02852nam 22005894a 450 991045036600332120200520144314.01-280-15796-897866101579690-8213-6042-6(CKB)1000000000031533(EBL)459470(OCoLC)60707026(SSID)ssj0000085464(PQKBManifestationID)11116142(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085464(PQKBWorkID)10014837(PQKB)11728251(MiAaPQ)EBC459470(Au-PeEL)EBL459470(CaPaEBR)ebr10081827(CaONFJC)MIL15796(EXLCZ)99100000000003153320041214d2005 uf 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAt the frontlines of development[electronic resource] reflections from the World Bank /edited by Indermit S. Gill, Todd PugatchWashington, D.C. World Bankc20051 online resource (368 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8213-6041-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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"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 developmeEconomic developmentInternational financeElectronic books.Economic development.International finance.332.1/532Gill Indermit Singh1961-890354Pugatch Todd1054923MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450366003321At the frontlines of development2487927UNINA