Edited by Habib Zafarullah, Adjunct Faculty, Division of Sociology, University of New England, Australia and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque, Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada

‘This book provides a detailed, expert forensic analysis of policymaking and governance within global development, bringing together an academic and practice perspective to show how development governance and policymaking can be improved and strengthened. This collection captures and explores the growing complexity and polycentric nature of global development policy, and the new challenges (including climate emergency, prolonged financial crisis, and the impact of global pandemic) such policy is required to respond to and engage with. Together, the contributions make a powerful case for embedding policymaking and analysis within specific contexts (thinking global, acting local), within accurate and up-to-date quantitative and qualitative data, and within a conscious critical thinking approach. For anyone seeking to understand how and where global development policy is constructed, how this has shifted over the first two decades of the twenty-first century as new issues and challenges have emerged, and how these processes have impacted in (and been shaped by) different regional contexts, this is an essential addition to the development thinker and practitioner’s library.’

• Contents:Preface xxiIntroduction: the panorama of development policy 1Habib Zafarullah and Ahmed Shafiqul HuquePART I EXPLORING THE FIELD1 Development policy: ideas and practice 12Habib Zafarullah and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque2 Twenty-first-century horizons of development 25Jan Nederveen Pieterse3 Development policy and governance in the Global South: towardsa multilevel governance framework 35Charles Conteh4 Inclusive economic growth policies: myth vs reality 48Anis Chowdhury5 Addressing inequality: policy options in emerging and developing countries 68Edward Anderson6 Poverty and policy in the developing world: before and after the pandemic 79M.G. Quibria7 Human rights and development: policy perspectives 91Bård A. Andreassen8 Social networks, social capital and development 104Manoj K. Shrestha9 Development and the environment: the appalling story stated 115Tony Lynch and Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan10 Development ethics in policy and practice 126Jay Drydyk and Lori Keleher11 The development–environment nexus: promises and perils of globalgovernance 137Shawkat Alam12 Sustainable Development Goals: framework and progress 147Thomas Pogge13 South–South cooperation, realpolitik and the changing globalaid architecture: exploring the role of Southern aid providers indevelopment cooperation 159Fahimul QuadirPART II DEVELOPMENT ISSUES14 Gender and development policy 172Janet Momsen15 Rural development: the significance of agriculture and non-farm economy 182Sosina Bezu16 Infrastructure development governance: taking stock of emerging policy issues 192Tharun Dolla and Boeing Laishram17 Public–private partnerships in development policy: strategic andinfrastructure approaches 205Lena Brogaard18 Corruption as a development policy issue: an overview of contemporaryresearch and practice 215Till Hartmann19 International non-governmental organizations in development:humanitarian contexts and ethical concerns 227Gerard Clarke20 Industrial policy in the twenty-first century: competing perspectives 238Laurids S. Lauridsen21 Social rights of citizenship: current problems and policy issues 249Mehnaaz Momen22 Refugees and humanitarian policy: development perspectives 259Amanda Gray Meral and Veronique Barbelet23 Microfinance and development: policy perspectives 271Eva Terberger and Adalbert Winkler24 International development volunteering as alternative public diplomacy 283Rebecca Tiessen and Benjamin J. Lough25 Global public health law: implications for development policy 293George F. Tomossy26 On the short- and long-run effects of social safety nets 302Jorge Tovar27 Climate capitalism or carbon colonialism? The critical features ofclimate change adaptation and mitigation policies 313Nowrin TabassumPART III POLICY MECHANICS28 Foundations for effective development policy 325Mark Turner29 Transnational policy networks and development 333Kidjie Saguin and Michael Howlett30 Network governance: implications for development 345Patamawadee Jongruck and Panom Gunawong31 Development aid and the ‘ownership’ principle in development policy 355Mohammad Mizanur Rahman32 Digital technologies and public policy: chasing human development 366Raúl Zambrano33 Development policy and impact evaluation: learning and accountabilityin private sector development 378Giel TonPART IV REGIONAL FOCUS34 Monetary policy challenges in developing economies: focus on Asia 392Syed M. Ahmed35 Unequal citizenship and unequal outcomes: limits of education andhealth policy innovations in Latin America 404Claudia M. Díaz Ríos, Mathieu J.P. Poirier and Michelle L. Dion36 Inclusive education: policies and practice in the small states of the Caribbean 416Carel Hodge37 Social policy development and its obstacles: an analysis of the SouthAsian welfare geography during and after the ‘social turn’ 425Gabriele Koehler, Stefan Kühner and Daniel Neff38 Community-based forestry and development in Asia: policy issues 437Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt39 Tackling poverty and deprivation in Southeast Asia: policies,performance and challenges 447Noore Alam Siddiquee and Mohammad HamiduzzamanPART V COUNTRY CASES40 Physical infrastructure, the rural bureaucracy and the neoliberaldevelopment project 462Shelley Feldman41 Medium-term development planning in Ghana: capacity constraints andoutcomes 473James Kwame Mensah, Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain andAnthony Sumnaya Kumasey42 Patterns of combating corruption in Asia: evaluating the effectivenessof the Anti-Corruption Commission in Bangladesh 485Jon S.T. Quah43 Pragmatic instrumentalization of policy learning: market transition,changing welfare systems and state–third sector organizationrelationships in China 497Ka Ho Mok44 Constructing knowledge: the case of secondary education governancepolicies in Bangladesh 510Subrata S. Dhar45 Democratic decentralization and citizenship: exploring caste, Churchand capability in Kerala’s People’s Plan 521Tamara Nair46 Spatial justice, livelihood challenges and the urban poor in the GlobalSouth: lessons from Bangladesh 532Lutfun Nahar Lata and M. Adil KhanIndex 544