Author: King, Kenneth
Title: Knowledge for Development?: Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid.
Description: London : Zed Books, 2004. Paperback. 256 pp. Library stamp. English text. Condition : very good Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be the knowledge bank. This statement marks the beginning in earnest of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyze 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--the book 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 leads to greater agency certainty about what constitutes good development. ISBN 9781842773253.

Keywords: development,