The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process. The success and failures of such projects, the new skills and attitudes they impart, and the internal tensions they sometimes generate obviously have an important bearing on the next stages of a county's development effort. Yet little has become known about these truly formative experiences which are due to the behavior --and misbehavior --of development...
The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presen...
Rivlin examines the contributions that systematic analysis has made to decisionmaking in the governments social action programs-- education, health, manpower training, and income maintenance. Drawing on her own experience in government, Mrs. Rivlin indicates where the analysts have been helpful in finding solutions and where-- because of inadequate data or methods-- they have been no help at all.
Rivlin examines the contributions that systematic analysis has made to decisionmaking in the governments social action programs-- education, health, m...
