Betrayed: Politics, Power, and Prosperity

300 Pages·2013·2.051 MB·English

by  Seth D. Kaplan (auth.)

Betrayed
Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development
Betrayed
Politics, Power, and Prosperity
Seth D. Kaplan
betrayed: politics, power, and prosperity
Copyright © Seth D. Kaplan, 2013.
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DOI 10.1057/9781137341808
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kaplan, Seth D.
Betrayed : politics, power, and prosperity / Seth D. Kaplan.
pages cm
1 . Poverty—Developing countries. 2. Economic development—Political aspects—
Developing countries. 3. Equality—Developing countries. I. Title.
HC59.72.P6K365 2013
339.4'6091724—dc23 2013020508
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Contents
List of Tables and Figures ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv
Part I: An Old Problem
1 The Same Species, the Same Dreams 3
2 The Blame Game 9
3 Who Are the Poor? 19
4 Why Are They Poor? 37
5 Breaking Out 57
Part II: A New Agenda
6 Self-Belief and Power 69
7 Building Support for an Inclusive Agenda 83
8 Constructing a More Effective State 101
9 Getting to a Workable Scale 123
10 Enhancing Opportunity 143
11 Enlarging Markets, Spreading Wealth 165
Part III: A Plan of Action
12 Leading Change from Within 187
13 What Role for Foreign Aid? 205
14 Putting It All Together 229
Notes 247
Index 277
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List of Tables and Figures
Figure 3.1: The World According to the Human
Development Index, 2011 21
Figure 3.2: Number of People in Poverty, 1981–2008 23
Figure 3.3: Percentage of Population Living on Less than $1.25
a Day, 2007–2008 25
Figure 3.4: Number of Poor on $1.25 per day, 2008 27
Figure 3.5: Number of Poor on $2.50 per day, 2008 27
Figure 4.1: The Empowering Tree 38
Table 4.1: Macro and Micro Characteristics of Poverty 40
Table 4.2: Social Exclusion Processes 46
Figure 5.1: World Literacy Map, 2007–2008 60
Figure 5.2: Ease of Doing Business Index 2009 61
Figure 8.1: Pyramid of Governance Priorities 109
Figure 9.1: Democratic Republic of the Congo, National Languages 125
Figure 9.2: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Population Distribution 126
Figure 9.3: West African Regional Organizations 137
Table 10.1: Livelihood Factors: Opportunity Enhancers,
Risk Reducers, and Connectors 146
Figure 11.1: Checkpoints on West African Transport Corridors 169
Figure 12.1: The Virtuous Circle of Empowerment 190
Figure 13.1: The Foreign Aid Contradiction 210
Table 13.1: Comparison of Two Aid Paradigms 217