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The Law of Development Cooperation : a Comparative Analysis of the World Bank, the EU and Germany.

This comparative study of rules governing development assistance asks how accountability, human rights and sovereignty are preserved while combating poverty.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dann, Philipp
Otros Autores: Hammel, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Alemán
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge international trade and economic law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; The Law of Development Cooperation; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Translators' Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Concept and context of development cooperation law; I. Development cooperation and the law: three layers of context; 1. A (very) brief history of development cooperation; 2. Alternative approaches to law and development; 3. The institutional turn in development studies; II. The law of development cooperation: a conceptual proposal; 1. The law of development cooperation as the law of ODA transfer; 2. The definition of ODA and the scope of inquiry.
  • 3. The political nature of development as reason for the ODA focusIII. Structure and approaches of this study; 1. Contextualization; 2. Principles; 3. Comparison; IV. A word of caution on the language of development; B On studying the law of development cooperation: challenges and chances; I. Challenges: reasons for the reluctance of lawyers; II. Chances: the promise of a legal regulation of development cooperation; Part I Institutional and intellectual history of development cooperation; 1 Formative years; A Emergence and improvisation (1945-1965).
  • I. World Bank: Bretton Woods, Wall Street, Washington1. Foundation and characteristics of the IBRD; 2. Decolonization and the creation of the IDA; II. The European Economic Community and the formative phase of European development assistance; 1. Motives, characteristics, and instruments: a development fund for associates; 2. Administrative structure: the Ferrandi System; III. Germany: indirect beginnings; 1. Motives for development policy? Everything but development; 2. First institutional structures and administrative principles.
  • IV. Development theory as modernization theory and principles of development assistance1. Modernization theory; 2. Early principles of development cooperation; V. Summary; B Breakthrough and contestation (1965-1975); I. Political and theoretical context: paradigm shift; 1. Developing countries in the UN and the NIEO; 2. Dependence theory and the basic-needs strategy; II. The World Bank: McNamara and the war on poverty; 1. Thematic reorientation: the goal of poverty reduction; 2. Administrative reforms: planning and specialization.
  • III. Germany: Eppler and the creation of an autonomous development policy1. Conceptualizing development policy; 2. Administrative reforms: portfolio acquisition and planning; IV. The European community: Cheysson and the promise of Lomé; 1. The new beginning of Lomé; 2. Development cooperation under Lomé; V. Summary; 2 Years of transformation; A Stagnation and instrumentalization (1975-1990); I. Political and theoretical context: revisions; 1. The end of the Third World and the beginning of fragile statehood; a) Heterogeneity; b) Fragile statehood.