TY - GEN AU - 20080729 AU - Stone,Diane ED - Global Development Network. TI - Banking on knowledge : the genesis of the Global Development Network SN - 0415248477 : U1 - 338.90072 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge,2000. KW - Economic development KW - Research KW - Communication in economic development N1 - Based on papers presented at a conference held in Bonn, 1999 to launch the Global Development Network; Distributer: Al-Ahram; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: PART I -- The GDN and knowledge for development 1 -- 1 The genesis of the GDN 3 -- ERIK JOHNSON AND DIANE STONE -- 2 Scan globally, reinvent locally: knowledge infrastructure and the localisation of knowledge 24 -- JOSEPH STIGLITZ -- 3 The instrumentalisation of development knowledge 44 -- KNUT G. NUSTAD AND OLE J. SENDING --PART II -- Civil society engagement 63 -- 4 Think tanks in independent Belarus: catalysts for social transformation 65 -- OLEG MANAEV -- 5 New partnerships in research: activists and think tanks.An illustration from the NCAER in New Delhi 87 -- RATNA M. SUDARSHAN -- 6 Building productive partnerships for the promotion of reform: the APOYO Institute in Peru 104 -- GABRIEL ORTIZ DE ZEVALLOS AND ALEJANDRO SALAS --PART III -- Reform and reconstruction 123 -- 7 The challenges of intervention for Cambodian think tanks 125 -- KAO KIM HOURN -- 8 Post-communist think tanks: making and faking influence 142 -- IVAN KRASTEV -- 9 Influencing government policy making 162 -- SIMON JAMES -- PART IV -- Knowledge across borders 181 -- 10 Southeast Asian research institutes and regional cooperation 183 -- HELEN E.S. NESADURAI AND DIANE STONE -- 11 Globalisation, think tanks and policy transfer 203 -- STELLA LADI -- 12 Think tanks and the ecology of policy inquiry 221 -- EVERT LINDQUIST -- Conclusion 239 -- 13 Knowledge, power and policy 241 -- DIANE STONE; Catalogued by: Sara UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/00055329.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0650/00055329-d.html ER -