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1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 335 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511560002
Series Statement:
Global economic institutions 3
Content:
The World Bank is dedicated to the promotion of sustainable economic development and to poverty reduction throughout the developing world. It faces new challenges as capital shortages are replaced by large but volatile capital flows. The contributors to this volume argue that the Bank's greatest asset is its accumulated knowledge and experience of the development process, and propose that it organise itself around the concept of a 'Knowledge Bank'. They propose a shift in priority, away from lending with conditionality imposed on borrowing governments, towards assistance to governments in devising good development strategies. Part I examines the existing structure of the Bank and considers the World Bank as an institution. In Part II the effectiveness of World Bank assistance is evaluated. This book provides essential reading for politicians, civil servants, workers in the non-official sector, and academics and students involved or interested in the development process
Content:
The World Bank : an overview of some major issues / Christopher L. Gilbert and David Vines -- Positioning the World Bank / Christopher L. Gilbert, Andrew Powell and David Vines -- The World Bank and poverty reduction : past, present and future / Ravi Kanbur and David Vines -- Why the World Bank should be involved in development research / Lyn Squire -- The challenges of multilateralism and governance / Ngaire Woods -- The World Bank and structural adjustment : lessons from the 1980s / Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Louise C. Keely -- The implications of foreign aid fungibility for development assistance / Shantayanan Devarajan and Vinya Swaroop -- Aid, growth, the incentive regime and poverty reduction / Craig Burnside and David Dollar -- How policies and institutions affect project performance : microeconomic evidence on aid, policies and investment productivity / Jonathan Isham and Daniel Kaufmann -- Increasing aid effectiveness in Africa? The World Bank and sector investment programmes / Stephen Jones -- The World Bank, conditionality and the Comprehensive Development Framework / Raul Hopkins [and others] -- Conditionality, dependence and coordination : three current debates in aid policy / Paul Collier
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521790956
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521029018
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521790956
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511560002
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