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  • 1
    ISBN: 1107019400 , 9781107019409
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 250 S. , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Legal pluralism and development
    DDC: 340/.115
    RVK:
    Keywords: Rechtsordnung ; Rechtsökonomik ; Pluralismus ; Entwicklung ; Menschenrechte ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Rechtsreform ; Sachenrecht ; Welt ; Legal polycentricity Economic aspects ; Law and economic development ; LAW / General ; Legal polycentricity Economic aspects ; Law and economic development ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Recht ; Pluralismus
    Abstract: "This book brings together contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development"--
    Abstract: "Previous efforts at legal development have focused almost exclusively on state legal systems, many of which have shown little improvement over time. Recently, organizations engaged in legal development activities have begun to pay greater attention to the implications of local, informal, indigenous, religious, and village courts or tribunals, which often are more efficacious than state legal institutions, especially in rural communities. Legal pluralism is the term applied to these situations because these institutions exist alongside official state legal systems, usually in a complex or uncertain relationship. Although academics, especially legal anthropologists and sociologists, have discussed legal pluralism for decades, their work has not been consulted in the development context. Similarly, academics have failed to benefit from the insights of development practitioners. This book brings together, in a single volume, contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development. All of the practitioners have extensive experience in development projects, the academics come from a variety of backgrounds, and most have written extensively on legal pluralism and on development"--
    Abstract: "This book brings together contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development"--
    Abstract: "Previous efforts at legal development have focused almost exclusively on state legal systems, many of which have shown little improvement over time. Recently, organizations engaged in legal development activities have begun to pay greater attention to the implications of local, informal, indigenous, religious, and village courts or tribunals, which often are more efficacious than state legal institutions, especially in rural communities. Legal pluralism is the term applied to these situations because these institutions exist alongside official state legal systems, usually in a complex or uncertain relationship. Although academics, especially legal anthropologists and sociologists, have discussed legal pluralism for decades, their work has not been consulted in the development context. Similarly, academics have failed to benefit from the insights of development practitioners. This book brings together, in a single volume, contributions from academics and practitioners to explore the implications of legal pluralism for legal development. All of the practitioners have extensive experience in development projects, the academics come from a variety of backgrounds, and most have written extensively on legal pluralism and on development"--
    Note: Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction : legal pluralism and development policy : scholars and practitioners in dialogue ; Part I. Origins and Contours ; 1. Historical perspectives on legal pluralism , 2. The rule of law and legal pluralism in development , 3. Bendable rules : the development implications of human rights pluralism , 4. Legal pluralism and legal culture : mapping the terrain , 5. Towards equity in development when the law is not the law : reflections on legal pluralism in practice , Part II. Theoretical Foundations and Conceptual Debates ; 6. Sustainable diversity in law , 7. Legal pluralism 101 , 8. The development "Problem" of legal pluralism : an analysis and steps towards solutions , 9. Institutional hybrids and the rule of law as a regulatory project , 10. Some implications of the application of legal pluralism to development practice , Part III. From Theory to Practice ; 11. Legal pluralism and international development agencies : state building or legal reform , 12. Access to property and citizenship : marginalization in a context of legal pluralism , 13. The publicity "defect" of customary law , 14. Unearthing pluralism : mining, multilaterals and the state , 15. The problem with problematizing legal pluralism : lessons from the field
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  • 2
    ISBN: 0821356623 , 0821356615
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 53 S.
    Edition: 1. print.
