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... 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 ... 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 ... 1963). 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 economy, ...
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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 ... xiii1. Thepoliticaleconomyof development 1Institutions ofthe global economy 5Frontier institutions 7 Why is money so important? 8Institutions matter 9 Chapter plan 122. Money in thepolitical ... for these narratives ofthepoliticaleconomyof developmentwith reference to Africa primarily and focuses on the economies inwhich the poorest, or the ‘Bottom Billion’ as Collier (20 07) has...
... 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...
... 1 674 of April 2006, which endorses the 2005 World Summitstatement ofthe same.2. In some countries, such as Nigeria, these claims ran into billions of pounds.MONEY IN THEPOLITICALECONOMYOF ... how these antimonies of power are reproduced.ConclusionThis chapter has provided a brief overview ofthe availability of liquidity from the private sector and the public sector in the form of development ... 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...
... ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction ofthe ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of assuring profitabil-ity in the circuit of finance capital, particularly at the international level, ... market perceptions’ (HC 19 97: 74 ). In fact,there is little relationship between the debtor’s economic situation and the asset value ofthe IMF’s portfolio since the value ofthe latter ismore fundamentally ... investors’ belief in the power ofthe creditor states to control risk on their behalf, ominously,by more crude political means if necessary. The banks endorse the political management ofthe system itself.In...
... limits and the Treasury’s lending ceiling(Rendell 1 976 : 170 , 178 ). From 1 970 it expanded rapidly (Rendell 1 976 : 174 ), helped by a new form of concessionary money in 1 972 73 when the Treasury ... interests:those ofthe British state which sponsored it and the particular interests of the people it would employ overseas given the structural position of the colonies in the world economy and ... occupies the centre ofthepoliticaleconomyof develop-ment (but which is actually a many-to-many system or set of similarbilateral multipliers), this chapter uses a case study ofthe Britishstate,...