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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... capacity of borrowers. It can be dramatically compromised in cases where financing conditions are breached, as seen in the Chadian parliament's amendment to a Bank-supported oil revenue law in 2005. But the extent to which newly ...
... capacity is extensive, having broadened somewhat from a reliance on economists – predominantly trained in the leading economics departments of North American universities, and to a lesser extent Europe – to incorporate social scientists ...
... capacity building and scholarships, there are strong individual and institutional imperatives leading to perverse outcomes where the bulk of economic and sector work (ESW) continues to be conducted inside the IFIs and other elite ...
... capacity of the borrower government . Nevertheless , the Bank still acts as a disseminator of development knowledge and policy lessons as well as an arbiter of ' best practices ' and ' international standards ' . In doing so , the World ...
... capacity meant that the state was not able to effectively negotiate and take ownership of development projects . Rather than the uptake of policy ideas being mediated by local elites , she highlights how the Bank's normative advocacy of ...