Finding Out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development
Language: English
Published by SAGE Publications Inc, 1999
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This is a guide for development managers on how to research, evaluate and use information, fast, and become competent investigators. It is published as a course book for the Open University course "Capacities for Managing Development". Editor(s): Thomas, Alan; Chataway, Joanna; Wuyts, Marc. Series: Published in Association with the Open University. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNZ; KJMV6. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 614. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. 1998. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- Finding Out Fast: Investigative Skills for Policy and Development
- Author
- Alan Thomas (Ed.)
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0761958371
- ISBN 13
- 9780761958376
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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