Research, knowledge, and the art of 'paradigm maintenance': The World Bank's Development Economics Vice-Presidency (DEC)

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-419

  Broad, Robin ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development research; Globalization; Knowledge Bank; Neoliberalism; World Bank

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746650499     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290600769260     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Anderson, S. (2003a) Letter to 'Fellow NAFTA-watchers'.
2. Anderson, S. (2003b) Email exchange with World Bank economist Daniel Lederman. 18-19 December.
3. APIC (2000) 'Statement on Ravi Kanbur's Resignation as World Development Report Lead Author', June 14, www.globalpolicy.org
4. Babbington, A., Guggenheim, S., Olson, E. and Woolcock, M. (2004) 'Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank', Jounal of Development Studies, 40(5):33-64.
5. Bakvis, P. (2003) 'Distorted World Bank Report on NAFTA and Labour', Email available through the Washington, DC office of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
6. Seattle, A. (2001) 'Bright Prospects Seen for New Trade Round: The World Economic Forum Chief Economist Pledges World Bank's Intellectual Firepower ... ', Financial Times, January 30, p. 14.
7. Belassa, B. et al. (1971) The Structure of Protection in Developing Countries, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
8. Belassa, B. (1979) 'A "Stages Approach" to Comparative Advantage' in Irma Adelman (ed.) Economic Growth and Resources - Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the International Economic Association, London: Macmillan, pp. 121-56.
9. Belassa, B. (1982) Development Strategies in Semi-Industrial Countries, World Bank Occasional Papers no. 8, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
10. Bello, W. et al. (1982) Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines, San Francisco, CA: Institute for Food and Development Policy.
11. Blyth, M. and Spruyt, H. (2003) 'Our Past as Prologue: Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary issue of the Review of International Political Economy', Review of International Political Economy, 10(4): 607-20.
12. Boas, M. and McNeill, D. (eds) (2004) Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World, London and New York: Routledge.
13. Bond, P. (2000 1st edition and 2005 2nd edition) Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa, London: Pluto Press.
14. Bretton Woods Project (2001a) 'The World Bank as a Knowledge Bank: Selected Critical Comments'. 25 November.
15. Bretton Woods Project (2001b) 'World Bank to 'Intensify' Work on Trade'. 4 April.
16. Bretton Woods Project (2001c) 'Bank Economist Investigated for Article'. 2 November.
17. Bretton Woods Project (2004) 'Knowledge Bank Evaluation Criticizes "Reluctance to Consider Alternatives" '. 28 January.
18. Broad, R. (1987) 'How About a Real Solution to Third World Debt?' New York Times, 28 September.
19. Broad, R. (1988) Unequal Alliance: The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
20. Broad, R. (2004) 'The Washington Consensus Meets the Global Backlash: Shifting Debates and Policies', Globalizations, 1(2):129-54.
21. Broad, R. (2005) 'The World Bank', initial submission to the project of International Regulations within the Context of Socio-Economy of Solidarity in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization, Workshop on Solidarity Socio-Economy (WSSE), Alliance-21, January (http://integr.socioecon.org).
22. Clark, D., Fox, J. and Treakle, K. (eds) (2003) Demanding Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
23. De Vries, B. (1967) The Export Experience of Developing Countries. World Bank Staff Occasional Papers No. 3, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
24. De Vries, B. (1980) Transition Towards More Rapid and Labor Intensive Industrial Development: The Case of the Philippines. World Bank Staff Working Paper #424. October. This paper appears to have been published by the United Nations Industry and Development in 1980.
25. De Vries, B. (1996) 'The World Bank as an International Player in Economic Analysis', in A.W. Coats (ed.) The Post-1945 Internationalization of Economics, Annual Supplement to Volume 28 of History of Political Economy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 225-44.
26. Dethier, J. (2005a) 'An Overview of Research at the World Bank' Text version of Presentation at the Conference 'Research Bank on the World Bank' organized by the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Rationalization, University of Warwick, and the World Bank, European Office, Budapest, Hungary, April 1-2.18 pp.
27. Dethier, J. (2005b) 'An Overview of Research at the World Bank', Power Point Presentation at the Conference 'Research Bank on the World Bank' organized by the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, and the World Bank, European Office, Budapest, Hungary, April 1-2. 27 pp.
28. Dollar, D. (1992) 'Outward-Oriented Developing Countries Really Do Grow More Rapidly: Evidence from 95 LDCs, 1976-85', Economic Development and Cultural Change, 40(3): 523-44.
