Ramalingam Ben (Independent Consultant And Writer)
Ramalingam Ben (Independent Consultant And Writer) - Aid On The Edge Of Chaos Rethinking International Cooperation In A Complex World - Hardcover
Ramalingam Ben (Independent Consultant And Writer) - Aid On The Edge Of Chaos Rethinking International Cooperation In A Complex World - Hardcover
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Description: It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources to meet long - overdue commitments and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid and bang the drum for cutting it altogether - and argue that the fate of poor and vulnerable people be best placed in the hands of markets and the private sector. Meanwhile growing numbers are suggesting that what is most needed is the creative innovative transformation of how aid works. Aid on the Edge of Chaos is firmly in the third of these camps. In this ground - breaking book Ben Ramalingam shows that the linear mechanistic models and assumptions on which foreign aid is built would be more at home in early twentieth century factory floors than in the dynamic complex world we face today. All around us we can see the costs and limitations of dealing economies and societies as if they are analogous to machines. The reality is that such social systems have far more in common with ecosystems: they are complex dynamic diverse and unpredictable. Many thinkers and practitioners in science economics business and public policy have started to embrace more 'ecologically literate approaches to guide both thinking and action informed by ideas from the 'new science of complex adaptive systems. Inspired by these efforts there is an emerging network of aid practitioners researchers and policy makers who are experimenting with complexity - informed responses to development and humanitarian challenges. This book showcases the insights experiences and often remarkable results from these efforts. From transforming approaches to child malnutrition to rethinking processes of economic growth from building peace to combating desertification from rural Vietnam to urban Kenya Aid on the Edge of Chaos shows how embracing the ideas of complex systems thinking can help make foreign aid more relevant more appropriate more innovative and more catalytic. Ramalingam argues that taking on these ideas will be a vital part of the transformation of aid from a post - WW 2 mechanism of resource transfer to a truly innovative and dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty - first century.
Title: Aid On The Edge Of Chaos Rethinking International Cooperation In A Complex World
Author(s): Ramalingam Ben (Independent Consultant And Writer)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199578023
Pages: 480 Pages, Cartoons And Figures
Publication Date: 1/3/2014
Category: Development Economics & Emerging Economies
Description: It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources to meet long - overdue commitments and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid and bang the drum for cutting it altogether - and argue that the fate of poor and vulnerable people be best placed in the hands of markets and the private sector. Meanwhile growing numbers are suggesting that what is most needed is the creative innovative transformation of how aid works. Aid on the Edge of Chaos is firmly in the third of these camps. In this ground - breaking book Ben Ramalingam shows that the linear mechanistic models and assumptions on which foreign aid is built would be more at home in early twentieth century factory floors than in the dynamic complex world we face today. All around us we can see the costs and limitations of dealing economies and societies as if they are analogous to machines. The reality is that such social systems have far more in common with ecosystems: they are complex dynamic diverse and unpredictable. Many thinkers and practitioners in science economics business and public policy have started to embrace more 'ecologically literate approaches to guide both thinking and action informed by ideas from the 'new science of complex adaptive systems. Inspired by these efforts there is an emerging network of aid practitioners researchers and policy makers who are experimenting with complexity - informed responses to development and humanitarian challenges. This book showcases the insights experiences and often remarkable results from these efforts. From transforming approaches to child malnutrition to rethinking processes of economic growth from building peace to combating desertification from rural Vietnam to urban Kenya Aid on the Edge of Chaos shows how embracing the ideas of complex systems thinking can help make foreign aid more relevant more appropriate more innovative and more catalytic. Ramalingam argues that taking on these ideas will be a vital part of the transformation of aid from a post - WW 2 mechanism of resource transfer to a truly innovative and dynamic form of global cooperation fit for the twenty - first century.
Title: Aid On The Edge Of Chaos Rethinking International Cooperation In A Complex World
Author(s): Ramalingam Ben (Independent Consultant And Writer)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199578023
Pages: 480 Pages, Cartoons And Figures
Publication Date: 1/3/2014
Category: Development Economics & Emerging Economies
