Reflective shadows
Subtitle: political economy of the World Bank lending to India
By: Nagesh Prabhu
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
ISBN-13: 9780199466825
Subjects: World Bank; Foreign Loans; Economic assistance; Economic conditions
Description: "This book maps the World Bank's economic clout, administrative influence, and maneuvers through politics towards structural reforms of the Indian economy. It notes how the Bank was able to influence the country's economic and social policies through lending, as also the government's ability to resist this influence. It is a discourse on a world institution negotiating a country's policies for development and achieving the given goal of development."--Back of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-507) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing the role of the World Bank; title: The World Bank: travelogue of policies; title: From skepticism to friendship: India and the World Bank; title: Harvests and equity: lending for agriculture; title: Negotiating with the world market: lending to industry, banking, and infrastructure; title: Helping tomorrow's India: lending for urban development; title: Engineering the social sector: education and health; title: Fishing in federal waters: World Bank and the states; title: Lending to lagging states in a federal system.