Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development

Mainstream international development discourse has long heralded the importance of home grown solutions and national ownership of development policies. Ownership has been seen as the missing link between the significant development aid inflows from the North and poverty reduction outcomes in the Sou...

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Main Authors: Datta, Ajoy, Young, John
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Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6118
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spelling okr-10986-61182021-04-23T14:02:25Z Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development Datta, Ajoy Young, John capacity building Change Process collaboration community building decision-making gender Global knowledge hunger innovation Leading learning livelihoods NGOs nongovernmental organizations public services thinking universities Mainstream international development discourse has long heralded the importance of home grown solutions and national ownership of development policies. Ownership has been seen as the missing link between the significant development aid inflows from the North and poverty reduction outcomes in the South. You only have to look to international agreements such the 2002 Monterrey Consensus or the2005 Paris Declaration for evidence of this. Mainstream international development discourse has long heralded the importance of home grown solutions and national ownership of development policies. Much of development knowledge— the theories, policies, and practices of economic and social development—is dominated by the North, mainly by international institutions that are largely controlled by the North, and by donor agencies which exercise considerable influence on Southern governments, particularly the poorer ones. Other factors such as conditionalities, resource imbalances, and historically-rooted prejudices together contribute to development knowledge asymmetries. 2012-05-16T16:22:57Z 2012-05-16T16:22:57Z 2011-09 Journal Article Development Outreach http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6118 Development Outreach CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Journal Article Africa South Asia Latin America & Caribbean East Asia and Pacific Pakistan Uganda Korea, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Rwanda Tanzania Peru Somalia Jamaica South Africa
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topic capacity building
Change Process
collaboration
community building
decision-making
gender
Global knowledge
hunger
innovation
Leading
learning
livelihoods
NGOs
nongovernmental organizations
public services
thinking
universities
spellingShingle capacity building
Change Process
collaboration
community building
decision-making
gender
Global knowledge
hunger
innovation
Leading
learning
livelihoods
NGOs
nongovernmental organizations
public services
thinking
universities
Datta, Ajoy
Young, John
Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
geographic_facet Africa
South Asia
Latin America & Caribbean
East Asia and Pacific
Pakistan
Uganda
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, Republic of
Rwanda
Tanzania
Peru
Somalia
Jamaica
South Africa
relation Development Outreach
description Mainstream international development discourse has long heralded the importance of home grown solutions and national ownership of development policies. Ownership has been seen as the missing link between the significant development aid inflows from the North and poverty reduction outcomes in the South. You only have to look to international agreements such the 2002 Monterrey Consensus or the2005 Paris Declaration for evidence of this.
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author Datta, Ajoy
Young, John
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Young, John
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title Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
title_short Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
title_full Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
title_fullStr Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
title_full_unstemmed Producing Home Grown Solutions : Think Tanks and Knowledge Networks in International Development
title_sort producing home grown solutions : think tanks and knowledge networks in international development
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