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<p><p>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.<p></p>
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- Author
- KENNETH KING, Kenneth King, Simon McGrath
- Publisher
- Zed Books, Limited
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781848137172
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Business, Economics, Mathematics
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