Books by Glynn Cochrane

This book presents various case studies of institutional reform and discusses how the reforms worked in practice. It provides guidelines for institutional reform in developing countries through an examination of the budgeting process in Zambia and rural development in Brazil.

Assessing the World Bank's attempts to combat global poverty over the past 50 years, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glynn Cochrane argues that instead of the Bank's prevailing strategy of "management by seclusion," poverty alleviation requires personal engagement with the poorest by helpers with hands-on local and cultural skills.

Glynn Cochrane concludes that Weber's model was unlikely to include military material after the Versailles peace negotiations (in which Weber participated) outlawed the Prussian General Staff in 1919.

This book outlines how Rio Tinto-one of the world's largest miners-redesigned and rebuilt relationships with communities after the rejection of the company during Bougainville's Civil War.