Handbook of Development Policy

584 Pages·2021·4.256 MB·English

by  Habib Zafarullah (editor), Ahmed Shafiqul Huque (editor)

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This Handbook is dedicated to those engaged in conceiving, designing,
implementing, and evaluating development policies and to researchers,
practitioners and policy communities—all committed to augmenting human
wellbeing.

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Contents
List of editors and contributors xi
Preface xxi
Introduction: the panorama of development policy 1
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PART I EXPLORING THE FIELD
1 Development policy: ideas and practice 12
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2 Twenty-first-century horizons of development 25
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
3 Development policy and governance in the Global South: towards
a multilevel governance framework 35
Charles Conteh
4 Inclusive economic growth policies: myth vs reality 48
Anis Chowdhury
5 Addressing inequality: policy options in emerging and developing countries 68
Edward Anderson
6 Poverty and policy in the developing world: before and after the pandemic 79
M.G. Quibria
7 Human rights and development: policy perspectives 91
Bård A. Andreassen
8 Social networks, social capital and development 104
Manoj K. Shrestha
9 Development and the environment: the appalling story stated 115
Tony Lynch and Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan
10 Development ethics in policy and practice 126
Jay Drydyk and Lori Keleher
11 The development–environment nexus: promises and perils of global
governance 137
Shawkat Alam
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12 Sustainable Development Goals: framework and progress 147
Thomas Pogge
13 South–South cooperation, realpolitik and the changing global
aid architecture: exploring the role of Southern aid providers in
development cooperation 159
Fahimul Quadir
PART II DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
14 Gender and development policy 172
Janet Momsen
15 Rural development: the significance of agriculture and non-farm economy 182
Sosina Bezu
16 Infrastructure development governance: taking stock of emerging policy issues 192
Tharun Dolla and Boeing Laishram
17 Public–private partnerships in development policy: strategic and
infrastructure approaches 205
Lena Brogaard
18 Corruption as a development policy issue: an overview of contemporary
research and practice 215
Till Hartmann
19 International non-governmental organizations in development:
humanitarian contexts and ethical concerns 227
Gerard Clarke
20 Industrial policy in the twenty-first century: competing perspectives 238
Laurids S. Lauridsen
21 Social rights of citizenship: current problems and policy issues 249
Mehnaaz Momen
22 Refugees and humanitarian policy: development perspectives 259
Amanda Gray Meral and Veronique Barbelet
23 Microfinance and development: policy perspectives 271
Eva Terberger and Adalbert Winkler
24 International development volunteering as alternative public diplomacy 283
Rebecca Tiessen and Benjamin J. Lough
25 Global public health law: implications for development policy 293
George F. Tomossy
26 On the short- and long-run effects of social safety nets 302
Jorge Tovar
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27 Climate capitalism or carbon colonialism? The critical features of
climate change adaptation and mitigation policies 313
Nowrin Tabassum
PART III POLICY MECHANICS
28 Foundations for effective development policy 325
Mark Turner
29 Transnational policy networks and development 333
Kidjie Saguin and Michael Howlett
30 Network governance: implications for development 345
Patamawadee Jongruck and Panom Gunawong
31 Development aid and the ‘ownership’ principle in development policy 355
Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
32 Digital technologies and public policy: chasing human development 366
Raúl Zambrano
33 Development policy and impact evaluation: learning and accountability
in private sector development 378
Giel Ton
PART IV REGIONAL FOCUS
34 Monetary policy challenges in developing economies: focus on Asia 392
Syed M. Ahmed
35 Unequal citizenship and unequal outcomes: limits of education and
health policy innovations in Latin America 404
Claudia M. Díaz Ríos, Mathieu J.P. Poirier and Michelle L. Dion
36 Inclusive education: policies and practice in the small states of the Caribbean 416
Carel Hodge
37 Social policy development and its obstacles: an analysis of the South
Asian welfare geography during and after the ‘social turn’ 425
Gabriele Koehler, Stefan Kühner and Daniel Neff
38 Community-based forestry and development in Asia: policy issues 437
Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt
39 Tackling poverty and deprivation in Southeast Asia: policies,
performance and challenges 447
Noore Alam Siddiquee and Mohammad Hamiduzzaman
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PART V COUNTRY CASES
