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Global Governance archives from October 2007
The role of the World Bank in poverty alleviation and human development in the twenty-first century: an introduction.
October 1, 2007... This month, October 2007, more than 140 journals worldwide are participating in an effort to raise awareness and stimulate research on a global theme of poverty and human development. In this spirit, Global Governance presents this special...
Producing knowledge for development: research at the World Bank.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2007... Research is one of the important activities of the World Bank and an essential input to lending. To meet the challenges of development and poverty reduction, the Bank must combine the power of ideas and knowledge with finance. Generating...
The disciplinary monopoly in development research at the World Bank.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2007... The World Bank's internal think tank, the Development Economics Research Group (DECRG), (1) is virtually unmatched in terms of the volume, quality, and impact of its work on development issues. Among other things, its staff publish in the most...
The World Bank: failing the Multi-Country AIDS Program, failing HIV/AIDS.(GLOBAL INSIGHTS)
October 1, 2007... The Multi-Country AIDS Program (MAP) is a World Bank commitment of $1 billion to fight HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The main aim of the MAP, launched in 2000, was to bring about a major scaling up of the multisectoral response to HIV/AIDS....
The World's Bank and the Bank's world.
October 1, 2007... Who or what shapes and drives the policy and operational behavior of the World Bank? The objective of this essay is to lay the conceptual and empirical framework for this special issue. I begin by constructing a synthetic theoretical...
Economic growth, poverty reduction, and the role of social policies: the evolution of the World Bank's social development approach.
October 1, 2007... The World Bank has undergone tremendous change recently. One crucial innovation is its initiative to raise social development to the level of core issue within its development strategy. While the Bank has always been concerned with social...
The World Bank Group: championing sustainable development norms?
October 1, 2007... It is well documented that international organizations diffuse norms, but how and why do they do so? I compare how the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation attempt to spread sustainable development norms through their...
Multilateral lending institutions and transnational policy networks in Mexico and Chile.
October 1, 2007... The impact of economic globalization for the countries of Latin America was profoundly shaped by the impact of the debt crisis of the early 1980s. For these countries, the emergence of transnational policy networks involving multilateral and...
In search of world governance: books on the Bank.(REVIEW ESSAY)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Anthony Bebbington, Michael Woolcock, Scott Guggenheim, and Elizabeth Olson (eds.), The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank, Kumarian Press, 2006.
Diane Stone and Christopher Wright (eds.), The...