Aid on the Edge of Chaos
Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2015. április 16.
- ISBN 9780198728245
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem480 oldal
- Méret 233x155x25 mm
- Súly 698 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk Cartoons and Figures 0
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Rövid leírás:
Aid has become a tangle of donors and recipients, so unwieldy that it is in danger of collapse. This ground-breaking book presents fresh thinking that transcends the 'more' verses 'less' arguments. Drawing on complexity theory it shows how aid could be transformed into a truly dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty-first century.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
Many agree that the foreign aid system - which today involves virtually every nation on earth - needs drastic change. But there is much conflict as to what should be done. In Aid on the Edge of Chaos, Ben Ramalingam argues that what is most needed is the creative and innovative transformation of how aid works.
Foreign aid today is dominated by linear, mechanistic ideas that emerged from early twentieth century industry, and are ill-suited to the world we face today.
The problems and systems aid agencies deal with on a daily basis have more in common with ecosystems than machines: they are interconnected, diverse, and dynamic; they cannot be just simply re-engineered or fixed.
Outside of aid, social scientists, economists, business leaders, and policy makers have started applying innovative and scientific approaches to such problems, informed by ideas from the 'new science' of complex adaptive systems. Inspired by these efforts, aid practitioners and researchers have started experimenting with such approaches in their own work.
This book showcases the experiences, insights, and often remarkable results of innovative thinkers and practitioners who are working to bring these approaches into the mainstream of aid. From transforming child malnutrition to rethinking economic growth, from building peace to reversing desertification, from rural Vietnam to urban Kenya, the ideas of complex systems thinking are starting to be used to make foreign aid more relevant, more appropriate, and more catalytic.
Aid on the Edge of Chaos argues that such ideas and approaches should play a vital part of the transformation of aid. Aid should move from being an imperfect post-World War II global resource transfer system, to a new form of global cooperation that is truly fit for the twenty-first century.
The examples presented in this work should prompt a reconsideration of how one thinks of foreign aid.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface: Globalization, Development, and Complexity
Part 1: The way aid works
A System to Change 'The System'?
Thinking Inside the Box
Strategic Mismanagement
The Goats in the Machine
Watching the Watchmen
Part 1 Epilogue--The Trouble with Physics Envy
Part 2: The way the world works
Introducing Complexity
More Than, and Different To, The Parts
The Madness of Men
Falling Off Cliffs
The Devil is in the Dynamics
Part 2 Epilogue---What Lies Between Order and Chaos?
Part 3: The way aid could work
From Bali, with Complexity
Systemic Learning
Adaptive Strategies
Networked Organizations
Dynamic Change
Part 3 Epilogue---Beyond Panaceas
Aid on the Edge of Chaos