40 Physical infrastructure, the rural bureaucracy and the neoliberal
development project 462
Shelley Feldman
41 Medium-term development planning in Ghana: capacity constraints and
outcomes 473
James Kwame Mensah, Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain and
Anthony Sumnaya Kumasey
42 Patterns of combating corruption in Asia: evaluating the effectiveness
of the Anti-Corruption Commission in Bangladesh 485
Jon S.T. Quah
43 Pragmatic instrumentalization of policy learning: market transition,
changing welfare systems and state–third sector organization
relationships in China 497
Ka Ho Mok
44 Constructing knowledge: the case of secondary education governance
policies in Bangladesh 510
Subrata S. Dhar
45 Democratic decentralization and citizenship: exploring caste, Church
and capability in Kerala’s People’s Plan 521
Tamara Nair
46 Spatial justice, livelihood challenges and the urban poor in the Global
South: lessons from Bangladesh 532
Lutfun Nahar Lata and M. Adil Khan
Index 544
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Editors and contributors
EDITORS
Habib Zafarullah taught at the Universities of New England and Sydney (Australia) and
Dhaka (Bangladesh). His areas of academic interest are democratic governance, comparative
bureaucracy, public policy and administration, and international development, and he has
published extensively in these areas. Some of Dr Zafarullah’s (co-)authored and (co-)edited
books include: Colonial Bureaucracies (Universal Publishers, 2014), Managing Development
in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2012) and International Development Governance
(Routledge, 2006). He is currently an adjunct faculty at New England and served as the Chair
of the Public Policy Program there and as Professor and Chair in Public Administration at
Dhaka. He is the editor of the Journal of Governance, Security & Development.
Ahmed Shafiqul Huque is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster
University, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of governance, public policy and
administration, and development. Dr Huque is the co-author/co-editor of several books,
including Managing Development in a Globalized World (Routledge, 2012), International
Development Governance (Routledge, 2012), The Civil Service in Hong Kong (Hong Kong
University Press, 1998), Social Policy in Hong Kong (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1997) and
Public Administration in the NICs (Macmillan & St. Martin’s Press, 1996). He has served as
the Chair of the Department of Political Science at McMaster University and Associate Head
of the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong.
CONTRIBUTORS
Syed M. Ahmed is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Bill W. Burgess, Jr.
Business Research Center at Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA. He is also the
Lawton Independent Insurance Agents Endowed Chair in Business. He serves as the editor
of Southwest Business & Economics Journal, a peer-reviewed journal. He earned a PhD in
Economics from Simon Fraser University, Canada. He has published articles in numerous
refereed journals.
Shawkat Alam, PhD, is Professor of Law and Director of International Engagement at
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on the opportunities and
challenges faced by developing economies to achieve sustainable development by examining
international and national legal, institutional and policy frameworks. Professor Alam is the
author of Sustainable Development and Free Trade (Routledge, 2012) and has co-edited
several books, including International Environmental Law and the Global South (Cambridge
University Press, 2015).
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Edward Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and International Development at the
School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK. His research interests lie
in the areas of globalization, income inequality and foreign aid. He received his PhD from the
University of Sussex, UK in 2002.
Bård A. Andreassen is Professor and Director of Research at the Norwegian Centre for
Human Rights, University of Oslo. Bård has published widely on human rights subjects,
including poverty, governance, civil society, business and human rights, and ethnic conflict
in Africa. His most recent book is Research Methods in Human Rights: A Handbook (with
Hans-Otto Sano and Siobhán MacInerney-Lankford, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017).
Veronique Barbelet is a Senior Research Fellow with the Humanitarian Policy Group at the
Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, UK. Veronique has conducted research on
refugee livelihoods in protracted displacement, the Jordan Compact, the Rohingya refugee
situation in Bangladesh and the Global Compact on Refugees. Previously, she worked at the
World Food Programme as a protection policy officer. Veronique holds a PhD in Politics from
the University of York (UK).
