Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World?

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Global Institutions and Development: Framing the World?
(Routledge/Ripestudies in Global Political Economy) (Paperback)
by Morten Boas (Author)
List Price: $47.95

Editorial Reviews

Review

Global Institutions and Development's impressive scope covers a wide range of policy ideas and institutions, skilfully interweaving original case studies with cutting edge conceptual insights.
–Jonathan Fox, University of California, Santa Cruz

The impact of multilateral institutions on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This collection looks at the role of ideasin such institutions: why some particular ideas are taken up, how they travel within the multilateral system, how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted, or resisted..
–Business Horizons

Book Description

The impact of multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and influence. This book examines the concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and more broadly looks at the role of ideas in international development institutions and how they have affected current development discourse. The authors analyze why some ideas are taken up by these institutions, how the ideas travel within the systems and how they are translated into policy, modified, distorted or resisted.

This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and institutions and provides thorough and detailed case studies in the context of broader theoretical analysis. The volume explores topics such as poverty, global governance, sustainable development and the environment and provides detailed case studies on the World Bank, the WTO, the IMF, Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme and the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, whichshould be of particular interest and use to advanced undergraduate students and scholars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415312906
• ISBN-13: 978-0415312905
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches