ABSTRACT
After several decades of implementing neoliberal policies in Latin America, neoliberalism shows clear signs of decay, mainly on cultural, political and ideological grounds (Boron, 2003). There is increasing evidence of the failures of neoliberal policies and analysis carried out by mainstream international agencies. However, institutions that respond to the neoliberal orthodoxy are far from retreating.2 In the fi eld of education, specifi - cally, the World Bank (WB) shows a renewed willingness to continue with those reforms initiated during the 1990s, forcing the implementation of a new political agenda in the current decade. This fact merits an analysis of the role that this international credit organization plays in the building of global neoliberal policies and discourse.
