The Imperative of Development: The Wolfensohn Center at Brookings - Rilegato

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0815732554 ISBN 13: 9780815732556

Casa editrice: Brookings Institution Press, 2017

Riassunto

The achievements and legacy of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings

The Imperative of Development highlights the research and policy analysis produced by the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. The Center, which operated from 2006 to 2011, was the first home at Brookings for research on international development. It sought to help identify effective solutions to key development challenges in order to create a more prosperous and stable world.

Founded by James and Elaine Wolfensohn, the Center's mission was to "to create knowledge that leads to action with real, scaled-up, and lasting development impact." This volume reviews the Center's achievements and lasting legacy, combining highlights of its most important research with new essays that examine the context and impact of that research.

Six primary research streams of the Wolfensohn Center's work are highlighted in The Imperative of Development: the shifting structure of the world economy in the twenty-first century; the challenge of scaling up the impact of development interventions; the effectiveness of development assistance; how to promote economic and social inclusion for Middle Eastern youth; the case for investing in early child development; and the need for global governance reform. In each chapter, a scholar associated with the particular research topic provides an overview of the issue and its broader context, then describes the Center's work on the topic and the subsequent influence and impact of these efforts.

The Imperative of Development chronicles the growth and expansion of the first center for development research in Brookings's 100-year history and traces how the seeds of this initiative continue to bear fruit.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sugli autori

Geoffrey Gertz is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. From 2008 to 2011 he was a research analyst at the Wolfensohn Center for Development.

Homi Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at The Brookings Institution. He studies politics and trends influencing developing countries, including aid to poor countries, the emergence of the middle class, and global governance and the G20.

Johannes F. Linn is a nonresident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings, distinguished resident scholar of the Emerging Markets Forum, and senior adviser at the Results for Development Institute (R4D). From 2006 to 2010 he was the director of the Wolfensohn Center for Development.

Dalla quarta di copertina

The achievements and legacy of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings

Founded by James and Elaine Wolfensohn, the Wolfensohn Center for Development sought “to create knowledge that leads to action with real, scaled-up, and lasting development impact.” This volume reviews the Center's achievements and lasting legacy, combining some of the best of its research and policy analysis with new essays that examine the context and impact of its work.

The Wolfensohn Center, which operated from 2006 to 2011, was the first home at Brookings for work on international development. Its research aims were to help identify effective solutions to key development challenges in order to create a more prosperous and stable world.

In this volume, six primary research streams of the Wolfensohn Center's work are highlighted: the shifting structure of the world economy in the twenty-first century; the challenge of scaling up development interventions; strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of development assistance; how to promote economic and social inclusion for Middle Eastern youth; the case for investing in early child development; and the need for global governance reform. Each chapter includes an overview of the issue and its broader context along with selected reprints and excerpts from key Wolfensohn Center publications.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

The achievements and legacy of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings

Founded by James and Elaine Wolfensohn, the Wolfensohn Center for Development sought to create knowledge that leads to action with real, scaled-up, and lasting development impact. This volume reviews the Center s achievements and lasting legacy, combining some of the best of its research and policy analysis with new essays that examine the context and impact of its work.

The Wolfensohn Center, which operated from 2006 to 2011, was the first home at Brookings for work on international development. Its research aims were to help identify effective solutions to key development challenges in order to create a more prosperous and stable world.

In this volume, six primary research streams of the Wolfensohn Center s work are highlighted: the shifting structure of the world economy in the twenty-first century; the challenge of scaling up development interventions; strategies for maximizing the effectiveness of development assistance; how to promote economic and social inclusion for Middle Eastern youth; the case for investing in early child development; and the need for global governance reform. Each chapter includes an overview of the issue and its broader context along with selected reprints and excerpts from key Wolfensohn Center publications.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Brookings Institution Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0815732554
• ISBN 13: 9780815732556
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Redattore: Gertz Geoffrey, Kharas Homi, Linn Johannes F.
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile