177
i n d e x
embeddedness, 138; global, 93
social sectors, PRSP allocation, 56
social theory: neoliberal, 62;
pragmatist, 27
society, as aggregation of individual
preferences, 66
South Africa, liberation elections, 48
Southeast Asia, 1990s debt crisis, 8
stakeholding, 120
standards agencies, 23
state marketing boards, removal, 84, 99
state(s), 32, 78; aid-dependent, 148;
authoritarian structures, 99, 115;
coercive element, 98; concentration
of power, 98; financial management
systems, 104; indebtedness, 87, 139;
liberalisation management, 91;
material fragility, 61; modelling, 97;
post-colonial histories, 12;
reconstruction of, 119; rolling back
of, 36, 64, 84; specific properties
of, 67
state-owned companies, strategic
selling of, 140
Stiglitz, Joseph, 67–8
structural adjustment programmes, 33,
38–9, 42, 84, 89–90, 102; credit
lines negotiation, 99; elite
responses to, 47; modified, 41;
Museveni adoption, 140; profusion,
83; social support funds, 64
subregional integration, 15
subsistence farmers, 7
Sudan, minerals and civil conflict, 10
sugar, 12
supermarkets, power of, 9
Szeftel, M., 88
Tangri, R., 141
Tanzania, 33, 53, 89, 111, 116, 120, 122,
129; Accountability, Transparency,
and Integrity, 113; budget
management, 112; Chama Cha
Mapinduzi party, 133; corruption,
137; decentralisation, 132; electricity
privatisation, 141; ‘good reformer’,
125; governance reforms, 124; HIPC
status, 43; nationalist
developmentalism, 130; post-
colonial history, 131; presidential
successions, 106–7; project
management, 121; Public Sector
Reform, 104; structural adjustment
price explosion, 100
Tanzania Women’s Association, 137
tariff reduction, 84
tax bases, slender, 7
technical assistance, expatriate, 53,
108; policy discourse, 51
Thailand, debt-to-export ratio, 8
Thatcher, Margaret, 20, 81
‘the political’, shaping of, 53
‘there is no alternative’, 24, 81
Therkildsen, O., 111
‘Third World’, 94
trade, liberalisation, 13; policy, 84
tragedies of the commons, 65
transparency, 55, 103–4
TRIMs and TRIPS, World Trade
Organization, 92
‘two constituencies’, 47–8
Uganda, 50, 53, 104, 107, 116, 120, 145;
budget management, 112; civil
service reform, 114; DRC
plundering, 141; HIPC status, 43;
neoliberal reform, 140; public
spending ODA reliance, 54; World
Bank retrenchment, 100
UN (United Nations): agencies, 79;
Commission on Trade and
Development, 94, 96; Covenants,
94; ‘development decade’, 94;
UNESCO USA exit, 95
uncertainty, production of, 70
universal progressivism, 73
universality, neoliberal image of, 117
urban–rural, reified distinctions
between, 7
USA (United States of America), 13,
79, 90, 108, 145; monetarism use,
87; neoliberal practices, 116; 1979
interest rate rise, 88; Republican
Party, 20; Treasury, 8; UNESCO
exit, 95
user fees, 85; health and education, 41;
water, 55
value-neutral, claims of, 31
Verba, S., 52
voucher provision, 102
Wade, Robert, 92
Ward, K., 28