Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World?

ISBN-13: 9780415312905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str.

Morten Boas; Morten Boas; Desmond McNeill

Opis

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. Key topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the environment are closely examined, with detailed case studies of the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme and the OECD's Development Assistance Committee. The impact 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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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.