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Constructing Development - Civil Society and Literacy in a Time of Globalization
of: Bjorn Harald Nordtveit
Springer-Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 9789048122356 , 172 Pages
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Constructing Development - Civil Society and Literacy in a Time of Globalization
Contents
6
Acronyms
8
List of Figures
10
List of Tables
11
Prelude
12
A Sense of Development
19
1.1 Development Discourses
20
1.2 The World Bank, Ideology, and Globalization
23
1.3 West Africa and Senegal
28
1.4 A World Bank School System?
30
1.5 A Case Study: The Women’s Literacy Project
33
Conservative Economic Policies
36
2.1 A Conservative Discourse
37
2.2 Creation of a Policy
44
2.3 Creation of a Project
49
2.4 Why the World BankWas Involved
56
Civil Society, Women, Illiteracy
65
3.1 Old and New Discourses on Civil Society
67
3.2 World Bank Creation of Civil Society
71
3.3 Gender Discourses
77
3.4 Constructing Gender
82
A Literate and Enabling Environment
93
4.1 Literacy Education
95
4.2 Production of Literacy
99
4.3 Production of a Literate Environment in Local Languages
105
4.4 Poor Education for PoorWomen
109
The Partnership Approach
119
5.1 A Provider’s Story
119
5.2 Selection
122
5.3 Monitoring and Evaluation
128
5.4 Moral Hazard
131
Constructing Cost-Effectiveness in Development
141
6.1 A Disastrous Combination?
142
6.2 Whose Ineffectiveness?
147
The World Bank, Civil Society, and the Market
152
7.1 A Product of Its Time
152
7.2 Levels of Change
159
7.3 Dialectical and Complex Relationships
162
7.4 What for? – Where to? – And What Then?
167
Bibliography
176
Author Index
182
Subject Index
184
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