The Imperative of Development (eBook, ePUB)

The Wolfensohn Center at Brookings
Redaktion: Gertz, Geoffrey; Linn, Johannes F.; Kharas, Homi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The achievements and legacy of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings

The Imperative of Development highlights the research and policy analysis produced by the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. The Center, which operated from 2006 to 2011, was the first home at Brookings for research on international development. It sought to help identify effective solutions to key development challenges in order to create a more prosperous and stable world.

Founded by James and Elaine Wolfensohn, the Center's mission was to "to create knowledge that leads to action with real, scaled-up, and lasting development impact." This volume reviews the Center's achievements and lasting legacy, combining highlights of its most important research with new essays that examine the context and impact of that research.

Six primary research streams of the Wolfensohn Center's work are highlighted in The Imperative of Development: the shifting structure of the world economy in the twenty-first century; the challenge of scaling up the impact of development interventions; the effectiveness of development assistance; how to promote economic and social inclusion for Middle Eastern youth; the case for investing in early child development; and the need for global governance reform. In each chapter, a scholar associated with the particular research topic provides an overview of the issue and its broader context, then describes the Center's work on the topic and the subsequent influence and impact of these efforts.

The Imperative of Development chronicles the growth and expansion of the first center for development research in Brookings's 100-year history and traces how the seeds of this initiative continue to bear fruit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780815732563
• Artikelnr.: 55278596

Autorenporträt

Edited by Geoffrey Gertz; Homi Kharas and Johannes F. Linn

Inhaltsangabe

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Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Meeting the Challenge of Development
3. The Imperative of Development
4. Farewell to Development's Old Divides
5. Scaling Up Development Impact
6. The Challenge of Reaching Scale
7. The Effectiveness of Development Assistance
8. Measuring the Quality of Aid
9.An Agenda for the Busan High-Level
10. Forum on Aid Effectiveness
11. Youth Inclusion in the Middle East
12. Generation in Waiting
13. Why Young Syrians Prefer Public Sector Jobs
14. Investing in Early Child Development
15. Scaling Up Early Childhood Development in South Africa
16. Global Governance for Development
17. Global Governance Reform
18. This Summit's Promise
19. Is the G-20 Summit a Step Toward a New Global Economic Order?
Epilogue
About the Contributors
Wolfensohn Center for Development Publications
Notes
Index
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