In and Against Development : The World Bank Behind the Looking Glass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Benjamin.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.314

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Bank.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2025.

Summary:

"Long self-proclaimed as "Knowledge Bank", the World Bank is as active as criticised in its endeavours across scholarship, ideology and policy in practice, serving US interests in the age of globalisation, neoliberalism and financialisation. This volume focuses on the Bank's scholarship, meticulously criticising it and assessing alternatives. Its analytical framing draws upon economics imperialism in general, and its evolution through three phases. Corresponding phases of new, newer and newest development economics are identified, with the World Bank taking a leading role in each, with implications for the expanding scope of development economics and its contestations with development studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1 Locating Development Economics

Postamble: Locating the World Bank

Chapter 2 Beyond Bureaucrats in Business: A Critical Review of the World Bank Approach to Privatisation and Public Sector Reform

Postscript as Personal Preamble

1 Introduction

2 Privatisation Theory: The New Synthesis

3 Bureaucrats in Business: Context and Outline

4 A Critique

4.1 Narrow Analytical Framework

4.2 Selective Use of Evidence and Bias in Interpretation

4.3 Narrow View of What Constitutes Industrial Policy Leading to Over-Generalisation of Conclusions

5 Concluding Remarks

Appendix: Debating the Provision of Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Response to Nellis

Chapter 3 The Developmental State Is Dead - Long Live Social Capital?

2 The Microeconomic Foundations

3 The Forward March of Social Capital

4 Neither Washington nor Post-Washington Consensus

Chapter 4 Flattening Economic Geography: Locating the World Development Report for 2009

2 NEG as EI

3 From Pre- to Post-Washington Consensus

4 Fixing the WDR09

5 From Finance to Climate by Way of Conclusion

Chapter 5 Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015

2 WDR 2015 and the Knowledge Bank

3 Situating the Turn to Behavioural Economics at the Bank

4 The WDR Approach to Behavioural Economics

4.1 The WDR's Mental Model

4.2 Behavioural Economics and Development: The Conquest of Another Frontier?

5 From Behavioural Economics to World Bank Policy in Practice: The Case of HIV-Related Cash Transfers

6 Concluding Remarks.

Chapter 6 A Paradigm Shift that Never Will Be? Justin Lin's New Structural Economics

2 From Comparative Advantage to Development: Lin and the NSE

3 Lin and the Bank

4 Conclusion

Chapter 7 Locating the Developmental State and Industrial Policy after the Crisis

Foreword

2 Lessons from the Developmental State Paradigm

3 Industrial Policy

4 South-South Cooperation by Way of Conclusion

Chapter 8 The Continuing Enigmas of Social Policy

1 Introduction and Overview

2 From Welfare Regimenting …

3 … to Convergence through Path Dependence to Crisis

4 This Time (Social Policy) Is (and Was) Different(iated)

5 Social Policy - It's Financialisation, Stupid

6 Towards Alternatives

7 Conclusions as Starting Points

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789004723511

900472351X

OCLC:

1534189371