Global development disrupted: Findings from a survey of 93 leaders
Ingram, George; Lord, Kristin M. | March 2019
Abstract
A survey of 93 leaders, representing a wide range of organizations working to advance human well-being and economic development, reveals a global development sector in transition and perhaps even turmoil. Ending extreme poverty is no longer the defining lens through which development is viewed: State fragility and climate were mentioned nearly three times more often than poverty, and migration was mentioned more than twice as often. Leaders worry that responses to these and other global challenges are inadequate.
Though we found clusters of consensus, overall the survey reveals broad fragmentation across the global development sector, with respondents identifying a startlingly wide range of priorities, concerns, opportunities, and paths forward. The most frequently mentioned challenge is access to funding and resources, which is viewed as a fundamental challenge to addressing human needs worldwide as well as to the financial health and viability of development organizations and their missions. Leaders report excitement about new actors in development, new partners, new innovations, new applications of technology and data, new models of development finance, new revenue streams, and the potential of all these trends to improve development outcomes and, in the process, people’s lives. They see the rise of middle-income countries, local partners within developing countries, the private sector, and the role of China as long-term trends that will transform global development. Together, these and other trends are forcing development organizations to innovate—and, for some, to worry about their sustained relevance.
Citation
Ingram, George; Lord, Kristin M.. 2019. Global development disrupted: Findings from a survey of 93 leaders. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/9977.Keywords
Comprehensive Development Framework
Development Challenges
Development Planning
Millennium Development Goals
Policy Development
Program Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Human Capital Development
Capital Market Development
Development Economics
Financial Sector Development
Technology Development
World Development Indicators
Evaluation Methods
Aid And Development
Asian Development Bank
Comprehensive Development Framework
Development Cooperation
Development Management
Development Planning
Development Strategies
Development In East Asia
Development Planning
Development Research
Performance Evaluation
Evaluation Methods
Evaluation
Job Evaluation
Staff Development
Economic development
Standard of living
Trade development
Employment
Development assistance
ADB
Curriculum development
Development assistance
Development aid
Development indicators
Development potential
Development models
Project appraisal
Performance appraisal
Economic development
Economic indicators
Government programs
Economic growth
Economic policy
Industrial development
Industrial policy
Technology assessment
Economic evaluation
Economic forecast
Input output analysis
Rural planning
Aid coordination
Industrial projects
Infrastructure projects
Natural resources policy
Educational development
Development strategy
Development models
Economic development
Performance appraisal
Needs assessment
Input output analysis
ADB
Employment
Performance appraisal
Project failure
Project impact
Project appraisal
Career development
Vocational training
Labor income
Labor policy
Manpower policy
Promotions
Career development
Job analysis
Participative management
Communication in rural development
Communication in community development
Infrastructure
Central planning
Endowment of research
Partnership
Joint venture
Nation-building
Risk assessment
Economic development projects
Economic forecasting
Industrial research
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Economic policy
Economic forecasting
Communication in rural development
Communication in community development
Economic development projects
Development banks
Economic forecasting
Environmental auditing
Cumulative effects assessment
Human rights and globalization
Participative management
Grievance procedures
Supervisors
Vocational guidance
Labor policy
Rural manpower policy
Career development
Applications for positions
Affirmative action programs
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