Governance through development : poverty reduction strategies, international law and the disciplining of third world states / Celine Tan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tan, Celine.

Series:

Law, development and globalization.

Law, development and globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Government policy--Developing countries.

Poverty.

Economic assistance--Developing countries--Management.

Economic assistance.

Law and economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 de

Contents:

PRSPs in postcolonial international law and global governance

PRSPs and the crisis of legitimacy in the international order

Ownership as conditionality : PRSPs and the evolution of conditional financing

Reforming the nation state : PRSPs and rehabilitated adjustment

Redesigning the political project : discipline and legitimation through participatory policymaking

Consolidation and conclusion : PRSPs, transnational governance and globalized legal regimes.

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-04184-7

9786613041845

1-136-85049-X

0-203-83458-5

9780203834589

OCLC:

707068754