Who speaks for whom? A look at civil society accountability in bioprospecting debates in Mexico
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Recent trends in governance include a diminishing role of the nation state and an expanding role of non-government actors in the management of resources and services. The nation state, some argue, is ceding way to a plethora of institutions including global, multinational, regional, and local-level players. Within this multilevel, multi-institutional governance system the role of both the private sector and civil society in governance and development is attracting much attention, particularly with respect to accountability issues. As a result, a ‘complex and dense set of obligations and responsibilities between different actors in the field of development’ are emerging, ‘result[ing] both in new mechanisms ensuring accountable behaviour and [in] new “accountability gaps”’ (Bellour and Newell 2001.)
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