Reclaiming Development Agendas

Knowledge, Power and International Policy Making

By: Peter Utting (Editor)

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Hardcover | 4 September 2006 | Edition Number 1

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As world attention focuses on poverty reduction and good governance, Reclaiming Development Agendas looks at why such changes in discourse and policy are taking place, what they mean for the challenge of forging development processes that are more socially inclusive and equitable, and what needs to be done to reclaim development agendas.

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Foreword: Some Reflections on the Links Between Social Knowledge and Policy	p. viii
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms	p. xv
Notes on the Contributors	p. xviii
Introduction: Reclaiming Development Agendas	p. 1
About this book	p. 1
Understanding the knowledge-policy nexus	p. 2
Ideas, institutions and power	p. 6
The potential and limits of mainstream reform	p. 10
Alternative approaches	p. 15
Convergence for development?	p. 19
Challenging the Knowledge Business	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
The business of knowledge and knowledge as business	p. 27
The power of finance	p. 29
Selling large infrastructure	p. 31
Green science	p. 32
Transforming risks into opportunities	p. 33
Establishing hegemony: the politics of knowledge use	p. 34
De-politicizing development	p. 36
Challenging the discourse: towards a new politics of knowledge	p. 38
The New Buzzwords	p. 43
Introduction	p. 43
Discourses and dissonances	p. 45
The art of euphemism in an era of declared consensus	p. 49
Operationalizing the new consensus: the MDGs and PRSPs	p. 56
Of myths and Utopias	p. 66
Conclusion	p. 69
The Search for Policy Autonomy in the Global South	p. 73
Introduction	p. 73
Development economics and policy autonomy	p. 73
Neoliberalism and its dissidents	p. 74
In celebration of diversity	p. 78
Social learning as a resource	p. 82
Regionalism and policy autonomy	p. 84
The World Bank as a Knowledge Agency	p. 90
Social knowledge and international policy making	p. 91
Institutional constraints on creative research	p. 95
The new development agenda	p. 99
Operational changes	p. 104
Knowledge Management and the Global Agenda for Education	p. 108
Global agenda-setting	p. 110
The new aid agenda and modalities	p. 117
The era of the knowledge agency	p. 121
The Quest for Gender Equality	p. 128
Introduction	p. 128
Illustrations of policy change	p. 129
The politics of policy advocacy	p. 134
The politics of discourse	p. 138
Implications for the making of social policy change	p. 141
Conclusion	p. 143
Global Social Policy Reform	p. 144
Introduction	p. 144
The struggle over ideas matters	p. 146
The fall and rise of universalism in international discourse about national social policy	p. 148
Global social policy: has its time come?	p. 155
Global social redistribution, regulation and rights	p. 157
The World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization (WCSDG)	p. 162
Network, projects, task forces and policy coherence initiatives: elements of the counter-hegemonic project?	p. 164
Regionalization or globalization?	p. 169
Researching global social policy	p. 169
Back to the politics of global social policy	p. 176
Generating Knowledge in the United Nations	p. 176
Introduction	p. 176
Towards an intellectual history of the United Nations	p. 177
Ideas and social knowledge in the UN system	p. 179
The impact of ideas on international policy making	p. 184
The linkages between research outside and inside the UN	p. 189
Independent and critical thinking	p. 198
Conclusions	p. 201
Notes	p. 203
References	p. 214
Index	p. 235
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