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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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978-1-107-03504-1 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Best, Jacqueline |
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Governing failure : |
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[electronic resource] |
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provisional expertise and the transformation of global development finance / |
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Jacqueline Best. |
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Cambridge ; New York : |
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Cambridge University Press, |
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2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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1 online resource. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Part I Understanding how global governance works; 1 Introduction; How and why the shift occurred; How the new practices work; Implications; Empirical contributions; Methodological innovations; Theoretical insights; The importance of practice: between materiality and ideas; Understanding change; Expertise and failure; Provisional governance beyond risk; The plan of the book; 2 A meso-level analysis; Understanding governance as practice; Focusing on governance strategies; Examining factors of governance. ActorsTechniques; Knowledge and ideas; Authority; Power; Recognizing governance styles; Understanding change; Part II History; 3 What came before; What came before; Before standardization; Before ownership; Before risk and vulnerability; Before results-based measurement; A confident style of governing; Tensions emerge; 4 Transformations; Some traditional accounts; An alternative account; The fragility of expert authority; The politics of failure; The problematization of structural adjustment practices; The problems (and possibilities) of politics; The limits of technical universals. Debating success and failureThe problem of contingency; Conclusions; Part III New governance strategies; 5 Fostering ownership; The evolution of ownership; Redesigning conditionality; Streamlining at the IMF; A more gradual change at the World Bank; More radical shifts in some donor states; Analysing conditionality reform; Small ""i"" ideas; Symbolic and informal techniques; Informalizing power; Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs); The push for the PRSP; Analysing the PRSP; Engaging new actors; New techniques; New forms of authority and power; A more provisional style of governance. 6 Developing global standardsGood governance; The evolution of a governance agenda; The World Bank; International Monetary Fund; Analysing good governance; A new kind of universal; New actors and sites of authority; New techniques: governing through universals; New forms of power and authority; Standards and codes; Developing the initiative; An analysis of standards and codes; A new kind of universal; More performative techniques; New actors and sites of authority; More indirect power; A more provisional kind of governance; 7 Managing risk and vulnerability. Assessing poor countries' vulnerability to shocksUnderstanding the shift; Three new policies; Changing governance factors; Small ""i"" ideas; Actors; Techniques; Power and authority; Redefining poverty as social risk and vulnerability; Understanding the shift; The social risk and vulnerability framework; Changing governance factors; Small ""i"" ideas; Techniques; Actors; Power and authority; A more provisional kind of governance; 8 Measuring results; Where it came from; The ""failure"" of government and new public management; Results in development agencies. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus, ' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure. Failures such as the Asian financial crisis and the decades of despair in sub-Saharan Africa led these institutions to develop governance |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Development banks. |
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sears |
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Economic assistance. |
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sears |
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Economic development |
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Finance. |
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sears |
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YWdVBZSLp8t_jo-xjs-ffCnZA1y0jivY/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YWdVBZSLp8t_jo-xjs-ffCnZA1y0jivY/view?usp=sharing</a> |
