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Whether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international development transforms not only societies and economies but also key ideas about how the world works and how problems should be solved.In this compelling book, Michael Woolcock demonstrates that achieving peace and prosperity for all is supremely contingent and often contentious: the means and ends of development are often perceived as alien, unjust, and disruptive, its benefits and costs unequally borne. Many development challenges are not technical problems amenable to an expert's solution, but require extensive deliberation to find and fit context-specific responses. Woolcock insists that it is each generation's challenge to find shared, legitimate, and durable solutions to the moral imperative to reduce human suffering while simultaneously redressing the challenges that development success (let alone failure) inexorably brings.This skillful guide will be essential reading for students and practitioners working in this complex field, and for anyone seeking to help "make the world a better place."https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/International+Development%3A+Navigating+Humanity%27s+Greatest+Challenge-p-9781509545155

Economic development --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Maatschappelijke ontwikkeling --- Globalisering --- Internationalisering --- Internationale politiek --- Internationale samenwerking --- Maatschappelijk welzijn --- Welvaart

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Responding effectively and with professional integrity to the many challenges of public administration requires recognizing that access to more and better quantitative data is necessary but insufficient. Overreliance on quantitative data comes with its own risks, of which public sector managers should be keenly aware. This paper focuses on four such risks. The first is that attaining easy-to-measure targets becomes a false standard of broader success. The second is that measurement becomes conflated with what management is and does. The third is that measurement inhibits a deeper understanding of the key policy problems and their constituent parts. The fourth is that political pressure to manipulate key indicators can lead, if undetected, to falsification and unwarranted claims or, if exposed, to jeopardizing the perceived integrity of many related (and otherwise worthy) measurement efforts. Left unattended, the cumulative concern is that these risks will inhibit rather than promote the core problem-solving and implementation capabilities of public sector organizations, an issue of high importance everywhere but especially in developing countries. The paper offers four cross-cutting principles for building an approach to the use of quantitative data - a "balanced data suite"--that strengthens problem-solving and learning in public administration: (1) identify and manage the organizational capacity and power relations that shape data management; (2) focus quantitative measures of success on those aspects which are close to the problem; (3) embrace a role for qualitative data, especially for those aspects that require in-depth, context-specific knowledge; and (4) protect space for judgment, discretion, and deliberation in those (many) decision-making domains that inherently cannot be quantified.

Research --- Data processing.

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How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comparison states in Nigeria. The paper examines the bases on which claims and counterclaims about the effectiveness of these approaches were made by different actors, concluding that resolution requires any such claims to be grounded in a fit-for-purpose theory of change and evaluation strategy. The principles of adaptive development may be gaining broad acceptance, but a complex array of skills, expectations, political support, empirical measures, and administrative structures needs to be deftly integrated if demonstrably positive operational results are to be obtained, especially when undertaken within institutional systems, administrative logics, and political imperatives that are predisposed to serve rather different purposes.

Development Economics and Aid Effectiveness --- Development Effectiveness --- Governance --- Institution Building --- Legitimacy --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- National Governance --- Public Administration --- Public Sector Development --- Public Sector Reform

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"Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies. Through its accessible and provocative chapters, Popular Representations of Development introduces the idea that while the issue of "development" -- defined broadly as problems of poverty and social deprivation, and the various agencies and processes seeking to address these -- is normally one that is discussed by social scientists and policy makers, it also has a wide "popular" dimension. Development is something that can be understood through studying literature, films, and other non-conventional forms of representation. It is also a public issue, one that has ironically been associated with musical movements such as Live Aid and increasingly features in newer media such as blogs and social networking. The book connects the effort to build a more holistic understanding of development issues with an exploration of the diverse public sphere in which popular engagement with development takes place. This book gives students of development studies, media studies and geography as well as students of humanities engaging with global development issues a variety of perspectives from different disciplines to open up this new field for discussion"--Provided by publisher.

Mass communications --- Third World: economic development problems --- Sociology of culture --- Développement économique --- Médias --- Economic development. --- Popular culture. --- Mass media. --- #SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:309H1024 --- #SBIB:309H503 --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Mediaboodschappen met een ideologische en spiegelfunctie (beeld vrouw, migranten …) --- Semiotiek, semiologie --- Economic development --- Mass media --- Popular culture --- Culture --- Médias. --- Développement économique. --- Developing countries: economic development problems