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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779471203321

Titolo

Global institutions and development : framing the world? / / edited by Morten B�as and Desmond McNeill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

0-203-49633-7

1-134-38118-2

1-280-07433-7

1-283-64200-X

1-134-38119-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages)

Collana

RIPE series in global political economy

Altri autori (Persone)

BoasMorten <1965->

McNeillDesmond

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Financial institutions, International

International agencies

Development banks

Economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : power and ideas in multilateral institutions : towards an interpretative framework / Morten B�as and Desmond McNeill -- 2. The development discourse in the multilateral system / Knut G. Nustad -- 3. Contesting policy ideas from below / Norman Long -- 4. The informal sector : biography of an idea / Desmond McNeill -- 5. Policy stories and knowledge-based regimes : the case of international population policy / Ole Jacob Sending -- 6. The World Bank and the environment / Robert Wade -- 7. Sustainable development and the World Trade Organization / Morten B�as and Jonas Vevatne -- 8. Social capital and the World Bank / Desmond McNeill -- 9. Hegemony, neoliberal 'good governance' and the International Monetary Fund : a Gramscian perspective / Ian Taylor -- 10. Balancing between East and West : the Asian Development Bank's policy on good governance / Janne Jokinen -- 11. 'Good governance' and the Development Assistance Committee : ideas and organizational constraints / Ken



Masujima -- 12. The evolution of the concept of poverty in multilateral financial institutions : the case of the World Bank / Alice Sindzingre -- 13. The role of ideas in the United Nations Development Programme / Asuncion Lera St. Clair -- 14. The power of ideas : across the constructivist/realist divide / James J. Hentz -- 15. Ideas and institutions : who is framing what? / Morten B�as and Desmond McNeill.