Format:
1 online resource (337 pages)
ISBN:
9789048508778
Content:
Development policies in the globalising world.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the authors -- Preface -- 1 Towards Development Policies Based on Lesson Learning: An Introduction -- 1.1 Paradigm shifts -- 1.2 Globalization -- 1.3 At the beginning of the 21st -- 2 Twenty-first Century Globalization, Paradigm Shifts in Development -- 2.1 Twenty-first century globalization -- 2.2 Turning points -- 2.3 New development era -- 2.4 International development cooperation -- 3 Does Foreign Aid Work? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What aid are we talking about? -- 3.3 Challenges in trying to assess the impact of aid -- 3.4 Does aid work? The evidence -- 3.5 Constraining aid's greater impact and how these constraints might be addressed -- 3.6 Concluding comments: Aid and the wider perspective -- 4 Under-explored Treasure Troves of Development Lessons: Lessons from the Histories of Small Rich European Countries -- 4.1 Introduction: Lessons from history, or rather the 'Secret History' -- 4.2 Agriculture -- 4.3 Industrial development -- 4.4 Corporate governance and the concentration of economic power -- 4.5 Social and political factors -- 4.6 Concluding remarks -- 5 Stagnation in Africa: Disentangling Figures, Facts and Fiction -- 5.1 Stagnation in sub-Saharan Africa -- 5.2 The low social development cause -- 5.3 The not-a-nation-state cause -- 5.4 The dependence on raw material exports cause -- 5.5 The greedy politicians cause -- 5.6 The weak states and weak policies cause -- 5.7 The Washington consensus cause -- 5.8 Other traps and curses -- 5.9 Conclusions and consequences -- 6 Including the Middle Classes? Latin American Social Policies after the Washington Consensus -- 6.1 The ISI -- 6.2 The debt crisis and the Washington consensus -- 6.3 Neoliberalism and its failures -- 6.4 Turn to the left and basic universalism? -- 6.5 The role of the middle classes.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089641076
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789089641076
Language:
English
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