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Aid, Technology and Development

Author : Dipak Gyawali
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317220544
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Aid, Technology and Development written by Dipak Gyawali and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited collection examines these in order to propose a novel perspective on how human development occurs and how it can be aided and sustained. Aid, Technology and Development: The lessons from Nepal champions plural rationality from both a theoretical and practical perspective in order to challenge and critique the status quo in human development understanding, while simultaneously presenting a concrete framework with which to aid citizen and governmental organisations in the galvanization of human development. Including contributions by leading international social scientists and development practitioners throughout Nepal, this book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the field of foreign aid and development studies.

Far-Fetched Facts

Author : Richard Rottenburg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262264447
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Far-Fetched Facts written by Richard Rottenburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts, and local managers. In 1996, the sub-Saharan African country of Ruritania launched a massive waterworks improvement project, funded by the Normesian Development Bank, headquartered in Urbania, Normland, and with the guidance of Shilling & Partner, a consulting firm in Mercatoria, Normland. Far-Fetched Facts tells the story of this project, as narrated by anthropologists Edward B. Drotlevski and Samuel A. Martonosi. Their account of the Ruritanian waterworks project views the problems of development from a new perspective, focusing on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development bank, international experts, and local managers. This development project is fictionalized, of course, although based closely on author Richard Rottenburg's experiences working on and observing different development projects in the 1990s. Rottenburg uses the case of the Ruritanian waterworks project to examine issues of standardization, database building, documentation, calculation, and territory mapping. The techniques and technologies of the representational practices of documentation are crucial, Rottenburg argues, both to day-to-day management of the project and to the demonstration of the project's legitimacy. Five decades of development aid (or “development cooperation,” as it is now sometimes known) have yielded disappointing results. Rottenburg looks in particular at the role of the development consultant (often called upon to act as mediator between the other actors) and at the interstitial spaces where developmental cooperation actually occurs. He argues that both critics and practitioners of development often misconstrue the grounds of cooperation—which, he claims, are moral, legal, and political rather than techno-scientific or epistemological.

Monitoring Movements in Development Aid

Author : Casper Bruun Jensen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262317028
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Monitoring Movements in Development Aid written by Casper Bruun Jensen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid. In Monitoring Movements in Development Aid, Casper Jensen and Brit Winthereik consider the processes, social practices, and infrastructures that are emerging to monitor development aid, discussing both empirical phenomena and their methodological and analytical challenges. Jensen and Winthereik focus on efforts by aid organizations to make better use of information technology; they analyze a range of development aid information infrastructures created to increase accountability and effectiveness. They find that constructing these infrastructures is not simply a matter of designing and implementing technology but entails forging new platforms for action that are simultaneously imaginative and practical, conceptual and technical. After presenting an analytical platform that draws on science and technology studies and the anthropology of development, Jensen and Winthereik present an ethnography- based analysis of the mutually defining relationship between aid partnerships and infrastructures; the crucial role of users (both actual and envisioned) in aid information infrastructures; efforts to make aid information dynamic and accessible; existing monitoring activities of an environmental NGO; and national-level performance audits, which encompass concerns of both external control and organizational learning. Jensen and Winthereik argue that central to the emerging movement to monitor development aid is the blurring of means and ends: aid information infrastructures are both technological platforms for knowledge about aid and forms of aid and empowerment in their own right.

Development Aid Confronts Politics

Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0870034022
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Development Aid Confronts Politics written by Thomas Carothers and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process is driving aid providers to try to learn how to think and act politically. Major donors are pursuing explicitly political goals alongside their traditional socioeconomic aims and introducing more politically informed methods throughout their work. Yet these changes face an array of external and internal obstacles, from heightened sensitivity on the part of many aid-receiving governments about foreign political interventionism to inflexible aid delivery mechanisms and entrenched technocratic preferences within many aid organizations. This pathbreaking book assesses the progress and pitfalls of the attempted politics revolution in development aid and charts a constructive way forward. Contents: Introduction 1. The New Politics Agenda The Original Framework: 1960s-1980s 2. Apolitical Roots Breaking the Political Taboo: 1990s-2000s 3. The Door Opens to Politics 4. Advancing Political Goals 5. Toward Politically Informed Methods The Way Forward 6. Politically Smart Development Aid 7. The Unresolved Debate on Political Goals 8. The Integration Frontier Conclusion 9. The Long Road to Politics

