Morten Bøås / Desmond McNeill (Ed

Global Institutions and Development

Framing the World?
Herausgeber: Boas, Morten; Mcneill, Desmond

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The impact of multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This book 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. The authors analyze why some ideas are taken up by these institutions, how the ideas travel within the systems and how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted or resisted. This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader theoretical analysis. The volume explores topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the environment and provides detailed case studies on the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme and the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, which should be of particular interest and use to advanced undergraduate students and scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415312905
• ISBN-10: 0415312906
• Artikelnr.: 22001920

Autorenporträt

Morten Bøås is a Researcher at Fafo - Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway., Desmond McNeill is Research Professor, and former Director, at the SUM (Centre for Development and the Environment), University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Morten Bøås
Desmond McNeill; Chapter 2 The development discourse in the multilateral system
Knut G. Nustad; Chapter 3 Contesting policy ideas from below
Norman Long; Chapter 4 The informal sector
Desmond McNeill; Chapter 5 Policy stories and knowledge-based regimes
Ole Jacob Sending; Chapter 6 The World Bank and the environment
Robert Wade; Chapter 7 Sustainable development and the World Trade Organization
Morten Bøås
Jonas Vevatne; Chapter 8 Social capital and the World Bank
Desmond McNeill; Chapter 9 Hegemony
neoliberal 'good governance' and the International Monetary Fund
Ian Taylor; Chapter 10 Balancing between East and West
Janne Jokinen; Chapter 11 'Good governance' and the Development Assistance Committee
Ken Masujima; Chapter 12 The evolution of the concept of poverty in multilateral financial institutions
Alice Sindzingre; Chapter 13 The role of ideas in the United Nations Development Programme
Asuncion Lera St Clair; Chapter 14 The power of ideas
James J. Hentz; Chapter 15 Ideas and institutions
Morten Bøås
Desmond McNeill;