A Chance for the World BankAnthem Press, 2005 M03 15 - 225 pages This book is an authoritative and radical manifesto for urgently needed changes in development cooperation. 'A Chance for the World Bank' provides an overview of the challenges faced by the World Bank, and explores how it has organized itself to deal with its mission. It proposes that, unless radical steps are taken by the World Bank, the first decade of the century will witness a ever-widening gulf between the poor and rich countries. |
Contents
Off on the Wrong Foot | 1 |
Poverty Remains a Concern | 13 |
Globalization Does Not Automatically Lead to Convergence | 37 |
3 | 45 |
4 | 51 |
5a Civic Conflict | 59 |
Shifts in Development Paradigms | 71 |
DecisionMaking at the World Bank | 81 |
The Different Faces of the World Bank | 107 |
Partners in Development Assistance | 133 |
Civil Society and Development | 149 |
Successes and Failures | 165 |
A Chance for the World Bank? | 185 |
Notes | 203 |
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