Pub Date : 2021-03-30DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1907785
Paul Umfreville, C. Bonnin
Abstract Social enterprise is a maturing area of activity within the development sector, and in Vietnam the sector has expanded significantly over the last thirty years, providing social services to communities and individuals experiencing socio-economic exclusion. Initially growing in a legislative vacuum, social enterprise currently appears to be flourishing following recognition by the state. However, the sector now faces new challenges as it matures. With Vietnam’s attainment of middle-income status, the international development funding previously available is now limited and the focus is on capacity and viability. Based on findings from interviews with representatives from a wide range of social enterprises and support organizations we explore the challenges and opportunities for future development, finding that there continues to be significant opportunity for both the augmentation of the sector and its impact. Through analysing the influence of a changing international development environment on evolving government policy, we provide new insights into the thoughts and perceptions of social enterprise sector practitioners. Recognizing that policy change has not resulted in effective local implementation, we suggest that government action is now needed to fill that gap, by supporting new start-ups, prospective social enterprises, and those established enterprises which are striving for viability and increased impact.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-29DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1903546
J. S. Mah
Abstract This paper examines whether Ghana's continuing reliance on primary products has contributed to its economic growth and such economic growth would be sustained in the long run. It shows that Ghana's economic growth since the 1990s can be attributed to a series of fortunes and heavy reliance on a few primary products will not lead to a sustainable development. The experience of Ghana provides important policy implications. Structural reforms, such as a well-designed industrial policy, would be needed for the long run economic development. For Ghana, industrialization did not progress since the 1980s. The infrastructure could not support the manufacturing development and the tertiary level education is not appropriate, particularly in science and engineering. Focusing on selected industrial estates would be meaningful in light of the limited resources. It is needed to prepare a stable supply of electricity and to reduce an exchange rate volatility. A modification of tariff structure depending on the stages of processing and an active utilization of export incentive schemes would be helpful. The government is to pay attention to a further development of the agro-processing industry, textiles and garments industry, aluminum production and the petrochemical industry.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-27DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1898464
E. Botlhale
Abstract To maximise social and economic welfare, governments need sufficient and diversified revenues. Due to global interconnectedness, public revenues are susceptible to macro shocks such as global financial crises and global health pandemics (e.g. COVID-19). Susceptibility to crises and pandemics necessitates revenue diversification, mainly, in mono-cultural economies such as Botswana. So, this paper aims to discuss revenue diversification initiatives in Botswana during crisis times. The paper, based on interpretivism, used the qualitative case study approach. Since it is a desktop study, it used secondary data sources. The paper concluded that the quest for public revenue diversification is yet to bear fruit, hence, an evaluation is impossible for now. The foregoing conclusion notwithstanding, the general lesson from the Botswana case is that public revenue diversification is imperative, particularly given post-2007 and COVID-19 fiscal strictures. Finally, revenue diversification does not happen in a vacuum. Therefore, it must be girded in public financial management reforms.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1893808
Asif Iqbal Dawar, M. F. Ferreira
Abstract In the post-military operation scenario, the government of Pakistan (GoP) has launched reconstruction interventions under the notion of ‘build back better and smarter’. This article critically evaluates the reconstruction efforts (2015–2019) using local perceptions to attest as to what extent reconstruction interventions have been participatory and how they have been received by local communities in terms of their contextual needs. Primary data was collected during 2017–2019 in North Waziristan (NW) through semi-structured interviews, informal discussions and participant observation with local and key respondents. The study found that although interventions were designed predominantly to improve development outcomes and build connections between local community and the state, the ‘state-security first’ paradigm reigns over the ‘positive security’ of the affected population. Interventions were centrally planned without proper participation or even taking into account local needs and grievances. The article argues that instead post-conflict reconstruction policies and practices should focus on well-assessed micro-needs, confidence-building approaches and the participation of local communities in order to achieve the desired goals of positive security and sustainable development.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-29DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1872699
Aviram Sharma
Abstract Developmental actors are pushing the diffusion of solar powered irrigation technologies using different technology diffusion models in resource-constrained, underdeveloped agrarian regions of the Global South. Among the varied models, the hybrid model of technology diffusion and environmental governance has gained a lot of traction and support among the technology promoters in recent years. In this article, we analyse two cases of hybrid environmental governance employed for the diffusion of solar powered irrigation technologies in rural Bihar, India. The promoters of solar powered irrigation technologies wish to achieve environmental sustainability, enhance farmers income and mitigate climate change through promoting renewable-based technologies. The top-down framing of technology and environment in hybrid environmental models often uncritically negates the place-based embedded experiences of end-users and non-users. The paper argues that the role of end-users and non-users in hybrid environmental governance need to be understood using the bottom-up approach. The paper makes a case for acknowledging and incorporating the views and environmental subjectivities of end-users and non-users while planning developmental interventions. The paper ends up suggesting a few policy-relevant suggestions for hybrid models of technology and environmental governance.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-17DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1872698
