Centre d'études sur l'intégration et la mondialisation (CEIM)

Neoliberal Modes of Participation in Frontier Settings: Mining, Multilateral Meddling, and Politics in Laos

Pascale Hatcher — 2015-04-02T14:01:00Z

After decades promoting highly liberalised mining codes, the World Bank Group has now positioned poverty reduction and environmental sustainability as the fundamental objectives of its involvement in the sector. Within this new approach, local participation occupies a central position, whereby a loosely defined mix of local associations, as well as residents of local communities affected by mining activities, is to have a voice in every stage of a given mining project. Building on the case of Laos, this article investigates both the participatory model promoted by the World Bank and the politics of the model's implementation. The analysis suggests that the involvement of local communities is ensconced within a framework which conceives participatory schemes as a management tool to, first and foremost, circumscribe the risks faced by mining investors. While this represents a clear attempt to mitigate political risk in order to facilitate the larger project of building new liberal markets, it further raises questions linked to the remodelling of political notions of empowerment and representation.

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Regimes of Risk : The World Bank and the Transformation of Mining in Asia

Pascale Hatcher — 2014-10-18T00:00:00Z

HATCHER, Pascale. 2014. Regimes of Risk : The World Bank and the Transformation of Mining in Asia. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 208 p.

The World Bank and New Mining Regimes in Asia critically investigates the particular role played by the World Bank Group (WBG) in both conceptualising and promoting new mining regimes tailored for resource-rich country clients. Building on case studies located in Laos, Mongolia and the Philippines, the author details a particular politics of mining in the Global South characterised by the transplanting, hijacking and contesting of the WBG's mining agenda in national and local arenas. Importantly, the failings of this agenda over time have not proved terminal but have rather provided opportunities for paradigmatic renewal. As part of a broad regime of governance designed to attract foreign private sector investment by the WBG in the name of poverty reduction, novel socio-environmental safeguards and the enrolment of civil society have now become a new porte-étandard to once again legitimise continued and expanded involvement in the mining sector. However, much like earlier incarnations of neoliberalism in the mining sector, the promotion by the WBG of this new Social Development Model continues to exhibit serious repercussions for constituents in the Global South, bringing into question the legitimacy of the model itself.

Into the Deep : The World Bank Group and Mining Regimes in Laos, The Philippines and Papua New Guinea

Pascale Hatcher — 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

HATCHER, Pascale. 2014. Into the Deep : The World Bank Group and Mining Regimes in Laos, The Philippines and Papua New Guinea, dans Toby Carroll, Darryl S.L. Jarvis (sous la dir.), The Politics of Marketising Asia, Palgrave Macmillan.

Résumé de l'ouvrage collectif The Politics of Marketising Asia
Economic growth continues to transform the economic and political landscape of Asia. Equally the policies now being adopted to promote private sector participation, re-structure state entities, and reduce the presence of the state in the provision of public goods and services, are tied to fundamental transformations in Asia's state-society relations. The global cast of contributors present a timely analysis of the impact of neo-liberalism on Asia's developmental policies and the organisation of Asian states and markets. Ironically, the "developmental state" that has historically driven Asia's rapid economic transformation is now threatened by an increasingly dominant neoliberal agenda that aims to roll back the state in the name of market fundamentalism.

Taming Risks in Asia : The World Bank Group and New Mining Regimes

Pascale Hatcher — 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

HATCHER, Pascale. 2012. "Taming Risks in Asia : The World Bank Group and New Mining Regimes", Journal of Contemporary Asia, 42(3), pp.427-446.

Résumé
Despite the admonishments of the 2003 Extractive Industry Review, the World Bank Group (WBG) has continued to promote the expansion of mining activities in resource-rich client-countries. While maintaining its mantra on the economic benefits of the sector in cash-strapped countries, in recent years poverty reduction and environmental sustainability have become the new buzzwords to justify the need for the WBG to remain actively involved in the sector. Building on the cases of the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Lao PDR, this paper analyses this new socio-environmental narrative in conjunction with the highly political nature of the role played by the WBG in the mining sector of its country-clients. The cases demonstrate that the World Bank has played a key role in influencing a wave of new mining regimes in the region. Further, these new regimes, which comprise multilateral social and environmental safeguards, circumscribe the risks faced by industry, rather than by local populations. While successful in stimulating foreign investments in the sector, these regimes might prove ineffective in taming local and national resentment against mining activities. Crucially, the engineering of mining regimes and norm-settings in multilateral arenas raises concerns about the legitimacy of the transformations of roles and responsibilities assigned to local mining stakeholders and the possible subsequent contraction of local political spaces.

The Politics of Entrapment : Parliaments, Governance and Poverty Reduction Strategies

Pascale Hatcher — 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z

HATCHER, Pascale. 2009. "The Politics of Entrapment : Parliaments, Governance and Poverty Reduction Strategies", dans Wil Hout et Richard Robison (sous la dir.), Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development, Routledge.

Résumé de l'ouvrage collectif Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development
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 assess why programmes of governance building in developing countries have proven to be no less problematic than the previous agendas of market reform. Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development challenges ideas that deeper political and social problems of development may be addressed by institutional or governance fixes. It examines the principles and prescriptions of ‘good' governance as part of larger conflicts over power and its distribution.

Existe-t-il encore une place pour la coopération bilatérale ? Réflexions à partir de l'expérience canadienne

Bonnie Campbell, Pascale Hatcher — 2004-01-01T13:21:00Z

Campbell, Bonnie et Pascale Hatcher. 2004. « Existe-t-il encore une place pour la coopération bilatérale ? Réflexions à partir de l'expérience canadienne ». Revue Tiers Monde, no 179, p. 665-689.

- Chaire C.-A. Poissant de recherche sur la gouvernance et l'aide au développement / Articles scientifiques, Aide au développement

The Challenges of Development, Mining Codes in Africa and Corporate Responsability

2003-06-01T00:00:00Z

GRAMA, sous la direction de Bonnie Campbell, 2004, « The Challenges of Development, Mining Codes in Africa and Corporate Responsibility », dans International and Comparative Mineral Law and Policy Trends and Prospects, sous la direction de Elizabeth Bastida, Thomas Walde et Janeth Warden, Kluwer Law International, La Haye, pp. 801-822.

- Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique (GRAMA) / Afrique, Articles scientifiques, Activités minières

L'expérience de l'Agence canadienne de coopération internationale

Bonnie Campbell, Pascale Hatcher — 2003-01-01T15:36:00Z

Campbell, Bonnie et Pascale Hatcher. 2003. « L'expérience de l'Agence canadienne de coopération internationale ». Chapitre dans Coopérer au début du XXI siècle : Pourquoi ? Comment ? Questions sans préjugés, sous la dir. du Haut Conseil de la Coopération internationale, p. 363-371. Paris : Karthala.

- Chaire C.-A. Poissant de recherche sur la gouvernance et l'aide au développement / Chapitres de livres, Aide au développement, Canada