Governing Failure Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance

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 suc...

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Autor principal: Best, Jacqueline (auth)
Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Cambridge, UK - New York, USA Cambridge University Press 2014
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Resumo: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 strategies designed to avoid failure: fostering country ownership, developing global standards, managing risk and vulnerability and measuring results. In contrast to the structural adjustment era when policymakers were confident that they had all the answers, the author argues that we are now in an era of provisional governance, in which key actors are aware of the possibility of failure even as they seek to inoculate themselves against it. This book considers the implications of this shift, asking if it is a positive change and whether it is sustainable. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
Descrição Física:1 electronic resource (288 p.)
ISBN:CBO9781139542739
9781139542739
Acesso:Open Access