidence. This
book will appeal to students and scholars in development studies,
history, international relations, politics and geography as well as
policy makers and those working for or studying NGOs. -- .
How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have
cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai,
Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists
in this volume contend that culture is central to development, and
that cultural processes are neither inherently good nor bad and
never static. Rather, they are contested and evolving, and can be a
source of profound social and economic transformation through their
influence on aspirations and collective action; yet they can also
be exploitative, exclusionary, and can lead to inequality. Culture
and Public Action includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and
Latin America, which examine the role of culture in community-based
development, ethnic conflict, famine relief, gender discrimination,
and HIV-AIDS policy. The editors conclude by proposing how a
"cultural lens" can better inform future research and public policy
on development. Accessible, balanced, and engaging, this book will
be of interest to anyone concerned with the relationship between
culture and economics, and the design and implementation of
development policy. For further information on the book and related
essays, please visit: http://www.cultureandpublicaction.org For
orders from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, please e-mail
Permanent Black at [email protected].
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. 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? Achieving this is not merely a matter of
seeking to 'know more' about specific times, places and issues, but
recognising the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously
assemble, analyse and interpret diverse forms of evidence. This
book will appeal to students and scholars in development studies,
history, international relations, politics and geography as well as
policy makers and those working for or studying NGOs. -- .
This book brings together two fields that rarely converse with one
another: deliberative democracy and development studies. The study
of deliberation - which explores normative and practical questions
around group-based decision making via discussion or debate,
particularly as an alternate or supplement to voting or bargaining
- has emerged as a critical part of the debate on democracy over
the last two decades. Concurrently, the field of development has
seen a spurt of interest in community-led development and
participation premised on the ability of groups to arrive at
decisions and manage resources via a process of discussion and
debate. Despite the growing interest in both fields, they have
rarely engaged with one another. Studying the intersection between
deliberation and development can provide valuable insights into how
to incorporate participation into development across a variety of
arenas. Moving beyond broad theoretical claims, close examination
of specific cases of deliberation and development allows scholars
and practitioners to evaluate actual processes and to pose the
question of how deliberation can work in the twin conditions of
extreme inequality and low educational levels that characterize the
developing world. This book brings together new essays by some of
the leading scholars in the field.
The Policy Research Report Localizing Development: Does
Participation Work? brings analytical rigor to a field that has
been the subject of intense debate and advocacy, and billions of
dollars in development aid. It briefly reviews the history of
participatory development and argues that its two modalities,
community-based development and local decentralization, should be
treated under the broader unifying umbrella of local development.
It suggests that a distinction between organic participation
(endogenous efforts by civic activists to bring about change) and
induced participation (large-scale efforts to engineer
participation at the local level via projects) is key, and focuses
on the challenges of inducing participation. The report provides a
conceptual framework for thinking about participatory development
and then uses this framework to conduct a comprehensive review of
the literature. The framework develops the concept of "civil
society failure" and explains its interaction with government and
market failures. It argues that participatory development, which is
often viewed as a mechanism for bypassing market and government
failures by "harnessing" civic capacity, ought to be seen instead
as a mechanism that, if done right, could help to repair important
civil society failures. It distills literature from anthropology,
economics, sociology, and political science to outline the
challenges for effective policy in this area, looking at issues
such as the uncertainty of trajectories of change, the importance
of context, the role of elite capture and control, the challenge of
collective action, and the role of the state. The review of the
evidence looks at a variety of issues: the impact of participatory
projects on inclusion, civic capacity, and social cohesion; on key
development outcomes, such as income, poverty, and inequality; on
public service delivery; and on the quality of local public goods.
It draws on the evidence to suggest several recommendations for
policy, emphasizing the key role of learning-by-doing. It then
reviews participatory projects funded by the World Bank and finds
the majority lacking in several arenas - particularly in paying
attention to context and in creating effective monitoring and
evaluation systems that allow for learning.
Bringing together contributions from leading scholars, this volume
examines the singularly innovative strategy that has been dubbed
the ""Karnataka Model"" of development - one fueled by
technological growth and local government reform. Founded 50 years
ago, the Indian state of Karnataka has come to embody the
challenges and contradictions inherent in a country where gender
inequality and regional disparities abound. This collection of
astute observations and perspectives provides researchers and
policy makers worldwide with invaluable lessons on the trials all
rapidly growing nations would be wise to study.
How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have
cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai,
Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists
in this volume contend that culture is central to development, and
that cultural processes are neither inherently good nor bad and
never static. Rather, they are contested and evolving, and can be a
source of profound social and economic transformation through their
influence on aspirations and collective action; yet they can also
be exploitative, exclusionary, and can lead to inequality. Culture
and Public Action includes case studies from Africa, Asia, and
Latin America, which examine the role of culture in community-based
development, ethnic conflict, famine relief, gender discrimination,
and HIV-AIDS policy. The editors conclude by proposing how a
"cultural lens" can better inform future research and public policy
on development. Accessible, balanced, and engaging, this book will
be of interest to anyone concerned with the relationship between
culture and economics, and the design and implementation of
development policy. For further information on the book and related
essays, please visit: http://www.cultureandpublicaction.org For
orders from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, please e-mail
Permanent Black at [email protected].
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