The role of the World Bank in poverty alleviation and human development in the twenty-first century: An introduction

Global Governance

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 461-468

  Weaver, Catherine ^a   Park, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 37349111522     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01304001     Document Type: Editorial

References (10)

1. The World Bank was originally composed of one institution, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). It now comprises five institutions, including the IBRD, International Development Association (IDA), International Finance Corporation (IFC), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). See Catherine Weaver, "The World's Bank and the Bank's World," in this issue, for a more detailed description of the structure, funding, and activities of the Bank.
2. See especially Jonathan Pincus and Jeffrey Winters, eds., Reinventing the World Bank (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002);
3. and Nancy Birdsall and Devesh Kapur, eds., Rescuing the World Bank (Washington, DC: Brookings Press for the Center for Global Development, 2006).
4. Oversight hearing titled "The Role and Effectiveness of the World Bank in Fighting Global Poverty," United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, 22 May 2007. See www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ financialsvcs_dem/ht052207.shtml. This first hearing included testimonies from Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Wade, Stuart Eizenstat, and David Beckman.
5. See, for example, Robert Wade, "Japan, the World Bank and the Art of Paradigm Maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in Political Perspective," New Left Review, no. 217 (May-June 1996): 3-36;
6. John Toye and Richard Toye, "The World Bank as Knowledge Agency," Overarching Concerns Programme Paper No. 11 (2005), United Nations Research Institute for Social Development;
7. and Robin Broad, "Research, Knowledge, and the Art of 'Paradigm Maintenance': The World Bank's Development Economics Vice-Presidency," Review of International Political Economy 13, no. 3(2006): 387-419.
8. Angus Deaton et al., An Evaluation of World Bank Research, 1998-2005 (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2006), p. 6, available at http://econ.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/0.,contentMDK: 21165468~menuPK:598503~pagePK:64165401~piPK:64165026~theSitePK:469382,00.html (accessed 27 March 2007).
9. Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock, "Disciplinary Monopolies in Development Research: A Response to the Research Evaluation Process," World Bank, 2007, available at www.tinyurl.com/2forxc (accessed 28 March 2007).
10. Pincus and Winters, Reinventing the World Bank.