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171189
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In this article, drawing on the work of the development sociologist Norman Long, I make the case for an actor-oriented approach to understanding the ‘turn to religion’ by global aid actors over the past couple of decades. I ask, is the ‘turn to religion’ evidence of the emergence of post-secular partnerships or are faith actors being instrumentalized to serve neo-liberal development goals? I argue that neither option captures the whole story and advocate that the study of religion and development needs to move beyond a binary between the ‘turn to religion’ as either evidence of post-secular partnerships or of the ‘instrumentalization’ of religion by the secular global aid business, and instead to think about how faith actors themselves encounter and shape development discourses and frameworks, translate them into relevant formats and strategically employ them. Alongside the adoption of an actor-orientated approach, I build on the work of Lewis and Mosse, Olivier de Sardan and Bierschenk to view international faith-based organizations (IFBOs) as development brokers and translators. This approach allows me to articulate the distinctive role that many members of IFBOs report they play as intermediaries who shift register between the secular development language and the faith-inspired language of their local faith partners. I take the engagement of faith actors with the new Sustainable Development Goals framework as a case-study to explore this.
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132379
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2014.
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This paper discusses the anti-corruption regime of the World Bank and the processes of mainstreaming good governance and anti-corruption programmes in the core functions of the Bank. The major question that the paper answers: how effective the World Bank is in combating corruption in the context of its global aid regime. The paper describes the effectiveness as it is measured by the existing indicators of the World Bank's performance appraisal set by the Bank and other critical secondary literatures. The sequence of the paper is: first it describes the World Bank's approach to combating corruption and the different anti-corruption initiatives of the Bank and its institutional framework to fight corruption in the recipient countries. It then analyses the mainstreaming of anticorruption considerations into the Bank's operational framework. This discussion also deals with the country specific experiences of the World Bank in promoting anti-corruption and good governance measures. Finally, the paper explains the major challenges that the World Bank experiences in implementing its anticorruption regime. Although the Bank has achieved significantly in combating corruption, the investigation through this paper reflects the fact that the Bank fails to address the political consequences of combating corruption in some cases. The Bank has failed to create a long-term political commitment among the recipient countries to fight corruption in exchange for Bank's development assistance. The paper suggests that the Bank should focus more on protecting the integrity of its development funds and plan long-term anti-corruption policy measures, thereby utilising funds properly in reducing corruption.
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093212
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2010.
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International development assistance has in effect been assigned a new grand purpose: managing interdependencies in a globalized world.
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