Global institutions and development : framing the world? / edited by Morten Bas and Desmond McNeill.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Description
1 online resource (272 pages)

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Series
RIPE series in global political economy. [More in this series]
Summary note
Examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and more broadly looks at the role of ideas in international development institutions and how they have affected current development discourse.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index.
Contents
  • 1. Introduction : power and ideas in multilateral institutions : towards an interpretative framework / Morten B�as and Desmond McNeill
  • 2. The development discourse in the multilateral system / Knut G. Nustad
  • 3. Contesting policy ideas from below / Norman Long
  • 4. The informal sector : biography of an idea / Desmond McNeill
  • 5. Policy stories and knowledge-based regimes : the case of international population policy / Ole Jacob Sending
  • 6. The World Bank and the environment / Robert Wade
  • 7. Sustainable development and the World Trade Organization / Morten B�as and Jonas Vevatne
  • 8. Social capital and the World Bank / Desmond McNeill
  • 9. Hegemony, neoliberal 'good governance' and the International Monetary Fund : a Gramscian perspective / Ian Taylor
  • 10. Balancing between East and West : the Asian Development Bank's policy on good governance / Janne Jokinen
  • 11. 'Good governance' and the Development Assistance Committee : ideas and organizational constraints / Ken Masujima
  • 12. The evolution of the concept of poverty in multilateral financial institutions : the case of the World Bank / Alice Sindzingre
  • 13. The role of ideas in the United Nations Development Programme / Asuncion Lera St. Clair
  • 14. The power of ideas : across the constructivist/realist divide / James J. Hentz
  • 15. Ideas and institutions : who is framing what? / Morten B�as and Desmond McNeill.
ISBN
  • 0-203-49633-7
  • 1-134-38118-2
  • 1-280-07433-7
  • 1-283-64200-X
  • 1-134-38119-0
OCLC
56340351
Doi
  • 10.4324/9780203496336
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