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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... programmes and projects, multiplying the effect of the Bank's policy prescriptions. Notwithstanding these new policy initiatives, unsurprisingly, the Bank has faced a welter of criticism from the sources outlined below. US influence The ...
... programmes according to the expressed needs of borrowers, and giving them a sense of 'ownership' in preparing and carrying out programmes and projects. This is driven by a recognition that its influence and development effectiveness in ...
... programmes within established environmental organizations in the United States and Europe, such as Environmental Defense, Friends of the Earth, and the World Wildlife Fund. More permanent associations are dedicated to the monitoring of ...
... programmes through which it finances even more research (OED 2004). There is some tension played out between analytical staff and operational staff about the utility of research. This is not to suggest that operational staff ignore or ...
... programmes and projects . Therefore , even in an ideal scenario , and perhaps an unlikely one , in which the ... programme to which it is fully committed , the internal dynamics within the Bank still play a very influential role in ...