Recycling and expansion: an analysis of the World Bank agenda (1989–2014)

João Márcio Mendes Pereira

Third World Quarterly, 2016, vol. 37, issue 5, 818-839

Abstract: This article analyses the agenda of the World Bank after the Washington Consensus, arguing that it became more encompassing, politicised and intrusive. This agenda expanded and recycled itself since, in addition to liberalisation, privatisation and macroeconomic adjustment, it also advocated the wide-ranging reconstruction of the economy, the relationship between society and nature, the state, civil society and visions of the world and social practices from a neoliberal perspective. It is argued that the fight against poverty was incorporated by the institution, which functioned as an auxiliary mechanism for this liberalisation. The importance of the incorporation of New Institutional Economics for this expansion and recycling is highlighted.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1113871

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