The Elgar companion to the World Bank

1 Online-Ressource (466 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents: Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Part I. Introduction to the companion -- 1. The world bank: A changing organization in a changing world / Antje Vetterlein and Tobias Schmidtke -- Part II. Setting the scene: World bank history and disciplinary perspectives -- 2. History and histories of the world bank / Michele Alacevich and Mirek Tobiás Hosman -- 3. Locating the world bank: The unmaking and remaking of development economics in its shifting vision / Kate Bayliss and Ben Fine -- 4. The world bank and anthropology: Conflict and cooperation / Robert K. Hitchcock -- 5. The world bank and legal studies / Lorenzo Gasbarri -- Part III. Researching the world bank in international relations -- 6. Rational choice: Actors, preferences and power / Randall W. Stone -- 7. The world bank inspection panel from an institutionalist perspective / Alexsandro Eugenio Pereira -- 8. Constructivism, norms, and the world bank / Antje Vetterlein and Susan Park -- 9. The hypocrisy of the world bank / Catherine E. Weaver -- 10. Us 'hegemony' in the world bank / Lisa Eitinger and Robert H. Wade -- Part IV. The outside perspective: World bank relations to its organizational environment -- 11. Contested terrain: World bank projects and participatory development / Jonathan Fox -- 12. Revitalizing the world bank: Engagement with the private sector and scope expansion / Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt and Thomas Dörfler -- 13. China's relations with the world bank: Between great power and developing country / Marina Rudyak -- 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 / Giuseppe Zaccaria -- 15. Intricate interactions: The world bank and the international monetary fund / Matthias Kranke -- Part V. The impact perspective: World bank policy areas -- 16. Environmental partnerships in the world bank / Teresa Kramarz and Amalie Wilkinson -- 17. Just another brick in the wall? The changing legitimacy and centrality of the world bank in global education / Clara Fontdevila, Francine Menashy and Antoni Verger -- 18. The world bank's work in health: Continuity and change / Shiri Noy -- 19. Gender and development in the world bank: An evaluation of the business case for equality / Kate Bedford -- 20. Dam building and the world bank: The evolving battle over partial reform / Udisha Saklani and Barnaby Joseph Dye -- 21. Depoliticizing the countryside? The world bank's role in agriculture and rural development / Tobias Schmidtke -- 22. Measuring corruption perceptions in tunisia: Transparency international, the corruption perception Index and the world bank / Oana B. Albu and Jonathan Murphy -- 23. World development under monopoly capitalism / Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden -- 24. Responsibility avoidance in the world bank's approach to end poverty / Antje Vetterlein -- 25. Ethics and human rights in the world bank / Desmond McNeill -- 26. Knowledge matters in the world bank: The knetworking foundations of development policy / Diane Stone -- 27. Housing and the world bank: Mortgaging development / Liam Clegg -- Part VI. The inside perspective: Practitioners' views on the world bank -- 28. The origins of community-driven development: Indonesia and the kecamatan development program / Scott Guggenheim -- 29. Citizen engagement: Reflections on the operationalization of a world bank corporate commitment / Janelle Plummer -- 30. Reflections on world bank engagement in governance and anticorruption: Insider and outsider perspectives / Vinay Bhargava -- 31. Quo vadis? The world bank's role in promoting environmental sustainability / Steven N. Schonberger -- Part VII. Future perspectives: The world bank and its potential for reform -- 32. The world bank and its potential for reform: The human rights perspective / Galit A. Sarfaty -- 33. Invisible inequalities: How practices of classification affect outcomes in the world bank / Katja Freistein -- 34. The world bank and shrinking civic space / Rachel Nadelman and Ricardo Vergel Negrón -- 35. Thinking and working apolitically / Graham Teskey -- Index.

10.4337/9781802204780 [DOI]

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