History, historians and development policy : : a necessary dialogue / / edited by C. A. Bayly [and 3 others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Bayly, C. A.; University of Manchester. Brooks World Poverty Institute,; World Bank. Development Research Group,; Manchester University Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2011.; Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, [2020]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2020; 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) :; illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).
• Notes: "A joint product of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, Development Research Group, World Bank, and History & Policy, www.history and policy.org." -- title page.

Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues.

Table of Contents

• 1. How and why history matters for development policy / Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter and Vijayendra Rao
• 2. Indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development: The case of colonial India and Africa / C.A. Bayly
• Commentary: History, time and temporality in development discourse / Uma Kothari
• Historical contributions to contemporary development policy issues: Social Protection.
• 3. Social security as a developmental institution? The relative efficacy of Poor Relief provisions under the English old Poor Law / Richard Smith
• 4. Historical lessons about contemporary social welfare: Chinese puzzles and global challenges / R. Bing Wong
• Commentary: Why might history matter for development policy? / Ravi Kanbur
• Public Health
• 5. Health in India since Independence / Sunil S. Amrith
• 6. Health care policy for American Indians since the early 20th century / Stephen J. Kunitz
• Commentary: Can historians assist development policy-making, or just highlight its faults? / David Hall-Mathews
• Public education
• 7. The end of literacy: The growth and measurement of British public education since the early nineteenth century / David Vincent
• 8. The tools of transition: Education and development in modern southeast Asian history / Tim Harper
• Commentary: Remembering the forgetting in education / Lant Pritchett
• Natural resource management
• 9. Energy and natural resource dependency in Europe, 1600-1900 / Paul Warde
• 10. Special rights in property: Why modern African economies are dependent on mineral resources / Keith Breckenridge
• Commentary: Natural resources and development-which histories matter? / Mick Moore.