Tan, Celine (2011) The new biopower : poverty reduction strategy papers and the obfuscation of international collective responsibility. Third World Quarterly, 32 (6). pp. 1039-1056. doi:10.1080/01436597.2011.584720 ISSN 0143-6597.

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Abstract

As successors to structural adjustment programmes, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (prsps) were introduced in 1999 as preconditions for World Bank and imf concessional financing and for debt relief. prsps now serve as the basis of negotiations for a variety of development financing and have influenced the design of other aid instruments. This paper considers the impact of the prsp framework on the constitution of global economic governance, in particular its effect in foreclosing possibilities for a radical revision of the rules and institutions of international economic law. The paper argues that the prsp project not only reframes fundamental tenets of international co-operation and global communal responsibility but also establishes a new disciplinary framework for Third World state engagement with the global economy and the international law which sustains it. In this way the discourse and methods of resistance against the injustices of the international order have been appropriated to distil such dissent through qualified operationalising of contestable notions of ‘participation’, ‘ownership’, ‘partnership’ and ‘poverty reduction’, disabling the resurgence of any form of emancipatory politics in the international economic order, whether through a state-led nieo-style revival or cosmopolitan social movement.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions J Political Science > JX International law
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Management, Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Evaluation, Debt relief -- Law and legislation -- Research, Law and economic development
Journal or Publication Title:	Third World Quarterly
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0143-6597
Official Date:	27 June 2011
Dates:	Date Event 27 June 2011 Published
Volume:	32
Number:	6
Page Range:	pp. 1039-1056
DOI:	10.1080/01436597.2011.584720
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit:	23 May 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access:	23 May 2016

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