29. Dollar, D. and Kraay, A. (2001) 'Trade, Growth and Poverty', Development Research Group, World Bank.
30. Dollar, D. and Kraay, A. (2002) 'Spreading the Wealth', Foreign Affairs, 81:120-33.
31. Dollar, D. and Kraay, A. (2003) 'Institutions, Trade, and Growth', Journal of Monetary Economics, 50(1): 133-62.
32. Easterly, W. (2001, 2002 paperback edition) The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
33. Ellerman, D. (2002) 'Should Development Agencies Have Official Views?', Development in Practice, 12(3,4): 285-97.
34. Ellerman, D. (2005) Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
35. Fine, B. (2001) Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium, New York: Routledge.
36. Foucault, M. (1997) Colin Gordon (ed). Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews & Other Writings, 1972-1977, New York: Pantheon Books.
37. Fox, J. (2003) 'Assessing Accountability Reforms: Lessons from the Civil Society Claims to the World Bank Inspection Panel' Presentation to Construyendo La Democracia En El Enuvo Siglo, 18-19 September.
38. George, S. and Sabelli, F. (1994) The World Bank's Secular Empire, New York: Penguin.
39. Gilbert, C. and Vines, D. (eds) (2000) The World Bank: Structures and Policies, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
40. Goldman, M. (2005) Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
41. Harris, J. (2002) Depoliticizing Development: The World Bank and Social Capital, London: Anthem Press; original copyright 2001 by LeftWord Books.
42. Helleiner, E. (2003) 'Economic Liberalism and Its Critics: The Past As Prologue?' Review of International Political Economy, 10(4): 685-96.
43. Heritage Foundation (2003) Annual Report.
44. Kanbur, R. (2001a) 'Economic Policy, Distribution, and Poverty: The Nature of Disagreements', World Development, 29(6): 1083-94.
45. Kanbur, R. (2001b) 'Extract from Growth and Trade: The Last Redoubt?' available at www.cornell.edu/poverty/kanbur.
46. Kapur, D., Lewis, J. P. and Webb, R. (1997) The World Bank: Its First Half Century, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
47. King, K. (2002) 'Banking on Knowledge: The New Knowledge Projects of the World Bank', Compare, 32(3): 311-26.
48. Lederman. D. (2003) Email exchange with Institute for Policy Studies researcher Sarah Anderson, 18-19 December.
49. Mallaby, S. (2004) The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, New York: Penguin.
50. Mallaby, S. (2005) 'Making Globalization Work', The Washington Post, 28 February.
51. Mason, E. and Asher, R. (1973) The World Bank Since Bretton Woods, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
52. Milanovic, B. (2002) 'True World Income Distribution, 1988 and 1993: First Calculation Based on Household Surveys Alone', The Economic Journal, 112 (January): 51-92.
53. Milanovic, B. (2003) 'The Two Faces of Globalization: Against Globalization as We Know It', World Development, 31(4): 667-83. Note: various drafts of this article exist.
54. Milanovic, B. (2005) Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
55. Myers, R. (2000) 'Improving Logical Reasoning in the World Bank'. Revision of September 1993 original version. Available at www.erols.com/rmyersl/ LOGIC4.pdf.
56. Myers, R. (2001) 'A Theory of Yes Men'. Revision of October 1994 original version. Available at 〈http://users.erols.com/rmyers1/yesmen.htm〉.
57. 'NAFTA at 10' (2004) Washington Post, editorial, 9 January.
58. Pincus, J. and Winters, J. (eds) (2002) Reinventing the World Bank, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
59. Powell, J. (n.d. 2002?) Cornering the Market: The World Bank and Trade Capacity Building, London: Bretton Woods Project.
60. Rebello, J. (2002) 'World Bank Study Contradicts Its Free-Trade Income Theories', Dow Jones Newswires 23 August, accessed via 50 Years Email List (stop-wbimf@50years.org).
61. Rich, B. (1994) Mortgaging the Earth: The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment, and the Crisis of Development, Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
62. Rodrik, D. (2001) The Global Governance of Trade as If Development Really Mattered, New York: UNDP.
63. Rodrik, D. (2002) 'After Neoliberalism, What?' in After Neoliberalism: Economic Policies that Work for the Poor, ed. by New Rules for Global Finance Coalition, collection of papers presented at the Oxfam Conference on Alternatives to Neoliberalism, Washington, DC, 23-24 May.
64. Ruggie, J. (1982) 'International Regimes, Transactions, and Change: Embedded Liberalism in the Postwar Economic Order', International Organizations, 36(2): 379-115.
