Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development 10 potx

... illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital flight and brain drain afflicting ... 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 ... to collectivise the control over independent African countries’ reintegra- tion into the world economy, with the CDC acting as the chair of the ‘committee managing...

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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 ... regional interests abroad, in the case of the European and North American DFIs at least. The sheer size, scope and profitability of these DFIs justifies their being...

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... 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 states. In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration ... 172 [ 181 ] 10 Aid effectiveness: what are we measuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economy of aid, b...

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... about the meaning of power, in 2. The experience of the poor has contradicted the discursive meanings given to DFIs within the dominant ideology of the age; that is, the discourse of modernist development. ... commodities, in particular oil, is inelastic in the face of soaring prices. The non-oil producing countries with the lowest incomes will pay most, a...

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