Is World Bank a Bank for Knowledge Management or Paradigm Maintenance?

Fahd Zulfiqar
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Fahd Zulfiqar: Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

No 2022:93, PIDE Knowledge Brief from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Abstract: Post-development critique on development practice is based on anthropological critique which re-conceptualizes development (on both conceptual and pragmatic fronts) merely as a dominant discourse. This discourse, according to Escobar (1995), is reductive as it reduces development practice to knowledge producing, disseminating and brokering. The development discourse, hence, enframed, only institutionalizes and professionalizes development practice for churning out knowledge about what developed countries can offer to the developing countries. In this knowledge-power hierarchy, the role of World Bank is critical, which is the case of analysis for the current knowledge brief.

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Date: 2022
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