Conditionality or contract: perspectives on partnership for development

Maxwell, Simon; Riddell, Roger C.

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“…States of the region have deepened their dependency on financial and development institutions which have concurrently revised their polices to accommodate global security concerns-a process intimately connected to the liberal peace often described as the 'security -development' interface. 52 Indonesia has been hard hit in the face of these challenges, particularly following the Asian financial crisis, early post Cold War reconfigurations, and the effects of the Tsunami-all of which have been complicated by the rise of translocal security threats.…”

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Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance

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Barker

2012

Globalizations

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It is necessary to move beyond the marginalization of the global South towards a perspective that takes it as a relational, generative, and agentive site within world politics. Indonesia is an instructive case in this regard: its participation in various multilateral peace projects constitutes a narrative of Southern agency that runs counter to dominant accounts of contemporary global governance. The dominant methodologies of peacekeeping, worked out through various iterations into a project of liberal governance, have been deeply implicated in many sets of illiberal relations. This illiberal side to the 'liberal peace' can be seen in the ways particular North -South relations have been structured into peace governance, as well as its instrumentalization by powerful domestic elements of Southern states. This is well exemplified by the Indonesian case, whose postcolonial transitions have been caught up in problematic civil -military relations, with both its governments and armed forces deriving various types of support from the international community at various times. Following the Cold War, and especially post-Suharto, these have intertwined with matters of ethno-religious violence, military authority, democratization, and the rise of political Islam. Indonesia's participation in global liberal governance interventions raises questions about peace operations as a world-ordering technology.Analyses of Southern states in global governance remain largely undeveloped, especially regarding their roles in security relations. 1 Dominant accounts treat the global North -South in binary rather than relational terms, obscuring the many complex agencies that underpin international

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Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance

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Barker

2012

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“…5. While there has been extensive criticism of the practice of using high discount rates in relation to environmental issues (see Cline, 1993;Price, 1993;Potts, 1994;Livingstone and Tribe, 1995;Kula, 1997); the literature on aid concessionality has tended to focus on issues such as tying of aid and conditionality (see Morrissey and White, 1996;Killick, 1997;White and Morrissey, 1997;Morrissey, 1998;Maxwell and Riddell, 1998;Leandro and Schafer, 1999;Morrissey, 2002;White, 2002) and has generally not challenged the underlying assumption that the discount rate to be used in calculating How Concessional is Aid Lending? 1033 concessionality should be 10 per cent.…”

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“…Nevertheless, tying of aid does remain an issue for some donors and ways of taking account of its impact are considered in this paper. The potential cost of policy conditionality remains an important issue (Killick, 1997;White and Morrissey, 1997;Maxwell and Riddell, 1998;Leandro et al, 1999;Hermes and Lensink, 2001;Morrissey, 2002) but, at least there is now some recognition of the importance of 1024 D. Potts & W.Y. Chung ensuring that development assistance is delivered in accordance with partner country priorities including poverty reduction strategies and similar approaches, and that harmonisation efforts are adapted to the country context.…”

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How Concessional is Aid Lending?

Potts

Chung

2008

The Journal of Development Studies

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The method used by Development Assistance Committee countries for measuring the concessionality of aid loans has remained unchanged for nearly 20 years. It was designed to measure the net cost of aid to donors not the net benefit to recipients. The discount rate used takes no account of changes in the value of the currency of the loan or of changes in prices for goods traded by recipient countries. Furthermore, it does not consider the implications of tying of aid or of policy conditionality. This paper suggests an alternative measure that shows the real net benefit of aid finance to recipients. It argues that the discount rate used by the Development Assistance Committee is too high and that changes in the value of the currency in which a loan is taken out can be important. Nevertheless, real rates of interest for developing countries remain surprisingly high despite low nominal rates due to falling prices of traded goods. This finding has implications for the future real cost of debt service to recipients.

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“…Donor countries have expectations of their developing country partners, such as good governance, and also control the real flow of resources and concessions, for example aid and trade access. In these circumstances, the relationship is most easily understood as one of 'asymmetric accountability' (Maxwell and Riddell, 1998).…”

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Heaven or Hubris: Reflections on the New ‘New Poverty Agenda’

Maxwell¹

2003

Development Policy Review

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Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood Upon our side, we who were strong in poverty reduction! Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive But to be a poverty planner was very heaven! (after William Wordsworth) Wordsworth, above and as amended, has it absolutely right: poverty planning is on a roll. This is because a new construction has been put in place that locks together five elements of new thinking about the subject. The five elements are:(i) the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with poverty reduction at their heart; (ii) international consensus on how to reduce poverty, best summarised in the World Bank's World Development Report 2000/1: Attacking Poverty; (iii) a mechanism for operationalising the strategy at country level, in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers; * Director, Overseas Development Institute and President, Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland (s.maxwell@odi.org.uk). This article has grown out of lectures for: RAWOO in The Hague; Von Hugel Institute, Cambridge; LSE; the Development Studies Association, Manchester; Royal Holloway College, University of London; and International Training Centre, ILO, Turin. Thanks are due to participants for insights and advice; also to John Roberts for comments. The article draws on earlier papers dealing with different aspects of the new construction

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Conditionality or contract: perspectives on partnership for development

Cited by 49 publications

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Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance

Indonesia and the Liberal Peace: Recovering Southern Agency in Global Governance

How Concessional is Aid Lending?

Heaven or Hubris: Reflections on the New ‘New Poverty Agenda’

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