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Author Warne Peters, Rebecca, author.

Title Implementing inequality : the invisible labor of international development / Rebecca Warne Peters
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. DEVELOPMENT HIERARCHIES -- 2. DEVELOPMENT'S INPUTS AND OUTPUTS -- 3. REINFORCING HIERARCHIES -- 4. DESIGNING INTERVENTIONS FOR PEERS, NOT BENEFICIARIES -- 5. PARTNERSHIP AND THE DEVELOPMENT PRAXISCAPE -- CONCLUSION. Development without Borders -- APPENDIX. GGAP Logical Framework (Logframe) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary "Implementing Inequality argues that the international development industry's internal dynamics--between international and national staff, and among policy makers, administrators, and implementers--shape interventions and their outcomes as much as do the external dynamics of global political economy. Through an ethnographic study in postwar Angola, the book demonstrates how the industry's internal social pressures guide development's methods and goals, introducing the innovative concept of the development implementariat: those in-country workers, largely but not exclusively "local" staff members, charged with carrying out development's policy prescriptions. The implementariat is central to the development endeavor but remains overlooked and under-supported as most of its work is deeply social, interactive, and relational, the kind of work that receives less recognition and support than it deserves at every echelon of the industry. If international development is to meet its larger purpose, it must first address its internal inequalities of work and professional class."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Economic development -- Angola
Equality.
Globalization.
globalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Economic development
Economic history
Equality
Globalization
SUBJECT Angola -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Subject Angola
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781978809000
197880900X