The Lending Policy Of The World Bank In The 1970s

Analysis And Evaluation
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-29350-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

This pilot study - the first to analyze the World Bank’s lending policy in the Second United Nations Development Decade - concentrates on the Bank’s shift in emphasis from traditional infrastructure projects to “new style†projects, especially in the area of rural development, and on the resulting changes in lending criteria in the 1970s. Basing her conclusions on two years of independent research and access to confidential materials, Dr. Hurni evaluates the World Bank’s work; gives a good overall view of current development problems - including implementation of the “growth with equity†strategy - and their possible solutions; shows the effects of the new development goals in borrower and creditor countries, as well as on the institutional decision-making process; and offers recommendations for improvement of the Bank’s evaluation methodology and operational structures. She presents a clear picture of the positive and negative aspects of the World Bank as a multilateral investment model and shows its bridge-building function in the great North-South controversy.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hurni, Bettina S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Other Titles in This Series -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Evolution of the World Bank’s Lending Criteria, 1945–1970 -- The New Lending Criteria of the World Bank in the 1970s -- The World Bank as a Multilateral Investment Model -- Conclusions -- Appendix

Über Autor(innen)

Bettina S. Hurni is a research fellow with the Swiss Ministry of Finance. Dr. Hurni has taught international economics at Geneva University and the University of St. Gallen and, as a recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation grant, was a visiting fellow at the World Bank for two years.