1st Edition

Governance through Development Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States

By Celine Tan Copyright 2011
288 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

288 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

288 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

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... Read more

1. Introduction  2. PRSPs in Postcolonial International Law and Global Governance  3. PRSPs and the Crisis of Legitimacy in the International Order  4. Ownership as Conditionality: PRSPs and the Evolution of Conditional Financing  5. Reforming the Nation State: PRSPs and Rehabilitated Adjustment  6. Redesigning the Political Project: Discipline and Legitimation through Participatory Policymaking  7. Consolidation and Conclusion: PRSPs, Transnational Governance and Globalized Legal Regimes

Biography

Celine Tan is Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Her research explores aspects of international economic law and regulation, focusing on intersections between law, policy and governance and the development impacts of global economic governance. She is co-editor with Julio Faundez of International Economic Law, Globalization and Developing Countries.