Research skills for policy and development :  how to find out fast / 
edited by Alan Thomas and Giles Mohan. 
 - x, 363 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Published in association with the Open University. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  Conceptualising Policy-Related Investigation: Information Needs and Policy Change /  Boundaries for Thinking and Action /  Grabbing Attention /  Communicating Results /  Thinking with Documents: Interrogating Information Through a Literature Study /  Interpreting Institutional Discourses /  Thinking with People: People as Informants /  Investigation as Empowerment: Using Participatory Methods /  Doing Incorrect Research: The Importance of the Subjective and the Personal in Researching Poverty /  Bringing in Data: Thinking with Quantitative Data /  Using Evidence in Advocacy /  Organizational Assessment and Institutional Footprints /  Challenging Cases /  Conclusion /  Alan Thomas --  Stephen Potter, Ramya Subrahmanian --  Chris Blackmore, Ray Ison --  Joseph Hanlon --  Joanna Chataway, Avril Joffe, Jill Mordaunt --  Stephanie Barrientos --  Bridget O'Laughlin --  Philip Woodhouse --  Linda Mayoux, Hazel Johnson --  Dina Abbott --  Chandan Mukherjee, Marc Wuyts --  Sue Mayer --  Chris Roche --  Alan Thomas --  Alan Thomas, Joanna Chataway. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1412945631 9781412945639 141294564X 9781412945646 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development--Research<br/>Economic development projects--Evaluation
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.9072