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1. The Politics of Aid Selectivity

   Good Governance Criteria in World Bank, U.S. and Dutch Development Assistance

   By Wil Hout

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. Bringing out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. EU Strategies on Governance Reform

   Between Development and State-building

   Edited by Wil Hout

   Series: ThirdWorlds

   This book discusses the European Union’s approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing countries. A group of expert authors outline the general features of the position on governance taken by the EU, which is currently the major...

   Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development

   Edited by Wil Hout, Richard Robison

   Series: Routledge/GARNET series

   This book is about the way ‘governance’ has become the new orthodoxy of development, following earlier failed attempts at building working market economies through policy reform in developing countries. Considering how its proponents define ‘good governance’, the contributors to this volume...

   Published November 23rd 2008 by Routledge
4. Regionalism across the North/South Divide

   State Strategies and Globalization

   Edited by Jean Grugel, Wil Hout

   Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science

   In contrast to most studies of regionalism, Grugel and Hout focus on countries not currently at the core of the global economy, including Brazil and Mercosur, Chile, South East Asia, China, South Africa, the Maghreb, Turkey and Australia. What seems clear from this original analysis is that far...

   Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge