The World Bank and Governance: A Decade of Reform and ReactionDiane L. Stone, Christopher Wright Routledge, 27/09/2006 - 304 من الصفحات This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade. The World Bank is viewed as one of the most powerful international organizations of our time. The authors critically analyze the influence of the institution’s policy and engagement during the past decade in a variety of issue areas, including human rights, domestic reform, and the environment. The World Bank and Governance delves into the bowels of the World Bank, exploring its organizational structure, professional culture and bureaucratic procedures, illustrating how these shape its engagement with an increasingly complex, diverse and challenging operational environment. The book includes chapters on two under-researched divisions of the World Bank: the International Finance Corporation and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency. Several illuminating country studies are also included, analyzing the World Bank's activities in Argentina, Bolivia, Lebanon, Hungary and Vietnam. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, development, politics and economics. |
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... argued that the timing and scale of environmental reforms at the Bank can be explained by principal control over an agent , where the USA had threatened to withhold replenishment funds from the Bank unless its demands for environmental ...
... argue, factors such as the creativity of staff, the involvement of new actors in development debates, the support from key leaders and significant analytical work have prompted both radical change and gradual reform within the Bank ...
... argue that the wealth of analytical publications has potentially contributed to a problem of ' selection bias ' with a neglect of operational positions that are less effectively documented and captured as codified knowledge ( Bebbington ...
... argue that the distinctly technocratic and economistic conception of development that characterizes the Bank's understanding of poverty creates moral distance between the Bank and those who should benefit from its funds, and prevents it ...
... arguments are vindicated in the chapters that discuss the Bank's interventions into country contexts. For example, in her analysis of donor-supported public administrative reforms in Lebanon in the 1990s, el Ghaziri (Chapter 12) ...