Jeremy (Hrsg.) Gould

The New Conditionality

The Politics of Poverty Reduction Strategies

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Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) are the new buzzwords in development aid. Some 70 countries have already elaborated them in response to World Bank and bilateral aid agency requirements. This book presents detailed, field-level research on the application of PRSs in three countries: Tanzania, Vietnam and Honduras It describes the changing relations between the governments of these countries, donor agencies, and civic organizations that have taken part in formulating the new generation of PRSs. Poverty Reduction Strategies run up against a central paradox: in giving decisive policymaking powers to external agencies, the very process of draw… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84277-523-3
EAN: 9781842775233
Produktnummer: 16718806
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.6 cm x D1.2 cm 246 g
Gewicht: 246
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Jeremy Gould is an anthropologist whose work deals with politics, development aid and the post-colonial state in Africa. The bulk of his fieldwork has been in Zambia where he is currently working on an ethnographic account of the legal domain. Among his publications are Localizing modernity. Action, interests and association in rural Zambia (1997) and Ethnographies of aid. Intimate explorations of development texts and encounters (2004). Gould is a fellow of the Academy of Finland, based at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Helsinki.