Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?

Coping With Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations

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Coping With Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations

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Complexities, Uncertainties, and Responses

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Recipients Are Responsible Donors Too: On Plural Actorhood and Role-Switching

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Practices of Approximation: Simplifying the Complex and Controlling the Future

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In Proper Organization We Trust: On Extrapolation From Proper Organization Proxies

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Certainty for Sale?: A Historic Exposé on the Role of External Experts in Development Aid 1960s–2020s

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Citation: Alexius, S. and Vähämäki, J. (2024), "Certainty for Sale?: A Historic Exposé on the Role of External Experts in Development Aid 1960s–2020s", Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 89-116. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-374-220241006

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Multivocal Brokering: Translating and Decoupling for Results

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Pragmatic Bureaucracy: An Antidote to Obsessive Measurement Disorder?

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Appendix 1: Methods and Material and Reflections on the Research Process

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Appendix 2: Summary: Conditions and Factors to Consider

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10.1108/9781801173742

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2024-02-29

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978-1-80117-377-3

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978-1-80117-374-2

Obsessive Measurement Disorder or Pragmatic Bureaucracy?

Coping With Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations

Synopsis

Table of contents

Prelims

Coping With Uncertainty in Development Aid Relations

Complexities, Uncertainties, and Responses

Recipients Are Responsible Donors Too: On Plural Actorhood and Role-Switching

Practices of Approximation: Simplifying the Complex and Controlling the Future

In Proper Organization We Trust: On Extrapolation From Proper Organization Proxies

Certainty for Sale?: A Historic Exposé on the Role of External Experts in Development Aid 1960s–2020s

Multivocal Brokering: Translating and Decoupling for Results

Pragmatic Bureaucracy: An Antidote to Obsessive Measurement Disorder?

References

Appendix 1: Methods and Material and Reflections on the Research Process

Appendix 2: Summary: Conditions and Factors to Consider

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