Development

Shane Chalmers and Sundhya Pahuja

Chapter 33 in Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), 2025, pp 386-398 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter we take up a concern that is important to many TWAIL scholars: global inequality. We are interested in how a practice of close reading might help us to understand the recent turn toward inequality as an explicit concern of mainstream development agencies such as the World Bank. Our focus is on a series of Bank reports (1990s–2000s). The question that guides our reading of these reports is how the language of ‘equality’ is taken up by them; how it travels through them; and how it relates to wider questions of law and development and the relationship between states and people in the Global North and South. Our analysis shows two things. First, while the Bank uses the language of equality, its meaning is inflected by an economic growth model; and second, the effect is to stabilise the structures and practices which generate inequality in the first place.

Keywords: Law and development; Inequality; World Bank; World Development Reports; Third World Approaches to International Law (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781789901511
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