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Social Development in the World Bank : Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koch-Weser, Maritta.
Other Authors: Guggenheim, Scott.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Social Development in the World Bank
  • Introduction
  • To Our Readers
  • Uses
  • Origins
  • Editors Note: Part 1
  • Social Development Work-Live-Editors ́Note
  • Editors Note Part 3
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Part I: Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank
  • The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development
  • Crossing the Rubicon Towards Social Knowledge
  • A New Orientation and Our Search for New Skills
  • The ``Present-Absent ́́Candidate
  • Meeting Cernea for the First Time
  • A Seminar, More Interviews, and a Consequential Decision
  • Unanticipated Obstacles
  • Personal Support from Robert McNamara
  • Work Across the Worldś Meridians
  • Decisions to Bring More Social Specialists into the Bank
  • Moving from Individual Projects to Policy Work
  • A Group Process That Led to Collective Products and Institutional Success
  • The Road to Achieving a Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank
  • McNamaraś Knowledge Revolution
  • Development Policy: A Quasi-monopoly of the Economist ?
  • Entrepreneurial Advisers in Social Disciplines
  • A Request for Help on the Issue of Critical Mass
  • The Response of Senior Bank Management
  • The Road to Critical Mass
  • Address to the World Bank Sociological Group
  • Introduction
  • Why Does the Bank Need Social Analysis?
  • What Needs to be Done
  • How to Achieve This
  • Role of the Board
  • Working Together at the World Bank for Broadening the Development Paradigm
  • My First Meeting with the Bankś Senior Sociologist
  • Discovering ``Social Assessments ́́
  • Fighting Corruption
  • The Centrality of People
  • The Bank Needs a New Development Paradigm
  • Social Analysis in the World Bank
  • Social Sciences at the World Bank and the Broadening of the Development Paradigm.
  • The World Bankś First Vice-Presidency for Environmental and Social Matters
  • Working with the World Bankś Professional Sociologists and Anthropologists
  • Building the Case for Using Social Science and for Converting Knowledge into Policies
  • Michaelś Challenging Theoretical Argument
  • Converting Social Science Knowledge into Social Policies: A Historic Progress
  • The Worldś Largest Empirical Research on Development-Forced Population Displacement and Resettlement
  • The Emergence of the Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction Model
  • A Self-Destroying Prophecy and Unprincipled Censorship
  • Knowledge Alone Is Not Enough. Political Will Is Indispensable to Stand Up Against Impoverishment
  • Closing Thoughts on the Impact of the ESD Central Vice-Presidency on the Work of the World Bank
  • References
  • The Direct and Major Operational Relevance of Social Assessments
  • Social Assessments for Preparing Policy Reform
  • Social Assessments Are Essential for the Bankś Sector Analysis Work
  • Social Assessments and Investment Lending
  • Social Assessments for Emergency and Post-conflict Lending
  • Social Assessments in the World Bank: The Current Situation
  • Social Analysis in Project Lending: Writing New Rules and Changing Old Practices
  • Introduction
  • Challenging Social Pioneers
  • Emerging Social Perspectives
  • Social Analysis: Internal Bank Track
  • Appraising ``Sociological Aspects ́́
  • Disseminating Social Analysis
  • Asia Pacific Regional: An Alternative Track
  • Comparative Analysis
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: Social Development Work-Live
  • The 1995 Malinowski Award Lecture: Social Organization and Development Anthropology
  • A World on the Move
  • The Social Development Summit: A Powerful Call to Our Profession
  • Anthropologyś Debut in an Unexpected Place: The World Bank.
  • Producing Knowledge of Recognized Organizational Utility
  • The Rationale for Social Analysis in Financially Induced Development
  • Shifting Social Analysis from Projects ́Tail-end to Upfront
  • Fighting Econo-centric, Techno-centric, and Commodo-centric Development Models
  • Where Do Biases Originate?
