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* Exploration of the nature of bureaucracy and bureaucratic change
* Comprehensive examination of debates about social capital within the World Bank
* Contributors include both long-time Bank insiders as well as external analysts and observers of the Bank’s development policies
The contributors to this collection examine the vast bureaucracy of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development.
These debates reach to the heart of the bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. The Search for Empowerment is simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change.
Other contributors: Julie Van Domelen, Michael Edwards, Jonathan Fox, John Gershman, Jeffrey Hammer, David Lewis, Deepa Narayan, Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Lant Pritchett, M. Shameen Siddiqi, and Jorge Uquillas.
* Comprehensive examination of debates about social capital within the World Bank
* Contributors include both long-time Bank insiders as well as external analysts and observers of the Bank’s development policies
The contributors to this collection examine the vast bureaucracy of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development.
These debates reach to the heart of the bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. The Search for Empowerment is simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change.
Other contributors: Julie Van Domelen, Michael Edwards, Jonathan Fox, John Gershman, Jeffrey Hammer, David Lewis, Deepa Narayan, Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Lant Pritchett, M. Shameen Siddiqi, and Jorge Uquillas.
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The contributors to this collection examine the vast bureaucracy of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change within the Bank itself. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development. These debates reach to the heart of the Bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over the meaning of social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. The Search for Empowerment is simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change.
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Anthony Bebbington is Professor in Institute for Development Policy and Management in the School for Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, UK.
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- PublisherKumarian Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1565492153
- ISBN 13 9781565492158
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
- EditorBebbington Anthony, Woolcock Michael, Guggenheim Scott, Olson Elizabeth
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