Title: The World Bank : development, poverty, hegemony /
Authors: Moore, David.
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: World Bank; Banks and banking, International.; Economic development.
Abstract: The World Bank: Development, Poverty, Hegemony scrutinises the World Bank{u2019}s agenda-setting documents of the past fifteen years from its examinations of African {u2018}crises{u2019} and East Asian {u2018}miracles{u2019}, to its perspectives on the state{u2019}s changing developmental role, the Bank{u2019}s environmental and participatory strategies, and the institution{u2019}s changes since Paul Wolfowitz took over from James Wolfensohn as the Bank president in 2005.
Contents: The World Bank and its (sheepish) wolves / David Moore -- The World Bank and the Gramsci Effect: towards a transnational state and global hegemony? / David Moore -- Plenty of poverty or the poverty of plenty? the World Bank at the turn of the millennium / Scott MacWilliam -- Constructing the economic space: the World Bank and the making of Homo oeconomicus / David Williams -- The developmental state is dead: long live social capital? / Ben Fine -- The Bank's 'greenspeak', the power of knowledge and 'sustaindevelopment' / Thomas Wanner -- Governing through participation? The World Bank's new approach to the poor / Susanne Schech and Sanjugta vas Dev -- The World Bank and the liberal project / David Williams and Tom Young -- Sail on ship of state: neoliberalism, globalisation and the governance of Africa / David Moore -- Japan, the World Bank, and the art of paradigm maintenance: The East Asian Miracle in political perspective / Robert Wade -- Miracles of modernisation and crises of capitalism: the World Bank, East Asian development and liberal hegemony / Mark T. Berger and Mark Beeson -- Structural adjustment and African agriculture: a retrospect / Henry Bernstein -- The World Bank and the construction of governance states in Africa / Graham Harrison -- Levelling the playing fields and embedding illusions: 'post-conflict' discourse and neoliberal 'development' in war-torn African / David Moore -- Producing the poor: the World Bank's new discourse of domination / Richard Pithouse -- The king is dead (long live the king?): from Wolfensohn to Wolfowitz at the World Bank / Marcus Taylor and Susanne Soederberg -- Civil society and Wolfowitz's World Bank: reform or rejection? / Patrick Bond.