Governing Failure: Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance

by Jacqueline Best

Book Overview

Jacqueline Best argues that the 1990s changes in IMF, World Bank and donor policies, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus, ' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure. Failures such as the Asian financial crisis and the decades of despair in sub-Saharan Africa led these institutions to develop governance strategies designed to avoid failure: fostering country ownership,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110703504X
• ISBN13: 9781107035041
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"