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This edited volume presents lessons for development in the 21st
century through an analysis of South Korea's development
experience. The question of how the collaboration between state and
society has contributed to capability enhancement is examined. The
papers of the volume aim to understand the complementarity between
economic and social policies. Looking beyond the conventional
analytical scope of South Korean developmental state, they focus on
the institutional mechanisms enabling the state and society to
establish complementary policies, the actors involved and the
consequences of the choices in the policy areas of aid, industrial,
labour market, fiscal and monetary policies, social policy, rural
development, environment, and gender to identify relevant lessons
for developing countries in the 21st century.This volume considers
the institutions and policies of South Korea between 1945 and 2000.
Framing social policies as a set of policies to enhance individual
and societal capability, this volume shows how a wide range of
policies were formulated to complement each other in protective,
reproductive, productive and redistributive spheres for economic
and social development. In particular, it includes the periods of
state-building prior to the rapid industrialisation of the 1960s,
1970s, and 1980s and the responses to Asian Economic Crisis in the
1990s, which identified the institutional foundations and legacies
for Korea's successful development.This book is indispensable
reading for all interested in development economics,
macroeconomics, institutional economics, political economy,
migration studies, gender studies and international relations.
This analysis of South Korea's development experience can present
lessons for development in the 21st century. Situating the
development experience of South Korea within the framework of the
capability enhancing state, this volume examines the empowering
institutions and policies of South Korea between 1945 and 2000.
While the design of adjustment policies in the latter part of the
1980s has generally shown greater attention to their impact on
growth and social implications, this book argues that several
orthodox adjustment policies are still incongruent with long-term
development in Africa. It goes on to discuss a development strategy
which could lead to a much awaited economic recovery and
improvement in social conditions in Africa in the 1990s drawing its
conclusions from a general theoretical discussion and national
case-studies.
Arguing that several orthodox adjustment policies are still
incongruent with long-term development in Africa, this book goes on
to discuss a development strategy which could lead to a much
awaited economic recovery and improvement in social conditions in
Africa in the 1990s drawing its conclusions from a general
theoretical discussion of the matter and the results of five
specific national case studies carried out in Burkina Faso, Niger,
Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.;Giovanni Andrea Cornia is the
co-author or co-editor of "The Impact of World Recession on
Children", "Adjustment With a Human Face" and "Children and the
Transition to the Market Economy". Rolph Van der Hoeven is the
author of "Planning for Basic Needs: A Soft Option or a Solid
Policy?", co-author of "Basic Needs in Development Planning" and
co-editor of "World Recession and Global Interdependence".
The emerging African prespective on the complex issue of structural
adjustment is here analysed. It answers the major challenge for
Africans themselves to lead the reform process which has been
dominated by external ideas and models. The editors, two of
Africa's top scholars, provide a succinct yet comprehensive
synthesis of the adjustment debate from a truly African
perspective, supported by thirty individual studies, twenty-five of
which are from top economists and scholars from every corner of
Africa. For decades now, many African countries have implemented
the structural adjustment programs of the Bretton Woods
Institution. And yet extreme poverty and underdevelopment continue
to plague what is becoming the world's forgotten continent.
Responding to this need for a new approach from within, the editors
articulate a path for the future, underscoring the need to be
sensitive to each other's unique history and current condition.
They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active
role for the state within what is largely a market economy.
The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and
collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of
economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate
liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual
corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of
the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society
sector. This collection has chapters on the Freedom from Debt
Coalition's campaign on debt relief, the Stop-the-New-Round
Coalition's advocacy to change international trade rules and
barriers, the global taxation initiative as embodied in Tobin tax
advocacy in the country, the Transparency and Accountability
Network's anti-corruption effort, and the Philippine Fair Trade
Forum's enterprise on fair trade. Localizing and Transnationalizing
Contentious Politics is the first work of its kind to focus on five
global civil society movements in the Philippines and their
responses to the inequities of neoliberal globalization. Northern
scholars have acknowledged the persistent absence of the South in
research on activism around global issues, and this book can help
fill this gap. Using political process theory as a framework, the
book traces the emergence, development and diffusion of these
social movements in the Philippines. Globalization is taken as the
environment in which they operate to highlight the role of
increased interdependence and internationalization, and the
predominance of a particular ideology in the dynamics of
contention.
The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and
collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of
economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate
liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual
corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of
the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society
sector. This collection has chapters on the Freedom from Debt
Coalition's campaign on debt relief, the Stop-the-New-Round
Coalition's advocacy to change international trade rules and
barriers, the global taxation initiative as embodied in Tobin tax
advocacy in the country, the Transparency and Accountability
Network's anti-corruption effort, and the Philippine Fair Trade
Forum's enterprise on fair trade. Localizing and Transnationalizing
Contentious Politics is the first work of its kind to focus on five
global civil society movements in the Philippines and their
responses to the inequities of neoliberal globalization. Northern
scholars have acknowledged the persistent absence of the South in
research on activism around global issues, and this book can help
fill this gap. Using political process theory as a framework, the
book traces the emergence, development and diffusion of these
social movements in the Philippines. Globalization is taken as the
environment in which they operate to highlight the role of
increased interdependence and internationalization, and the
predominance of a particular ideology in the dynamics of
contention.
African intellectuals today face uniquely difficult circumstances -
intolerant regimes, economies in sharp decline, societies wracked
by violent conflict, and official languages that are not mother
tongues. Compared with Asia or Latin America, Africa has
experienced much higher rates of emigration of its intelligentsia
to North America and Europe, and frequent displacement within the
continent. This rare overview of their history, fate and future
roles explores the relationship of African intellectuals to
nationalism and the Pan African project; the indigenous language
question; women intellectuals; and the role of the hugely growing
African academic diaspora. It assesses the interface between
African intellectuals and society, state and politics in the
context of the restoration of multi-party politics, changing
economic policies, and renewed Pan African awareness.
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