How the Aid Industry Works

Author : Arjan de Haan
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565492870
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book How the Aid Industry Works written by Arjan de Haan and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is aid contested?. The aid industry defined. How the thinking about aid and international development has evolved. Development projects: rationale and critique. Hard-nosed development: reforms, adjustment, governance. Country-led approaches and donor coordination: can the aid industry let go?. Development's poor cousins: environment, gender, participation, rights. How does the industry knows what works and what doesn't. Challenges for the 21st century

Technical Knowledge and Development

Author : Thomas Grammig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134524897
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Technical Knowledge and Development written by Thomas Grammig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects in industry.

Dead Aid

Author : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374139563
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Dead Aid written by Dambisa Moyo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking the current model of international aid promoted by both Hollywood celebrities and policy makers, Moyo offers a bold new road map for financing development of the world's poorest countries.

Making Aid Work

Author : Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262260395
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Making Aid Work written by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-03-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money. With more than a billion people now living on less than a dollar a day, and with eight million dying each year because they are simply too poor to live, most would agree that the problem of global poverty is our greatest moral challenge. The large and pressing practical question is how best to address that challenge. Although millions of dollars flow to poor countries, the results are often disappointing. In Making Aid Work, Abhijit Banerjee—an "aid optimist"—argues that aid has much to contribute, but the lack of analysis about which programs really work causes considerable waste and inefficiency, which in turn fuels unwarranted pessimism about the role of aid in fostering economic development. Banerjee challenges aid donors to do better. Building on the model used to evaluate new drugs before they come on the market, he argues that donors should assess programs with field experiments using randomized trials. In fact, he writes, given the number of such experiments already undertaken, current levels of development assistance could focus entirely on programs with proven records of success in experimental conditions. Responding to his challenge, leaders in the field—including Nicholas Stern, Raymond Offenheiser, Alice Amsden, Ruth Levine, Angus Deaton, and others—question whether randomized trials are the most appropriate way to evaluate success for all programs. They raise broader questions as well, about the importance of aid for economic development and about the kinds of interventions (micro or macro, political or economic) that will lead to real improvements in the lives of poor people around the world. With one in every six people now living in extreme poverty, getting it right is crucial.

Sustainable Technology Transfer

Author : Hans Henrik Lidgard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789041134486
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Technology Transfer written by Hans Henrik Lidgard and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Editors --List of Contributors --List of Abbreviations --Institutional Definitions and Abbreviations --Preface --Framing the Issues --TRIPS Article 66.2: Between Hard Law and Soft Law? --Assessing Reporting Obligations under TRIPS Article 66.2 --Technology Transfer and Competition Law: Options for Developing Countries --Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Development: The Case of Compulsory Licensing --ACTA and the Destabilization of TRIPS --Breaking Down Barriers to Technology Transfer: Reforming WTO Standard-Setting Rules and Establishing an Advisory Facility in Standard-Setting for Developing and Least Developed Countries --Technology Transfer and Climate Change --Technology Transfer and Benefit Sharing under the Biodiversity Convention --Sustainable Technology Transfer, Climate Control, and Renewable Power in Vietnam --Vietnam: A Case Study for Sustainable Technology Transfer --From Reality to Law: Sustainable Technology Transfer - An Outlook --Bibliography.

Aid for Trade at a Glance 2017 Promoting Trade, Inclusiveness and Connectivity for Sustainable Development

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264278478
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book Aid for Trade at a Glance 2017 Promoting Trade, Inclusiveness and Connectivity for Sustainable Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition focuses on trade connectivity, which is critical for inclusiveness and sustainable development. Physical connectivity enables the movement of goods and services to local, regional and global markets.

