Governance through Development
Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States
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- English
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Governance through Development
Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States
About this book
Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions which support it. The PRSP framework has replaced the controversial structural adjustment programmes, as the primary mechanism through which official development financing is channelled to low-income developing countries. It has changed the regulatory landscape of international development financing, signalling a wider paradigmatic shift in the cartography of aid and, consequently, in the nature of north-south relations. Governance through Development documents and analyses this change within the legacy of postcolonial economic relations, revealing the wider legal, economic and geo-political significance of the PRSP framework. Celine Tan argues that the PRSP framework establishes a new regulatory regime that builds upon the disciplinary project of structural adjustment by embedding neoliberal economic conditionalities within a regime of domestic governance and public policy reform.
The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of law, political science and international relations, sociology and development studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About Book
- About Authors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A note on terminology
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 PRSPs in postcolonial international law and global governance
- 3 PRSPs and the crisis of legitimacy in the international order
- 4 ‘Ownership’ as conditionality: PRSPs and the evolution of conditional financing
- 5 Reforming the nation state: PRSPs and rehabilitating the structurally adjusted state
- 6 Redesigning the political project: discipline and legitimation through participatory policymaking
- 7 Consolidation and conclusion: PRSPs, transnational governance and globalised legal regimes
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index