The Use of Microcomputers for Improved Management of Budgetary Reform in Kenya
Author: Ranel Jordan Covert
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Ranel Jordan Covert
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas C. Pinckney
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Clay Goodloe Wescott
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen R. Ruth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0429711891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a series of perspectives on the use of automation in the formulation and execution of public policy initiatives in developing nations. It focuses on the use of the most pervasive new automation technology in the developed world—the microcomputer.
Author: Janice Z. Brodman
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mayuri Odedra-Straub
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Emery Roe
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1994-11-04
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780822315131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNarrative Policy Analysis presents a powerful and original application of contemporary literary theory and policy analysis to many of today’s most urgent public policy issues. Emery Roe demonstrates across a wide array of case studies that structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative are exceptionally useful in evaluating difficult policy problems, understanding their implications, and in making effective policy recommendations. Assuming no prior knowledge of literary theory, Roe introduces the theoretical concepts and terminology from literary analysis through an examination of the budget crises of national governments. With a focus on several particularly intractable issues in the areas of the environment, science, and technology, he then develops the methodology of narrative policy analysis by showing how conflicting policy "stories" often tell a more policy-relevant meta-narrative. He shows the advantage of this approach to reading and analyzing stories by examining the ways in which the views of participants unfold and are told in representative case studies involving the California Medfly crisis, toxic irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley, global warming, animal rights, the controversy over the burial remains of Native Americans, and Third World development strategies. Presenting a bold innovation in the interdisciplinary methodology of the policy sciences, Narrative Policy Analysis brings the social sciences and humanities together to better address real-world problems of public policy—particularly those issues characterized by extreme uncertainty, complexity, and polarization—which, if not more effectively managed now, will plague us well into the next century.
Author: Emery Roe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-01-18
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1351289861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a commonplace that the problems of African rural development are becoming increasingly complex--that is, they have grown more numerous, interrelated, and varied. This complexity has generated a multitude of development scenarios. Such scenarios encourage decision making along rigid and narrow patterns that ignore the diversity of local situations and national cultures. Among these is the doomsday scenario, applied to every nation on the continent, best captured in the phrase Everything worksàexcept in Africa. Emery Roe argues that crisis scenarios generated by an expert (usually non-African) elite are self-serving and counterproductive. Despite this, they go largely unchallenged, even when they fail to explain or predict. Except-Africa takes up the challenge of devising development scenarios that do justice to the continent's variegated reality.The book begins by defining what the author means by a development narrative. The subsequent chapters provide alternate scenarios to such dominant models. Chapter 2 sketches four counter-narratives to the tragedy of the common argument, while chapter 3 constructs the most innovative challenge to conventional ways of thinking about Sub-Saharan pastoralism in decades. Chapter 4 develops an alternative scenario of expatriate advising in Africa, while chapter 5 devises a counter-narrative to the all-too-common views about government budgeting in Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. Chapter 6 presents a case study and counter-narrative from Zimbabwe of a complex local government reform. The book concludes by moving beyond case material and specific situations to answer the most imperative question in African studies and rural development: What would a politics of complexity look like in Africa if complexity were seriously engaged?Contemporary African studies are dominated by narratives about power. Yet in African rural development, power interests are by no means always clear. Development issues are frequently contingent and provisional. Surviving the tangled fusion of narrative and reality requires a politics of complexity. Except-Africa will be an essential work in meeting that challenge.
Author: Suzanne Grant Lewis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 0429714351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on recent research in the Sudan, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Tanzania, the contributing authors analyze broad patterns of social and political change brought about by the rapidly increasingly use of microcomputer technology in Africa.