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Beyond the New Public Management is an important book which
provides a comprehensive analysis of current conceptual debates in
public management and governance; and critically reviews attempts
made over the last two decades to apply the 'new public management'
model in developed and developing countries. The book brings
together a number of outstanding specialists who examine the range
of ideas and concepts of the new models of reform, paying
particular attention to the 'new public management' model and to
strategies of good governance. It evaluates progress made by
governments and aid donors in putting these ideas into practice.
Using case studies from both the developed and developing world, it
emphasises the extent to which public management and governance
reforms are being applied throughout the international arena. The
examples used focus on the problems of policy and institutional
transfers between the industrialised world and developing
countries. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the book draws on
literature and research from management studies, political science,
sociology, economics and development studies; and points to issues
likely to dominate the future research agenda. This thoughtful and
wide-ranging book will be essential reading for academics, students
and practitioners of public management, public policy, governance
and development.
Beyond the New Public Management is an important book which
provides a comprehensive analysis of current conceptual debates in
public management and governance; and critically reviews attempts
made over the last two decades to apply the 'new public management'
model in developed and developing countries. The book brings
together a number of outstanding specialists who examine the range
of ideas and concepts of the new models of reform, paying
particular attention to the 'new public management' model and to
strategies of good governance. It evaluates progress made by
governments and aid donors in putting these ideas into practice.
Using case studies from both the developed and developing world, it
emphasises the extent to which public management and governance
reforms are being applied throughout the international arena. The
examples used focus on the problems of policy and institutional
transfers between the industrialised world and developing
countries. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the book draws on
literature and research from management studies, political science,
sociology, economics and development studies; and points to issues
likely to dominate the future research agenda. This thoughtful and
wide-ranging book will be essential reading for academics, students
and practitioners of public management, public policy, governance
and development.
Microfinance has become an important component of development,
poverty reduction and economic regeneration strategy around the
world. By the early twenty first century tens of millions of people
in more than 100 countries were accessing services from formal and
semi-formal microfinance institutions (MFIs). Much of the initial
attention on microcredit came through work on Bangladesh's
much-lauded Grameen Bank but, there are now many different models'
for microfinance and many countries have substantial microfinance
sectors. This timely book, written by one of the major players in
the UK in development economics explores, amongst others, topics
such as: * microfinance and poverty reduction * microfinance,
gender and social development * microinsurance * regulating and
supervising microfinance institutions. Topical and insightful, this
important text examines what has become a vast global industry
employing hundreds of thousands of people and attracting the
attention of large numbers of governments, banks, aid agencies,
non-governmental organizations and consultancy firms.
Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, this
collection explores the different dimensions of well being, poverty
and inequality. A person's sense of well being is compounded of
many elements including economic, political and social psychology.
Poverty and inequality are aspects of a lack of well being in
multiple dimensions and, this texts argues, development should be
considered a process that overcomes these multiple deficiencies
This book examines the advantages of analysing poverty and
development by multi-discipline research. Economists, political
sociologists and anthropologists put forward an idea of well being
from their own perspective, using their own research material,
while the editors argue in their introduction that bringing to bear
of many disciplines can enrich the research output of all.
This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that
shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban
households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more
effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local
governments, national governments and international organisations,
this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of
environment and development studies.
Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and
yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a
relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th
century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of
global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent
marginalisation as old themes edged it aside (trade policy and
peace-making in regions of geo-political importance) and new issues
were added (terrorism, global climate change and access to natural
resources). Key updates for the new edition: evaluation of the
post-2015 Development Agenda and the Rio+20 exploration of how
Colombia and Brazil are pushing a sustainability agenda as a
Southern perspective to challenge the aid focus of OECD post-MDGs
interests examination and discussion of the gradual shift of power
and influence to the BRICs and emerging regional powers (Indonesia,
Turkey, South Africa) but the lack of change in global institutions
exploration of Russia's lack of participation in the development
agenda The first book to tackle the issue of global poverty through
the lens of global institutions; this fully updated volume provides
an important resource for all students and scholars of
international relations, development studies and international
political economy.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to
reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in
many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001.
It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous
days of the twenty-first century, almost one billion people will go
hungry. Debates about whether the MDGs have made a positive
contribution to poverty eradication and/or whether they have
achieved as much as they should have done are becoming more
frequent as 2015 and the "end of the MDGs" approaches. This book
highlights that active debate about what the MDGs have achieved and
what that means for the crafting of a post-2015 international
framework for action, must become a priority. The work begins by
examining the global context of the goals from a variety of
perspectives, and moves on to focus on the region that continues to
be the most impoverished and which looks likely to fall short of
meeting many of the MDGs: Africa. Presenting both a broad overview
of the issues and drawing together prestigious scholars and
practitioners from a variety of fields, this work provides a
significant contribution to debates surrounding both global poverty
and the success and future of the MDGs.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to
reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in
many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001.
