This book describes 11 "great policies"--strategic innovations designed to deal with problems that transcend normal boundaries of government action. Examples range from the Marshall Plan in the U.S. to the "reverse brain-drain" policy in China, and from the financing of land reform by the distribution of industrial bonds in Taiwan to explorations of community natural resource management in Latin America. These actions did not emerge incrementally from existing policies, but represented departures from conventional organizations and sectoral responsibilities. Although such strategic innovations are rare, these examples suggest that when they do occur, they are recognizably different from policies that develop incrementally. They create new paradigms of public action, they generate new expectations and demands, and they require extraordinary processes of implementation.

Great Policies: Strategic Innovations in Asia and the Pacific Basin

Business & Money

UNKNOWN

Rondinelli, Dennis A.

Montgomery, John D.

Economics

Praeger

Applied Methods Of Regional Analysis: The Spatial Dimensions Of Development Policy

Routledge

International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. This examines the alternatives and offers an approach which focuses on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decision-making processes that join learning with action. A useful text for academics and practitioners in development studies, geography and sociology.

Development Projects as Policy Experiments: An Adaptive Approach to Development Administration (Development and Underdevelopment Series)

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Secondary Cities in Developing Countries: Policies for Diffusing Urbanization (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Rondinelli investigates a viable alternative to the pattern of swollen capital cities and impoverished countryside in the Third World. He outlines the rationale for creating a network of large secondary towns. These would provide a locale for industrial development that provides markets and services to rural areas without draining them of people and resources. He reports on the demography, the dynamics, and the social and economic characteristics of secondary cities. He discusses the rationale for their use as a way of encouraging geographically equitable development and presents a broad strategy for creating a system of secondary cities.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Westview Press

Book by Bar-El, Raphael, Bendavid-Val, Avrom

Patterns of Change in Developing Rural Regions (Westview Special Studies in Social, Political and Economic Development)

Karaska, Gerald

Bendavid-Val, Avrom

Schwartz, Dafna

Bar-El, Raphael

<p>This work, the first to apply contingency theory to education reform planning, is particularly useful in that it has applications to planning both in developing countries and in the United States and Europe. The basic approach applies to a wide variety of development programs and will influence project management and policy administration.</p>

Planning Education Reforms in Developing Countries: The Contigency Approach (Duke Press Policy Studies)

Education & Teaching

MIDDLETON, JOHN

Verspoor, Adriaan

Schools & Teaching

Duke University Press Books

This work, the first to apply contingency theory to education reform planning, is particularly useful in that it has applications to planning both in developing countries and in the United States and Europe. The basic approach applies to a wide variety of development programs and will influence project management and policy administration.

Planning Education Reforms in Developing Countries: The Contingency Approach

Verspoor, Adriaan M.

Duke Univ Pr

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

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