Knowledge is Power? The Use and Abuse of Information in Development

Edited by: Susanna Davies

May 1994
Volume 25 Number 2

This Bulletin is concerned with the use and abuse of information in development planning and policy-making. The conventional wisdom that more and better information automatically leads to improved policy an practice is challenged. Issues considered include: the political and economic neutrality of information; whose reality counts, and, who gains from ignorance. It includes articles on use of information in the health and environment sectors, and in food security planning.