Jacqueline Best

Governing Failure

Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781107474932
• ISBN-10: 1107474930
• Artikelnr.: 41524146

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.