Developmentality: indirect governance in the World Bank–Uganda partnership

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dc.contributor.authorLie, Jon Harald Sande
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-05T09:56:10Z
dc.date.available2025-06-05T09:56:10Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-03
dc.description.abstractThe instituted order of development is changing, creating new power mechanisms ordering the relationship between donor and recipient institutions. Donors’ focus on partnership, participation and ownership has radically transformed the orchestration of aid. While the formal order of this new aid architecture aimed to alter inherently asymmetrical donor–recipient relations by installing the recipient side with greater freedom and responsibility, this article – drawing on an analysis of the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Strategy Paper (PRSP) model and its partnership with Uganda – demonstrates how lopsided aid relations are being reproduced in profound ways. Analysed in terms of developmentality, the article shows how the donor aspires to make its policies those of the recipient as a means to govern at a distance, where promises of greater inclusion and freedom facilitate new governance mechanisms enabling the donor to retain control by framing the partnership and thus limiting the conditions under which the recipient exercises the freedom it has been granted.
dc.identifier.citation: Jon Harald Sande Lie (2015) Developmentality: indirect governance in the World Bank–Uganda partnership, Third World Quarterly, 36:4, 723-740, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1024435
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01436597.2015.1024435
dc.identifier.issn0143-6597
dc.identifier.issn1360-2241
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1024435
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/11840
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.relation.ispartofThird World Quarterly
dc.titleDevelopmentality: indirect governance in the World Bank–Uganda partnership
dc.typejournal-article
oaire.citation.issue4
oaire.citation.volume36
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