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The world bank : Structure and policies / edited by Christopher L. Gilbert and David Vines - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000. - xxiv,335 p. ; 23cm.

Table of contents
List of figures;
List of tables;
List of contributors;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction Joseph E. Stiglitz;
1. The World Bank: an overview of some major issues Christopher L. Gilbert and David Vines;
Part I. The World Bank's Structure: The Bank as an Institution:
2. Positioning the World Bank Christopher L. Gilbert, Andrew Powell and David Vines;
3. The World Bank and poverty reduction: past, present and future Ravi Kanbur and David Vines;
4. Why the World Bank should be involved in development research Lyn Squire;
5. The challenges of multilateralism and governance Ngaire Woods;
Part II. The Effectiveness of World Bank Assistance:
6. The World Bank and structural adjustment: lessons from the 1980s Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Louise C. Keely;
7. The implications of foreign aid fungibility for development assistance Shantayanan Devarajan and Vinya Swaroop;
8. Aid, growth, the incentive regime and poverty reduction Craig Burnside and David Dollar;
9. How policies and institutions affect project performance: microeconomic evidence on aid, policies and investment productivity Jonathan Isham and Daniel Kaufmann;
10. Increasing aid effectiveness in Africa? The World Bank and sector investment programmes Stephen Jones;
11. The World Bank, conditionality and the Comprehensive Development Framework Raul Hopkins, Andrew Powell, Amlan Roy and Christopher L. Gilbert;
12. Conditionality, dependence and coordination: three current debates in aid policy Paul Collier;
Index.

ISBN: 0521790956 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Financial Economics
World Bank
Policies

Dewey Class. No.: 332.1532 GIL