Reforming the World Bank :

Phillips, David A., 1946-

Reforming the World Bank : twenty years of trial -- and error / David A. Phillips. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - xvii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What does the World Bank do and how does it do it? -- The emerging critique -- Fifty years of bank reforms -- The 1990s--reengineering the organization -- Changing culture and changing people -- Reforming the bank's assistance product -- Changing the quality of development assistance -- Financing the reorganization -- Why did the reforms fail -- The governors and the directors -- The leadership -- Looking back and looking forward : what is to be done?.

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World Bank.


Development banks.
Economic assistance.

HG3881.5.W57 / P557 2009