Development projects observed
The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process. The success and failures of such projects, the new skills and attitu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington,
Brookings Institution
[1967]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- --- I. The Principle of the Hiding Hand
- - 2. Uncertainties. a. Varieties of Uncertainties
- - b. Supply Uncertainties: Technology
- - c. Supply Uncertainties: Administration
- - d. Supply Uncertainties: Finance
- - e. Excess Demand
- - f. Inadequate Demand
- - g. Digression: The R & D Strategy
- - h. Mitigation of Uncertainties
- --- II. Latitudes and Disciplines. a. Spatial or Locational Latitude
- - b. Temporal Discipline in Construction
- - c. Temporal Discipline from Construction to Operation
- - d. Latitude for Corruption
- - e. Latitude in Substituting Quantity for Quality
- - f. Latitude in Substituting Private for Public Outlays
- --- IV. Project Design: Trait-Taking and Trait-Making. a. The Dilemma of Design
- b. Implicit Trait-Making: A Failure in Nigeria
- - c. Entrained Trait-Making
- - d. The Autonomous Agency as a Hybrid
- --- V. Project Appraisal: The Centrality of Side-Effects. a. Side-Effects as Essential Requirements
- - b. Pure and Mixed Side-Effects
- - c. Smuggling in Change via Side-Effects
- - d. Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Offensive Against Side-Effects
- - e. Counteroffensives
- - f. Modesty and Ambition in Project Plannin.