Corruption, Politics and Development The Role of the World Bank

by Marquette, Heather

• ISBN13: 9780333999318
• ISBN10: 0333999312
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781403943736
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

In 1997, the World Bank announced a strategy to help its borrowers combat corruption, despite earlier claims that work of this kin violated the Bank's non-political mandate.Despite many attempts to reshape corruption as an economic issue rather than a political one, the non-political mandate has never been satisfactorily addressed.Heather Marquette argues that the Bank should focus in its strengths and avoid the more controversial components of its anti-corruption program, which threaten its credibility.

Author Biography

Heather Marquette is in the Department of International Development, University of Birmingham.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
List of Figures	ix
List of Boxes	x
Acknowledgements	xi
List of Abbreviations	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Background: the Bank and politics	3	(10)
Structure of the book	13	(2)
The Emergence of a Development Agency, 1944--1981	15	(24)
The World Bank and Bretton Woods	16	(3)
The rise of development theory	19	(2)
The Bank and development in the 1950s and 1960s	21	(4)
A turning point for the Bank	25	(1)
Poverty and the change to policy-based lending	26	(2)
The debt crisis	28	(3)
McNamara and politics	31	(1)
Conclusion: the advent of structural adjustment	32	(7)
The Path to the World Bank's Anti-Corruption Programme, 1981--1997	39	(40)
The changing orthodoxy on democracy and development	40	(10)
Criticisms of political conditionality	50	(4)
Good governance, anti-corruption work and the World Bank	54	(1)
Development, democracy and corruption	55	(7)
Donors and good governance	62	(8)
Criticisms of good governance	70	(1)
Anti-corruption at the World Bank	71	(2)
Early work by EDI	73	(1)
Ties with Transparency International	74	(1)
Leadership commitment to fighting corruption	75	(2)
Conclusion: the 1997 strategy document	77	(2)
The World Bank's Anti-Corruption Programme	79	(43)
The programme's main components	80	(1)
Internal accountability and borrower accountability	80	(1)
International partnerships	80	(4)
Areas of concern	84	(1)
Strategy vs. policy	84	(1)
The `Knowledge Bank' and corruption research	85	(3)
Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF)	88	(2)
Internal accountability measures	90	(5)
External reviews of the Bank's internal accountability measures	95	(1)
US General Accounting Office (GAO)	95	(1)
The Thornburgh Report	96	(1)
Resulting changes	97	(3)
Borrower accountability measures	100	(1)
The main actors in the Bank's anti-corruption programme: PREM and WBI	101	(3)
Diagnostic tools	104	(1)
The Anti-Corruption Core Course	104	(6)
The Country Assistance Strategy (CAS)	110	(1)
The role of the regions	110	(2)
Country assistance programmes	112	(2)
The elusive nature of political will	114	(2)
Civil society: a problematic partnership?	116	(3)
Conclusion	119	(3)
The Significance of Comparative Advantage in Donor Work on Corruption	122	(33)
Comparative advantage	123	(2)
The need to `spin-off' parts of the World Bank's anti-corruption programme	125	(4)
Evaluation of donor claims of comparative advantage in fighting corruption	129	(1)
USAID	129	(7)
UNDP	136	(5)
DfID	141	(3)
EU	144	(2)
Nordic and other like-minded donors	146	(7)
Conclusion: the rhetoric of comparative advantage	153	(2)
Conclusion	155	(9)
Notes	164	(55)
Bibliography	219	(37)
Index	256