TY  - GEN
AU  - Best,Jacqueline
TI  - Governing Failure : Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance
SN  - CBO9781139542739
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, UK - New York, USA
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Political economy
KW  - bicssc
KW  - nongovernmental organisations
KW  - economic assistance
KW  - politics
KW  - development banks
KW  - economic development - finance
KW  - corporate governance
KW  - international devleopment policy
KW  - Conditionality
KW  - Good governance
KW  - Structural adjustment
KW  - World Bank
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47208/3/472457.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/47208/3/472457.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63982
ER  -