"The Elgar Companion to The World Bank provides a comprehensive review of the past 80 years for this powerful development institution. Bringing together different theoretical approaches to studying the Bank from an expert group of scholars as well as insights from development practitioners, it...

Project finance of energy and infrastructure projects is discussed intensively with regard to its positive and negative impacts on sustainable development. While there is a relatively broad agreement about phasing out financing coal mines and coal fired power plants, other fossil fuel projects...

Early education -- The lasting legacy of McGill -- Harvard, Bryn Mawr and the London School of Economics -- Modern production among backward peoples (1935) -- American interlude -- The colonial office and LSE -- Colonial monetary conditions -- Towards a conclusion -- Ida Greaves : a pioneer...

European Union (EU) funding for United Nations (UN) organisations has expanded significantly over the last two decades. The EU's partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is an important example of EU-UN cooperation, and UNDP was the fourth-largest UN recipient of European...

Since its foundation in 1961, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) - nerve centre of the aid effort of the 'rich' countries - has played a central role in the PostWar aid system. This book traces the history of the institution and reflects on its future. How intense diplomacy led to...

IEG's Results and Performance of the World Bank Group 2021 report, also known as RAP 2021, assesses the World Bank Group's performance by analyzing the achievement of project and program objectives through validated ratings. The World Bank's outcome ratings steadily improved from FY10 onward and...

This retrospective on the terms of World Bank President Robert S. McNamara (1968-81) examines his words, actions, and results through the lens of the authors, his six successive personal assistants. They delve into his annual meeting speeches and policy addresses, deconstructing the motivations...