Tan, Celine.

Governance through development : poverty reduction strategies, international law and the disciplining of third world states / Celine Tan. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011. - xx, 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Law, development and globalization . - Law, development and globalization. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PRSPs in postcolonial international law and global governance -- PRSPs and the crisis of legitimacy in the international order -- Ownership as conditionality : PRSPs and the evolution of conditional financing -- Reforming the nation state : PRSPs and rehabilitating the structurally adjusted state -- Redesigning the political project : discipline and legitimation through participatory policymaking -- Consolidation and conclusion : PRSPs, transnational governance and globalised legal regimes.

'Governance Through Development' locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper framework within the broader context of international law and global governance; exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions which support it.

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Poverty--Government policy--Developing countries.
Economic assistance--Management.--Developing countries
Law and economic development.