Elliott R Morss - Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons From Aid And World Bank Experiences

Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons From Aid And World Bank Experiences — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons From Aid And World Bank Experiences" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

1234567...56

Implementing Rural Development Projects

Westview Replica Editions

The concept of Westview Replica Editions is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets for books have been severely curtailed. Ever larger portions of general library budgets are being diverted from the purchase of books and used for data banks, computers, micromedia, and other methods of information retrieval. Interlibrary loan structures further reduce the edition sizes required to satisfy the needs of the scholarly community. Economic pressures on the university presses and the few private scholarly publishing companies have severely limited the capacity of the industry to properly serve the academic and research communities. As a result, many manuscripts dealing with important subjects, often representing the highest level of scholarship, are no longer economically viable publishing projectsor, if accepted for publication, are typically subject to lead times ranging from one to three years.

Westview Replica Editions are our practical solution to the problem. We accept a manuscript in camera-ready form, typed according to our specifications, and move it immediately into the production process. As always, the selection criteria include the importance of the subject, the work's contribution to scholarship, and its insight, originality of thought, and excellence of exposition. The responsibility for editing and proofreading lies with the author or sponsoring institution. We prepare chapter headings and display pages, file for copyright, and obtain Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. A detailed manual contains simple instructions for preparing the final typescript, and our editorial staff is always available to answer questions.

The end result is a book printed on acid-free paper and bound in sturdy library-quality soft covers. We manufacture these books ourselves using equipment that does not require a lengthy make-ready process and that allows us to publish first editions of 300 to 600 copies and to reprint even smaller quantities as needed. Thus, we can produce Replica Editions quickly and can keep even very specialized books in print as long as there is a demand for them.

About the Book and Editors

Implementing Rural Development Projects:
Lessons from AID and World Bank Experiences
edited by Elliott R. Morss and David D. Gow

With the enactment of the "New Directions" legislation of the 1970s, the focus of U.S. foreign aid shifted from nationwide planning and broad, programmatic efforts to the implementation of specific assistance projects. Reflecting the new emphasis in development strategy, this book analyzes critical problems encountered at the level of project implementation. Each of the nine chapters offers a synthesis of research findings related to a specific problem, documents the sources and significance of the problem, and identifies solutions and future research needs. The book is the result of a three-year, government-sponsored study incorporating World Bank and AID project evaluations, interviews with professional project administrators, and reports from the authors' own field research.

Elliott R. Morss , formerly director of research for Development Alternatives, Inc., is coauthor, with Victoria Morss, of U.S. Foreign Aid: An Assessment of New and Traditional Development Strategies (Westview, 1982), and has researched and written on a wide range of development subjects. David D. Gow is currently managing a large rural development project in North Shaba, Zaire.

Implementing Rural Development Projects

Lessons from AID and World Bank Experiences

edited by Elliott R. Morss
and David D. Gow

First published 1985 by Westview Press, Inc.

Published 2019 by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imptint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1985 Taylor & Francis

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice:
Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-3555

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-02023-1 (hbk)

Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this book but points out that some imperfections from the original may be apparent.

Contents

, Jerry Van Sant and Paul R. Crawford

, George H. Honadle, S. Tjip Walker, and Jerry M. Silverman

, Elliott R. Morss, Paul R. Crawford, and Gene M. Owens

, George H. Honadle, Jerry M. Silverman, and Donald R. Mickelwait

, David D. Gow and Jerry Van Sant

, Elliott R. Morss and Jerry Van Sant

, David D. Gow and Elliott R. Morss

, Elliott R. Morss and George H. Honadle

, Elliott R. Morss, David D. Gow, and Christopher W. Nordlinger

1. ii
2. iii

Guide

Tables

Figures

BACKGROUND

This book deals with problems frequently encountered by agencies, managers, and technicians who try to implement large-scale development projects. Specifically, it focuses on the implementation problems associated with projects sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) and the World Bank in developing countries. Some historical background on how implementation problems became a focus of concern is presented below.

Development assistance on a significant scale started with Marshall Plan aid to reconstruct Western Europe following World War II. In that case, the donor (the United States) asked not to be part of the process that determined how the money was to be spent. Instead, the United States asked the West European countries to establish their own priorities for assistance (which they did after a considerable amount of inter-country negotiation).

In the early 1960s, the United States launched the first significant foreign aid programs to developing countries. In this case, it insisted on more participation in decisions about how the aid monies were spent, but the recipient countries retained considerable latitude of choice.

Until that time, development thought had focused on macro-development models designed to address the problems of inadequate resources and technical knowledge; foreign aid's role was to provide these resources and this knowledge. Since development assistance was new, little thought had been given to questions of detail--exactly what was needed and how it should be provided. As a result, most development assistance offered through the mid-1960s was of a general program nature.

Project-specific assistance was initiated in the mid-1960s and has continued to gain in popularity.

Today, development assistance--which now comes from a large variety of bilateral and multilateral donors--is almost entirely of the project type. The switch to project assistance was significant:

Next page

1234567...56

Light

Font size:

↓

↑

Georgia Tahoma Arial Verdana

Reset

Interval:

↓

↑

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons From Aid And World Bank Experiences»

Look at similar books to Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons From Aid And World Bank Experiences. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.

Dennis A. Rondinelli

Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration

Elliott R Morss

The Future Of Western Development Assistance

Asian Development Bank

Country Safeguard Systems Regional Workshop Proceedings: Towards Common Approaches and Better Results

Stanley Please

The Hobbled Giant: Essays On The World Bank

iMinds

World Bank

Elliott R. Morss

Strategies For Small Farmer Development: An Empirical Study Of Rural Development Projects In The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Bolivia, Columbia, Mexico, Paraguay And Peru

John Aerni-Flessner

Dreams for Lesotho: Independence, Foreign Assistance, and Development

Wil Hout

EU Strategies on Governance Reform: Between Development and State-Building

L. Alexander Norsworthy

Rural development, natural resources, and the environment: lessons of experience in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Luis Landau

Rebuilding the Mozambique economy: assessment of a development partnership

William Torrens Onorato

World Bank group assistance for minerals sector development and reform in member countries, Volumes 23-405

E. Scott Piscitello

Financial Incentives for Renewable Energy Development: Proceedings of an International Workshop, February 17-21, 1997, Amsterdam, Netherlands (World Bank Discussion Paper)

Discussion, reviews of the book Implementing Rural Development Projects: Lessons From Aid And World Bank Experiences and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.