Knowledge for development?: comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank aid
OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2004
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.King, S.McGrath
KEYWORDS: DEVELOPMENT, KNOWLEDGE-BASED AID
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/knowledge-for-development
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2603
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/8026
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/8026
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2004
TITLE AUTHOR(S): K.King, S.McGrath
KEYWORDS: DEVELOPMENT, KNOWLEDGE-BASED AID
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/knowledge-for-development
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2603
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/8026
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/8026
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Abstract
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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