"This Report aims to inspire and guide the researchers and practitioners who can help advance a new set of development approaches based on a fuller consideration of psychological and social influences."--Page 2.
Development economics and policy are due for a redesign. In the past few decades, research from across the natural and social sciences has provided stunning insight into the way people think and make decisions. Whereas the first generation of development policy was based on the …
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Power and psychology -- Genealogies of the psychologisation of development interventions -- The psychologisation of contemporary development interventions -- The state and implementing subjectivities -- A place for psychology in development? -…
Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target 'development' interventions and the psychological domain is now a specific frontier of their interventional focus. This landmark study considers the problematic relatio…