ABSTRACT
The practices of the regional development banks (and the sub-regional development banks) are at the heart of debates regarding what constitutes international development and how it should be done. Despite this, the RDBs remain understudied while ample resources have been expended by scholars in examining the IMF and World Bank. This volume therefore provided crucial insights into the workings of these well-established international organizations. Created in the midst and at the conclusion of the Cold War, these IOs have played an important regional role in facilitating development: through attracting additional capital to developing regions, fostering regional integration, and providing a voice for regional member states in their own international development institution. Yet they remain relatively unknown by scholars of international political economy and international organization.
