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Title The World Bank and governance : a decade of reform and reaction / edited by Diane Stone and Christopher Wright
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages)
Series Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation ; 14
Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation ; 14.
Contents Introduction : the currency of change : World Bank lending and learning in the Wolfensohn era / Diane Stone and Christopher Wright -- Development ethics and human rights as the basis for global poverty reduction : the case of the World Bank / Desmond McNeill and Asunción Lera St. Clair -- The art of fine balances : the challenge of institutionalizing the Comprehensive Development Framework inside the World Bank / Nilima Gulrajani -- From 'safeguards' to 'sustainability' : the evolution of environmental discourse inside the International Finance Corporation / Christopher Wright -- Explaining change in the World Bank's forest strategy and operational policy / Lauren Flejzor -- The World Bank and pension reforms / M. Ramesh -- Change in international organizations : innovation or adaptation? A comparison of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund / Antje Vetterlein -- The poverty of amnesia : PRSPs in the legacy of structural adjustment / Celine Tan -- Becoming green : diffusing sustainable development norms throughout the World Bank Group / Susan Park -- Partnership and the reform of international aid : challenging citizenship and political representation? / Pascale Hatcher -- The World Bank as conveyor and broker of knowledge and funds in Argentina's governance reforms / Maria Pía Riggirozzi -- The missing link in development cooperation integrative frameworks : revelations from Lebanon's post-war experience in donor-assisted administrative reform / Nisrine El Ghaziri -- Fiscal decentralization in transition economies : the World Bank in a learning process / Krisztina Tóth
Summary This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade
Notes A critical retrospective of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject World Bank -- Evaluation
SUBJECT World Bank fast
Weltbank gnd
Subject Economic development -- Social aspects.
Economic assistance -- Political aspects
Economic development projects -- Environmental aspects
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Banks & Banking.
Evaluation
Economic assistance -- Political aspects
Economic development projects -- Environmental aspects
Economic development -- Social aspects
Evaluation
Wereldbank.
Economische hulpverlening.
Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form Electronic books
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Stone, Diane, 1964-
Wright, Christopher, 1976-
ISBN 9780203969076
0203969073
9786610750825
6610750823