Changing the world of development research? An insight into theory and practice

Birgit Habermann and Margarita Langthaler

Development in Practice, 2010, vol. 20, issue 7, 771-783

Abstract: Development research has been through many stages over the past few decades and during this time has experienced fluctuating appreciation by development practice. There is an increasing gap between different ways of doing development research. For some, the purpose of development research is primarily to influence policies, and in order to do this development research has to reframe its whole approach, language, and methodology. Others maintain that development research needs to distance itself, maintain an analytical and even critical approach towards development practice, and become an academic discipline in its own right.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2010.508106

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