Governing Failure - Jacqueline Best

Governing Failure

Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance

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Buch | Softcover
286 Seiten
2014
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-47493-2 (ISBN)
38,65 inkl. MwSt
Traces an important shift in international development policy as global institutions have become preoccupied with policy failure. This title is also available as Open Access.
Jacqueline Best argues that the 1990s changes in IMF, World Bank and donor policies, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure. Failures such as the Asian financial crisis and the decades of despair in sub-Saharan Africa led these institutions to develop governance strategies designed to avoid failure: fostering country ownership, developing global standards, managing risk and vulnerability and measuring results. In contrast to the structural adjustment era when policymakers were confident in their solutions, this is an era of provisional governance, in which key actors are aware of the possibility of failure even as they seek to inoculate themselves against it. Best considers the implications of this shift, asking if it is a positive change and whether it is sustainable. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched.

Jacqueline Best is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her work focuses on the social, cultural and political underpinnings of the global economic system, which she studies by examining how organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank work to govern the global economy.

Part I. Understanding How Global Governance Works: 1. Introduction; 2. A meso-level analysis; Part II. History: 3. What came before; 4. Transformations; Part III. New Governance Strategies: 5. Fostering ownership; 6. Developing global standards; 7. Managing risk and vulnerability; 8. Measuring results; Part IV. Conclusion: 9. The politics of failure and the future of provisional governance.

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Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 390 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Finanzwissenschaft
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Makroökonomie
ISBN-10 1-107-47493-0 / 1107474930
ISBN-13 978-1-107-47493-2 / 9781107474932
Zustand Neuware
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