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Development Beyond Neoliberalism? Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy
Development Beyond Neoliberalism Governance Poverty Reduction and Political Economy Author:David Craig, Douglas Porter The last decade has witnessed a convergence in development policy, partly in response to the fallout from the failures of previous approaches: insecurity, inequality and persistent conspicuous poverty. Policies of poverty reduction, good governance, social inclusion and well being now dominate international and strategic agendas of International... more » Development Agencies, OECD Third Way Governments and the US administration. Development Beyond Neoliberalism critically reviews the characteristics of this new consensus; charting and telling stories about the global development of these frameworks and its outworking in diverse contexts. From historical sketches and documentation of its emerging architecture to descriptions of particular situated cases, the authors argue that this new paradigm represents primarily an embedding and toughening up of neoliberal rules and logic in what its proponents imagine to be an inclusive social and institutional context. The book is among the first to take the poverty reduction paradigm as its central focus offering a comprehensive introduction, overview and critique. It traces the emergence of the framework and illustrates its consequences with stories and cases from first hand experience in Pakistan, New Zealand, Vietnam, Indigenous Australia and Uganda.« less