The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform

by Alberto Paloni (Editor), Maurizio Zanardi (Editor)

Overview

The debate on whether or not the International Monetary Fund and World Bank and their intervention strategies are a positive force for change in the developing world continues to rage. Featuring both macroeconomic and microeconomic approaches, this book brings together an international team of contributors and centres upon three broad themes:

• the ideology of the IMF and World Bank
• poverty reduction
• conditionality.

In exploring these themes, this book will be a valuable reference for postgraduate students and professionals in the fields of development studies and political economy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415459242
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/17/2007
Series:	Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alberto Paloni is Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Glasgow.

Maurizio Zanardi is Assistant Professor of Economics and member of CentER at Tilburg University (The Netherlands)

Table of Contents

1. Ideology and Politics 2. Poverty Reduction Strategies 3. Borrower Ownership and the Reform of Conditionality