Money and Power - Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Bracking is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Development at the University of Manchester. She is the editor of Corruption and Development (Palgrave, 2007) and Money and Power (Pluto, 2009) and a member of the Review of African Political Economy editorial working group. Klappentext Sarah Bracking explores the role of governments and development finance institutions in managing the markets in which the poorest countries operate. These institutions - the 'Great Predators' - are trapping the populations of the south in a permanent cycle of austerity.Bracking examines the political economy relations between states. Zusammenfassung Why the Global South is still experiencing mass poverty after over sixty years of 'development' Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The political economy of development Chapter 2: Money in the political economy of development Chapter 3: Making Markets Chapter 4: International development banks and creditor states Chapter 5: The British Market Makers Chapter 6: Poverty in Africa and the history of multilateral aid Chapter 7: Derivative business and aid-funded accumulation Chapter 8: Private sector development and bilateral interventions Chapter 9: Taking the long view of promoting capitalism Chapter 10: Aid effectiveness: what are we measuring? Chapter 11: Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Bracking
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2009
• EAN: 9780745320120
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2012-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Third World in Global Politics; Third World in Global Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Globalization, Finance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, Banking, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, International Economics, Aid & relief programmes, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Aid and relief programmes, Finance and the finance industry