Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World? [Paperback]

This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader theoretical analysis.

Key topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the environment are closely examined, with detailed case studies of the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme and the OECD's Development Assistance Committee.

The impact multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This book examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and, more broadly, looks at the role of ideas in international development institutions and how they have affected current development discourse. The authors analyze why some ideas are taken up by these institutions, how the ideas travel within the systems and how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted or resisted.

Examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and more broadly looks at the role of ideas in international development institutions and how they have affected current development discourse.Chapter 1 Introduction, Morten B??s, Desmond McNeill; Chapter 2 The development discourse in the multilateral system, Knut G. Nustad; Chapter 3 Contesting policy ideas from below, Norman Long; Chapter 4 The informal sector, Desmond McNeill; Chapter 5 Policy stories and knowledge-based regimes, Ole Jacob Sending; Chapter 6 The World Bank and the environment, Robert Wade; Chapter 7 Sustainable development and the World Trade Organization, Morten B??s, Jonas Vevatne; Chapter 8 Social capital and the World Bank, Desmond McNeill; Chapter 9 Hegemony, neoliberal good governance and the International Monetary Fund, Ian Taylor; Chapter 10 Balancing between East and West, Janne Jokinen; Chapter 11 Good golS-