Development Projects ObservedBrookings Institution Press, 1 de abr. de 2011 - 218 páginas The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process. The success and failures of such projects, the new skills and attitudes they impart, and the internal tensions they sometimes generate obviously have an important bearing on the next stages of a county's development effort. Yet little has become known about these truly formative experiences which are due to the behavior—and misbehavior—of development projects. In this recent volume, Professor Albert O. Hirschman turns his attention to the ways in which decision making is molded, activated, or hampered by the specific nature of the project that is undertaken; for example, the establishment and operation of a pulp and paper mill in east Pakistan, an irrigation project in Peru, railway expansion in Nigeria, and other development undertakings. In some parts of the present inquiry Hirschman elaborates on his earlier writings in this series; and occasionally, he qualifies or modifies his previous conclusions; the bulk of the study explores new territory. |
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The Principle of the Hiding Hand | 9 |
Uncertainties | 35 |
Varieties of Uncertainties | 37 |
Technology | 39 |
Administration | 45 |
Finance | 56 |
Excess Demand | 59 |
Inadequate Demand | 65 |
Latitude in Substituting Private for Public Outlays | 119 |
Project Design TraitTaking and TraitMaking | 128 |
The Dilemma of Design | 130 |
A Failure in Nigeria | 139 |
Entrained TraitMaking | 148 |
The Autonomous Agency as a Hybrid | 153 |
Project Appraisal The Centrality of SideEffects | 160 |
SideEffects as Essential Requirements | 161 |
The RD Strategy | 75 |
Mitigation of Uncertainties | 81 |
Latitudes and Disciplines | 86 |
Spatial or Locational Latitude | 87 |
Temporal Discipline in Construction | 95 |
Temporal Discipline from Construction to Operation | 103 |
Latitude for Corruption | 107 |
Latitude in Substituting Quantity for Quality | 112 |
Pure and Mixed SideEffects | 163 |
Smuggling in Change via SideEffects | 168 |
CostBenefit Analysis and the Offensive Against SideEffects | 174 |
Counteroffensives | 180 |
Modesty and Ambition in Project Planning | 185 |
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