Globalization and Development (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Interventions and Governance
Redaktion: Bigsten, Arne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book identifies the quality of domestic governance as the most important factor determining development outcomes in poor countries, and investigates in a series of case studies how external interventions affect this crucial development constraint.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136201714
• Artikelnr.: 39266505

Autorenporträt

Arne Bigsten is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Gothenburg, and Director of the Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development, Sweden. His research has addressed poverty and income distribution, trade and globalisation, industrial development, foreign aid and institutional reform. He has been involved in major projects on the impact of the coffee boom in the 1970s in Kenya and Tanzania, enterprise development in Africa, and the poverty of Ethiopian households.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Governance Challenge 1. Introduction Arne Bigsten 2. Impacts of
External Interventions on Domestic Governance Arne Bigsten Part II:
Economic Policy 3. Democratization in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters
Pelle Ahlerup 4. Political Decentralization and the Effectiveness of Aid
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Arne Bigsten and Zohal Hessami 5. When Is Aid
Volatility Bad? And How Bad Is It? Sven Tengstam Part III: Social Policy
6. Abstinence, Abstinence, and More Abstinence: HIV/AIDS in Malawi Dick
Durevall and Annika Lindskog 7. Indigenous Politics and the Quest for
Solidarity Cristina Rojas and Gustavo Morales Part IV: Environmental Policy
8. Payments for Environmental Services: Understanding the determinants of
impact and behavioural responses to policy intervention Anna Nordén, Martin
Persson, and Francisco Alpizar Part V: Security Policy 9. 'Building Peace
from the Outside': The role of the EU in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Meike Froitzheim and Fredrik Söderbaum 10. Willing Reformers? An analysis
of defence reform initiatives in the DRC Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria
Stern 11. The African Union and the Politics of Protection: Mediating
ownership and sovereignty Jan Bachmann and Linnea Gelot Part VI: Conclusion
12. Concluding Remarks Arne Bigsten