The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform

by Paloni; Alberto

• ISBN13: 9780415353991
• ISBN10: 0415353998
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies area positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage. This book brings together an international team of contributors and centres upon three broad themes: * The Ideology of the IMF and World Bank * Poverty Reduction * Conditionality

Table of Contents

List of figures	xi
List of tables	xiii
Notes on contributors	xv
Foreword	xvii
The IMF, World Bank and policy reform: introduction and overview	1	(26)
ALBERTO PALONI AND MAURIZIO ZANARDI
PART I Geopolitics and ideology	27	(116)
1 Voting power in the Bretton Woods institutions	29	(20)
DENNIS LEECH AND ROBERT LEECH
2 What determines IMF arrangements?	49	(15)
GRAHAM BIRD AND DANE ROWLANDS
3 The politics of IMF and World Bank lending: will it backfire in the Middle East and North Africa?	64	(36)
JANE HARRIGAN, CHENGANG WANG AND HAMED EL-SAID
4 A World Bank attempt to create a policy environment indirectly through an NGO support project: a case study of Palestine	100	(15)
JOHN CAMERON
5 The World Bank and good governance: rethinking the state or consolidating neo-liberalism?	115	(30)
GORDON CRAWFORD
PART II Poverty-reduction strategies	143	(108)
6 The effects of compliance with structural adjustment programmes on human development in sub-Saharan Africa	145	(17)
FARHAD NOORBAKHSH AND SHADAN NOORBAKHSH
7 Trade liberalization and economic reform in developing countries: structural change or de-industrialization?	162	(29)
MEHDI S. SHAFAEDDIN
8 Integrating poverty reduction in IMF–World Bank models	191	(40)
BRIGITTE GRANVILLE AND SUSHANTA MALLICK
9 The contrasting effects of structural adjustment on rural livelihoods in Africa: case-studies from Malawi, Tanzania
KUNAL SEN
10 The World Bank and the reconstruction of the 'social safety net' in Russia and Eastern Europe	231	(20)
PAUL MOSLEY
PART III Borrower ownership and the reform of conditionality	251	(62)
11 Conditionality and IMF flexibility	253	(12)
TONY KILLICK
12 Conditionality, development assistance and poverty: reforming the PRS process	265	(11)
JOHN WEEKS
13 What does ownership mean in practice? Policy learning and the evolution of pro-poor policies in Uganda	276	(16)
OLIVER MORRISSEY AND ARJAN VERSCHOOR
14 Can conditionality improve borrower ownership?	292	(21)
ALBERTO PALONI AND MAURIZIO ZANARDI
Index	313