Reclaiming Development Agendas: Knowledge, Power and International Policy Making

ISBN-13: 9781403994943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 249 str.

Peter Utting

Opis

As world attention focuses on poverty reduction and good governance, Reclaiming Development Agendas looks at why such changes in discourse and policy are taking place, what they mean for the challenge of forging development processes that are more socially inclusive and equitable, and what needs to be done to reclaim development agendas.

Spis treści

Foreword: Some Reflections on the Links between Social Knowledge and Policy; J.A.Ocampo Introduction: Reclaiming Development Agendas; P.Utting Challenging the Knowledge Business; S.Guttal The New Buzzwords; A.Cornwall & K.Brock The Search for Policy Autonomy in the Global South; N.Girvan The World Bank as a Knowledge Agency; J.Toye & R.Toye Knowledge Management and the Global Agenda for Education; K.King The Quest for Gender Equality; G.Sen Global Social Policy Reform; B.Deacon Generating Knowledge in the United Nations; L.Emmerij, R.Jolly & T.G.Weiss

O autorze

KAREN BROCK Consultant ANDREW CORNWALL Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK BOB DEACON Professor of International Social Policy, University of Sheffield, UK LOUIS EMMERIJ Co-Director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project, Senior Fellow, Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA NORMAN GIRVAN Professional Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, University of West Indies, Trinidad SHALMALI GUTTAL Senior Associate at Focus on the Global South, Bangkok RICHARD JOLLY Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK KENNETH KING Professor of International and Comparative Education and Director of the Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK JOSE ANTONIO OCAMPO United Nations Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs, Switzerland GITA SEN Sir Ratan Tata Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and Adjunct Professor of Population and International Health, Faculty of Public Health, Harvard University, USA JOHN TOYE Senior Research Associate of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK RICHARD TOYE Lecturer in History, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK THOMAS G. WEISS Presidential Professor of Political Science, The CUNY Graduate Centre and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, USA