UID:
edoccha_9960993640002883
Format:
1 online resource (203 pages)
ISBN:
1-00-322987-5
,
1-000-53672-6
,
1-000-53666-1
,
1-003-22987-5
Series Statement:
Rethinking Development
Content:
"At a time when the global development industry is under more pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritising human dignity. Unable to adequately account for the roles of culture, context, and local institutions, today's outsider-led development interventions continue to leave a trail of unintended consequences, ranging from wasteful to even harmful. This book shows that increased prosperity can only be achieved when people are valued as self-governing agents. Social orders that recognize autonomy and human dignity unleash enormous productive energy. This in turn leads to the mobilization of knowledge sharing that is critical to innovation and localized problem solving. Offering a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives and specific examples from the field showing these ideas in action, this book provides NGOs, multilateral institutions and donor countries with practical guidelines for implementing "dignity-first" development. Compelling and engaging, with a wide range of recommendations for reforming development practice and supporting liberal democracy, this book will be an essential read for students and practitioners of international development"--
Note:
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Dignity Matters -- Tyrannies of Minorities and Majorities -- Humiliation and Indignity -- Replacing Humiliation With Dignity -- Notes -- 1 Dignity -- Cicero's Legacy -- Aristocratic Dignity Extended, or the Rise of the Underclasses? -- Bourgeois Dignity -- Dalit Dignity -- Notes -- 2 Dignity and Innovation -- Innovation Enriches -- Notes -- 3 Dignity and Enterprise -- Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- Permissionless Innovation, A.k.a. the Presumption of Liberty, Is Based On Dignity -- Gains From Trade and Innovation -- Notes -- 4 Dignity and Democracy -- Sustainable Democracy -- The Loyal Opposition -- Democratic Development -- Notes -- 5 Indignity of Autocracy -- Democratic Corrections -- Importing Social Technologies -- Democratic (Civic) Dignity -- Notes -- 6 Indignity of Development Aid -- Decolonizing Development -- Resistance to Change -- Pitfalls of Top-Down Paternalism -- Notes -- 7 Dignity and Institutions -- Failure of Cargo Cult Or Copycat Institutions -- Elevating Local Leadership and Capacity -- Randomized Control Trials -- Nature Vs. Nurture? -- Agent-based Modeling for Complex Systems -- Notes -- 8 Dignity and Knowledge -- Taking Norms Seriously -- Voice and Institutional Change -- The Diversity of Local Knowledge -- Positive Deviance -- Notes -- 9 Dignity and Innovation Diffusion -- Regulatory Barriers -- The Potential of "Peasants" and Informal Markets -- The China Non-Model -- Notes -- 10 Development With Dignity -- Universal and Institutional Entrepreneurship -- Realizing the Localization Agenda -- Rightsizing Power Imbalances -- Universal Entrepreneur -- Institutional Entrepreneur -- Notes -- Appendix -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-03-213564-6
Language:
English
