Banking on knowledge : the genesis of the Global Development Network
edited by Diane Stone
| Year of publication: |
2000
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| Other Persons: | Stone, Diane (contributor) |
| Institutions: | Global Development Network (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
London : Routledge |
| Subject: | Welt | World | Wissenstransfer | Knowledge transfer | Netzwerk | Network | Entwicklungshilfe | Development aid | Entwicklungsorganisation | Development organization |
| Description of contents: |
One of the first studies of the way in which the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'knowledge bank'
Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]
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| Extent: | Online-Ressource (xvii, 269 p) ill |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Based on papers presented at a conference held in Bonn, 1999 to launch the Global Development Network Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Prologue by Lyn Squire; Foreword by Diery Seck; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; The GDN and knowledge for development; The genesis of the GDN; Scan globally, reinvent locally: knowledge infrastructure and the localisation of knowledge; The instrumentalisation of development knowledge; Civil society engagement; Think tanks in independent Belarus: catalysts for social transformation; New partnerships in research: activists and think tanks. An illustration from the NCAER in New Delhi Building productive partnerships for the promotion of reform: the APOYO Institute in PeruReform and reconstruction; The challenges of intervention for Cambodian think tanks; Post-communist think tanks: making and faking influence; Influencing government policy making; Knowledge across borders; Southeast Asian research institutes and regional cooperation; Globalisation, think tanks and policy transfer; Think tanks and the ecology of policy inquiry; Conclusion; Knowledge, power and policy; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 0-415-24847-7 ; 0-203-36142-3 ; 0-415-24848-5 ; 978-0-415-24847-1 ; 978-0-415-24847-1 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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