Development cooperation has spent decades wrangling over the merits, evidence, and implications of what we may term "the learning hypothesis": the idea that increased knowledge by development organisations must logically lead to increased effectiveness in the performance of their development...

Dieser Band weist nach, daß Organisationen nicht beliebig veränderbar sind. Ihre Strukturen und "geheimen" Regeln sind tief in der jeweiligen Gesellschaft und Kultur verankert. Auf die Rolle von Frauen in Organisationen trifft dies ebenso zu wie auf die Fragen von Macht und Hierarchie und auf...

This paper analyses the linkages between knowledge and policy in child rights issues in order to supplement current partial understanding of these dynamics in the sector. The ultimate aim of the paper is to safeguard children’s rights by presenting frameworks and lessons through which to...

In 1999, the World Bank launched the K4D initiative as part of its new development agenda. The Bank also established itself as the global development knowledge bank suggesting that these moves would yield more pro-poor development results. This Masters thesis examines the Bank's knowledge...

In the aftermath of World War II, the birth of development economics was paralleled by the growth of development organizations, the most prominent of which was the World Bank. Not surprisingly, the paths of the Bank and of the pioneers of the new discipline often crossed, and it is fair to say...