Development Policy and Public Action

by Wuyts, Marc; Mackintosh, Maureen; Hewitt, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780198773375
• ISBN10: 0198773374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-03-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book concentrates on the concept and changing role of the state in influencing Third World development and on the wider ramifications of various forms of public action. It examines the extent to which state action helps or hinders other forms of public action. The book deals with the recent changes in the concept of the State and the implications for public action, discussing the shift in mainstream theory from the "public" to "private" interest view of state action. It then scrutinizes case study material selected to illustrate and reinforce the theoretical frameworks of the first section. The case studies are mainly, but not exclusively, country-based and consider pertinent topics.

Table of Contents

Map of countries and major cities of the world
Introduction	p. 1
Public Need and Public Action
Deprivation and public need	p. 13
Children, abandonment and public action	p. 39
The State: A Crisis of Governance
Questioning the state	p. 61
Public office private gain: an experience	p. 91
Development from Below: Non-Governmental Action
Non-governmental organizations and the limits to empowerment	p. 117
Women's empowerment and public action: experiences from Latin America	p. 147
Structural Adjustment
Deprivation and structural adjustment	p. 175
Twentieth century free trade reform: food market deregulation in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia	p. 199
Policy as Process
Changing patterns of public action in socialist development: the Chinese decollectivization	p. 231
Social needs and public accountability: the case of Kerala	p. 253
Conclusion: development policy as process	p. 279
References	p. 286
List ofacronyms, abbreviations and organizations	p. 291
Acknowledgements	p. 292
Index	p. 294
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