| Description |
xx, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Anthem studies in political economy and globalization |
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Anthem studies in political economy and globalization.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction: Off on the Wrong Foot 1 -- Part I Why Development Assistance: Setting the Stage -- 2. Poverty Remains a Concern 11 -- 2.1 Poverty in the World 13 -- 2.2 Development Aid and Other Transfers 17 -- 2.3 More Awareness is Needed 22 -- 2.4 Poverty and Globalization 22 -- 2.5 The Objectives of Development Assistance; -- Millennium Development Goals 28 -- 3. Globalization Does Not Automatically Lead to Convergence 35 -- 3.1 Bootstrap Lifting: No Easy Challenge 40 -- 3.2 Globalization and Divergence 41 -- 3.3 The Failure of the Washington Consensus 45 -- 3.4 The Trade Playing Field is not Level 51 -- 3.5 Whose Corruption? 55 -- 3.5a Civic Conflict 59 -- 3.6 Tertiary Education and Divergence 62 -- 3.7 Equitable Globalization 65 -- Part II The World Bank: A Close Encounter -- "4. Shifts in Development Paradigms 71 -- 4.1 1945-Early 1950s: Reconstruction and Investment 73 -- 4.2 1950s-1960s: Foreign Exchange 74 -- 4.3 1970s: Oil Price Hikes and Confusion 75 -- 4.4 1980s: Free Markets 76 -- 4.5 The 1990s: The End of the Cold War; Governance 77 -- 4.6 The Start of a New Millennium 78 -- 5. Decision-Making at the World Bank 81 -- 5.1 Sixty Years of the World Bank 82 -- 5.2 How the World Bank was Established 86 -- 5.3 The Development Committee 91 -- 5.4 Executive Directors 98 -- 5.5 US Treasury Dominance 99 -- 5.6 Developing Countries 104 -- 6. The Different Faces of the World Bank 107 -- 6.1 The University Bank 111 -- 6.2 The Washington Consensus Bank 114 -- 6.3 The External Relations Bank 119 -- 6.4 The Matrix Bank 121 -- 6.5 The Scaling-Up Bank 126 -- Part III Spinning the Global Economy -- 7. Partners in Development Assistance 133 -- 7.1 The United Nations Family 135 -- 7.2 The IMF 137 -- 7.3 Bilaterals 143 -- 8. Civil Society and Development 149 -- 8.1 Civil Society as a Partner 151 -- 8.2 Engaging Public Opinion 152 -- 8.3 How Civil are Trade Unions? 155 -- 8.4 The Private Sector 158 -- 8.5 Supporting Civil Society 160 -- Part IV A Prospect for Development Cooperation. -- A Chance for the World Bank? -- 9. Successes and Failures 165 -- 9.1 Ownership and Focused Aid as a Success 167 -- 9.2 Clarifying Ownership and Governance 170 -- 9.3 Debt Relief: A Small Step 173 -- 9.4 Old Fashioned 'Advisory' as a Failure 176 -- 9.5 Insufficient Coordination and Insufficient -- Generosity as a Failure 182 -- 10. A Chance for the World Bank? 185 -- 10.1 Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness 187 -- 10.2 Increase Public Support 191 -- 10.3 Improve the Rules of Globalization 193 -- 10.4 Use the Power of the Diaspora and Prevent Brain Drain 194 -- 10.5 Loans and Grants 198 -- 10.6 A Chance for the World Bank 198 -- Notes 203 |
| Summary |
"This book is an authoritative and radical manifesto for urgently needed changes in development cooperation. It proposes that, unless radical steps are taken by the World Bank, the first decade of the century will witness an ever-widening gulf between the poor and rich countries." "A Chance for the World Bank provides an overview of the challenges faced by the World Bank, and explores how it has organized itself to deal with its mission. This book proposes that the World Bank still has a chance to achieve its stated goals; in order to do so, it needs to take a number of radical steps: to create a level playing field in trade for the developing countries; to harmonize aid and save developing countries from the gigantic transaction costs of aid; and to promote governance in developing countries and to reduce rigorously induced corruption by multinationals."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-205) and index |
| Subject |
World Bank.
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Economic development -- Finance.
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Economic development.
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Economics.
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| Author |
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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| LC no. |
2005620710 |
| ISBN |
1843311615 (hbk.) |
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1843311623 (paperback) |
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