ABSTRACT
The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies are a positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage. Featuring both macroeconomic and microeconomic approaches, 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.
In exploring these themes, this book will be a valuable reference for postgraduate students and professionals in the fields of development studies and political economy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |110 pages
Geopolitics and Ideology
chapter |36 pages
The Politics of IMF and World Bank Lending
Will it Backfire in the Middle East and North Africa?
chapter |15 pages
A World Bank Attempt to Create a Policy Environment Indirectly Through an NGO Support Project
A Case Study of Palestine
chapter |26 pages
The World Bank and Good Governance
Rethinking the State or Consolidating Neo-Liberalism?
part |106 pages
Poverty-Reduction Strategies
chapter |28 pages
Trade Liberalization and Economic Reform in Developing Countries
Structural Change or De-Industrialization?
chapter |22 pages
The Contrasting Effects of Structural Adjustment on Rural Livelihoods in Africa
Case-Studies from Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda
part |59 pages
Borrower Ownership and the Reform of Conditionally
chapter |15 pages
What Does Ownership Mean in Practice? *
Policy Learning and the Evolution of Pro-Poor Policies in Uganda
