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... 1 963 ). The relationship of technocrats to the specific bureaucracies in which they work influences the leverage that they have with thepolitical leadership. 16 indigenous elites, and the ... factions ofthe military competing against each other for political power and the spoils of office. Nevertheless, under a bureaucratic polity, where the governing elites are embedded in political ... to the Graduate Faculty in Political Science in partial fulfillment ofthe requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2010 xi CHAPTER...
... individual has ofthe likely behavior of others. Strategies are designed based on the individual’s perceptions ofthe likelybenefits or costs that they will receive in light of their own and others’ ... responsible for the planning and implementation ofthe project,by having, for example, the organization and staff for the task. The project ownerfinances part, often a large part, ofthe costs ofthe project” ... nowincludes of cials ofthe agencies themselves.What’s wrong with development aid? Almost every part or process ofthe aid systemhas been criticized, from the geopolitical agenda of donors to the distributive...
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... readers to put the developmentindustry into the context ofthe global politicaleconomyof develop-ment, or at least that is the book’s aim. In other words, despite all the recent talk of poverty ... examples to illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the mythssurrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital flight and ... canvass but below the canopythere remain only discrete stalks descending into the soil below.Metaphorically, these stalks are the nation states, emerging from the THEPOLITICALECONOMYOF DEVELOPMENT[5]Bracking_02_cha01.qxd...
... introduces the reader to the contours ofthepoliticaleconomyof development and the institutionalregime within which ‘creditor states’13compete and co-operate in the extension of markets. The term ... for profitable (mis)adventure which arise directly from the THEPOLITICALECONOMYOF DEVELOPMENT[13]Bracking_02_cha01.qxd 12/02/2009 10: 56 Page 13 [17]2 Money in thepolitical economy of developmentVarious ... and the higher costs of living following the ‘Volcker Shock’12adjustment. Then, the negotiated settlement ofthe debt crisis, between the creditor banks, the creditor governments and the international...
... 2009; and chapter 11). From the perspec-tive ofthepolitical economist, it is to the construction of markets thatwe should now turn in the next chapter to see how these antimonies of power ... CouncilResolution 167 4 of April 20 06, which endorses the 2005 World Summitstatement ofthe same.2. In some countries, such as Nigeria, these claims ran into billions of pounds.MONEY IN THEPOLITICALECONOMY ... critically obscures how the divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the politicaleconomyof development. It...