6 research outputs found
Der lange Schatten struktureller Fehlentscheidungen: FachÀrztInnenmangel in der Frauenheilkunde in Laos und Vietnam. Im GesprÀch mit Michael Runge (UniversitÀt Freiburg)
Seit ĂŒber 50 Jahren sind Vietnam und Laos ZiellĂ€nder der westlichen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Dennoch ist der Zustand der Gesundheitssysteme in den LĂ€ndern weiterhin von gravierenden MĂ€ngeln geprĂ€gt. Besonders in der Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe fehlt es an gut ausgebildeten medizinischen FachkrĂ€ften. Der deutsche GynĂ€kologe Prof. Dr. Michael Runge engagiert sich seit einem Vierteljahrhundert fĂŒr bessere Frauengesundheit in SĂŒdostasien. Seine Projekte basieren auf der Ăberzeugung, dass die Ausbildung der FachkrĂ€fte in den ZiellĂ€ndern den SchlĂŒssel fĂŒr ein funktionierendes Gesundheitssystem darstellt. Im GesprĂ€ch mit ASEAS spricht Runge ĂŒber die medizinische Ausbildung in SĂŒdostasien, strukturelle Fehlentscheidungen der Entwicklungshilfe und die Erfolge seiner Projekte
AID FOR TRADE AS CONTESTED STATE BUILDING INTERVENTION: THE CASES OF LAOS AND VIETNAM
PhDThe thesis analyses the provision of âAid for Tradeâ as a specific form of state building
intervention (SBI) in Laos and Vietnam, two countries that have received trade-related assistance
as part of their global economic integration. The thesis uncovers how global economic and
institutional reform agendas related to trade integration are accepted or contested within both
states, as part of a highly political process characterised by strategic agency and structural
selectivities of various actors involved. The thesis employs a theoretical framework to help
analyse how global trade governance programmes intervene within targeted states, and how local
socio-political contestation shapes the outcomes of such programmes. Drawing on Marxist state
theory, SBIs are understood as contested processes which open up strategic opportunities for
social forces to shape the transformation process and thereby to stabilise or challenge existing
power relations. Special attention is directed towards the state as an arena of conflict in order to
understand the specific forms and varying results that these interventions take. This framework
allows us to grasp how dominant social forces within the Laotian and Vietnamese forms of state
are able to modify or circumvent external reform imperatives, resulting in highly selective
changes in trade governance, which often departs from the intention of âAid for Tradeâ project
managers. The thesis thereby changes conventional technocratic assumptions that believe that aid
interventions are a matter of best practice and contributes to a growing research agenda which
analyses development interventions within the wider political economy of the targeted state.QMUL Principal's Postgraduate Research Studentshi