PRSPs in postcolonial international law and global governance -- PRSPs and the crisis of legitimacy in the international order -- Ownership as conditionality : PRSPs and the evolution of conditional financing -- Reforming the nation state : PRSPs and rehabilitating the structurally adjusted state -- Redesigning the political project : discipline and legitimation through participatory policymaking -- Consolidation and conclusion : PRSPs, transnational governance and globalised legal regimes
'Governance Through Development' locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper framework within the broader context of international law and global governance; exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions which support it
