The Elgar Companion to the World Bank

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
Part I Introduction to the Companion
1. The World Bank: a changing organization in a changing world
Part II Setting the scene: World Bank history and disciplinary perspectives
2. History and histories of the World Bank
3. Locating the World Bank: the unmaking and remaking of Development Economics in its shifting vision
4. The World Bank and Anthropology: conflict and cooperation
5. The World Bank and Legal Studies Part III Researching the World Bank in international relations
6. Rational choice: actors, preferences and power
7. The World Bank Inspection Panel from an institutionalist perspective
8. Constructivism, norms, and the World Bank
9. The hypocrisy of the World Bank
10. US 'hegemony' in the World Bank
Part IV The outside perspective: World Bank relations to its organizational environment
11. Contested terrain: World Bank projects and participatory development
12. Revitalizing the World Bank: engagement with the private sector and scope expansion 13. China's relations with the World Bank: between great power and developing country
14. Let's be friends not foes: an assessment of the strategic co-evolution of the World Bank and the AIIB in the face of institutional overlap1
15. Intricate interactions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
Part V The impact perspective: World Bank policy areas
16. Environmental partnerships in the World Bank
17. Just another brick in the wall? The changing legitimacy and centrality of the World Bank in global education
18. The World Bank's work in health: continuity and change 19. Gender and development in the World Bank: an evaluation of the business case for equality
20. Dam building and the World Bank: the evolving battle over partial reform
21. Depoliticizing the countryside? The World Bank's role in agriculture and rural development
22. Measuring corruption perceptions in Tunisia: Transparency International, the Corruption Perception Index and the World Bank
23. World development under monopoly capitalism
24. Responsibility avoidance in the World Bank's approach to end poverty
25. Ethics and human rights in the World Bank 26. Knowledge matters in the World Bank: the KNETworking foundations of development policy
27. Housing and the World Bank: mortgaging development
Part VI The inside perspective: practitioners' views on the World Bank
28. The origins of community-driven development: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program
29. Citizen engagement: reflections on the operationalization of a World Bank corporate commitment
30. Reflections on World Bank engagement in governance and anticorruption: insider and outsider perspectives