  • The Rationale for Development Anthropology
  • The Focus on Social Organization in Applied Research
  • Can Theory be Derived from Applied Research?
  • The ``Third Leg ́́of the Dichotomy: Policy Development
  • References
  • Anthropology at Work
  • Beginnings
  • Practice
  • Participant Observation
  • Courage to Experiment
  • Tasks then and Now
  • Downsides
  • Upsides
  • Fields of Danger
  • Authenticity
  • My World Bank Years: In Retrospect
  • A Foot in the Door
  • Uphill Battles
  • Looking Back
  • Innovations
  • A Record of Project Cases
  • Governance and Accountability
  • How to Get Better?
  • 20 Years: In Stages
  • Beyond World Bank Days
  • 20 Years Well Spent
  • Next?
  • Social Development (Excerpts from Her 2004 Oral History)
  • Putting People First in Practice: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
  • Discovering Development
  • Ethnography for Development: The Local Institutions Studies
  • Michael Cerneaś Living Lessons
  • The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples
  • Introduction
  • Tribal People in Bank-Financed Projects
  • The 5-Year Implementation Review
  • The Revised Policy Directive
  • Conclusion
  • The Need for Social Research and the Broadening of CGIARś Paradigm
  • A Brief Comparative Look at CGIAR and the World Bank
  • The ``Rocky-Docs ́́and the Fight to Overcome the Absence of Social Research in CGIAR
  • The World Bankś Influence on CGś Research
  • The Resonance of the CGIARś Social Research Conference. An Illuminating Public Discussion
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion.
  • Critic and Gadfly
  • Staff Member
  • Opportunities Discovered
  • New Challenges
  • Final Reflections
  • Part III: Involuntary Resettlement
  • The Risks and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations
  • Introduction
  • Social Justice and Planning with an Equity Compass
  • Functions of the Risks and Reconstruction Model
  • Diagnostic and Analysis: Ten Impoverishment Risks
  • Landlessness
  • Joblessness
  • Homelessness
  • Marginalization
  • Increased Morbidity and Mortality
  • Food Insecurity
  • Loss of Access to Common Property
  • Social Disarticulation
  • Differential Impacts: Specific Risks to Women and Children
  • Prediction and Planning: The Chance of a Self-Destroying Prophecy
  • Flawed Approaches to Social Risks: The Ill-Logic of Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Reconstructing Livelihoods and Reversing the Risks
  • The Model as a Research Tool
  • References
  • Muddy Waters: Inside the World Bank as It Struggled with the Narmada Irrigation and Resettlement Projects, Western India
  • Entry Conditions
  • Resettlement
  • Resettlement After Project Approval
  • Environment
  • Environment After Approval
  • External Pressure
  • Internal Organization
  • Indiaś Crisis
  • The Independent Review
  • The Decision to Continue, and then to Cancel
  • Why Narmada?
  • Lying
  • Why Not Suspend Before 1993?
  • Legacies
  • From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists Has Changed in Indiaś Development in the Last 70 Years
  • Social Scientists and Development in India
  • The Narmada Controversy
  • Impacts of the Independent Reviewś Indictment on India
  • Impact of the Independent Review on the World Bank
  • Building Capacity for Development Management
  • Enriching Resettlement Knowledge
  • Summing Up
  • References
  • Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael M Cernea to Development in China.
  • Infrastructure Construction and Population Displacement
  • Research Based Knowledge and Resettlement Science: The Creation and Role of NRCR
  • The Goal of Chinaś Current Resettlement Policy: Legislating the Resettlement with Development Paradigm
  • Development Impact Assessment Policy and Practice: The Evolution of Social Assessments in China
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part IV: Retrospective and Outlook
  • A Retrospective: Michael M. Cernea (1934-)
  • References and Major Works by Michael Cernea
  • List of Publications
  • Books and Monographs, Published in English
  • Selected Books in Romanian (1964-1974)
  • Chapters in Books, Studies and Articles in Journals
  • Publications in Non-English Languages.

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