It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous
days of the twenty-first century, almost one billion people will go
hungry. Debates about whether the MDGs have made a positive
contribution to poverty eradication and/or whether they have
achieved as much as they should have done are becoming more
frequent as 2015 and the "end of the MDGs" approaches. This book
highlights that active debate about what the MDGs have achieved and
what that means for the crafting of a post-2015 international
framework for action, must become a priority. The work begins by
examining the global context of the goals from a variety of
perspectives, and moves on to focus on the region that continues to
be the most impoverished and which looks likely to fall short of
meeting many of the MDGs: Africa. Presenting both a broad overview
of the issues and drawing together prestigious scholars and
practitioners from a variety of fields, this work provides a
significant contribution to debates surrounding both global poverty
and the success and future of the MDGs.
Microfinance has become an important component of development,
poverty reduction and economic regeneration strategy around the
world. By the early twenty first century tens of millions of people
in more than 100 countries were accessing services from formal and
semi-formal microfinance institutions (MFIs). Much of the initial
attention on microcredit came through work on Bangladesh's
much-lauded Grameen Bank but, there are now many different 'models'
for microfinance and many countries have substantial microfinance
sectors.
This timely book, written by one of the major players in the UK
in development economics explores, amongst others, topics such
as:
- microfinance and poverty reduction
- microfinance, gender and social development
- microinsurance
- regulating and supervising microfinance institutions.
Topical and insightful, this important text examines what has
become a vast global industry employing hundreds of thousands of
people and attracting the attention of large numbers of
governments, banks, aid agencies, non-governmental organizations
and consultancy firms.
The last decade has seen some significant changes in international
development and in the status of non-governmental organisations
operating in the field. Not only has the number of NGOs virtually
doubled; many of them have seen a considerable growth in their
budgets, and have grown closer to governments and official aid
agencies. NGOs are acknowledged by many to be more effective agents
of development than governments or commercial interests ? even as a
?magic bullet? for development problems. Despite these positive
trends, the real impact of the NGO sector is not well documented.
This is partly because NGO performance-assessment and
accountability methods are weak, and partly because NGOs are caught
up increasingly in the world of official aid, which pushes them
towards certain forms of evaluation at the expense of others. This
unique book takes a hard and critical look at these issues, and
describes how NGOs can, and must, improve the way they measure and
account for their performance if they are to be truly effective.
The last decade has seen some significant changes in international
development and in the status of non-governmental organisations
operating in the field. Not only has the number of NGOs virtually
doubled; many of them have seen a considerable growth in their
budgets, and have grown closer to governments and official aid
agencies. NGOs are acknowledged by many to be more effective agents
of development than governments or commercial interests ? even as a
?magic bullet? for development problems. Despite these positive
trends, the real impact of the NGO sector is not well documented.
This is partly because NGO performance-assessment and
accountability methods are weak, and partly because NGOs are caught
up increasingly in the world of official aid, which pushes them
towards certain forms of evaluation at the expense of others. This
unique book takes a hard and critical look at these issues, and
describes how NGOs can, and must, improve the way they measure and
account for their performance if they are to be truly effective.
This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that
shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban
households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more
effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local
governments, national governments and international organisations,
this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of
environment and development studies.
Around 1.4 billion people presently live in extreme poverty, and
yet despite this vast scale, the issue of global poverty had a
relatively low international profile until the end of the 20th
century. In this important new work, Hulme charts the rise of
global poverty as a priority global issue, and its subsequent
marginalisation as old themes edged it aside (trade policy and
peace-making in regions of geo-political importance) and new issues
were added (terrorism, global climate change and access to natural
resources). Key updates for the new edition: evaluation of the
post-2015 Development Agenda and the Rio+20 exploration of how
Colombia and Brazil are pushing a sustainability agenda as a
Southern perspective to challenge the aid focus of OECD post-MDGs
interests examination and discussion of the gradual shift of power
and influence to the BRICs and emerging regional powers (Indonesia,
Turkey, South Africa) but the lack of change in global institutions
exploration of Russia's lack of participation in the development
agenda The first book to tackle the issue of global poverty through
the lens of global institutions; this fully updated volume provides
an important resource for all students and scholars of
international relations, development studies and international
political economy.
Poverty reduction has become the central goal of development
policies over the last decade but there is a growing realization
that the poorest people rarely benefit from poverty reduction
programmes. Microfinance programmes can help poor people improve
their lives but generally such programmes do not reach the
extremely poor and the chronic poor: casual labourers in remote
rural areas, ethnic and indigenous minorities, older people,
widows, migrants, bonded labourers and others.To counter this,
governments, NGOs and donors have started to mount programmes
explicitly targeting the poorest. This book is the first attempt to
examine such initiatives and identify 'what works for the poorest'.
