Seeing Like the World Bank on Poverty

New Political Economy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-58

  Vetterlein, Antje ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

international bureaucracies; poverty reduction strategies; practical knowledge; quantification and economisation; World Bank

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; DEVELOPING WORLD; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POVERTY; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; WORLD BANK;

EID: 84858397753     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2011.569023     Document Type: Article

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