Controlling the World Bank and IMF: Shareholders, Stakeholders, and the Politics of Concessional Lending

by Liam Clegg

Overview

Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349445752
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liam Clegg is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of York, UK, where he previously held an Economic and Social Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Previously, Liam was a Visiting Research Fellow at American University, USA, and at the American Political Science Association Centennial Centre, USA, where he carried out his research into the World Bank and IMF's concessional lending activities. Liam has had work exploring these areas published in a range of journals, including New Political Economy and Review of International Organizations.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Shareholder Control and the Rise of Poverty Reduction at the World Bank 3. Shareholder Conflicts and the Rise of Social Spending at the IMF 4. The World Bank and the Reconstruction of Stakeholder Engagement 5. Apolitical Economy and the Limits to Stakeholder Engagement at the IMF 6. Conclusion

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