Title: Development projects as policy experiments : an adaptive approach to development administration /
Authors: Rondinelli, Dennis A.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Economic development projects Developing countries Management.; Developing countries Economic conditions.
Abstract: The complexity of the development process calls for an adaptive approach for assistance programmes which rely on strategic planning, responsiveness and experimentation and decision-making processes that join learning with action.
Contents: 1. The Problem of Development Administration: Coping With Complexity and Uncertainty -- 2. Development Policies as Social Experiments: From Macroeconomic Growth to Sectoral Development -- 3. Development Policies as Social Experiments: From Growth-With-Equity to Structural Adjustment -- 4. Designing Development Projects: The Limits of Rationalistic Planning and Management -- 5. Implementing Development Projects as Policy Experiments: Toward Adaptive Administration -- 6. Reorienting Development Administration: Principles, Problems and Opportunities.