Social Development in the World Bank : : Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea.

• Author: Koch-Weser, Maritta.
• TeilnehmendeR: Guggenheim, Scott.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)

Table of Contents

Social Development in the World Bank -- Introduction -- To Our Readers -- Uses -- Origins -- Editors Note: Part 1 -- Social Development Work-Live-Editors ́Note -- Editors Note Part 3 -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank -- The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development -- Crossing the Rubicon Towards Social Knowledge -- A New Orientation and Our Search for New Skills -- The ``Present-Absent ́́Candidate -- Meeting Cernea for the First Time -- A Seminar, More Interviews, and a Consequential Decision -- Unanticipated Obstacles -- Personal Support from Robert McNamara -- Work Across the Worldś Meridians -- Decisions to Bring More Social Specialists into the Bank -- Moving from Individual Projects to Policy Work -- A Group Process That Led to Collective Products and Institutional Success -- The Road to Achieving a Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank -- McNamaraś Knowledge Revolution -- Development Policy: A Quasi-monopoly of the Economist ? -- Entrepreneurial Advisers in Social Disciplines -- A Request for Help on the Issue of Critical Mass -- The Response of Senior Bank Management -- The Road to Critical Mass -- Address to the World Bank Sociological Group -- Introduction -- Why Does the Bank Need Social Analysis? -- What Needs to be Done -- How to Achieve This -- Role of the Board -- Working Together at the World Bank for Broadening the Development Paradigm -- My First Meeting with the Bankś Senior Sociologist -- Discovering ``Social Assessments ́́-- Fighting Corruption -- The Centrality of People -- The Bank Needs a New Development Paradigm -- Social Analysis in the World Bank -- Social Sciences at the World Bank and the Broadening of the Development Paradigm.

The World Bankś First Vice-Presidency for Environmental and Social Matters -- Working with the World Bankś Professional Sociologists and Anthropologists -- Building the Case for Using Social Science and for Converting Knowledge into Policies -- Michaelś Challenging Theoretical Argument -- Converting Social Science Knowledge into Social Policies: A Historic Progress -- The Worldś Largest Empirical Research on Development-Forced Population Displacement and Resettlement -- The Emergence of the Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction Model -- A Self-Destroying Prophecy and Unprincipled Censorship -- Knowledge Alone Is Not Enough. Political Will Is Indispensable to Stand Up Against Impoverishment -- Closing Thoughts on the Impact of the ESD Central Vice-Presidency on the Work of the World Bank -- References -- The Direct and Major Operational Relevance of Social Assessments -- Social Assessments for Preparing Policy Reform -- Social Assessments Are Essential for the Bankś Sector Analysis Work -- Social Assessments and Investment Lending -- Social Assessments for Emergency and Post-conflict Lending -- Social Assessments in the World Bank: The Current Situation -- Social Analysis in Project Lending: Writing New Rules and Changing Old Practices -- Introduction -- Challenging Social Pioneers -- Emerging Social Perspectives -- Social Analysis: Internal Bank Track -- Appraising ``Sociological Aspects ́́-- Disseminating Social Analysis -- Asia Pacific Regional: An Alternative Track -- Comparative Analysis -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Social Development Work-Live -- The 1995 Malinowski Award Lecture: Social Organization and Development Anthropology -- A World on the Move -- The Social Development Summit: A Powerful Call to Our Profession -- Anthropologyś Debut in an Unexpected Place: The World Bank.

Producing Knowledge of Recognized Organizational Utility -- The Rationale for Social Analysis in Financially Induced Development -- Shifting Social Analysis from Projects ́Tail-end to Upfront -- Fighting Econo-centric, Techno-centric, and Commodo-centric Development Models -- Where Do Biases Originate? -- The Rationale for Development Anthropology -- The Focus on Social Organization in Applied Research -- Can Theory be Derived from Applied Research? -- The ``Third Leg ́́of the Dichotomy: Policy Development -- References -- Anthropology at Work -- Beginnings -- Practice -- Participant Observation -- Courage to Experiment -- Tasks then and Now -- Downsides -- Upsides -- Fields of Danger -- Authenticity -- My World Bank Years: In Retrospect -- A Foot in the Door -- Uphill Battles -- Looking Back -- Innovations -- A Record of Project Cases -- Governance and Accountability -- How to Get Better? -- 20 Years: In Stages -- Beyond World Bank Days -- 20 Years Well Spent -- Next? -- Social Development (Excerpts from Her 2004 Oral History) -- Putting People First in Practice: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program -- Discovering Development -- Ethnography for Development: The Local Institutions Studies -- Michael Cerneaś Living Lessons -- The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples -- Introduction -- Tribal People in Bank-Financed Projects -- The 5-Year Implementation Review -- The Revised Policy Directive -- Conclusion -- The Need for Social Research and the Broadening of CGIARś Paradigm -- A Brief Comparative Look at CGIAR and the World Bank -- The ``Rocky-Docs ́́and the Fight to Overcome the Absence of Social Research in CGIAR -- The World Bankś Influence on CGś Research -- The Resonance of the CGIARś Social Research Conference. An Illuminating Public Discussion -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion.

Critic and Gadfly -- Staff Member -- Opportunities Discovered -- New Challenges -- Final Reflections -- Part III: Involuntary Resettlement -- The Risks and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations -- Introduction -- Social Justice and Planning with an Equity Compass -- Functions of the Risks and Reconstruction Model -- Diagnostic and Analysis: Ten Impoverishment Risks -- Landlessness -- Joblessness -- Homelessness -- Marginalization -- Increased Morbidity and Mortality -- Food Insecurity -- Loss of Access to Common Property -- Social Disarticulation -- Differential Impacts: Specific Risks to Women and Children -- Prediction and Planning: The Chance of a Self-Destroying Prophecy -- Flawed Approaches to Social Risks: The Ill-Logic of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Reconstructing Livelihoods and Reversing the Risks -- The Model as a Research Tool -- References -- Muddy Waters: Inside the World Bank as It Struggled with the Narmada Irrigation and Resettlement Projects, Western India -- Entry Conditions -- Resettlement -- Resettlement After Project Approval -- Environment -- Environment After Approval -- External Pressure -- Internal Organization -- Indiaś Crisis -- The Independent Review -- The Decision to Continue, and then to Cancel -- Why Narmada? -- Lying -- Why Not Suspend Before 1993? -- Legacies -- From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists Has Changed in Indiaś Development in the Last 70 Years -- Social Scientists and Development in India -- The Narmada Controversy -- Impacts of the Independent Reviewś Indictment on India -- Impact of the Independent Review on the World Bank -- Building Capacity for Development Management -- Enriching Resettlement Knowledge -- Summing Up -- References -- Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael M Cernea to Development in China.

Infrastructure Construction and Population Displacement -- Research Based Knowledge and Resettlement Science: The Creation and Role of NRCR -- The Goal of Chinaś Current Resettlement Policy: Legislating the Resettlement with Development Paradigm -- Development Impact Assessment Policy and Practice: The Evolution of Social Assessments in China -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Retrospective and Outlook -- A Retrospective: Michael M. Cernea (1934-) -- References and Major Works by Michael Cernea -- List of Publications -- Books and Monographs, Published in English -- Selected Books in Romanian (1964-1974) -- Chapters in Books, Studies and Articles in Journals -- Publications in Non-English Languages.