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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hirschman, Albert O.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, Brookings Institution [1967]
Subjects:
Economic development projects > Case studies.
Projets de développement économique > Cas, Études de.
Projets de développement économique > Études de cas.
Pays en développement.
Coopération technique.
Economic development projects.
Economic planning.
Economic planning > Latin America.
Développement économique > Projets > Cas, Études de.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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