Poverty reduction strategy in Bangladesh : rethinking participation in policy making / Palash Kamruzzaman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamruzzaman, Palash, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Bangladesh.

Poverty.

Economic development projects--Bangladesh--Citizen participation.

Economic development projects.

Economic development projects--Bangladesh.

Poverty--Government policy--Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book analyses government relationships with international financial institutions (IFIs) to evaluate the role of citizen participation in formulating national poverty reduction policies in low-income countries.

Contents:

POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY IN BANGLADESH; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Bangladesh: an overview of aid and development policies; The research; Structure of the book; Part One. Participation in theory; 1. Participation: an iron hand in a velvet glove; Introduction; A need for participation; Revisiting the definition of participation in recent development narratives; Participation: counting the reality from the bottom or legitimating development from the top?; (Re)Discovery of civil society; Donor-driven civil society and its role in poverty reduction

Poverty reduction: discourse or a commitment to change?Introduction: poverty - a contested subject; Approaches to understanding poverty; Problems of problematising poverty; Politics of poverty reduction; Poverty reduction: the Bangladesh context; Ideological hegemony and role of a local comprador class in anti-poverty policies; 2. Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: another brick in the wall; Introduction; Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers as a framework; Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: a tool for debt relief and continuing loans; Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: another brick in the wall

'Ownership' of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers'Participation' in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; Part Two. Participation in practice; 4. Participation: the evidence; Introduction; How much participation is 'enough'?; Participation: a useful tool for 'covering up'; Participation or 'muting'?; Whose participation counts?; 5. Is a comprador class being created?; Introduction; Ownership or rubber-stamping?; Who's who?; A company of parrots; Emergence or creation of a 'comprador class'; 6. Think local, act local; Introduction; Policies are not enough; One size does not fit all; Think local

Missing links in the Poverty Reduction Strategy PaperAct local: political will and vision are musts for national poverty reduction; 7. Conclusion; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Feb 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447303183

1447303180

9781447305705

1447305701

OCLC:

870088817