Knowledge for development? : comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank aid /: comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank aid. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth King, Simon McGrath.
• Other Names: King, Kenneth, 1940-; McGrath, Simon A
• Contents: Researching knowledge-based aid -- The new aid agenda -- Knowledge for development -- The World Bank or the knowledge bank? -- From information management to knowledge sharing: DFID's unfinished revolution -- Knowledge, learning and capacity in the Swedish approach to development cooperation -- Experience, experts and knowledge in Japanese aid policy and practice -- Conclusions and implications for knowledge, aid and development. Researching knowledge-based aid -- Research questions -- A new way of researching; a new way of working -- The new aid agenda -- The changing fashions of development cooperation -- Aid discourse at the start of the new millennium -- Knowledge for development -- The origins of knowledge-based aid -- Knowledge-based aid -- Alternative accounts of knowledge and development -- The World Bank or the knowledge bank? -- The discovery of knowledge-based aid in the World Bank -- The World Bank's older knowledge strategies -- The World Bank's vision of knowledge for development -- Revising the strategy: the Ramphele review and a shifting focus for the knowledge bank -- The new architecture of the knowledge bank -- The knowledge bank in practice: assessing the extent of transformation -- From information management to knowledge sharing: DFID's unfinished revolution -- DFID's knowledge discourses -- DFID's knowledge projects -- DFID's knowledge products -- DFID's knowledge practices -- How should we judge DFID's approach to knowledge and development? -- Knowledge, learning and capacity in the Swedish approach to development cooperation -- Historical overview -- Sida's discourses of knowledge, learning and capacity -- Sida as a generator of development knowledge -- Sida's initiatives to support knowledge, learning and capacity development -- Knowledge and learning in practice -- Experience, experts and knowledge in Japanese aid policy and practice -- Japan's own experience of development -- Japan's multiple external sources of development expertise.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Subjects: 338.91/09172/4; Economic assistance; Economic assistance, British; Economic assistance, Japanese; Economic assistance, Swedish; Aide au développement; Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement; Analyse comparative; Economic assistance; Economic assistance, British; Economic assistance, Japanese; Economic assistance, Swedish; Economic history; Ontwikkelingssamenwerking; Developing countries -- Economic conditions; Suède; Japon; Royaume-Uni; Developing countries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781848137172; 1848137176
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