SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Washington Consensus, Civil Society, World Bank
12 Apr 2013
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(7-10pm) sunday april 14th tentative exam date. States, market and civil society (they all have their own views and aspirtaions on how economic and social dev can take place) Civil society reservoir, act as a watch dog role in keeping track of govt transparity and govt policies, relieve states from financial probalems, Market are the main agent for econ dev. A) that need some regulation of markets. B) that civil society should play some role in dev. New dev language:- bottom up or grassroot dev, participation, social capital and empowerment, good governance are imp in international dev. World bank and imf speak in the language of these grass roots ( language of civil society) It sounds great but in reality it does not provide much, Social movements have tried to make sure that these changed occur at an international level but in reality it does not happen so often.
