Paper presented at the 9th General Conference of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Paris, France, 22–25 September 1999, in a session of the EADI Information Management Working Group. Provides a brief critique of the World Bank’s 1998 World Development Report on ‘Knowledge for Development’ comparing it to the contradictory 1999 report on ‘the changing development landscape’. The term ‘knowledge’ increasingly dominates development discourse, but needs to be defined largely by those who need to use it, not by external agencies. While access to information and knowledge is important, the skills to assess and debate that knowledge are equally important.
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1. World Bank. World Development Report 1999/2000: entering the 21st Century: the changing development landscape.
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2. World Bank. World Development Report 1998/99: knowledge for development. Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press, 1998.
