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Bucking the system : systems concepts and development
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Abstract:
Over the last 50 years the systems field has expanded to encompass more than 1,000 methodologies. In this article, Bob Williams describes three core concepts of systems thinking. He argues that the potential for using systems concepts in international development has increased. In particular, the ways in which systems methods pose questions of boundaries provide an intellectual base for and practical means of resolving many of the big issues confronting international development. These issues include at what scale (national, trans-national, local) should interventions be conceived and assessed, who should be the primary beneficiaries and who or what could be harmed by that choice, can that tension be resolved, what expertise is considered relevant to an intervention and who should control what resources?
Authors:
Williams, B.
Category:
Policy
End Page:
19
Serial number:
11
ISSN:
1874-2033
Journal:
The Broker
Keywords:
development policy
,
research
Language:
eng
Organization:
The Broker
Year:
2008
Right:
© 2008 IDP. This article has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.
Subject:
Development Cooperation General
Start Page:
16
Title:
Bucking the system : systems concepts and development