United States Aid and Indian Economic Development

Author : Péter Tamás Bauer
Publisher : Washington : American Enterprise Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book United States Aid and Indian Economic Development written by Péter Tamás Bauer and published by Washington : American Enterprise Association. This book was released on 1959 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164737
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-05-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2003 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Research Council (NRC) entered into a cooperative agreement. The agreement called for the NRC to examine selected aspects of U.S. foreign assistance activities-primarily the programs of the USAID-that have benefited or could benefit from access to strong science, technology, and medical capabilities in the United States or elsewhere. After considering the many aspects of the role of science and technology (S&T) in foreign assistance, the study led to the publication of The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development. In the book special attention is devoted to partnerships that involve the USAID together with international, regional, U.S. governmental, and private sector organizations in fields such as heath care, agriculture and nutrition, education and job creation, and energy and the environment. This book explores specific programmatic, organizational, and personnel reforms that would increase the effective use of S&T to meet the USAID's goals while supporting larger U.S. foreign policy objectives.

The Samaritan's Dilemma

Author : Clark C. Gibson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199278849
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Samaritan's Dilemma written by Clark C. Gibson and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors argue that much of foreign aid's failure is related to the institutions that structure its delivery. They offer concrete suggestions about how to improve aid's effectiveness.

Development

Author : Ian Goldin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198736258
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Development written by Ian Goldin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is development -- How does development happen? -- Why are some countries rich and others poor? -- What can be done to accelerate development? -- The evolution of development aid -- Sustainable development -- Globalization and development -- The future of development.

Assessing Aid

Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780195211238
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Assessing Aid written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Aid determines that the effectiveness of aid is not decided by the amount received but rather the institutional and policy environment into which it is accepted. It examines how development assistance can be more effective at reducing global poverty and gives five mainrecommendations for making aid more effective: targeting financial aid to poor countries with good policies and strong economic management; providing policy-based aid to demonstrated reformers; using simpler instruments to transfer resources to countries with sound management; focusing projects oncreating and transmitting knowledge and capacity; and rethinking the internal incentives of aid agencies.

The Development of Aid

Author : Gerard Van Bilzen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443874086
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Development of Aid written by Gerard Van Bilzen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aid to developing countries started well before World War II, but was undertaken as an ad hoc activity or was delivered by private organizations. This changed after the War. In his Inaugural Address in 1949, the American President, Harry Truman, announced a “bold new programme for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped nations” (the so-called “Point IV” Plan). At that time it was thought that this support would be needed only for a limited number of years, comparable to the Marshall Plan assistance to Europe. But reality proved to be different: providing aid was a very long-term affair. Since the Fifties, the aid provided has changed at different occasions. In the beginning, aid concentrated on constructing infrastructure, such as roads, railways, dams, and harbours, in order to promote industrial development. In the Sixties, aid to agriculture was added, and in the Seventies aid to social sectors (Basic Needs) was also provided. The Eighties brought worldwide debt problems. Major donors applied structural adjustment policies; some called this the lost decade (década perdida). The Nineties saw the arrival of the first environmental considerations, and asked for attention for the role of women and good governance. The form of aid changed from projects to programmes and budget support. Describing the different aid forms of the last 65 years and analysing why aid changed from time to time are the subjects of this book. Professionals and students in the area of international cooperation will benefit from studying this history, as, at this moment, old concepts are reappearing or applied by new donors like China. Is the pendulum really swinging back, as Louis Emmerij at one point suggested?

Proposal for a Program in Appropriate Technology

Author : United States. Agency for International Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Proposal for a Program in Appropriate Technology written by United States. Agency for International Development and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Role of USA. Report on an a.i.d. Proposal for a technical cooperation programme focused on appropriate labour intensive choice of technology in developing countries - includes references.