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The New Conditionality

By Jeremy Gould

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The New Conditionality

By Jeremy Gould

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Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) are the new buzzwords in development aid. Some seventy developing countries have already elaborated a PRS in response to the requirements of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and bilateral aid agencies and as a precondition for rolling over past debts or obtaining new assistance. While it may be premature to reach conclusions as to their ultimate economic and social impacts, implications for local policy making and political processes, as this book explains, are already becoming clear. PRSs, as with the Structural Adjustment policies that they have ostensibly replaced, run up against a central paradox: in vesting decisive policymaking powers in external agencies, the very process of drawing up development strategies to prioritize reducing poverty can undermine the consolidation of democratic forces, structures and ideas in developing countries. While the nuanced conclusions of these field studies show that the political terrain and the specific impacts of PRSs in different countries are highly variegated, serious questions arise about the long-term political consequences of this new generation of contemporary development practices.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
194
Release Date:
2006-03-17
Publication Date:
2005-09-20
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1842775235
ISBN13:
9781842775233
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
252 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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