Development Projects As Policy Experiments

Rondinelli, Dennis A.

ISBN 10: 0416736408 / ISBN 13: 9780416736403

Published by Routledge

Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # Y08A-02876

Synopsis:

As international agencies' assistance strategies become more complex, their methods of planning and administration become less effective. Neither the rationalistic techniques of planning and management they adopted during the 1960s and 1970s to control development activities nor the structural adjustment models they used during the 1980s and 1990s to reform economic policies, encouraged the flexibility, experimentation and social learning that are crucial to implementing successfully complex and uncertain development activities. Urgent reorientation of development programmes and continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. An adaptive approach is needed, an approach which relies on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decision-making processes that join learning with action. Following practical testing and reformulation of ideas presented in the first edition, this up-dated text offers new examples and extended coverage of participatory and strategic management.

Review: ." . . the best integration and summation of current wisdom' on the subject . . . represents a Magna Carta for practitioners."
From the reviews of the first edition:
-"Economic Geography

Bibliographic Details

Title: Development Projects As Policy Experiments
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good