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This book identifies the quality of domestic governance as the most important factor determining development outcomes in poor countries, and investigates in a series of case studies how external interventions affect this crucial development constraint.
List of contents
Part I: The Governance Challenge 1. Introduction Arne Bigsten 2. Impacts of External Interventions on Domestic Governance Arne Bigsten Part II: Economic Policy 3. Democratization in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters Pelle Ahlerup 4. Political Decentralization and the Effectiveness of Aid Thushyanthan Baskaran, Arne Bigsten and Zohal Hessami 5. When Is Aid Volatility Bad? And How Bad Is It? Sven Tengstam Part III: Social Policy 6. Abstinence, Abstinence, and More Abstinence: HIV/AIDS in Malawi Dick Durevall and Annika Lindskog 7. Indigenous Politics and the Quest for Solidarity Cristina Rojas and Gustavo Morales Part IV: Environmental Policy 8. Payments for Environmental Services: Understanding the determinants of impact and behavioural responses to policy intervention Anna Nordén, Martin Persson, and Francisco Alpizar Part V: Security Policy 9. ‘Building Peace from the Outside’: The role of the EU in the Democratic Republic of Congo Meike Froitzheim and Fredrik Söderbaum 10. Willing Reformers? An analysis of defence reform initiatives in the DRC Maria Eriksson Baaz and Maria Stern 11. The African Union and the Politics of Protection: Mediating ownership and sovereignty Jan Bachmann and Linnea Gelot Part VI: Conclusion 12. Concluding Remarks Arne Bigsten
About the author
Arne Bigsten is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Gothenburg, and Director of the Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development, Sweden. His research has addressed poverty and income distribution, trade and globalisation, industrial development, foreign aid and institutional reform. He has been involved in major projects on the impact of the coffee boom in the 1970s in Kenya and Tanzania, enterprise development in Africa, and the poverty of Ethiopian households.
Summary
This book identifies the quality of domestic governance as the most important factor determining development outcomes in poor countries, and investigates in a series of case studies how external interventions affect this crucial development constraint.
