Scan Globally, Reinvent Locally:

Contents:

Knowledge Infrastructure and the Localization of Knowledge

Keynote Address First Global Development Network Conference December 1999; Bonn, Germany

Joseph Stiglitz, Chief Economist, World Bank

Table of Contents

I. The Importance of the Global Development Network

Towards a New Relationship between the Developing and Developed Countries

II. Epistemological Foundations

Knowledge Infrastructure and the GDN

Types of Development Knowledge

General versus Local Knowledge

Codified versus Tacit Knowledge

Summary of Knowledge Dimensions

III. Active Social Learning

Negative Effects of Passive Learning

IV. Social Learning, Consensus-Building, and Other Democratic Processes

Learning How to Learn

Beyond Technocratic Development Models

Consensus-Building and Democracy

Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

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