Poverty Reduction Strategy in Bangladesh: Rethinking Participation in Policy Making

ISBN-13: 9781447305699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str.

Palash Kamruzzaman

Opis

This book, aimed at postgraduate level students, analyzes government relationships with international financial institutions to evaluate the role of citizen participation in formulating national poverty reduction policies. Palash Kamruzzaman first explores the rhetoric of participation in development policies and goes on to examine how such citizen participation efforts were outlined in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of Bangladesh, where local development brokers play an important economic role. Ultimately, he argues that participatory policies are not enough; we need an entire overhaul of poverty reduction thinking and enough political willfrom citizens and politicians aliketo implement it.
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Spis treści

Introduction Part One: Participation in theory Participation: an iron hand in a velvet glove Poverty reduction: discourse or a commitment to change? Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: another brick in the wall Part Two: Participation in practice Participation: the evidence Is a comprador class being created? Think local, act local Conclusion.