A bias for hope - Second Conference
October 25–26, 2018
The World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW WASHINGTON, DC 20433
Abstracts of conference presentations
Opening words
Sophie Sirtaine
Opening words
The Strategy of Economic Development by Albert Hirschman at its 60th Anniversary
Luca Meldolesi
The Strategy of Economic Development by Albert Hirschman at its 60th Anniversary
HIRSCHMAN AND THE WORLD BANK
John Heath
"Inherently Incompatible"? Hirschman's Thinking on Projects from the Perspective of the McNamara Years at the World Bank (1968-1981)
Nicoletta Stame
Some observations on Hirschman’s production line on projects and programs
Vijayendra Rao
Implementing Hirschman: The Social Observatory Experience
Osvaldo Feinstein
Uncertainty as opportunity
DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS OBSERVED
David Ellerman and Vladimir Kreacic
Transforming the Old into a Foundation for the New: Lessons of the Moldova ARIA Project
Dan Honig
Going Out to the Country: World Bank Staff Decentralization and Aid Project Success
A Brief Recent History of Adaptive Project Management at the World Bank
Michael Woolcock
Strategies for improving the quality of implementation of complex development interventions
HIRSCHMAN AND DEVELOPMENT
Brian Levy
The 21st century relevance of Albert Hirschman’s ‘tunnel effect’: The Case of South Africa
Paola Ridolfi
The global migration crisis through the lenses of Hirschman’s Voice and Exit paradigm
Elena Saraceno
The role of agricultural and rural development policies in developed and developing countries: better understanding their connections and mutually supportive effects
Norman Birnbaum
What Is The Twenty-First Century? A Ninety-two year old survivor of the twentieth seeks an answer
HIRSCHMAN AND SPECIFIC POLICY OPTIONS - THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Leslye Amede Obiora
Learning and Innovation for Governance Reform Sustainability
Raffaele Trapasso and Domenico Marino
Stimulating policy complementarities in the Regional Development Process
Paolo di Nola
Cases of reforming in the Public sector: causes and effects
Tito Bianchi
The sustainability of public sector innovation: the dilemma of maintaining Good Government over time, based on Italian experiences
Fabio Zilberstein
Trust and communication in citizen dialogue
HIRSCHMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE FIELD OF DEVELOPMENT
Ilene Grabel
It’s a mess, and that’s (mostly) a good thing: Global financial governance in the current Hirschmanian conjuncture
Philipp Lepenies
Teaching and applying Hirschman - Thoughts from a practitioner turned academic
Luca Meldolesi
How to complicate economics: a few observations
Adriana Mica
The Importance of Being a Fit: Possibility Theory in Sociology and Related Social Sciences
HIRSCHMAN AND SPECIFIC POLICY OPTIONS - THE PRIVATE SECTOR
Vinni Marino
Hirschman’s Legacy findings in dealing with the private sector
Tommaso Di Nardo
VAT gap, mandatory e-invoicing and a surprising Latin America: where can Hirschman’s strategy lead us today?
Maria Ariano
The Abraham Path: Economic Development Across Fragile Communities in the West Bank
Yevgeny Kuznetsov
From exit to voice that creates a lasting song: options diaspora talents (fail to) cultivate
HIRSCHMAN AND EVALUATION AND DECISION-MAKING
Tessie Catsambas
The Value of Applying Appreciative Inquiry to Evaluation and Development
Sustaining Success? Voice and Accountable Discretion in Bangalore’s water for the poor program, ten years later.
Laura Tagle and Viviana Fini
Contribution of evaluation to democratic policies
Laura Orlando
Reflections of a Sanitarian
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E-BOOK
Second Conference on Albert Hirschman’s Legacy: A Bias for Hope
The Second Conference on Albert Hirschman’s Legacy “A Bias for Hope” was held at the World Bank in October 2018. Thanks also to the location (and to the precious collaboration with the Independent Evaluation Group - WB Group), the Conference had a prevailing theme – development – that came up again and again in different facets of the discussion and, in its turn, introduced and justified many other significant pursuits.
This e-book collects papers and essays by the participants, and is a witness to the vitality with which Hirschman’s ideas continue to inspire competent work around the world, be it that of academics or practitioners, to find ways out to current predicaments, and to open up new perspectives for the improvement of our societies. Connected to the First Conference “For a Better World”, the present e-book provides clues useful for well intentioned people.
