The Elgar Companion to the World Bank

Edited by Antje Vetterlein and Tobias Schmidtke

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Elgar Companion to The World Bank provides a comprehensive review of the past 80 years for this powerful development institution. Using different theoretical approaches from an expert group of scholars as well as practitioners, it presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the World Bank and the wider field of International Relations.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 9781802204773
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The World Bank: a changing organization in a changing world , pp 2-20

Antje Vetterlein and Tobias Schmidtke

Ch 2 History and histories of the World Bank , pp 22-37

Michele Alacevich and Mirek Tobiáš Hošman

Ch 3 Locating the World Bank: the unmaking and remaking of Development Economics in its shifting vision , pp 38-50

Kate Bayliss and Ben Fine

Ch 4 The World Bank and Anthropology: conflict and cooperation , pp 51-61

Robert K. Hitchcock

Ch 5 The World Bank and Legal Studies , pp 62-72

Lorenzo Gasbarri

Ch 6 Rational choice: actors, preferences and power , pp 74-84

Randall W. Stone

Ch 7 The World Bank Inspection Panel from an institutionalist perspective , pp 85-95

Alexsandro Eugenio Pereira

Ch 8 Constructivism, norms, and the World Bank , pp 96-106

Antje Vetterlein and Susan Park

Ch 9 The hypocrisy of the World Bank , pp 107-117

Catherine E. Weaver

Ch 10 US ‘hegemony’ in the World Bank , pp 118-128

Lisa Eitinger and Robert H. Wade

Ch 11 Contested terrain: World Bank projects and participatory development , pp 130-142

Jonathan Fox

Ch 12 Revitalizing the World Bank: engagement with the private sector and scope expansion , pp 143-153

Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt and Thomas Dörfler

Ch 13 China’s relations with the World Bank: between great power and developing country , pp 154-165

Marina Rudyak

Ch 14 Let’s be friends not foes: an assessment of the strategic co-evolution of the World Bank and the AIIB in the face of institutional overlap , pp 166-177

Giuseppe Zaccaria

Ch 15 Intricate interactions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund , pp 178-189

Matthias Kranke

Ch 16 Environmental partnerships in the World Bank , pp 191-203

Teresa Kramarz and Amalie Wilkinson

Ch 17 Just another brick in the wall? The changing legitimacy and centrality of the World Bank in global education , pp 204-215

Clara Fontdevila, Francine Menashy and Antoni Verger

Ch 18 The World Bank’s work in health: continuity and change , pp 216-226

Shiri Noy

Ch 19 Gender and development in the World Bank: an evaluation of the business case for equality , pp 227-238

Kate Bedford

Ch 20 Dam building and the World Bank: the evolving battle over partial reform , pp 239-250

Udisha Saklani and Barnaby Joseph Dye

Ch 21 Depoliticizing the countryside? The World Bank’s role in agriculture and rural development , pp 251-262

Tobias Schmidtke

Ch 22 Measuring corruption perceptions in Tunisia: Transparency International, the Corruption Perception Index and the World Bank , pp 263-273

Oana B. Albu and Jonathan Murphy

Ch 23 World development under monopoly capitalism , pp 274-285

Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden

Ch 24 Responsibility avoidance in the World Bank’s approach to end poverty , pp 286-297

Antje Vetterlein

Ch 25 Ethics and human rights in the World Bank , pp 298-308

Desmond McNeill

Ch 26 Knowledge matters in the World Bank: the KNETworking foundations of development policy , pp 309-320

Diane Stone

Ch 27 Housing and the World Bank: mortgaging development , pp 321-331

Liam Clegg

Ch 28 The origins of community-driven development: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program , pp 333-344

Scott Guggenheim

Ch 29 Citizen engagement: reflections on the operationalization of a World Bank corporate commitment , pp 345-358

Janelle Plummer

Ch 30 Reflections on World Bank engagement in governance and anticorruption: insider and outsider perspectives , pp 359-371

Vinay Bhargava

Ch 31 Quo Vadis? The World Bank’s role in promoting environmental sustainability , pp 372-383

Steven N. Schonberger

Ch 32 The World Bank and its potential for reform: the human rights perspective , pp 385-395

Galit A. Sarfaty

Ch 33 Invisible inequalities: how practices of classification affect outcomes in the World Bank , pp 396-406

Katja Freistein

Ch 34 The World Bank and shrinking civic space , pp 407-416

Rachel Nadelman and Ricardo Vergel Negrón

Ch 35 Thinking and working apolitically , pp 417-428

Graham Teskey

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