Reinforcing Governance: Perspectives on Development, Poverty and Global Crises

Book published by P.I.E. Peter Lang (2012)

Throughout the world, development policies have made great strides toward addressing structural inequalities which have traditionally characterized and divided world regions. Nonetheless, many development ... [more ▼]

Throughout the world, development policies have made great strides toward addressing structural inequalities which have traditionally characterized and divided world regions. Nonetheless, many development challenges remain, in part because effective governance strategies are still evolving in local, national and global development systems. The global economic crisis of 2008‐2009 highlighted this fact as global leaders publicly declared the need for new forms of governance and economic regulation. This book examines poverty and development within the framework of recent global crises and governance with contributions from the 2010 Conference of the Consortium for Regional Integration and Social Cohesion keynote panels that focused in particular on concepts of fragility, development, vulnerability and democracy. [less ▲]