shapes both
development practice and thinking. This book
brings together academics that specialise in
different subject areas of development and reviews
their findings in the context of the World Bank
as knowledge bank, policy-maker and financial
institution. The volume offers a compelling
contribution to our understanding of development
studies and of development itself.
The Political Economy of Development is an invaluable
critical resource for students, policy-makers
and activists in development studies.
Contents
Foreword
Part I: Preliminaries
and Principles
- The World Bank, Neoliberalism and Development
Research, by Elisa Van Waeyenberge, Ben Fine
and Kate Bayliss
- A Knowledge Bank? by Elisa Van Waeyenberge
and Ben Fine
Part II: Research
in Practice
- Understanding Aid at the Bank, by Elisa
Van Waeyenberge
- A Cup Half Full: The World Bank’s
Assessment of Water Privatisation, by Kate
Bayliss
- Social Capital and Health, by Ben Fine
- World Bank Research on HIV/AIDS: Praise
Where It’s Due?, by Deborah Johnston
- Agriculture in the World Bank: Blighted
Harvest Persists, by Carlos Oya
- A Policy Wrapped in ''Analysis'' - The
World Bank’s Case for Foreign Banks,
by Paulo L dos Santos
- Hard Science or Waffly Crap? Evidence-Based
Policy versus Policy Based Evidence in the
Field of Violent Conflict, by Christopher
Cramer and Jonathan Goodhand
- The Washington Consensus and the China
Anomaly, by Dic Lo
Part III: Continuity or
Change?
- Whither World Bank Research? by Ben Fine,
Elisa Van Waeyenberge and Kate Bayliss
References
Index
About the Authors
Kate Bayliss has
been working on public sector reform for over
a decade with particular focus on privatisation
of water and electricity. She has worked as
a consultant for international agencies and
NGOs.
Ben Fine is Professor
of Economics at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London. He is the author
of Theories of Social Capital (Pluto, 2010)
and co-authoredFrom Economics Imperialism to
Freakonomics, awarded the Deutscher Memorial
Prize, 2009, and From Political Economy to Economics,
and awarded the Gunnar Myrdal Prize, 2009.
Elisa Van Waeyenberge
has worked on the World Bank for over a decade.
She lectures at SOAS and consults for international
organisations.
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