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the largest overall donor, USAID had very clear objectives, was able to mobilise quickly and fielded highly experienced staff and advisers who largely replicated what they normally did elsewhere. It also enjoyed a high level of local support. The successive USAID projects in economic governance stand out in terms of their size and scope, rapid mobilisation, continuity over time and clear objectives
number of EU staff working in Pillar IV in subsequent years and the later involvement of EAR and the World Bank in providing technical assistance, USAID continued to be a major donor in this field. Between 1999 and 2010, six successive multi-year economic governance projects were implemented, at a total cost of $104.5 million. 111 Not all these funds were used for developing government institutions, however. Because
’, People’s Daily Online (17 November 1999). 47 Seale, ‘Establishing financial management in the Kosovo interim administration’. 48 S. Lewarne and D. Snelbecker, Economic Governance in War Torn Economies: Lessons Learned from the Marshall Plan to
use its 1981 EC Presidency to launch a conflict resolution initiative in an EU context, although there was an Irish proposal to that effect. The EC was to emerge as an actor in the Northern Ireland conflict only gradually through its regional policy. The focus on economic governance became a resource for the conflict parties when new institutional forms of conflict resolution were tested. In 1976
the fighting stops, and their legacies run deeply in the societies affected by them. Mark Duffield and other scholars have argued that the experience of conflict is less about social breakdown and more about the emergence of alternative – generally non-state based – patterns of political and economic governance. 15 In this context, the binary division between ‘war’ and ‘peace’ that the transition
recipes for ‘governability’. On one side, ‘liberal’ recipes for political governance – whether through bilateral arrangements or through such organisations as the EU and the CSCE (now OSCE) 114 – were offered to, often imposed on, the South. 115 On the other side, ‘capitalist’ recipes for economic governance were exported – whether through bilateral programmes or through such organisations as
political-economic governance. Like its management of financial assets, IS’s administration of finance reflects the behaviours of US-associated entities in the Middle East, and neoliberal economic circumstances in the wider international financial system. Extending the previous sections’ exploration of IS finance and the importance of territory for IS, in this section I elaborate on how IS’s administration of finance exemplifies its state-like geo-economic ambitions. In particular, these practices might be interpreted as signifying the organisation’s reliance upon
Ngaire Woods, The Shifting Politics of Foreign Aid (Oxford: Global Economic Governance Programme, 2005), p. 14. 40 H. Krieger, Migration , (Brussels: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, 2004), pp. 3–8. 41