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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 508 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 332.152
• Soggetto topico: Financial institutions, International; Nation-state; Economic assistance - Political aspects; International economic relations; International trade; Globalization
• Classificazione: 83.44
• Altri autori: RanisGustav VreelandJames Raymond <1971-> KosackStephen <1978->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Globalization and the nation state
• ISBN: 1-135-99387-4; 1-135-99388-2; 1-280-29073-0; 9786610290734; 0-203-32344-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822918303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; ; 52.