Kampen

The World Bank s (Good) Governan Kampen

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (Otto-Suhr-Institut), language: English, abstract: The following paper should give a critical insight into the basic assumptions of the governance (and anti-corruption) concepts and strategies of the World Bank Group with regard to the seemingly unattainable goal of substantial poverty reduction in Africa. My basic approach is however neither leftwing nor rightwing (science is by definition neither left nor right, but objective). It can be characterized as that of the scientific pluralism, which means that different scientific fields and perspectives will be used for the description and in-depth analysis of the given topic. But the main goal of this paper is not to follow the conceptual line of the good governance approach of the World Bank Group or to testify or falsify the implementation of the concept on the empirical level but to look critically at the basic assumptions that lie beneath the conceptual level and which from my point of view are essential for understanding the mechanisms of the poverty reproduction processes in Sub-Saharan-Africa. It is therefore important to keep in mind that real growth and socio-economic development can only emerge as a result of intense cooperation between states. Probably it is not foreign aid that creates growth and reduces poverty and suffering but real fair economic cooperation e.g. between states (but not only states) as the main actors of the international relations.