Researchers Alliance for Development (RAD) is a
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...
supported action-oriented and
multidisciplinary
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
network of
researcher
Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge". It involves the collection, organization and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness t ...
s. Recognizing the engagement of academia in the global intellectual debate on development cooperation, the RAD aims to strengthen the interaction between the World Bank and the research community worldwide. It is headed by a steering committee of academics and many major universities over the world are its members.
RAD objectives include:
1. Facilitating interaction between the academic community and the World Bank;
2. Mobilizing the academic and student community on development issues and curricula, facilitating mutual flow of knowledge.
Towards these ends, it runs a number of activities including a student essay prize, a post/doctoral workshop on international organisations and development as well as working groups on an ad hoc basis.
See also
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Global Development Network
The Global Development Network (GDN) is a worldwide network of research and policy institutes working to provide new perspectives to the development challenges of our time. A spin-off of the World Bank, GDN works to make policy-relevant research a ...
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Development studies
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United Nations Research Institute For Social Development
External links
RAD's World Bank website
References
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Diane Stone and Christopher Wright (eds) ''The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and Reaction'', Routledge, 2006
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