It asks the questions: what are the characteristics of extreme
poverty? how can we target the very poor? how can we ensure that
women are not excluded? Through a set of carefully selected and
well-integrated papers this book analyses innovative ultra-poor
programmes from around the world and explores the lessons that
emerge from this new and important body of knowledge.What Works for
the Poorest? should be read by staff of donor agencies and NGOs,
students of development studies and interested readers who are
concerned about chronic poverty.
In 1997 we investigated the ways in which NGO-State-Donor
relationships have changed the role that NGOs play in development,
asking whether their growing popularity had helped them to 'solve'
the problems of poverty or had changed them to become part of the
'development industry' that they used to criticize. Using case
studies of African, Asian and Latin American NGOs, we highlighted
that the evidence suggested that NGOs were 'losing their roots' -
getting close to donors and governments and more distant from the
poor beneficiaries they sought to assist. Since the book was first
published, NGOs have continued to rise in number, scale and
prominence, but our concerns have been little redressed and our
argument remains strong today. The new Preface and Afterword to
this IPE Classic provide an up to date review of the literature and
debates on NGOs and the development sector that consolidate on this
argument and look briefly at some of the reactions it has received.
This volume examines just how successful community-based
conservation approaches have been in their twin objectives of
conserving African environments and improving rural livelihoods.
Recent conservation policies in Africa have followed three main
principles: 1) that conservation should be community-based; 2) that
things conserved should be managed to achieve both development and
conservation goals; 3) that markets should play a role in shaping
the incentives for conservation. The editors and contributors of
this volume examine the success or otherwise of these practices in
a number of different contexts across the continent. Uganda:
Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
In the last decade the use of non-governmental agencies (NGOs) to
promote development and reduce poverty and hunger has become a
major feature of development policy. Donors have poured funds into
NGOs, governments have allocated them major responsibilities and
their number and size has grown. Has this popularity helped them to
solve the problems of poverty or has it changed them so that they
are now part of the 'development industry' that they used to
criticize?;This book provides the most detailed study available of
the ways in which NGO-State-Donor relationships have changed the
role that NGOs play in development. Its papers are introduced by
two international experts on the topic and the contributors are
leading academics and senior practitioners. The picture that
emerges from the general reviews and detailed case studies of
African, Asian and Latin American NGOs, is a complex one. However,
the authors conclude that there is much evidence that NGOs are
'losing their roots' - getting closer to donors and governments and
more distant to the poor and disempowered who they seek to assist.
This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination
of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty
dynamics. It does this from an interdisciplinary perspective and
includes the work of anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and
political scientists. The contributions included highlight the need
to conceptualise poverty from a multidimensional perspective and
promote Q-Squared research approaches, or those that combine
quantitative and qualitative research.
The first part of the book provides a review of the research on
poverty dynamics in developing countries. Part Two focuses on
poverty measurement and assessment, and discusses the most recent
work of world-leading poverty analysts. The third part focuses on
frameworks for understanding poverty analysis that avoid
measurement and instead utilize approaches based on social
relations and structural analysis.
There is widespread consensus that poverty analysis should focus
on poverty dynamics and this book shows how this idea can
practically be taken forward.
This major introductory text written by three leading names in the
field provides an accessible overview of the challenges faced in
overcoming global poverty and inequality in the twenty-first
century. Through an in-depth assessment of development theory and
practice, the authors set out to advance two key arguments: the
first being the importance of historically contextualizing
contemporary developmental problems in order to assess policy
proposals; and the second that inequality matters, and how this
notion has continually remained a central feature of development
debates from colonial times to present day. Ideal for undergraduate
students taking development modules as part of Political Science
and International Relations degrees, this engaging text proves to
be essential reading when exploring the impacts of development on
today's international political economy. With each chapter covering
inequalities from all different angles, the authors clearly outline
the impact of models such as globalization and neoliberalism, as
well as offering alternative views on the challenges posed by the
UN's Millennium Development Goals.Also available is a companion
website with extra features to accompany the text, please take a
look by clicking below -
https://he.palgrave.com/companion/Greig-Challenging-Global-Inequality/
This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art examination
of the concepts and methods that can be used to understand poverty
dynamics. It does this from an interdisciplinary perspective and
includes the work of anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and
political scientists. The contributions included highlight the need
to conceptualise poverty from a multidimensional perspective and
promote Q-Squared research approaches, or those that combine
quantitative and qualitative research.
The first part of the book provides a review of the research on
poverty dynamics in developing countries. Part Two focuses on
poverty measurement and assessment, and discusses the most recent
work of world-leading poverty analysts. The third part focuses on
frameworks for understanding poverty analysis that avoid
measurement and instead utilize approaches based on social
relations and structural analysis.
There is widespread consensus that poverty analysis should focus on
poverty dynamics and this book shows how this idea can practically
be taken forward.
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