Development Planning: Concepts and Tools for Planners, Managers and Facilitators - Hardcover

Dale, Reidar

9788171884919: Development Planning: Concepts and Tools for Planners, Managers and Facilitators

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8171884911 ISBN 13: 9788171884919

Publisher: Academic Foundation, 2006

Explores the different concepts of development and development planning. This book introduces a simple model of strategic planning, and then elaborates more complex arrangements.

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Review:

'I wholeheartedly recommend it for students, practitioners and theorists of development planning and, indeed, development studies more broadly.'
Hans Detlef Kammeier, AIT, Thailand

'A seminal contribution to an action-centred paradigm of planning for development.'
Hellmut W. Eggers, European Commission

'A highly important and useful book.'
W. M. Leelasena, Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project, Sri Lanka

'Presents concepts and tools for planners, managers, and facilitators involved in development planning.'
Journal of Economic Literature

About the Author:

Dr Reidar Dale is currently Associate Professor of Development Planning and Management at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. For 25 years he has been working in the field of development planning and management in a variety of developing countries - as a planner, manager, researcher, evaluator and university lecturer. For much of this period (1979-87; 1990-94) he worked with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).

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