A Chance for the World Bank

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Anthem 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.

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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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Jozef Ritzen is President of the Universiteit Maastricht. Previously he was Vice President of the World Bank's Development Economics Department (2001–3) and was the Minister of Education, Culture and Science for The Netherlands (1989–98).

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