Governing failure : provisional expertise and the transformation of global development finance /

Jacqueline Best argues that the 1990s changes in IMF, World Bank and donor policies, 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...

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Main Author: Best, Jacqueline, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139542739
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I Understanding how global governance works
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2.A meso-level analysis
  • pt. II History
  • 3. What came before
  • 4. Transformations
  • pt. III New governance strategies
  • 5. Fostering ownership
  • 6. Developing global standards
  • 7. Managing risk and vulnerability
  • 8. Measuring results
  • pt. IV Conclusion
  • 9. The politics of failure and the future of provisional governance.