Governance Through Development: Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States

ISBN-13: 9780415495547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 268 str.

Celine Tan

Opis

Governance Through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper 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 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework has replaced the controversial Structural Adjustment Programme, as the primary mechanism through which official development financing is channelled to low-income developing countries. It has, however, 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 which, within a legacy of postcolonial economic relations, revealing the wider economic and geo-political significance of the PRSP framework. This framework, Celine Tan argues, 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.

Spis treści

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 Rehabilitated Adjustment  6. Redesigning the Political Project: Discipline and Legitimation through Participatory Policymaking  7. Consolidation and Conclusion: PRSPs, Transnational Governance and Globalized Legal Regimes

O autorze

Celine Tan is Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research explores aspects of international economic law and regulation, focusing on intersections between law, policy and governance and the development impacts of global economic governance. She is co-editor with Julio Faundez of International Economic Law, Globalization and Developing Countries.