The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank

ISBN 10: 1565492153 / ISBN 13: 9781565492158

Published by Kumarian Press, 2006

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Seller Inventory # M01565492153-G

Synopsis:

The contributors to this collection examine the vast bureaucracy of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change within the World Bank. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development. These debates reach to the heart of the bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. ""The Search for Empowerment"" is simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change.

About the Author: Anthony Bebbington is Professor at the Institute for Development Policy and Management in the School for Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, UK.Michael Woolcock is Senior Social Scientist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank.Scott Guggenheim is Lead Social Development Specialist in the East Asia and Pacific region, and in the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development network, World Bank.Elizabeth Olson is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Lancaster University, UK.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital ...
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good