The Elgar Companion to the World Bank

Name: The Elgar Companion to the World Bank
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781802204773
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Author: Antje Vetterlein; Tobias Schmidtke
ISBN: 9781802204773

Edited by Antje Vetterlein · Tobias Schmidtke

Edward Elgar Publishing September 2024

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ISBN-13: 9781802204773
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: September 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 presents an interdisciplinary exploration of research on the World Bank and its implications for the broader field of international relations.

Offering an all-encompassing analysis of the Bank’s activities, this Companion examines the Bank’s interactions with its organizational environment, how it undertakes tasks and pursues its mandate in different policy areas, and how it has adapted to changing environments over time. Split into seven thematic parts, contributors guide the reader through over ten policy areas, including the environment, education, health, and gender and development, discussing the impact and progress made within those areas. Furthermore, they include insightful first-hand accounts of working in this complex organization and discuss prominent criticisms of the Bank, suggesting opportunities for future reform.

Providing key observations and insider perspectives, this Companion is an essential resource for scholars and researchers in the field of international relations as well as other disciplines, including development studies, organizational sociology, and international law.

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE COMPANION; 1.
The World Bank: a changing organization in a changing world 2: Antje Vetterlein and Tobias Schmidtke; PART II. SETTING THE SCENE: WORLD BANK HISTORY AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES; 2.
History and histories of the World Bank 22: Michele Alacevich and Mirek Tobiáš Hošman; 3.
Locating the World Bank: the unmaking and remaking of development economics in its shifting vision 38: Kate Bayliss and Ben Fine; 4.
The World Bank and anthropology: conflict and cooperation 51: Robert K. Hitchcock; 5.
The World Bank and legal studies 62: Lorenzo Gasbarri; PART III. RESEARCHING THE WORLD BANK IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; 6.
Rational choice: actors, preferences and power 74: Randall W. Stone; 7.
The World Bank inspection panel from an institutionalist perspective 85: Alexsandro Eugenio Pereira; 8.
Constructivism, norms, and the World Bank 96: Antje Vetterlein and Susan Park; 9.
The hypocrisy of the World Bank 107: Catherine E. Weaver; 10.
US ‘hegemony’ in the World Bank 118: 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 130: Jonathan Fox; 12.
Revitalizing the World Bank: engagement with the private sector and scope expansion 143: Eugénia C. Heldt and Thomas Dörfler; 13.
China’s relations with the World Bank: between Great Power and developing country 154: 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 166: Giuseppe Zaccaria; 15.
Intricate interactions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund 178: Matthias Kranke; PART V. THE IMPACT PERSPECTIVE: WORLD BANK POLICY AREAS; 16.
Environmental partnerships in the World Bank 191: Teresa Kramarz and Amalie Wilkinson; 17.
Just another brick in the wall? The changing legitimacy and centrality of the World Bank in global education 204: Clara Fontdevila, Francine Menashy and Antoni Verger; 18.
The World Bank’s work in health: continuity and change 216: Shiri Noy; 19.
Gender and development in the World Bank: an evaluation of the business case for equality 227: Kate Bedford; 20.
Dam building and the World Bank: the evolving battle over partial reform 238: Udisha Saklani and Barnaby Joseph Dye; 21.
Depoliticizing the countryside? The World Bank’s role in agriculture and rural development 250: Tobias Schmidtke; 22.
Measuring corruption perceptions in Tunisia: Transparency International, the Corruption Perception Index and the World Bank 262: Oana B. Albu and Jonathan Murphy; 23.
World Development under monopoly capitalism 273: Benjamin Selwyn and Dara Leyden; 24.
Responsibility avoidance in the World Bank’s approach to end poverty 285: Antje Vetterlein; 25.
Ethics and human rights in the World Bank 297: Desmond McNeill; 26.
Knowledge matters in the World Bank: the KNETworking foundations of development policy 308: Diane Stone; 27.
Housing and the World Bank: mortgaging development 320: 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 332: Scott Guggenheim; 29.
Citizen engagement: reflections on the operationalization of a World Bank corporate commitment 344: Janelle Plummer; 30.
Reflections on World Bank engagement on governance and anticorruption: insider and outsider perspectives 357: Vinay Bhargava; 31.
Quo Vadis? The World Bank’s role in promoting environmental sustainability 370: 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 383: Galit A. Sarfaty; 33.
Invisible inequalities: how practices of classification affect outcomes in the World Bank 394: Katja Freistein; 34.
The World Bank and shrinking civic space 405: Rachel Nadelman and Ricardo Vergel Negrón; 35.
Thinking and working apolitically 415: Graham Teskey