    Series Statement: World Bank working paper 18
    DDC: 302
    Keywords: Sozialkapital ; Sozialforschung ; Social capital (Sociology) Research ; Methodology ; Questionnaires ; Social capital Sociology Research ; Methodology ; Questionnaires ; Buch ; Graue Literatur ; Graue Literatur
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781526151612
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 276 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st published
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als History, historians and development policy
    DDC: 320.6
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    Keywords: Geschichtswissenschaft ; Entwicklungspolitik ; Gesundheitswesen ; Bildungswesen ; Natürliche Ressourcen ; Policy sciences ; Social sciences and history ; Political science Decision making ; Historians ; Economic development ; Public health ; Natural resources Management ; History ; Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries ; Policy sciences ; Social sciences and history ; Political science ; Decision making ; History ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Entwicklungspolitik
    Abstract: Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues
    Abstract: "If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central development issues of social protection, public health, public education and natural resource management. Where did the policy ideas underpinning these sectors come from? How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries, and indeed within them? Answering these questions requires incorporating historical sensibilities into development policy deliberations in ways that take seriously the importance of context, process, and contestation. Achieving this is not merely a matter of seeking to "know more" about specific times, places and issues, but recognizing the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously assemble, analyze and interpret diverse forms of evidence. Doing so gives rise to policy conclusions rather different to those emerging from prevailing analytical approaches. This book will appeal to students and scholars in Development Studies, History, International Relations, Politics, Geography as well as policy makers and those working for or studying NGO's." Publisher's website
    Abstract: Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues
    Abstract: "If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central development issues of social protection, public health, public education and natural resource management. Where did the policy ideas underpinning these sectors come from? How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries, and indeed within them? Answering these questions requires incorporating historical sensibilities into development policy deliberations in ways that take seriously the importance of context, process, and contestation. Achieving this is not merely a matter of seeking to "know more" about specific times, places and issues, but recognizing the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously assemble, analyze and interpret diverse forms of evidence. Doing so gives rise to policy conclusions rather different to those emerging from prevailing analytical approaches. This book will appeal to students and scholars in Development Studies, History, International Relations, Politics, Geography as well as policy makers and those working for or studying NGO's." Publisher's website
    Description / Table of Contents: Overview of key issues. How and why history matters for development policy / Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter and Vijayendra RaoIndigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development: The case of colonial India and Africa / C.A. Bayly -- Commentary: History, time and temporality in development discourse / Uma Kothari -- Historical contributions to contemporary development policy issues: Social Protection. Social security as a developmental institution? The relative efficacy of Poor Relief provisions under the English old Poor Law / Richard Smith -- Historical lessons about contemporary social welfare: Chinese puzzles and global challenges / R. Bing Wong -- Commentary: Why might history matter for development policy? / Ravi Kanbur -- Public Health. Health in India since Independence / Sunil S. Amrith -- Health care policy for American Indians since the early 20th century / Stephen J. Kunitz -- Commentary: Can historians assist development policy-making, or just highlight its faults? / David Hall-Mathews -- Public education. The end of literacy: The growth and measurement of British public education since the early nineteenth century / David Vincent -- The tools of transition: Education and development in modern southeast Asian history / Tim Harper -- Commentary: Remembering the forgetting in education / Lant Pritchett -- Natural resource management. Energy and natural resource dependency in Europe, 1600-1900 / Paul Warde -- Special rights in property: Why modern African economies are dependent on mineral resources / Keith Breckenridge -- Commentary: Natural resources and development-which histories matter? / Mick Moore.
    Note: Enthält 10 Beiträge , Overview of key issues. How and why history matters for development policy , Indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development: The case of colonial India and Africa , Commentary: History, time and temporality in development discourse , Historical contributions to contemporary development policy issues: Social Protection. Social security as a developmental institution? The relative efficacy of Poor Relief provisions under the English old Poor Law , Historical lessons about contemporary social welfare: Chinese puzzles and global challenges , Commentary: Why might history matter for development policy? , Public Health. Health in India since Independence , Health care policy for American Indians since the early 20th century , Commentary: Can historians assist development policy-making, or just highlight its faults? , Public education. The end of literacy: The growth and measurement of British public education since the early nineteenth century , The tools of transition: Education and development in modern southeast Asian history , Commentary: Remembering the forgetting in education , Natural resource management. Energy and natural resource dependency in Europe, 1600-1900 , Special rights in property: Why modern African economies are dependent on mineral resources , Commentary: Natural resources and development-which histories matter?
