Assessing the World Bank's attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank's prevailing strategy of "management by seclusion," poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills.
Assessing the World Bank's attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argue...
In this book, Dr. Cochrane presents various case studies of institutional reform and discusses how the reforms worked in practice. Through an examination of the budgeting process in Zambia, the public service in PapuaNew Guinea, agricultural programs in Sierra Leone, and rural development in Brazil, he draws lessons and indicates guidelines for institutional reform in developing countries.
In this book, Dr. Cochrane presents various case studies of institutional reform and discusses how the reforms worked in practice. Through an examinat...
