LEADER 03875nam 2200697 450 001 9910459685303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5601-0 010 $a0-8014-5602-9 010 $a1-322-50448-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801456022 035 $a(CKB)3710000000275049 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001399050 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11805757 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001399050 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11450293 035 $a(PQKB)10521356 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138676 035 $a(OCoLC)1016816815 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58243 035 $a(DE-B1597)503517 035 $a(OCoLC)1076460273 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801456022 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138676 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10967327 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681730 035 $a(OCoLC)922998613 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000275049 100 $a20051208d2006 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe globalizers $ethe IMF, the World Bank, and their borrowers /$fNgaire Woods 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (266 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aCornell studies in money 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-4424-1 311 $a0-8014-7420-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [215]-239) and index. 327 $aWhose institutions? -- The globalizing mission -- The power to persuade -- The mission in Mexico -- Mission creep in Russia -- Mission unaccomplished in Africa -- Reforming the IMF and World Bank. 330 $a"The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy."-from the IntroductionThe greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with. Ngaire Woods brilliantly decodes what they do and why they do it, using original research, extensive interviews carried out across many countries and institutions, and scholarship from the fields of economics, law, and politics.The Globalizers focuses on both the political context of IMF and World Bank actions and their impact on the countries in which they intervene. After describing the important debates between U.S. planners and the Allies in the 1944 foundation at Bretton Woods, she analyzes understandings of their missions over the last quarter century. She traces the impact of the Bank and the Fund in the recent economic history of Mexico, of post-Soviet Russia, and in the independent states of Africa. Woods concludes by proposing a range of reforms that would make the World Bank and the IMF more effective, equitable, and just. 410 0$aCornell studies in money. 606 $aDebts, External$xPolitical aspects 606 $aLoans, Foreign$xPolitical aspects 606 $aInternational finance$xPolitical aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDebts, External$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aLoans, Foreign$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aInternational finance$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a332.1/52 700 $aWoods$b Ngaire$0266677 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459685303321 996 $aThe globalizers$92469411 997 $aUNINA