Development projects as policy experiments : an adaptive approach to development administration / Dennis A. Rondinelli.

The complexity of the development process calls for an adaptive approach for assistance programmes which rely on strategic planning, responsiveness and experimentation and decision-making processes that join learning with action.

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Main Author: Rondinelli, Dennis A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Development and underdevelopment.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The problem of development administration : coping with complexity and uncertainty
  • 2. Development policies as social experiments : from macroeconomic growth to sectoral development
  • 3. Development policies as social experiments : from growth-with-equity to structural adjustment
  • 4. Designing development projects : the limits of rationalistic planning and management
  • 5. Implementing development projects as policy experiments : toward adaptive administration
  • 6. Reorienting development administration : principles, problems and opportunities.