Reinventing development : aid reform and technologies of governance in Ghana
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Reinventing development : aid reform and technologies of governance in Ghana
(Contemporary African politics)
Ashgate, c2014
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Global development actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund claim that the shift to the poverty reduction strategy framework and emphasis on local participation address the social cost of earlier adjustment programs and help put aid-receiving countries back in control of their own development agenda. Drawing on the case of Ghana, Lord Mawuko-Yevugah argues that this shift and the emphasis on partnerships between donors and poor countries, local participation, and country ownership simultaneously represents a substantive departure from earlier versions of neo-liberalism and an attempt by global development actors and local governing and social elites to justify, and legitimize the neo-liberal policy paradigm. This book shows how the new architecture of aid has important implications in three distinct but related ways: the discursive construction and production of post-colonial societies; the changing focus of Western aid and development policy interventions; and the reproduction of the politics of inclusive exclusion. The author provides detailed and original research on the new development paradigm and develops a critical theoretical approach to re-think conventional analyses of the new discourses on aid whilst offering a fresh, alternative interpretation of changes in international aid relations.
Table of Contents
- Preface, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
- Series Editor's Preface, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Discourses on Aid and Development Policy Reform, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
- Chapter 2 Developmentality: A Postcolonial Perspective on the New Architecture of Aid, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
- Chapter 3 Africa and the New Politics of International Development Cooperation, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
- Chapter 4 Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Development Policy in Ghana, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
- Chapter 5 Civil Society, Part icipatory Poverty Reduction and Neoliberal Hegemony, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
- Chapter 6 Conclusion: A New Architecture of Aid or New Technologies of Governance?, Mawuko-Yevugah Lord
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