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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822918303321

Titolo

Globalization and the nation state : the impact of the IMF and the World Bank / / edited By Gustav Ranis, James Raymond Vreeland and Stephen Kosack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-135-99387-4

1-135-99388-2

1-280-29073-0

9786610290734

0-203-32344-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 508 p.) : ill

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; ; 52

Classificazione

83.44

Altri autori (Persone)

RanisGustav

VreelandJames Raymond <1971->

KosackStephen <1978->

Disciplina

332.152

Soggetti

Financial institutions, International

Nation-state

Economic assistance - Political aspects

International economic relations

International trade

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Whither conditionality? -- Who's in charge? : ownership and conditionality in IMF-supported programs / James Boughton -- Policy conditionality / Stephen Coate and Stephen Morris -- Conditionality and ownership in IMF lending : a political economy approach / Allan Drazen -- Empirical implications of endogenous IMF conditionality / Patrick Conway -- The high politics of IMF lending / Strom C. Thacker -- Money talks : supplementary financiers and IMF conditionality / Erica R. Gould -- The World Bank and the reconstruction of the 'social safety net' in Russia and eastern Europe / Paul Mosley -- When the World Bank says yes : determinants of structural adjustment lending / M.



Rodwan Abouharb and David L. Cingranelli -- The demand for IMF assistance : what factors influence the decision to turn to the Fund? / Graham Bird and Dane Rowlands -- The survival of political leaders and IMF programs / Alastair Smith and James Raymond Vreeland -- Do PRSPs empower developing countries and disempower the World Bank, or is it the other way round? / Frances Stewart and Michael Wang -- Macroeconomic adjustment in IMF-supported programs : projections and reality / Rouben Atoian, Patrick Conway, Marcelo Selowsky, and Tsidi Tsikata -- The IMF and capital account crises : the case for a separate lender of last resort and conditionality functions / Thomas D. Willett -- Should the IMF discontinue its long-term lending role in developing countries? / Graham Bird and Paul Mosley -- IFIs and IPGs : operational implications for the World Bank / Ravi Kanbur -- Ownership, Dutch disease, and the World Bank / Gustav Ranis -- Why it matters who runs the IMF and the World Bank / Nancy Birdsall -- Do as I say not as I do : a critique of G-7 proposals on "reforming" the MBDs / Devesh Kapur.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings together an international team of contributors to assess the political economy of the IMF and World Bank programmes. The cutting-edge techniques of the new political economy are thus brought to bear on international issues for the first time. The book includes contributions from leading North American economists - Stephen Coate, Stephen Morris, Ravi Kanbur and Allen Drazen - as well as European-based analysts including Graham Bird and Frances Stewart.