... 18 1
Translating mainstream research 18 5
Representation of the poorest 18 8
A moral case 19 0
Conclusion 19 4
11 . Conclusion 19 6
The current financial crisis 19 8
The problem of politics 202
A tale of two ... for the political economy of development? 210
Bibliography 214
Index 233
CONTENTS
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th...
... real interest rates in the mid 19 70s
changing to high interest rates in 19 79 after the Volcker Shock, and
even higher in 19 81; global recession in the early 19 80s and again in the
early 19 90s; ... power in the academic literature of
international political economy has allowed neoliberalism to remain
the dominant ideology of international development...
...
can shift the balance of global power in favour of the poor, by
MONEY IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT
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This conflict can indeed be ... how the
divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the
technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the
political e...
... senior official in the CDC in
19 93, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take
investment decisions:
by understanding the human nature of these people, how they
are moving and the ... disbursements by using
financing through the IDA to pay the IMF! Indeed, Oxfam cite the shock-
ing statistic that, in the case of Zambia during the late 19 9...
... primary
responsibility for maintaining a proper balance in its own portfolio,
and in 19 63 restoration in the independent territories (Rendell 19 76:
18 1, 16 8). In 19 62, the CDC began to publish figures of its contributions
to ... Thus, all the
major institutions of development finance were moved into the ‘fron-
tier state’ of pseudo-private mediators in the...
... 71, 666
ODA
Multilateral 582 1, 277 4,046 9, 212 7,566 15 ,802 18 ,299 17 ,685 24,653 31, 988
ODA
OOF,
(2)
300 1, 122 3, 912 5,037 3 ,14 4 8,648 10 ,070 –4,326 1, 430
to all
developing
OOF, to 55 233 1, 050 ... of the frontier institu-
tions of the British state and an account of the changing role of the CDC
in managing investment and liquidity. The case study sh...
... co-financing’
(CDC 19 82: 11 ). There were eight members of Interact in the early
19 80s, jointly responsible for 1. 6 billion annually (CDC 19 83: 10 ).
3
Interact is now incorporated within EDFI, with working groups ... the
value of British investment rose from around £2.5 billion in 19 97 to
over £8.6 billion in 2006, peaking at 13 .7 billion in 2005. In other
TAKIN...
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10 Aid effectiveness: what are we
measuring?
In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the
political economy of aid, both in and of itself in chapter ... (in
TAKING THE LONG VIEW OF PROMOTING CAPITALISM
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Table 9.5 CDC’s investments in Gha...
... at the top of the system, the Great Predators, are busy passing
the buck. It is the poorest for whom the impact of rising prices of
MONEY AND POWER
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of the dollar drops. The precedent here is events in the early 19 70s,
after the Bretton Woods system of fixing the value of the dollar was...