Invisible inequalities: how practices of classification affect outcomes in the World Bank

Katja Freistein

Chapter 33 in The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, 2024, pp 396-406 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Many of the routine practices of the World Bank, particularly classification, are implicated in the reproduction of inequalities. While seemingly inconspicuous, outcomes that reproduce or even create new inequalities depend on underlying categories and numbers. In two short case studies on the debate around the Doing Business Report (DBR) and the voting rights reform in the World Bank in 2010, this chapter discusses the consequences of (re-)classification and rankings with regard to inequalities.

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