Institutional Development Policies and Resource Strategies in Eastern Africa and India: Developing Winners and Losers (Macmillan International Political Economy S.) - Hardcover

Doornbos, Martin R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333687728 ISBN 13: 9780333687727

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This volume starts from the premise that development policy is about interventions involving institutional arrangements. Such arrangements impact on socio-economic processes, but differentially so, thus often creating 'winners' and 'losers'. By implication this causes many development interventions to become contested terrain. Sponsoring agencies, intermediaries and different categories among the 'target' groups all have different stakes in institutional interventions, and as such they may perceive them in highly contrasting terms. Patterns of differentiation have been basic to the formulation and engineering of innumerable organizational forms, resource allocation structures, rules of access and other institutional innovations. This calls for an unravelling of the ways in which institutional designs may give shape to socio-political relationships and processes, define the parameters for coping with conflicting demands, or privilege specific client categories through key selective criteria. In short, this book's concern is with the political element in the design of development institutions and interventions.

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About the Author

MARTIN DOORNBOS is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and associated with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva. His research interests have broadly focused on state-society relations in Africa and India and he has written extensively on the politics of resource allocation in a variety of fields. His publications include Beyond Conflict in the Horn: The Prospects for Peace, Recovery and Development in Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan (co-edited), Not All the King's Men: Inequality as a Political Instrument in Ankole, Uganda, Dairy Aid and Development: India's Operation Flood (co-author), Resources, Institutions and Strategies: Operation Flood and Indian Dairying (co-edited) and Dynamics of State Formation: India and Europe Compared (co-edited). He is editor of Development and Change and contributing editor of the Review of African Political Economy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333687728
• ISBN 13: 9780333687727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312