Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development 6 docx

... all the great meanings of the modern age, from the Enlightenment to now, of human progress and the civil- ising mission of human intervention. After the eclipsing of the socialist project in the ... that is the book’s aim. In other words, despite all the recent talk of poverty reduction, behind the scenes the whole industry of profitable development...

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... power in the academic literature of international political economy has allowed neoliberalism to remain the dominant ideology of international development theory and for the Great Predators of the ... broad types of institution affecting the political economy of development were the bilateral development finance companies, the export credit departme...

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... how the divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the political economy of development. It is worth looking ... be there remain serious problems in the market for development finance from the perspective of developing countries. Spero and Hart (2003) summarise the mainstrea...

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... senior official in the CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving and the ... politicians, rather than looking at computer figures. So I think there is a lot of, in this business of investing in developing countries, there is an awful lot of e...

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... Thus, all the major institutions of development finance were moved into the ‘fron- tier state’ of pseudo-private mediators in the 1990s. The privatisation of the CDC was the most shocking from ... primary responsibility for maintaining a proper balance in its own portfolio, and in 1 963 restoration in the independent territories (Rendell 19 76: 181, 168 ). In...

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... of the frontier institu- tions of the British state and an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing investment and liquidity. The case study shows how one dominant core lender in the ... facing the American investor that the current global system, characterised by the collectivisation of the management of development finance and the socialisa...

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... grown in absolute terms, but also the process of multilateralisation of aid finance which took place in the years following the onset of the debt crisis in the context of a drop- ping off of private ... Of course, there is another economy in Africa which is informal and possible quite large, but the official one reviewed here shows increasing inequality and i...

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... appoints the Supervisory Board and the Managing Director. Needs Danish co-investor. Swedfund Wholly state-owned Sweden At the end of Representatives of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of ... billion (an increase of £4.9 billion on the amount invested in 2005), contributing to an International Invest- ment Position (the overall level of foreign direct inves...

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... we measuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economy of aid, both in and of itself in chapter 7 (through direct contracts), and then in terms of the ... sector, illustrating well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recy- cling, of finance capital from the core sta...

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... face of soaring prices. The non-oil producing countries with the lowest incomes will pay most, and the poorest people within them are the last in line. For these people there are no luxuries in their budgets, ... growth. 4 Instead the concern here is that in the process of ‘giving aid’ in the system we have at the moment, the opportunities to do these types of...

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