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082			_a307.14 MOS
100			_aMosse, David.
245			_aCultivating Development _b: An Ethnography Of Aid Policy And Practice. _c/ David Mosse.
260			_aLondon _b: Pluto Press _c , 2005.
300			_axvi,315p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aDevelopment agencies and researchers are preoccupied with policy; with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and with implementing policy around the world. But what if development practice is not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement? By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development project in western India over more than ten years, as it falls under different policy regimes, this book takes a close look at the relationship between policy and practice in development. David Mosse shows how the actions of development workers are shaped by the exigencies of organisations and the need to maintain relationships rather than by policy; but also that development actors work hardest of all to maintain coherent representations of their actions as instances of authorised policy. Raising unfamiliar questions, Mosse provides a rare self-critical reflection on practice, while refusing to endorse current post-modern dismissal of development.
650			_aRural development
650			_aEconomic development
650			_aEconomic assistance
700			_aDavid Mosse.
942			_cBOOK
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