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'This book examines knowledge-based aid at the level of concept and at the level of implementation in a number of agencies, including the World Bank. New information technology has the capacity to revolutionize the delivery of development assistance, but only if accompanied by institutional changes, including among these a move away from the natural tendencies towards centralization and top-down aid processes. In this excellent book the authors present a detailed analysis and a balanced assessment of the prospects for knowledge-based aid to achieve the goal of improving aid-effectiveness. Based on conceptual framework setting and a close examination of actual experience they reach the conclusion that success depends on reconceptualizing aid itself, in the direction of capacity building in poor countries.' - Ravi Kanbur, T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, Cornell University. 'Knowledge management is popular. Aid agencies talk easily of sharing stories, communities of practice and double-loop learning. But are they ready to sacrifice a preoccupation with results and a concern to disseminate 'best-practice' - in favour of real partnership and mutual learning across divergent networks? McGrath and King are sceptical. Their case studies and their thesis challenge all of us involved in the production, sharing, and use of knowledge'. - Simon Maxwell, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, and President of the Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland

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Kenneth King is Professor of International and Comparative Education and Director of the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of several books , including 'Aid and Education' and 'Changing International Aid to Education' (edited with Lene Buchert). Simon McGrath has been a research fellow at the Centre of African Studies, and became Research Director at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa in October 2002. Both authors have published extensively in African Studies and International Comparative Education and have been researching development cooperation for a number of years.

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