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Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
The World Bank And Development | p. 1 |
Historical Context | p. 2 |
Methodological Framework | p. 3 |
Pars Destruens | p. 4 |
Pars Construens | p. 8 |
The Currie Mission In Colombia, 1949-1953 | p. 11 |
The Importance of the Colombia Mission for the Switch from Reconstruction to Development | p. 12 |
End of the Reconstruction Phase | p. 12 |
Initial Contacts Between the Colombian Government and the IBRD | p. 15 |
The Collaboration Between Lauchlin Currie and the IBRD | p. 22 |
The Mission Collects Information | p. 22 |
Putting the Team Together | p. 28 |
The First IBRD General Survey Mission, Colombia 1949 | p. 35 |
The Currie Mission Report | p. 39 |
The Comite de Desarrollo Economico (1950-1951) and the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1954) | p. 46 |
The Evolution of the Relationship Between Currie and the World Bank | p. 50 |
Tensions Within the Comite de Desarrollo Economico | p. 50 |
The Difficult Beginning of the Consejo National de Planificacion (1952-1953) | p. 53 |
The End of the Affair | p. 61 |
Economic Development In Theory And Practice | p. 64 |
Development Approaches: Balanced Versus Unbalanced Growth | p. 66 |
Balanced Growth | p. 67 |
Unbalanced Growth | p. 70 |
Development Approaches: Program Loans Versus Project Loans | p. 76 |
Program Loans | p. 77 |
Project Loans | p. 78 |
The Debate on Development Reverberates Inside the IBRD | p. 79 |
Conflicting Approaches: Program Versus Project | p. 79 |
Program Versus Project: The Bank's Changing Attitude | p. 80 |
Autobiographical Notes | p. 82 |
Currie Versus Hirschman: Monetary and Fiscal Policy | p. 83 |
Analyzing the Situation | p. 83 |
Hypotheses | p. 84 |
The Clash | p. 85 |
Currie Versus Hirschman: Iron and Steel Production | p. 87 |
Analysis of the Currie Mission | p. 87 |
Interests at Odds | p. 90 |
The "Informe de la Mision Para el Comite" and the Flesher Solution | p. 93 |
Steel and Development: Reasons for Disagreement | p. 98 |
Changing Alliances | p. 103 |
Agreements and Disagreements | p. 103 |
A Sociological Interpretation of the Development Economics Debate: Robert K. Merton and the "Kindle Cole" Principle | p. 105 |
At The Root Of The Bank's Policy Advice | p. 112 |
The Urban Development Plan for Barranquilla | p. 114 |
Request for IBRD Financing | p. 114 |
Why Did the Bank Refuse Financing? | p. 118 |
The IBRD and Housing Loans | p. 120 |
The ILO Proposal and the First IBRD Comments | p. 120 |
The Disengagement of the IBRD | p. 122 |
Discussions at the Bank: Impact Loans and Social Loans | p. 123 |
Impact Loans | p. 123 |
Social Loans | p. 127 |
The Bank's Relentless Preference for Directly Productive Loans | p. 129 |
Raising Funds in the U.S. Capital Market | p. 130 |
Wall Street Men | p. 131 |
U.S. Foreign Economic Policy and the Wane of the New Deal | p. 133 |
The Early Successes of the Bank: An Obstacle to Change | p. 136 |
Coda: The End of the Debate | p. 136 |
The Reorganization of 1952 | p. 136 |
Black's Bank | p. 144 |
Conclusions | p. 147 |
Notes | p. 155 |
Bibliography | p. 185 |
Index of Names | p. 195 |
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