Justice Nyigmah Bawole is a Professor of Public Administration and Management and the
Dean of the University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Accra. He obtained his PhD in
Development Policy and Management from the Global Development Institute, University of
Manchester, UK. He has over 60 publications and has presented academic papers at a number
of international academic conferences. In addition, he has consulted for local and international
organizations.
Sosina Bezu is a Senior Researcher at Ryerson University, Canada. She holds a PhD in
Economics from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and specializes in development
economics and applied econometrics. She has published in Global Environmental Change,
Journal of Development Studies, World Development, Land Policy, Food Policy and Journal
of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Prior to her current position, she held a Senior
Researcher position at Chr. Michelsen Institute (Norway).
Lena Brogaard is an Associate Professor in Public Administration and Politics at Roskilde
University, Denmark. Her main areas of research are public–private collaboration and con-
tracting out within different policy sectors such as development, eldercare and healthcare.
Her research especially focuses on governance, innovation and on how organizational and
individual factors influence different types of outcomes in contracting out and partnerships.
Anis Chowdhury is Adjunct Professor of Economics, Western Sydney University and
University of New South Wales (Canberra campus), Australia. He served as a senior official
at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA, New York) and the United
Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP, Bangkok).
Prior to joining the United Nations, he was Professor of Economics at Western Sydney
University. He was founder chief editor of Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, where he now
serves as a co-editor. He has published widely on macroeconomic policies.
Gerard Clarke is Associate Professor in Politics and International Development at Swansea
University (UK). He specializes in the study of civil society and civil society organizations
in international development. He has undertaken research on the role of civil society organ-
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izations in local, national and global contexts and consultancy for multilateral, bilateral
and non-governmental organizations. He is the author of Civil Society in the Philippines:
Theoretical, Methodological and Policy Debates (Routledge, 2013).
Charles Conteh is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University,
Ontario, Canada. He is also the Director of the Niagara Community Observatory (NCO),
a public policy think tank. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of comparative
public policy, public management, political economy and governance in developing and
industrialized countries.
Subrata S. Dhar is a Senior Education Specialist at the Global Partnership for Education
(GPE), Washington, DC, USA, and Country Team Lead for programmes in Armenia,
Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. He taught at Dhaka University, Bangladesh and has
been a development practitioner for the last 24 years, working on education reform in Asian
and African countries. He has PhDs in Education and Political Science from the Universities
of New England (Australia) and Hawaii (USA).
Claudia M. Díaz Ríos, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership,
Higher and Adult Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies on Education at the University
of Toronto, Canada, where she specializes in comparative education, education policy, and
school change. She has published on the politics of the governance of secondary education and
the effects of education policy in Latin America.
Michelle L. Dion, PhD, is a Professor of Political Science and holds the Senator William
McMaster Chair in Gender & Methodology at McMaster University, Canada. She has pub-
lished on the political economy and public opinion of policy reform, particularly in Latin
America. Her research has appeared in Comparative Politics, International Studies Quarterly,
Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American
Research Review, among others.
Tharun Dolla, PhD, is a Research Associate in the Department of Civil Engineering at the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India. He holds a Doctorate in Infrastructure
Engineering and Management from IIT Guwahati. He has worked on various research assign-
ments and projects, including funding agencies such as the Human Settlement Management
Institute, HUDCO, New Delhi. His research interests include infrastructure delivery models,
infrastructure sustainability, governance and smart cities. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) UK and Indian Roads Congress.
Jay Drydyk is a Canadian philosopher whose publications include Displacement by
Development: Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities (Cambridge University Press, 2011),
Human Rights: India and the West (Oxford University Press, 2015), Theorizing Justice:
Critical Insights and Future Directions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and the 2019 Routledge
Handbook of Development Ethics. A Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University (Canada),
he has served as President of the International Development Ethics Association and President
of the Human Development and Capability Association.
Shelley Feldman is currently Senior Fellow, Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwis-
senschaftliche Studien, Universität Erfurt, Germany, and from 1984 to 2016 was International
Professor, Cornell University, USA. Her research focuses on economic and social restruc-
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