Summary

Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World Bank, developing countries have experienced lower growth and rising inequality compared to previous periods. In Beyond the World Bank Agenda, Howard Stein argues that the controversial institution is plagued by a myopic, neoclassical mindset that wrongly focuses on individual rationality and downplays the social and political contexts that can eit.

Notes

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; I. Reflections on the History of the World Bank Agenda; II. Economic Theory and the World Bank Agenda: A Critical Evaluation; III. Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to Development; Notes; Bibliography; Index. Electronic reproduction.Available via World Wide Web.Access may be limited to libraries affiliated with Ebooks Corporation.

Classification

• LCC: HG3881.5
• Dewey Decimal: 338.9

Book Details

• Physical Description: 353 p.
• Edition Info: (electronic bk.)

Subjects

• Economic development
• Electronic books

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