Development projects as policy experiments : an adaptive approach to development administration
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Development projects as policy experiments : an adaptive approach to development administration
（Development and underdevelopment）
Routledge, 1993
2nd ed
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780415066228
Description
International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. This examines the alternatives and offers an approach which focuses on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decision-making processes that join learning with action. A useful text for academics and practitioners in development studies, geography and sociology.
Table of Contents
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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415066235
Description
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. An adaptive approach is needed, an approach which relies on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decision-making processes that join learning with action. Following practical testing and reformulation of ideas presented in the first edition, this up-dated text offers new examples and extended coverage of participatory and strategic management.
Table of Contents
- The problem of development administration
- coping with complexity and uncertainty
- development policies as social experiments
- from macroeconomic growth to sectoral development
- development policies as social experiments
- from growth-with-equity to structual adjustment
- designing development projects
- the limits of rationalistic planning and management
- implementing development projects as policy experiments
- toward adaptive administration
- reorienting development administration
- principles, problems and opportunities.
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