Naomi Hossain (Institute of Development Studies at Research Fellow

The Aid Lab

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The volume explains why Bangladesh's achievements owe as much to its domestic political settlement as to its role as the world's aid lab.

Produktdetails

• Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780198785507
• ISBN-10: 019878550X
• Artikelnr.: 47866076

Autorenporträt

Naomi Hossain is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. She previously worked at BRAC's Research and Evaluation Division in Bangladesh, and led on BRAC University's first State of Governance in Bangladesh report in 2006. She now focuses on the popular politics of subsistence crises around the world, leading major studies on food riots and on everyday life in a time of food price volatility. She is the author of Elite Perceptions of Poverty in Bangladesh (2005; Dhaka: University Press Limited).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part 1: The Paradox
* 1: Bangladesh's Surprising Success
* 2: From Malthusia to the Bangladesh Paradox
* 3: The Elites, the Masses, and their Donors
* Part 2: The Basket Case
* 4: The Breaking of the Patriarchal Bargain and the Emergence of the
'Woman Issue'
* 5: 1974
* Part 3: The Test Case for Development
* 6: Never Again: The Long Shadow of Famine
* 7: Making Bangladeshis
* Part 4: The Bengal Tiger
* 8: Aerotropolitans and Cinderellas: Bangladeshis in the Global
Economy
* 9: What was Learned in the Aid Lab: Post-Malthusian Futures