Ethics for Development Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-416
Author(s):  
Jennifer Keahey
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Development Ethics ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field

Development ethics emerged as a joint critique of economic development research and practice, giving rise to three alternative traditions: human development, sustainable development, and participatory development. The ethical issues surrounding the mainstreaming of these schools have implications for investigators. In this article, I revisit the transformative values at the root of these traditions to articulate common research principles for an international and interdisciplinary field. Ethicists are asking development researchers to deliver actionable and multiparadigmatic understanding by improving measures, aligning values and approaches, and decolonizing knowledge. While these emerging research models can strengthen development relevancy and impact, they are challenging to facilitate and vulnerable to elite co-optation. Not only should the production of knowledge be rigorous and accurate, but scholars also have a responsibility to query power and embrace difference. The principles presented in this article comprise a set of shared values that may be used as a practical guide for planning, conducting, and evaluating development research across methods, topics, and disciplines.

A Missing Link in Gloss et al. (“From Handmaidens to POSH Humanitarians”)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-410
Author(s):  
John E. S. Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Human Development ◽  
International Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
Resource Flows ◽  
International Development Research ◽  
Original Theme

Among many salient shifts in international development research over the last few decades has been growing legitimacy in recognition/documentation of the “rise of the South” as noted in the UNDP Human Development Report (2013). This has redirected both research and practice beyond just Northern (read “Western”) approaches, opened up new resource flows for “Southern” institutions, and initiated a whole new set of initiatives around “South–South” cooperation (Malik, 2014). To Mahbub ul Haq's original theme of “enlarging people's choices” were added new dimensions of looking beyond just western economies (and solely “economistic” analysis and prescriptions) for solutions to existential threats to sustainable development among the world's poorer nations (UNDP, 1990, p. 9). Fundamental shifts such as these, epitomized in Mahbub's well-known statement on human capacity, provide the basis for the focal article by Gloss, Carr, Reichman, Abdul-Nasiru, and Oestereich (2017) that builds skillfully on a framework, which of course also calls on Amartya Sen's work (so closely aligned with and influential in the Human Development Report series). The result is an original, carefully argued, and, perhaps some will agree, long overdue article synching the broad discipline of modern industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology into a more realistic awareness of how the majority of the world's populations sustain their livelihoods. However, there is a crucial “space” that I-O psychology seems to be still missing, and one barely touched on by this article, and that is the macropolicy environment that brings institutions in government and civil society together in more strategic approaches to developing human “resourcefulness.”

Response: The Use of Economic Anthropology in Economic Development

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-323
Author(s):  
Rhoda H. Halperin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
History Of

The author comments on the use of anthropological methodologies in economic development research and practice in a developed economy such as the United States. The focus is the article by Morales, Balkin, and Persky on the closing of Chicago's Maxwell Street Market in August 1994. The article focuses on monetary losses for both buyers (consumers of market goods) and sellers (vendors of those goods) resulting from the closing of the market. Also included are a brief history of the market and a review of the literature on the informal economy. The authors measure “the value of street vending” by combining ethnographic and economic analytical methods.

scholarly journals التنمية الإقتصادية والسلام المفهوم والاستراتيجيات

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
ali ahmed mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Political Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reconstruction Process ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Economic Development Strategies ◽  
Peace And Development

