International Development: Navigating Humanity's Greatest Challenge by Michael W

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Whether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international development transforms not only societies and economies but also key ideas about how the world works and how problems should be solved. In this compelling book, Michael Woolcock demonstrates that achieving peace and prosperity for all is supremely contingent and often contentious: the means and ends of development are often perceived as alien, unjust, and disruptive, its benefits and costs unequally borne. Many development challenges are not technical problems amenable to an expert's solution, but require extensive deliberation to find and fit context-specific responses. Woolcock insists that it is each generation's challenge to find shared, legitimate, and durable solutions to the moral imperative to reduce human suffering while simultaneously redressing the challenges that development success (let alone failure) inexorably brings. This skillful guide will be essential reading for students and practitioners working in this complex field, and for anyone seeking to help "make the world a better place."

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Michael Woolcock is Lead Social Scientist in the Development Research Group at the World Bank, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Table of Contents

Prelude – An Invitation… Chapter 1 – Navigating Our Diverging, Integrated World: The Three "Developments" Chapter 2 – Managing a Contentious World: Cooperation, Inclusion, Process Legitimacy Chapter 3 – Building a Better World: Why Some Problems Are So Much Harder Than Others Chapter 4 – Engaging an Increasingly Complex World: From What We Have to What We Need Epilogue – Putting Your Time, Talents, and Treasure to Work (for Others)  

Review

"Michael Woolcock delivers a rare combination of gifts: the enduring insights of a scholar, the practical wisdom of a practitioner, and the passion of a change-maker. For anyone on the 'epic adventure' of international development, this is an essential guide to how we got here, where we should go, and why we strive."Yuen Yuen Ang, author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap and China's Gilded Age"More than any social researcher I know, Woolcock understands the architecture and dynamics of complex social change. His experience making pragmatic and theoretical sense of development results in a highly engaging, thoughtful, and eloquent book."Sanjeev Sridharan, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Toronto

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"Michael Woolcock delivers a rare combination of gifts: the enduring insights of a scholar, the practical wisdom of a practitioner, and the passion of a change-maker. For anyone on the 'epic adventure' of international development, this is an essential guide to how we got here, where we should go, and why we strive." Yuen Yuen Ang, author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap and China's Gilded Age "More than any social researcher I know, Woolcock understands the architecture and dynamics of complex social change. His experience making pragmatic and theoretical sense of development results in a highly engaging, thoughtful, and eloquent book." Sanjeev Sridharan , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and University of Toronto

Details ISBN1509545158 Pages 200 Year 2022 ISBN-10 1509545158 ISBN-13 9781509545155 Format Paperback Imprint Polity Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle Navigating Humanity's Greatest Challenge Publication Date 2022-12-16 UK Release Date 2022-12-16 NZ Release Date 2022-12-16 Author Michael Woolcock Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Alternative 9781509545148 DEWEY 338.9 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2023-03-21 We've got this

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