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  • 4
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    Washington, DC, USA : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Research Group
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 37 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8904
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bridges, Kate Implementing Adaptive Approaches in Real World Scenarios: A Nigeria Case Study, with Lessons for Theory and Practice
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    Abstract: How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comparison states in Nigeria. The paper examines the bases on which claims and counterclaims about the effectiveness of these approaches were made by different actors, concluding that resolution requires any such claims to be grounded in a fit-for-purpose theory of change and evaluation strategy. The principles of adaptive development may be gaining broad acceptance, but a complex array of skills, expectations, political support, empirical measures, and administrative structures needs to be deftly integrated if demonstrably positive operational results are to be obtained, especially when undertaken within institutional systems, administrative logics, and political imperatives that are predisposed to serve rather different purposes
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  • 5
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    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Development Research Group, Poverty and Inequality Team
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 34 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8289
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bridges, Kate How (Not) to Fix Problems That Matter: Assessing and Responding to Malawi's History of Institutional Reform
    Keywords: Institutioneller Wandel ; Entwicklung ; Effizienz ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Legitimität ; Öffentlicher Dienst ; Technische Zusammenarbeit ; Malawi ; Graue Literatur
    Abstract: Malawi can be understood as a microcosm of institutional reform approaches in developing countries more broadly. A common feature of such approaches, whether implemented by government or donors, is reform initiatives that yield institutions that "look like" those found in higher-performing countries but rarely acquire the same underlying functionality. This paper presents a retrospective analysis of previous institutional reform projects in Malawi, as well as interviews with Malawi-based development practitioners. The paper finds a plethora of interventions that, merely by virtue of appearing to be in conformity with "best practices" elsewhere, are deemed to be successful yet fail to fix underlying problems, sometimes in contradiction to internal and public narratives of positive progress. This unhappy arrangement endures because a multitude of imperatives, incentives, and norms appear to keep governments and donors from more closely examining why such intense, earnest, and long-standing efforts at reform have, to date, yielded so few successes. This paper seeks to promote a shift in approach to institutional reform, offering some practical recommendations for reform-minded managers, project teams, and political leaders in which the focus is placed on crafting solutions to problems that Malawians themselves nominate, prioritize, and enact
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  • 6
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 45 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9133
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Erhan Artuc Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    Abstract: What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13 short, nontechnical briefing notes prepared in response to this request, summarizing a selection of major insights in development economics in the past decade. The notes synthesize evidence from recent research on how policies should be designed, implemented, and evaluated, and provide illustrations of what works and what does not in selected policy areas
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  • 7
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    Herndon : World Bank Publications | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780821372203
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (162 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/690981
    Abstract: Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest citizens is one of the largest in the world. Inequality in Brazil is well-known, but its low mobility is not. Until now, few studies have sought to investigate how forms of social exclusion constrain socioeconomic mobility. Why do particular groups remain excluded and trapped in poverty for generations? What do Brazilians themselves think about income inequality and social mobility? This study explores these issues, provides a set of options to redress them, and promotes a national dialogue for action.In addition to reviewing pertinent literature, Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil examines the changing income dynamics among homogeneous groups over a 20-year period. With respect to mobility, it tracks changes in the relative positions of social groups with similar characteristics. The analysis derives factors affecting the probability that certain groups will continue to lack equal access to the economic, cultural, and political resources that would improve their living standards.The current political climate in Brazil offers a unique opportunity to open a new and more informed conversation on the dynamics of exclusion and mobility. This book contributes to that conversation.
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  • 8
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    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (23 p)
    Edition: 2014 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Woolcock, Michael Culture, Politics, and Development
    Abstract: Whether in the domains of scholarship or practice, important advances have been made in recent years in our understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today's leading theorists of culture and development represent a fourth distinctive perspective vis-à-vis their predecessors, one that seeks to provide an empirically grounded, mechanisms-based account of how symbols, frames, identities, and narratives are deployed as part of a broader repertoire of cultural "tools" connecting structure and agency. A central virtue of this approach is less the broad policy prescriptions to which it gives rise-indeed, to offer such prescriptions would be something of a contradiction in terms-than the emphasis it places on making intensive and extensive commitments to engaging with the idiosyncrasies of local contexts. Deep knowledge of contextual realities can contribute constructively to development policy by enabling careful intra-country comparisons to be made of the conditions under which variable responses to otherwise similar problems emerge. Such knowledge is also important for discerning the generalizability (or "external validity") of claims regarding the efficacy of development interventions, especially those overtly engaging with social, legal, and political issues
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  • 9
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (30 p)
    Edition: 2010 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Woolcock, Michael Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation
    Abstract: This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which mixing qualitative and quantitative methods could add value to monitoring and evaluating development projects. In particular it examines how qualitative methods could address some of the limitations of randomized trials and other quantitative impact evaluation methods; it also explores the importance of examining "process" in addition to "impact", distinguishing design from implementation failures, and the value of mixed methods in the real-time monitoring of projects. It concludes by suggesting topics for future research - including the use of mixed methods in constructing counterfactuals, and in conducting reasonable evaluations within severe time and budget constraints
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  • 10
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (30 p)
    Edition: 2010 World Bank eLibrary
    Parallel Title: Woolcock, Michael How and why does history matter for development policy ?
    Abstract: The consensus among scholars and policymakers that "institutions matter" for development has led inexorably to a conclusion that "history matters," since institutions clearly form and evolve over time. Unfortunately, however, the next logical step has not yet been taken, which is to recognize that historians (and not only economic historians) might also have useful and distinctive insights to offer. This paper endeavors to open and sustain a constructive dialogue between history - understood as both "the past" and "the discipline" - and development policy by (a) clarifying what the craft of historical scholarship entails, especially as it pertains to understanding causal mechanisms, contexts, and complex processes of institutional change; (b) providing examples of historical research that support, qualify, or challenge the most influential research (by economists and economic historians) in contemporary development policy; and (c) offering some general principles and specific implications that historians, on the basis of the distinctive content and method of their research, bring to development policy debates
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