Social Development in the World Bank [electronic resource] : Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea / edited by Maritta Koch-Weser, Scott Guggenheim.

Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank -- The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development -- The Road to Achieving Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank -- Address to the World Bank Sociological Group -- Working Together: Broadening the World Bank’s Development Paradigm -- Social Analysis in the World Bank -- Resettlement, Impoverishment, and Development’s Pathologies -- The Direct and Major Operational Relevance of Social Assessments -- Writing New Rules and Changing Old Practices -- Social Development Work – Live -- Malinowski Award Lecture 1996 Social Organization and Development Anthropology -- Anthropology at Work -- Social Development (excerpts from her 2004 Oral History) -- Putting People First in Practice: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program -- The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples -- The Need for Social Research and the Broadening of CGIAR’s Paradigm -- Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion -- Involuntary Resettlement -- The Risk and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations -- Muddy Waters: Inside The World Bank As It Struggled With The Narmada Irrigation And Resettlement Projects, Western India -- Performance in Resettlement -- From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists has Changed in India's Development in the last Seventy Years -- Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael Cernea to Development in China -- Retrospective & Outlook -- A Retrospective: MICHAEL M. CERNEA (1934).

Open Access

This open access book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and extending his arguments for "putting people first.” Cernea led a community of social scientists in formulating and promoting a comprehensive set of innovative and original social policies on development issues, which the World Bank adopted and implemented. This book includes globally significant work on urban and rural development, the epistemology of using social science knowledge in national and international development, methodologies for using social organization for more effective poverty reduction, and the experience of crafting social policies to become normative frameworks for purposive collective social action. And by including contributions from senior policy makers in the World Bank who helped shepherd social science's entry into development policy and practice, it provides a unique look at how organizational change can happen. .