Coping with intelligence deficits in poverty-alleviation policies in low-income countries
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 345-370
ISSN: 1573-0891
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity, Band 54, Heft 2, S. 345-370
ISSN: 1573-0891
In order to design, enact, and protect poverty alleviation policies in developing countries, we must first understand the psychology of how the poor react to their plight, and not just the psychology of the privileged called upon for sacrifice. This book integrates social and psycho-dynamic psychology, economics, policy design, and policy-process theory to explore ways to follow through on successful poverty-alleviation initiatives, while averting destructive conflict. Using eight case studies across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, William Ascher examines successes and failures in helping the poor through affirmative action, cash transfers, social-spending targeting, subsidies, and regional development. In doing so, he demonstrates how social identities, attributions of deservingness, and perceptions of the policy process shape both the willingness to support pro-poor policies and the conflict that emerges over distributional issues.
Internal migration : challenges in governance & integration / Shane Joshua Barter and William Ascher -- Preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence in and around South Sudan's protection of civilian (POC) sites / Alicia Elaine Luedke -- How IDPs navigate the resettlement process in Bogotá, Colombia / Juan Esteban Zea -- Unsettled states : displacement, governance, and integration in the South Caucasus / Lee J.M. Seymour and Marek Brzezinski -- Competing mobilization of tribal and class identity : politics of internal migration in North India / Rumela Sen -- The political economy of special economic zones and internal displacement in India / Vineeta Yadav -- "Adopting migrants as brothers and sisters" : fictive kinship as a mechanism of conflict resolution and conflict prevention in Lampung, Indonesia / Isabelle Côté -- Displacement and reintegration in Aceh, Indonesia / Shane Joshua Barter -- Vexed returns : Vietnamese returnee interactions with home and state / Ivan V. Small.
Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations
"Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the 'under-development syndrome', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations"--
In: Policy sciences: integrating knowledge and practice to advance human dignity, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 157-162
ISSN: 1573-0891
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 920-922
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: Politics, Economics, and inclusive Development
World Affairs Online
In: Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development
World Affairs Online
In: Politics, economics, and inclusive development
This book assesses the evolution of theories, doctrines, and practices in governance, economics, foreign assistance, civil society, and human security in developing countries since WWII, identifying progress and weaknesses. It points to how development approaches across these inter-connected areas can greatly enhance inclusive development.--
In: Politics, economics, and inclusive development
Economic development patterns and the evolution of violence in Latin America / William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya -- Violent conflict and unequal development : the case of Mexico / Judith Teichman -- The evolution of violence : economic development and intergroup conflict in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica / Gustavo Arcia -- Violence and sectoral development in Colombia / Jennifer S. Holmes and Sheila Amin Gutierrez de Piñeres -- On the brink of violence : work, fear, and the state in the Bolivian regions / William T. Barndt -- Sowing conflict in Venezuela : political violence and economic policy / Deborah L. Norden -- Education policy and conflict in Latin America : lessons from Chile and Venezuela / Emily K. Penner -- Economic exclusion and the shifting patterns of violence in Argentina and Brazil / Peter Kingstone
In: Politics, economics, and inclusive development
"The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa" explores how the development strategies of African nations shape the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence. The overview chapter assesses development doctrines, patterns of development, and levels and nature of violence in both North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on eleven countries, the case-study contributions explore the immediate and long-term impacts of development initiatives on reducing or increasing inter-group conflict and violence. They demonstrate the importance of evolving identities as economic roles and conditions change. These insights can guide policymakers, development professionals, and activists committed to conflict-sensitive development
In: Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development
In: Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development Ser.
This book combines overviews of the nature and causes of inter-group violence in North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa with a collection of country case studies. Both the overview chapter and the case studies trace how economic policy initiatives, and consequent changes in the roles and statuses of various groups, shape conflict or cooperation
In: Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development
In: Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development Ser.
Development Strategies, Identities, and Conflict in Asia explores the links between Asian governments' development strategies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence, analyzing variations in strategies and their impacts through broad comparative analyses, as well as case studies focused on eight countries.