- ISBN: 9780230000056 | 0230000053
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/15/2007
RENU KHATOR is a Professor of the Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida, USA. She is currently the Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of South Florida, USA. She has 5 authored, co-authored or edited book and over 60 articles and chapters in books and scholarly journals.
JORGE NEF is Professor in Rural Extension Studies and International Development at the University of Guelph, Canada, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean (ISLAC) at the University of South Florida, USA. His areas of research include human security, political economy, inter American relations, global studies and public policy. He is a current Vice President of the Canadian Society for the Study of International Development, a past President of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the recipient of many teaching awards and recognitions throughout his career, and inducted into the World Academy of Art and Science (2003).
List of Tables | p. viii |
Preface | p. ix |
Introduction: Managing Development in a Global Context | p. 1 |
Theoretical and Historical Perspectives | |
A History of Development and Development as History | p. 17 |
Development as a concept and as historical narrative | p. 17 |
International development: conservative versus critical predilections | p. 25 |
Globalization and the Transnationalization of the State | p. 32 |
Globalization | p. 32 |
The myth of the global society | p. 36 |
A backward glance at the future | p. 38 |
Poverty and Sustainable Livelihoods | p. 44 |
The nature of poverty | p. 44 |
The dimensions of poverty | p. 46 |
Poverty, distribution, and globalization | p. 49 |
The factors of poverty | p. 51 |
Governance and poverty | p. 52 |
Expansion, contraction, and poverty | p. 54 |
Poverty and indebtedness | p. 55 |
Poverty and unemployment | p. 58 |
The global economic regime | p. 59 |
Marginalization and Exclusion | p. 62 |
The double marginalization of women | p. 63 |
"Technologically challenged": the newly marginalized class | p. 68 |
India's call centers: a case study | p. 71 |
Social and political marginalization: the hidden multiplier | p. 74 |
Suggested policy actions | p. 75 |
Trade, Labor, and Human Rights in a Global Context | p. 80 |
Human rights and world trade | p. 85 |
Environmental obligations and world trade | p. 91 |
Institutional mechanisms to build congruity | p. 97 |
Contemporary Paradigms | |
The Transition from Development Administration to New Public Management: an Interpretative Exploration | p. 107 |
Introduction | p. 107 |
The historical legacy | p. 111 |
A comparative perspective | p. 116 |
The context of New Public Management | p. 118 |
The dynamics of reform: processes and effects | p. 122 |
Conclusions | p. 125 |
The Challenges of Sustainable Development | p. 134 |
The Western roots of the environmental crisis | p. 134 |
Exploitation of nature justified | p. 135 |
Ethics of moderate consumption reinforcing sustainable development in non-Western traditions | p. 137 |
The concept of Mother Earth | p. 139 |
Sustainable development: evolution of the paradigm, 1972-2002 | p. 139 |
1992: developing a meaningful discourse | p. 141 |
2002: forming the agenda | p. 142 |
Sustainable development and well-being | p. 144 |
Sustainable development as a policy paradigm | p. 145 |
Sustainable development: challenges and prospects | p. 148 |
Issues and Challenges | |
Global Challenges and Managerial Culture | p. 159 |
Culture and socialization | p. 160 |
Some traits of administrative culture | p. 163 |
The global challenges | p. 164 |
Inclusive and multicultural administration | p. 171 |
Globalization and administrative culture | p. 174 |
Signposts for the twenty-first century | p. 176 |
Democracy Governability, and Governance | p. 179 |
The ethical foundations of democratic governance | p. 180 |
Governance: good and otherwise | p. 183 |
Corruption and governance | p. 185 |
Deficit democracy and the state | p. 194 |
The Ethics of Development: Management in a Global Era | p. 202 |
Ethics and development | p. 202 |
Development and development theory | p. 204 |
Tradition and modernity in development theory | p. 211 |
Governance, management, and development ethics | p. 214 |
Management ethics in an interdependent world | p. 217 |
The Way Ahead | |
Some Reflections on the Well-being of Nations | p. 227 |
What is well-being? | p. 231 |
Spirituality and well-being | p. 232 |
Happiness and well-being | p. 233 |
Assessing the well-being of nations | p. 234 |
Good governance and well-being | p. 236 |
A framework for analysis and prescription | p. 237 |
Values and good governance | p. 238 |
Final observations and reflections | p. 240 |
Notes | p. 245 |
Index | p. 247 |
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