1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910806835603321

Autore

Tan Celine

Titolo

Governance through development : poverty reduction strategies, international law and the disciplining of third world states / / Celine Tan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-283-04184-7

9786613041845

1-136-85049-X

0-203-83458-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Collana

Law, development and globalization

Disciplina

338.009172/4

Soggetti

Poverty - Government policy - Developing countries

Economic assistance - Developing countries - Management

Law and economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PRSPs in postcolonial international law and global governance -- PRSPs and the crisis of legitimacy in the international order -- Ownership as conditionality : PRSPs and the evolution of conditional financing -- Reforming the nation state : PRSPs and rehabilitated adjustment -- Redesigning the political project : discipline and legitimation through participatory policymaking -- Consolidation and conclusion : PRSPs, transnational governance and globalized legal regimes.

Sommario/riassunto

Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions which support it. The PRSP framework has replaced the controversial structural adjustment programmes, as the primary mechanism through which official development financing is channelled to low-income developing countries. It has changed the regulatory landscape of international de