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Titolo |
At the frontlines of development : : reflections from the World Bank / / edited by Indermit S. Gill, Todd Pugatch |
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Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-15796-8 |
9786610157969 |
0-8213-6042-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GillIndermit Singh <1961-> |
PugatchTodd |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic development |
International finance |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Tables, Figures, and Boxes; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1 Introduction: Policies, Politics, and Principles: Three Hundred Years of World Bank Experience; Table; 2 Basil Kavalsky; 3 Phyllis Pomerantz; 4 Gobind Nankani; Boxes; 5 Edwin Lim; 6 Shahid Javed Burki; 7 Yukon Huang; 8 Olivier Lafourcade; 9 Christiaan Poortman; 10 Ajay Chhibber; Figures; 11 Inder Sud; 12 James W. Adams; 13 Myrna Alexander; 14 Jayasankar Shivakumar; References; About the Editors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"For 60 years the World Bank and the development community have been searching for the secret of prosperity. For both thinkers and doers, this has been an emotional rollercoaster of hope and disappointment, certainty and doubt. In the front seat of this drama were the World Bank's country directors who were responsible for bridging the world of ideas with that of action, the technical with the political. In this book they tell this story from a deeply personal, humble, and engaged perspective. This book is fundamental reading for the next generation of those who take on the quest for developme |
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