Participating in the Embedding of SIN: the World Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy for the Philippines

Abstract

Following from the theme of market extension and the increasingly common delivery device of technical assistance, this chapter analyses another of SIN’s delivery devices (a Country Assistance Strategy — or CAS) and its relationship with the two core political technologies within development practice orthodoxy — participation and partnership.¹ Importantly, these political technologies pervade the Bank’s work and are crucial in the attempt to constitute market society, in part by playing novel legitimacy and constituency-building roles in the project to embed SIN as a hegemonic paradigm.²