Can We Know Better? Chambers Robert Fellow Institute of Development Studies IDS Paperback
Can We Know Better? Chambers Robert Fellow Institute of Development Studies IDS Paperback This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer,…
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Can We Know Better? Chambers Robert Fellow Institute of Development Studies IDS Paperback
This book is intended for all who are committed to human wellbeing and who want to make our world fairer, safer and more fulfilling for everyone, especially those who are 'last'. It provides evidence that what we believe we know in international development is often distorted or unbalanced by errors, myths, biases and blind spots. It argues that to do better we need to know better.
Robert Chambers contrasts a Newtonian paradigm in which the world is seen and understood as controllable with a paradigm of complexity which recognizes that the real world of social processes and power relations is messy and unpredictable. Undue weight has been attached to standardised methodologies such as randomized control trials, systematic reviews, and competitive bidding: these are shown to have huge transaction costs which are rarely if ever recognized in their enormity. To confront the challenges
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