Governance through development
Subtitle: poverty reduction strategies, international law and the disciplining of third world states
By: Celine Tan
Series: Law, development and globalization; Law, development and globalization
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780415495547
Subjects: Poverty; Economic assistance; Management; Government policy; Law and economic development
Description: '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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PRSPs in postcolonial international law and global governance; title: PRSPs and the crisis of legitimacy in the international order; title: Ownership as conditionality : PRSPs and the evolution of conditional financing; title: Reforming the nation state : PRSPs and rehabilitating the structurally adjusted state; title: Redesigning the political project : discipline and legitimation through participatory policymaking; title: Consolidation and conclusion : PRSPs, transnational governance and globalised legal regimes.