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Forecasting: an appraisal for policy-makers and planners
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ISBN: 0801820359 9780801820359 Year: 1978 Publisher: London Hopkins University Press

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Understanding the policymaking process in developing countries
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ISBN: 1108278647 1108280986 1108277993 1108417612 1108405517 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations.


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The psychology of poverty alleviation : challenges in developing countries
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ISBN: 1108885772 110888993X 1108840361 1108889255 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In order to design, enact, and protect poverty alleviation policies in developing countries, we must first understand the psychology of how the poor react to their plight, and not just the psychology of the privileged called upon for sacrifice. This book integrates social and psycho-dynamic psychology, economics, policy design, and policy-process theory to explore ways to follow through on successful poverty-alleviation initiatives, while averting destructive conflict. Using eight case studies across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, William Ascher examines successes and failures in helping the poor through affirmative action, cash transfers, social-spending targeting, subsidies, and regional development. In doing so, he demonstrates how social identities, attributions of deservingness, and perceptions of the policy process shape both the willingness to support pro-poor policies and the conflict that emerges over distributional issues.

Bringing in the future : strategies for farsightedness and sustainability in developing countries
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ISBN: 0226029166 0226029174 9780226029160 9780226029177 9780226029184 0226029182 1282426095 9781282426092 9786612426094 6612426098 Year: 2009 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Humans are plagued by shortsighted thinking, preferring to put off work on complex, deep-seated, or difficult problems in favor of quick-fix solutions to immediate needs. When short-term thinking is applied to economic development, especially in fragile nations, the results-corruption, waste, and faulty planning-are often disastrous. In Bringing in the Future, William Ascher draws on the latest research from psychology, economics, institutional design, and legal theory to suggest strategies to overcome powerful obstacles to long-term planning in developing countries. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Ascher applies strategies such as the creation and scheduling of tangible and intangible rewards, cognitive exercises to increase the understanding of longer-term consequences, self-restraint mechanisms to protect long-term commitments and enhance credibility, and restructuring policy-making processes to permit greater influence of long-term considerations. Featuring theoretically informed research findings and sound policy examples, this volume will assist policy makers, activists, and scholars seeking to understand how the vagaries of human behavior affect international development.


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ISBN: 9781108840361 9781108889933 9781108794572 9781108885775 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Year: 1978 Publisher: Baltimore-London Johns Hopkins University Press

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Why governments waste natural resources : policy failures in developing countries
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ISBN: 0801860962 Year: 1999 Publisher: Baltimore, Md. London Johns Hopkins University Press

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Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence : Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development
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ISBN: 1137555114 1349558419 1137555122 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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Although many scholars and practitioners recognize that development and conflict are intertwined, there is much less understanding of the mechanisms behind these linkages. This book takes a new approach by critically examining how various development strategies provoke or help prevent intrastate violence, based on cases from all developing regions. .

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Conflict management --- Economic development --- Intergroup relations --- Insurgency --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Conditions --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Insurgent attacks --- Rebellions --- Conflict, Intergroup --- Intergroup conflict --- Relations, Intergroup --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Conflict control --- Conflict resolution --- Dispute settlement --- Management of conflict --- Managing conflict --- Civil war --- Political crimes and offenses --- Revolutions --- Government, Resistance to --- Internal security --- Social interaction --- Management --- Negotiation --- Problem solving --- Social conflict --- Crisis management --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Political economy. --- Comparative politics. --- Terrorism. --- Economic development. --- Political science. --- International Political Economy. --- Comparative Politics. --- Terrorism and Political Violence. --- Development Theory. --- Development Studies. --- Political Science. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Economic man --- Political violence. --- Violence --- Terrorism

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