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The Imperative of Development
The Wolfensohn Center at Brookings
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2017
Summary
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.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3255-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3256-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
2
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Meeting the Challenge of Development No access Pages 9 - 14
The Imperative of Development: A Memo to the Next U.S. President No access Pages 15 - 31
Farewell to Development's Old Divides No access Pages 32 - 34
Scaling Up Development Impact No access Pages 35 - 40
The Challenge of Reaching Scale No access Pages 41 - 76
The Effectiveness of Development Assistance No access Pages 77 - 82
Measuring the Quality of Aid No access Pages 83 - 91
An Agenda for the Busan High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness No access Pages 92 - 136
Youth Inclusion in the Middle East No access Pages 137 - 142
Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East No access Pages 143 - 153
Why Young Syrians Prefer Public Sector Jobs No access Pages 154 - 166
Investing in Early Child Development No access Pages 167 - 214
Global Governance for Development No access Pages 215 - 221
Global Governance Reform: Conclusions and Implications No access Pages 222 - 239
This Summit's Promise No access Pages 240 - 242
Is the G-20 Summit a Step Toward a New Global Economic Order? No access Pages 243 - 252
Epilogue No access Pages 253 - 258
About the Contributors No access Pages 259 - 260
Wolfensohn Center for Development Publications No access Pages 261 - 264
