1st Edition

Markets and Development Civil Society, Citizens and the Politics of Neoliberalism

Edited By Toby Carroll, Darryl Jarvis Copyright 2016
164 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the political relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy’s latest form. The dramatic increase of ‘access to finance’ investments, newly gender-sensitive approaches to building neoliberal labour markets, the universal promotion of public-private partnerships, and the ‘development... Read more

Preface – Markets and Development: Civil Society, Citizens, and the Politics of Neoliberalism Toby Carroll and Darryl S.L. Jarvis

1. The New Politics of Development: Citizens, Civil Society, and the Evolution of Neoliberal Development Policy Toby Carroll and Darryl S.L. Jarvis

2. Finance, Development, and Remittances: Extending the Scale of Accumulation in Migrant Labour Regimes Hannah Cross

3. Neoliberal Modes of Participation in Frontier Settings: Mining, Multilateral Meddling, and Politics in Laos Pascale Hatcher

4. Civil Society and the Gender Politics of Economic Competitiveness in Malaysia Juanita Elias

5. Explaining ASEAN’s Engagement of Civil Society in Policy-making: Smoke and Mirrors Kelly Gerard

6. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Gender Action Plan and the Gendered Political Economy of Post-Communist Transition Stuart Shields and Sara Wallin

7. Neoliberalising Cambodia: The Production of Capacity in Southeast Asia Jonathon Louth

Biography

Toby Carroll is Associate Professor and Associate Head in the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research concentrates on the political economy of development, with a particular geographical focus upon Asia.

Darryl Jarvis is Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate Studies) in the Faculty of Liberal Studies and Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong. His research and teaching interests focus on international and political risk, comparative public policy, regulation, infrastructure, and the political economy of investment into Asia.