Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration

ISBN-13: 9780415066228 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 224 str.

Dennis A. Rondinelli; D. Rondinelli;Rondinelli Denn

Opis

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.

Recenzje

`Now updated to consider the experience of the 1980s and early 1990s, this book offers fresh insight into project design and implementation. ... This book offers an informed critique ... and presents a persuasive argument for reform. Rondinelli's call for greater experimentation, innovation, responsiveness and local participation in project design and implementation should be given careful consideration by both scholars and practitioners of development administration.' - Development Policy Review

From reviews of the 1st edition: `... the best integration and summation of current "wisdom" on the subject ... represents a Magna Carta for practitioners.' - Economic Geography

`A succinct, thought-provoking book which should be of interest to all students of regional science, especially those concerned with economic development policies in the Third World.' - Annals of Regional Science

Spis treści

Preface. 1. The Problem of Development Administration: Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty. 2. Development Policies as Social Experiments: From Macroeconomic Growth to Sectoral Development. 3. Development Policies as Social Experiments: From Growth-With-Equity to Structual Adjustment. 4. Designing Development Projects: The Limits of Rationalistic Planning and Management. 5. Implementing Development Projects as Policy Experiments: Toward Adaptive Administration. 6. Reorienting Development Administration: Principles, Problems and Opportunities. References.

O autorze

Dennis A. Rondinelli