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In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be 'the knowledge bank'. A new discourse of knowledge-based aid has since spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyse this new discourse and practice. Through an examination of four agencies -- the World Bank, the British Department for International Development, the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency -- it explores what this new approach to aid means in both theory and practice. It argues that too much of the emphasis of knowledge-based aid has been on developing capacity within agencies rather than addressing the expressed needs of Southern partners. Moreover, it questions whether knowledge-based aid increases agency certainty about what constitutes good development.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Knowledge for Development?
• Author: Kenneth King
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781842773253
• ISBN: 1842773259
• ID: 04256783
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 282 g
• Dimensions: 135 × 217 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2004

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