Managing Development in the Third World

ISBN-13: 9780367172138 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 324 str.

Coralie Bryant

Opis

This book focuses on the problems and processes involved in organizing, implementing, and managing programs and projects aimed at relieving poverty and underdevelopment in the Third World. It summarizes organization theory and behavior and how these apply to development programs.

Spis treści

Part One: Development Administration: An Introduction 1. Redefining Development 2. Administration and Underdevelopment 3. The Dynamics of Organizations 4. Perspectives on Organizations 5. Administrative Behavior Part Two: Implementing Development: Some Strategies 6. The Process of Project Design and Implementation 7. Data Collection, Monitoring, and Evaluation 8. Decentralization and Coordination 9. Lower-Level Administrators and Field Agents 10. Managing Participation 11. Development Planning and Its Management Part Three: Implementing Development: Urban and Rural Arenas 12. Managing Urban Development 13. Managing Rural Development

O autorze

Coralie Bryant is co-director of the International Development Program in the College of Public and International Affairs at American University, where she also serves as a professor in the Schools of Government and Public Administration and of International Studies. Louise G. White is assistant professor in the Department of Public Affairs at George Mason University.