V. Arkorful, B. Lugu, Anastasia Hammond, Ibrahim Basiru
Abstract The wind of change that swept across the African continent and other developing countries ensuingly engendered the need to institute measures that would bring government to the people’s doorstep. This led to the prioritization and touting of decentralization. Against the backdrop of the proximate reason to accelerate public access to government, the express expectation was that a germane space would be created to enhance participation. However, the validity of this postulation is yet to be realized. The study, therefore, set out to examine the relationship between decentralization and people’s participation, with the mediating role of trust and transparency. Results of data analysis (561 respondents), using the structural equation modelling technique, established not only the appropriateness of the proposed study model, but also, the imperativeness of the trust and transparency to decentralization and participation. The implications of the study are delineated for effective policy and practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-14DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1867889
T. Eskelinen
Abstract The article analyses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the perspective of their self-understanding of political sense expressed in key SDG documents, including both UN documents and reports produced by individual countries. Utopia and governance are presented as ideal-typical approaches and analytical tools for qualitative content analysis. This approach is argued to be particularly illuminating in the case of politics of international development, as international development is simultaneously highly utopian and deeply embedded in rationalities of governance. As this analytical framework is applied to the SDGs, it is shown that their utopian pronouncements are related to the idea of humanity as a single subject, as well as inclusive prosperity. On the other hand, the SDGs are curtailed by adherence to the ideas of contemporary governance, the international order and given ideas of development economics. The findings and the methodology are then further discussed in the broader context of international development.
摘要本文从可持续发展目标(Sustainable Development Goals, SDG)关键文件(包括联合国文件和各国报告)中所表达的政治意义的自我理解角度来分析SDG。乌托邦和治理被呈现为理想的典型方法和定性内容分析的分析工具。这种方法被认为在国际发展政治的情况下特别具有启发性，因为国际发展同时是高度乌托邦的，并深深植根于治理的理性。当这一分析框架应用于可持续发展目标时，我们发现，它们的乌托邦宣言与人类作为单一主体的理念以及包容性繁荣有关。另一方面，可持续发展目标受制于当代治理理念、国际秩序和既定的发展经济学理念。然后在更广泛的国际发展背景下进一步讨论调查结果和方法。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1832569
Celina Myrann Sørbøe
Abstract This article uses an urban upgrading programme (PAC Favela) as a lens for examining the contextual dynamics and forms of neoliberal urban development in pre-Olympic Rio de Janeiro. Critical scholarship has contended that Rio’s entrepreneurial governance and mega-event induced state of exception pushed forward a neoliberal urban agenda. While not rejecting this overarching narrative, the present article argues that this tendency was shaped by contextual politics at different scales, producing variegated forms of urban development. At the federal level, urban policy and practice under lulismo – the political ideology characterizing the 2002–2016 Workers’ Party governments – was marked by an ambition to achieve both social and economic transformation. The PAC Growth Acceleration Programme’s investments in favela upgrading were emblematic of this ambition. Through a multi-scalar case study of the social and economic interests and actors at the community, state and federal levels that engaged with PAC in the Rocinha favela in Rio, the article shows that PAC’s interventions were the outcome of contentions and confluences between citizen- and market-centred urban agendas. While the balance gradually shifted in favour of the market-centred, neoliberal agenda, outcomes should still be seen as inherently hybrid. On the one hand, the case of PAC in Rocinha presents a perspective ‘from below’ and important insights into the contested and contradictory nature of urban transformation in pre-Olympic Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore, it illustrates the necessity for contextual analyses of perceived de-politicized neoliberal entrepreneurial urban governance and development.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2020.1858954
Jill Tove Buseth
Abstract This paper discusses how persisting, powerful narratives inform and shape the green economy in the Global South. Green economy strategies often evolve around market-based and technological solutions to the planetary crises, particularly in industrialized countries. In developing countries with rich resource bases, however, green transitions often imply various forms of modernization of the ways in which natural resources are managed, utilized and controlled. This, I argue, is a result of the process in which the green economy agenda is shaped by elites through narratives that feed into and inform green economy discourses and policies in resource-rich countries in the Global South. While much literature discusses variegated green economy schemes in the Global South and their outcomes, this paper discusses how these practices and policies are driven by powerful narratives that essentially shape green economy agendas. I argue that a persisting neo-Malthusian narrative of resource scarcity, degradation and overpopulation co-exists with a resource abundance narrative, holding that pristine natural resources are vast, but under threat, and that capital, ‘know-how’ and technology can protect and develop these resources while at the same time accumulate economic growth. As a result, the green economy in the Global South is often narrated and implemented under a discourse of modernization of natural resource management.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/08039410.2021.1885182
M. Bøås
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