65. Shaw, K. (2004) 'Knowledge, Foundations, Politics', International Studies Review, 6(4): 7-20.
66. Squire, L. (2000) 'Why the World Bank Should Be Involved in Development Research' in C. Gilbert and D. Vines (eds) The World Bank: Structures and Policies, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 4, pp. 109-31.
67. Standing, G. (2000) 'Brave New Words? A Critique of Stiglitz's World Bank Rethink', Development and Change, 31: 737-63.
68. Stern, N. with Ferreira, F. (1997) 'The World Bank as "Intellectual Actor" ', in D. Kapur, J. P. Lewis and R. Webb (eds) The World Bank: Its First Half Century, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, Vol. 2, Chapter. 12, pp. 523-609.
69. Stone, D. (ed.) (2000) Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Gateway, London: Beacon Press.
70. Stone, D. (2003) 'The "Knowledge Bank" and the Global Development Network' Global Governance, 9(1): 43-61.
71. Wade, R. (1996) 'Japan, the World Bank, and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective', New Left Review, 217 (May/June): 3-38.
72. Wade, R. (2001) 'Making the World Development Report 2000: Attacking Poverty', World Development, 29(8): 1435-11.
73. Wade, R. (2002) 'US Hegemony and the World Bank: The Fight Over People and Ideas', Review of International Political Economy, 9(2): 201-29.
74. Wade, R. (2004) 'Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and Inequality?' World Development, 32(4): 567-89.
75. Weisbrot, M. and Baker, D. (2002) 'The Relative Impact of Trade Liberalization on Developing Countries', CEPR, Washington, DC.
76. Wilks, A. (2000) 'World Development Reports: The Preparation Process', reprint of article in IDS Bulletin, April 1998, online in Briefing, 13 June, http://www.brettonwoodsporject.org/article.
77. Wilks, A. (2004) 'The World Bank's Knowledge Roles: Dominating Development Debates', 28 May.
78. Wilks, A. and Lefrancois, F. (2002) Blinding with Science or Encouraging Debate?: How World Bank Analysis Determines PRSP Policies, London: Bretton Woods Project and World Vision.
79. Williamson, J. (1990) The Progress of Policy Reform in Latin America, Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics.
80. Wolfensohn, J. (1996) Speech at Annual Meetings of World Bank and IMF, Washington, DC, 1 October, available at 〈http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/ EXTERNAL/NEWS〉.
81. World Bank (1980) 'Philippines: Industrial Development Strategy and Policies'. World Bank Country Study. May. [Note: B. de Vries helped write this.]
82. World Bank (1980) 'Philippines-Country Program Paper'. August 29.
83. World Bank (2002) Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy. World Bank Policy Research Report prepared under supervision of chief economist Nicholas Stern and written by Paul Collier (Director, Development Research Group) and David Dollar (Research Manager in the Development Research Group), New York: Oxford University Press and Washington, DC: World Bank.
84. World Bank (2003a) A Guide to The World Bank, Washington, DC: World Bank.
85. World Bank (2003b) Lessons from NAFTA for Latin American and Caribbean Countries, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2003. The relevant press release is dated 17 December 2003.
86. World Bank (2004a) 'Online Discussion with David Dollar', available at 〈www.worldbank.org〉, accessed 11 March 2004.
87. World Bank (2004b) 'Q & A with David Dollar', available at: 〈www.worldbank.org〉, accessed 11 March 2004.
88. World Bank (n.d.) 'World Bank Historical Chronology' available online at: 〈http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/archives/Exhibits.nsf/434450dc9d18b475 85256625004a9567/a9b66e4e4e25e33a852569ae0079477d?OpenDocument〉
89. World Bank, Information Solutions Group (2001, 2003, 2005) The World Bank Group Directory.
90. World Bank, Operations Evaluation Department (2003) Sharing Knowledge: Innovations and Remaining Challenges - An OED Evaluation.
91. World Bank, Operations Policy and Country Services (2002) 'From Adjustment Lending to Development Policy Support Lending: Key Issues in the Update of the World Bank Policy', 6 June 2002 draft.
92. World Bank, Operations Policy and Country Services (2004) 'From Adjustment Lending to Development Policy Lending: Update of World Bank Policy', OP 8.60, approved by the Board, August.
93. World Bank, Research Advisory Staff (n.d.) 'Evaluations of World Bank Research: Research Support Budget Projects', accessed 22 October 2004, 〈http://www.worldbank.org/html/rad/evaluation/home.htm〉.
94. World Bank (various years) Annual Report.
95. World Bank (various years) The World Bank's Programs and Budgets.
96. World Bank (various years) World Development Report.
97. Zoellick, R. (2002) 'The Trading is Good for You', The Economist, part of special section on 'The World in 2002', p. 30.