Inside the World Bank: Exploding the Myth of the Monolithic Bank

ISBN-13: 9781349380107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 249 str.

Y. Xu

Opis

This book argues that the World Bank, far from being a unitary actor, is fundamentally plural, internally fragmented and dispersed, with cascading chains of delegation, authority and controls, and with considerable discretion delegated to the staff.

Recenzje

"Providing a rich description of many aspects of the World Bank, with details on internal operations that specialists may value, the authors posit that the World Bank is not well described by conventional principal-agent or bureaucratic models. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice

Spis treści

Inside the World Bank Mandates Politics and Management Regions and Sectors Centralization and Decentralization Research in DEC and in Operations  Self- and External Evaluation  Governance: Political, not Politics  Electric Power A Life at the World Bank

O autorze

XU YI-CHONG and PATRICK WELLER are professors of politics at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University, USA.