false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188842982m/1823067.jpg 1823067 1 The contributors to this collection examine the dynamics and institutional imperatives of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development practice and theory. These debates reach to the heart of the Bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. The Search for Empowerment is simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change. 1822744 15 4 2006 The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital As Idea And Practice at the World Bank total:1|3:1| 1 3 6 0 0 0 false false Mon Apr 06 12:01:10 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 12:01:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 23 05:13:38 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 05:13:38 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Sep 17 09:36:31 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 09:37:59 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jul 04 07:21:41 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 07:21:41 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Dec 09 13:26:56 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 13:27:02 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Sat Oct 20 08:00:40 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 08:00:40 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1823067