Finding Out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development
Published by London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 1998
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- Title
- Finding Out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development
- Author
- Edited by Alan Thomas, Joanna Chataway & Marc Wuyts
- Publisher
- London, Thousand Oaks & New Delhi: SAGE Publications
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.)
- ISBN 10
- 0761958371
- ISBN 13
- 9780761958376
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- Social Science
Recognizing that policy decisions are typically made under pressure of time and on the basis of incomplete data or with limited resources with which to obtain information, the authors provide guidance on how to locate, evaluate and use relevant information, fast.
They explain and critically review a variety of research methods for `finding out fast′, in the belief that these methods can still be rigorous. Finding Out Fast will assist readers to become competent investigators, to understand how to use research more effectively and how to commission and critically evaluate research done by others.
This book is essential reading for development managers in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and public sector agencies and students of development management and development studies more generally. However, the ideas and approaches will also appeal to anyone involved in policy making and research with developmental goals.
It is a course text for two courses in the Open University Global Programme in Development Management: Capacities for Managing Development (TU870) and the Development Management Project (TU874).
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About the Author
Stephanie Barrientos University of Hertfordshire
Christine Blackmore Open University
Joseph Hanlon
Ray Ison Open University
Avril Joffe Labour Market Alternatives (Pty) Johannesburg
Hazel Johnson Open University
Geoff Jones Open University
Sue Mayer
Linda Mayoux
Bridget O′Laughlin Institute of Social Studies The Hague
Stephen Potter Open University
Chris Roche Oxfam
Ramya Subrahmanian Open University
Philip Woodhouse University of Manchester
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