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Navigating Complexity in International Development

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

Navigating Complexity in International Development

By Danny Burns, Stuart Worsley

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Governments and organizations invest huge sums of money in development interventions to explicitly address poverty and its root causes. However, a high proportion of these do not work. This is because interventions are grounded in flawed assumptions about how change happens -- change is rarely linear, yet development interventions are almost entirely based on linear planning models. Change is also characterized by unintended consequences, which are not predictable by planners and by power dynami...Show more

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9781853398513

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Practical Action Publishing

Published year

2015

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1

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Navigating Complexity in International Development

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Hardcover

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