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Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia

Part of the Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137303615

ISBN: 978-1-349-45420-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 16, 2015

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Introduction

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 1 –10

[This book examines attempts made by policy-makers in development agencies and banks to understand how political economy shapes the way development programmes take root in developing countries and how it has defined their outcomes. It also seeks to explain why it had proven difficult to establish...
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Realities of Political Economy: The Elephant in the Room

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 13 –35

[The idea that the political landscape can be reordered in a technocratic way by means of market reform and institutional change has dominated thinking in the economic ministries and development agencies of the major Western countries since the early 1980s. It has been heavily influenced by the...
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Development Agencies and the Political Economy Turn

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 36 –56

[As we showed in earlier chapters, donor agencies started to realise in the 1990s that development policy involves more than adherence to macroeconomic fundamentals, which had been the major precept of the Washington Consensus. The awareness that non-economic factors were important produced a...
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Development as Collective Action Problems

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 57 –73

[The discussion of various attempts at engaging with political economy analysis by development agencies in the previous chapter showed that such agencies have difficulty in engaging with politics, as a consequence of the understanding they have of their work, as well as their own institutional...
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Understanding the Development Problem

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 77 –102

[In previous chapters we have critiqued the ways in which donors and associated researchers have attempted to incorporate political economy analyses into their approaches to development. In particular, we identified three assumptions which are prevalent among aid practitioners but which constrain...
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Analysing Reform and Reformers

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 103 –129

[In aid programming, working more politically is often taken to mean finding and supporting developmental reformers as agents of change. But given that everyone can claim to be a reformer when they talk with donor agencies, there is an urgent need for a form of analysis that can evaluate the...
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Working Politically: Understanding Alliances

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 130 –147

[Rethinking governance reform in the manner proposed in the preceding chapters suggests that, for donor agencies, ‘working politically’ requires a reconceptualisation of aid programmes as limited interventions in ongoing development processes, plus a more nuanced understanding of putative...
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Conclusion: The Road to Nowhere?

Hutchison, Jane; Hout, Wil; Hughes, Caroline; Robison, Richard

Pages: 148 –155

[Our central purpose in this book has been initially to ask why political economy has emerged as a tool for policy analysis and planning within the major aid agencies and banks. These had for decades been resolutely opposed to consideration of the political and social contexts of development...

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