Format:
1 online resource (374 pages)
ISBN:
9783030574260
Content:
Intro -- Introduction -- To Our Readers -- Uses -- Origins -- Editors Note: Part 1 -- Social Development Work-Live-Editors´ Note -- Editors Note Part 3 -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank -- The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development -- Crossing the Rubicon Towards Social Knowledge -- A New Orientation and Our Search for New Skills -- The ``Present-Absent´´ Candidate -- Meeting Cernea for the First Time -- A Seminar, More Interviews, and a Consequential Decision -- Unanticipated Obstacles -- Personal Support from Robert McNamara -- Work Across the World´s Meridians -- Decisions to Bring More Social Specialists into the Bank -- Moving from Individual Projects to Policy Work -- A Group Process That Led to Collective Products and Institutional Success -- The Road to Achieving a Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank -- McNamara´s Knowledge Revolution -- Development Policy: A Quasi-monopoly of the Economist ? -- Entrepreneurial Advisers in Social Disciplines -- A Request for Help on the Issue of Critical Mass -- The Response of Senior Bank Management -- The Road to Critical Mass -- Address to the World Bank Sociological Group -- Introduction -- Why Does the Bank Need Social Analysis? -- What Needs to be Done -- How to Achieve This -- Role of the Board -- Working Together at the World Bank for Broadening the Development Paradigm -- My First Meeting with the Bank´s Senior Sociologist -- Discovering ``Social Assessments´´ -- Fighting Corruption -- The Centrality of People -- The Bank Needs a New Development Paradigm -- Social Analysis in the World Bank -- Social Sciences at the World Bank and the Broadening of the Development Paradigm -- The World Bank´s First Vice-Presidency for Environmental and Social Matters.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030574253
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030574253
Language:
English
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