Ideas for DevelopmentOur world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions almost too monumental to consider. Yet all is not lost. Robert Chambers, one of the ?glass is half full? optimists of international development, suggests that the problems can be solved and everyone has the power at a personal level to take action, develop solutions and remake our world as it can and should be. Chambers peels apart and analyses aspects of development that have been neglected or misunderstood. In each chapter, he presents an earlier writing which he then reviews and reflects upon in a contemporary light before harvesting a wealth of powerful conclusions and practical implications for the future. The book draws on experiences from Africa, Asia and elsewhere, covering topics and concepts as wide and varied as irreversibility, continuity and commitment; administrative capacity as a scarce resource; procedures and principles; participation in the past, present and future; scaling up; behaviour and attitudes; responsible wellbeing; and concepts for development in the 21st century. |
From inside the book
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... costs Preferring administration-sparing policies Part 2: Rethinking Policies and Practices in Aid (2004) From past to present Proliferation and fragmentation Transaction costs The capital trap Whose capacity is scarcer? Twists in the ...
... cost to governments. The Perkerra Irrigation Scheme in Kenya was one such project which by almost any criteria should never have been started, and once started, not continued. It performed disastrously but became increasingly difficult ...
... costs and the difficulties of management. There is a danger that both organizational and productive effectiveness will be restrained by the inbuilt incompatibilities of complex schemes, by the cancelling out of managerial and settler ...
... costs of trained staff and the expected ease or difficulty of abandoning a project or programme if it proves ... cost-benefit criteria 4 Ideas for Development.
Robert Chambers. settlement schemes becomes stronger than when only conventional cost-benefit criteria are used.While this does not mean that such schemes should be ruled out altogether, it does mean that they should be approached with ...
Contents
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2 Aid and Administrative Capacity | 30 |
3 Procedures Principles and Power | 54 |
Review Reflections and Future | 86 |
5 PRA Participation and Going to Scale | 119 |