الملخص تعد التنمية الاقتصادية ذات أهمية كبيرة حيث حظيت بالإهتمام من قبل الدارسين والباحثين والاقتصاديين داخل الدولة منذ عقود، وخصوصاً بعد انتهاء الحرب العالمية الثانية، عندما بدأت الدول التي عانت من هذه الحرب بعمليات إعادة الاعمار، ومن ثم بعد ذلك بدأت تظهر الانواع الاخرى من التنمية، كالتنمية المستدامة والتنمية البشرية، وبدأ الحديث عن التنمية الاجتماعية والسياسية كذلك، وعلى الرغم من ذلك الا ان هناك تحديات كثيرة تقف في طريق التنمية الاقتصادية كالفقر والتخلف، ولا بد من اتباع إستراتيجيات معينة لتحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية وبالتالي تحقيق السلام، حيث ان التنمية والسلام هما ذات علاقة وثيقة ببعضهما، نظرا لان معظم الحروب والنزاعات تنشب لأسباب اقتصادية اما للسيطرة على الموارد او بسبب التوزيع غير العادل لها، ويتناول هذا البحث إستراتيجيات التنمية الاقتصادية المحققة للسلام، مع بيان العلاقة بين السلام والتنمية، والمفاهيم المرتبطة بهما.Summary Economic development has a great importance, it has the First attention by scholars, researchers and economists within the state, especially after the end of the WWII, when the countries that suffered from this war began the reconstruction process, then the other types of Development began to appear, such as sustainable development and human development, and also they began to talk about social and political development. However, many challenges stand in the way of economic development such as poverty and underdevelopment, and certain strategies must be followed to achieve economic development and thus achieve Peace, peace and development are closely interrelated, since most wars and conflicts arise for economic reasons or either for the control of resources or because of unfair distribution of resources. This research deals with the economic development strategies for peace, with explanation of the relationship between peace and development.

Natural Resources Accounting for Sustainable Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Ramakrishna Nallathiga
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Human Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Natural Resource Accounting ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Resource Accounting

Economic growth has been conventionally looked upon as the measure for the development of society, while ignoring the other aspects viz., human development, natural resources, environment and ecology. In the conventional accounting of economic development, the value of services and goods provided by natural resources like air, water, land and biota are ignored; neither any attempts are made to monitor and account for the changes in natural resources and environment. For the economic development to be sustainable, the environmental costs have to be limited and to be growing at slower pace than the economic gains. In this chapter, an attempt is made to outline the importance of using Natural Resource Accounting (NRA) for sustainable development through an attempt to estimate the environmental costs and benefits, and also to compare with economic growth in the case of India. This chapter highlights the potential of using NRA to make decisions for sustainable development through policies for conservation, management and development of natural resources.

Natural Resources Accounting for Sustainable Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 1739-1750
Author(s):  
Ramakrishna Nallathiga
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Human Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
Natural Resource Accounting ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Resource Accounting

Economic growth has been conventionally looked upon as the measure for the development of society, while ignoring the other aspects viz., human development, natural resources, environment and ecology. In the conventional accounting of economic development, the value of services and goods provided by natural resources like air, water, land and biota are ignored; neither any attempts are made to monitor and account for the changes in natural resources and environment. For the economic development to be sustainable, the environmental costs have to be limited and to be growing at slower pace than the economic gains. In this chapter, an attempt is made to outline the importance of using Natural Resource Accounting (NRA) for sustainable development through an attempt to estimate the environmental costs and benefits, and also to compare with economic growth in the case of India. This chapter highlights the potential of using NRA to make decisions for sustainable development through policies for conservation, management and development of natural resources.

scholarly journals Anthropology and Participatory Research: Ethical Considerations in International Development

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Finnis
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rural Nepal

Anthropologists working in the field of development may encounter a number of difficult ethical issues, although there is comparatively little literature that directly addresses such dilemmas. Potential concerns include questions of access to development and participation in projects and plans; questions about how research is used; issues of power differentials in the field; and the problem of ownership of knowledge. Participatory development research rhetoric and practice has in part arisen out of recognition of these ethical concerns. Through an examination of the history of international development research, and the bases upon which participation lies, it is argued that the concept of participation is not without its own ethical dilemmas and assumptions. A discussion of the history and interpretation of development and participation in parts of rural Nepal is used to illustrate this argument.

scholarly journals Solutions for Developing S&T Human Resources: The Foundation for Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dao Thi Thu Thuy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Technology Products ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Development And Environment

The world is moving towards a knowledge-intensive economy, enhancing cooperation and competition in science and technology. In the knowledge economy, the research, development and commercialization of science and technology products are becoming increasingly important. Put economic development and human development in relation to sustainable development goals, human development - human development is both the driving force and the goal of socio-economic development. and environment. In fact, it is necessary to have stronger and soldier measures to promote the development of S&T human resources in Vietnam. Since then, thoroughly utilize the achievements of modern science and technology, improve the competitiveness of Vietnam's economy and position in the international arena, especially in the trend of sustainable development. - the general trend that all humanity is striving towards.

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