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Reflexivity and Development Economics This page intentionally left blank Reflexivity and Development Economics Methodology, Policy and Practice Daniel Gay ©DanielGay2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-22016-4 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2009by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-30569-8 ISBN 978-0-230-25059-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230250598 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 To Jance and Alan This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFiguresandTables ix Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction 1 Part I 2 BeyondModernismandPostmodernism 13 2.1 Introduction 13 2.2 Areviewofmodernismandpostmodernism 14 2.3 Open-systemsapproaches 21 2.4 Conclusion 37 3 TheoriesofReflexivity 40 3.1 Introduction 40 3.2 Reflexivityandanthropology 41 3.3 PierreBourdieu 44 3.4 Thesociologyofscientificknowledge 50 3.5 Reflexivityandmodernity 52 3.6 Conclusion 56 4 ReflexivityandDevelopmentEconomics 59 4.1 Introduction 59 4.2 TheWashingtonConsensusandafter 60 4.3 ThemodernismoftheWashingtonConsensus 64 4.4 Othertheories 66 4.5 Whyreflexivitymatters 83 4.6 Ataxonomyofreflexivedevelopmentpractice 87 4.7 Conclusion 95 Part II 5 IntroductiontotheCaseStudies 101 vii viii Contents 6 Vanuatu:TheAnti-CrusoeEconomy 108 6.1 Introduction 108 6.2 Theinfluenceofexternalvaluesandnorms 110 6.3 Theimportanceoflocalcontext 125 6.4 Howeconomictools,conceptsandpolicies affectedthemselves 128 6.5 Therevisionoftheoryascircumstanceschanged 133 6.6 Conclusion 139 Appendix1:SummaryofhowtheComprehensiveReform Programme(CRP)inVanuaturelatedtothe10pointsof theWashingtonConsensus 142 Summary 145 7 Singapore:TheLionizedCity 146 7.1 Introduction 146 7.2 Theinfluenceofexternalvaluesandnorms 148 7.3 Theimportanceoflocalcontext 156 7.4 Howeconomictools,conceptsandpolicies affectedthemselves 162 7.5 Therevisionoftheoryascircumstanceschanged 167 7.6 Conclusion 170 Appendix2:SummaryofhowSingaporeandevelopment policiesrelatetothe10pointsoftheWashington Consensus 173 Summary 177 8 Comparisons 179 8.1 Introduction 179 8.2 AcomparisonofSingaporeandVanuatu 179 8.3 Lessons 185 8.4 Conclusion 189 9 Conclusions 192 Notes 198 Bibliography 204 Index 217 List of Figures and Tables Figures 6.1 VanuaturealGDPgrowthandpercapitaGDP,1997–2005 117 6.2 Vanuatupublicdebt,millionvatu,1980–2005 124 6.3 Vanuatudebtservicing,millionvatu,1997–2012 125 7.1 SingaporeGDPgrowthrateandUS$percapitaGDP, 1960–2004 147 7.2 Singaporeexternaldebt,1984–2004 154 Tables 6.1 Vanuatutradetrends,millionvatu,1983–2005 111 6.2 VanuatuBalanceofPayments2004–5,VTmillion 112 6.3 AsianDevelopmentBankloanstoVanuatu,US$million 123 7.1 Balanceofpayments,1965–95,millionSingaporedollars 150 7.2 Percentagechangeinrealwagesandproductivity, Singapore,1992–2003 165 ix
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