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oapen-20.500.12657-472082023-06-05T13:09:21Z Governing Failure Best, Jacqueline nongovernmental organisations economic assistance politics development banks economic development - finance corporate governance international devleopment policy Conditionality Good governance Structural adjustment World Bank bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure. Failures such as the Asian financial crisis and the decades of despair in sub-Saharan Africa led these institutions to develop governance strategies designed to avoid failure: fostering country ownership, developing global standards, managing risk and vulnerability and measuring results. In contrast to the structural adjustment era when policymakers were confident that they had all the answers, the author argues that we are now in an era of provisional governance, in which key actors are aware of the possibility of failure even as they seek to inoculate themselves against it. This book considers the implications of this shift, asking if it is a positive change and whether it is sustainable. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 2018-06-27 23:55 2014-04-10 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:45:35Z 2020-04-01T14:45:35Z 2014 book 472457 649959 9781139542739 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33438 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47208 eng application/pdf n/a 472457.pdf http://www.cambridge.org/9781107035041 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/CBO9781139542739 103416 10.1017/CBO9781139542739 7607a2d0-47af-490f-9d2a-8c9340266f8a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781139542739 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 288 Cambridge, UK - New York, USA 103416 KU Pilot Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure. Failures such as the Asian financial crisis and the decades of despair in sub-Saharan Africa led these institutions to develop governance strategies designed to avoid failure: fostering country ownership, developing global standards, managing risk and vulnerability and measuring results. In contrast to the structural adjustment era when policymakers were confident that they had all the answers, the author argues that we are now in an era of provisional governance, in which key actors are aware of the possibility of failure even as they seek to inoculate themselves against it. This book considers the implications of this shift, asking if it is a positive change and whether it is sustainable. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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