Development beyond neoliberalism? : Governance, poverty reduction, and political economy /
By: Craig, David.
Contributor(s): Porter, Doug [author].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : New York ; Routledge, 2006Description: xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0415319595 (hbk: alk. paper); 9780415319591:; 9780415319591 (hbk: alk. paper); 0415319609 (pbk : alk. paper); 9780415319607 (pbk : alk. paper).Subject(s): Economic development -- International cooperation | Economic development projects -- Developing countries -- Citizen participation | Economic assistance -- Developing countries | Community development -- Developing countries | Poverty -- Government policy | Poverty -- Developing countries -- Prevention | Neoliberalism | Local government -- Developing countries -- Citizen participationDDC classification: 338.91091724 CRAItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 338.91091724 CRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0082301 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-326) and index.
Governing poverty: development beyond neoliberalism? -- pt. 1. Liberal development and governance from free trading to 'neoliberal institutionalism' -- Historical hybrids of Liberal and other development, c. 1600-1990: markets, territory and security in development retrospect -- The rise of governance since 1990: the capable state, poverty reduction and 'inclusive' neoliberalism -- Local institutions for poverty reduction? 1997-2005: re-imagining a joined-up, decentralized governance -- pt. II. Cases from Vietnam, Uganda, Pakistan and New Zealand -- Vietnam: framing the community, clasping the people -- Uganda: telescoping of reforms, local-global accommodation -- Pakistan: a fortress of edicts -- New Zealand: joining up governance after New institutionalism -- Conclusions: accountability and development beyond neoliberalism?
This book offers a comprehensive introduction, overview and critique of the poverty reduction paradigm. It traces the emergence of the paradigm's framework and illustrates its consequences with global case studies.